The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-30
-FOUR MEN CONSIDERED
A View of Reed, Allison, Cullom
and Quay.
REEDS STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS.
Allison's Popularity In the senate-wby
Quay Has Come to the Front-His Pre-
dominant Trait CuiIon's Character and
Achievement.

Il
Achievement.
WASHINGTON, April 20. - Especial i
We have four of the presidential candidates
on the Republican side constantly. or
nearly constantly, with us. Speaker Reed
and Senators Allison, Cullom and Quay
are tho Washington aspirants, and 1t is
considered a nice thing by the local people
to BIO able to take their friends To the cap |
itol any afternoon and show them four |
men, any one of whom may be the next |
president of the United States. OF course |
the interest Is greater In Reed than in any |
of the others because he has been so much |
talked about But of late there Is per- |
ceived an increasing desire on the part of |
strangers in the city to SEQ Mr.. Allison. |
Quay also comes In for . large share of at |
tention when he is in town, which Is not |
always for very fond Is he of taking his |
little trips to Florida.
The Brainy Reed.
without any question Mr.. Reed Is looked
upon In Washington as the brainiest man
| yet talked of for president. / Fay this
without any sort of prejudice against the
other candidates. Probably l am like
most Of the people In this city in admiring
| Mr.. Reed very much, but in liking other
aspirants little better personally. A
| feeling has grown up in the minds of pub
| lie men and politicians here that II he were
| president Mr.. Reed would not only be
strong man, but too strong. There Is
| fear that 1t would be difficult to do any
| thing with him, except on his own terms
| and in his way. l know that this Is the
| fear of men who had hitherto thought OF
/ OF hai a
ton They have watched the big man
| pretty closely and have come to the con
| clusion that he would be another Cleve-
| land, only perhaps more SO. l heard one
/ man say: tom Reed Is tho ablost man
/ talked of for the presidency and would
| make one of the greatest presidents the
/ country ever had. But IL would be i'm
/ possible to live with him. He would get
overbearing, stubborn, supercilious sar-
castle, and in six months there would DO
| no one In the country with nerve enough
| to go to the White House to sec him."
While this is a rather extravagant view OF
the possibilities, 1t gives you an idea OF
what the politicians are saying.
Nothing could DO more apparent than
that Senator Allison Is tho Washington
fayorite for president. Ho has been here
now u full third of century and in that
|
known men in the country. Mr.. Allison
has always been prominent In the actual
work of legislation and rs chairman OF
the committee on appropriations has been
brought In contact with innumerable citi-
zens in all walks of life. He has presented
to all the same invariable front of suavity
and politeness, of friendliness, good feel
ing and sincerity. Strangers warm to him
| instantly saying TO themselves that there
is man with warm heart and steady
| eve and strong hand" In tho senate
| Allison Is easily the most popular man,
| and this popularity Is not confined to the
Republican side of the chamber. The
Democrats without exception like him
very we'll Allison Is one of the few men
In the senate who are without enemies on
the floor So far as the Republican sena-
tors are concerned, they are almost unani
nous for the Iowa man for president.
Speaker Reed has three or four friends
and Major Mckinley half a dozen or So,
but the remainder are for Allison. A large
number of states are preparing to cast
their votes for Mckinley at St Louis
which would go for the Iowa man IL the
senators from those commemorative could
J have their way. The senators feel that II
Allison were in the White House they
would be able to get along without fric-
II
| ton or trouble He would understand
them and they him
Quay the Silent.
violate no confidence In saying that nc
one In Washington has had any serious OK
recitation of the nomination for president
of Mr. Quay. Yet it perfectly true that
| the Pennsylvania senator Is very popular
man here. For several years 1t has been
quite the fashion to sneer at Quay a bit,
and even members of his own political
party have been guilty Of 1t. But OF late
the Pennsylvania senator has come to the
front as one of the strongest and most
eagerly sought men In the upper branch
! of congress There have been no sncers al
him since he overthrow the great combi
nation that had been formed to down hin
in his state of Pennsylvania. In politics
as in everything else, nothing succeeds
,, like success.
Mr. Quays distinguishing-in fact, hi
northumberland Is quietness He II
the stillest man In public life, recalling
the apt but rather coarse saying about thu
= still pig. For days and days Mr.. Qua,
: | ambles about, and scarce a word Is heart
! out of him. He rarely addresses the chat
and has not made set speech since hi
famous bulldozing effort on the tariff, TIVE
(, years ago Moreover, he engages less II
y conversation than most OF tho senators
He rarely seeks another senator for a littl
. | chat, and, for some reason, no ono seek
y him unless there is real business to b
transacted This Is not 50 because QUA
is unsocial or unpopular or anything
that sort. 1t Is only his mood, his temper
% He Is the silent man of the political world
~ but he does keep up deuce OF thinking
!, Cullom the Odd.
n Senator Cullom Is rather odd fish
N People do not know just how to class him
m Some think him very wise and Others sa
Il no ia thin. But have noticed this-th
A. better man knows Cullom, the nearer
NO his real self one gets, the more certain
Al that senator to be- appreciated. Cullom
a as plain as a pair of old overalls. There
w not the slightest bit Of affectation abou
10 him, and II 1t were necessary for him
,v nut on a fril In order to save his life
or | would tell them to summon the coroner
TO Culom is not magnetic nor genial, bu
he holds his friends, and these friends hay
been fighting for him out in Illinois wit
splendid loyalty and courage. 1 sometime
think the country does not half apprecia'
Is, the services rendered by Cullom In framin
III the interstate commerce law, which onl
Is during the last few weeks has been vastl
strengthened by exceedingly important a.
H. cisions of the supreme court. In oth'
countries than this such an achievemei
10 would have given him undying fame
-. not the premiership itself
re WALTER WELLMAN.
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