The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-01
ANOTHER VIEW OF MORRISON
Though In Retirement Lender Of DcIP-
land Roscoe COnk Iing's Opinion OF
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Iand Roscoe COnkithg's opinion Ol
Him.
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Roscoe Conking writing to ellen,
on the subject Of a tariff on apo,linaris
water this was following ConkIings
retreat from public life wound up his
letter by saying:
However, see Morrison. He knows
all about it, il absolutely honest and
has good sense, if he is "A Democrat.
! would rely implicitly on anything
he said. Very truly yours,
Roscoe Conkling."
OF all men whom have met in sew
eral Washington years, as l say freely
that Morrison impressed me beyond all
the others. To put it crudely, he is
the biggest man ever saw. | don't
come easily either to the theory that
any one is 'great. "
AS rule, humanity is at much of a
par. But there is that to Morrison
which distinguishes him among others.
The difficulty lies in telling what it is.
He has courage, even with every call.
He is honest to the point of utter.
His Democracy is of the home spun,
shay bark school of jackson. His
principles find their sources in the far
off hills of "A party past, when the
name of Republican had not been
coined and no PETERS stood forth as
Populst. Morrison has ever been
ready to make war-party war and
personal political war.
There is NOTHING to all this however,
which might not be said of hundreds.
And yet there's hidden something
to Morrison the others don't possess.
One sees the proof of this in many
fashions. Since 1891 Morrison has
never set foot in the capitol building
nor gone near house or senate. And
yet We seen with my eyes and heard
with my ears fully 20 congressman
creep, so to call it time and again TO
Morrison to be directed what to do
Each would come to him, like some
young buck on his first war path to
the great chief of his people, to take
his views and follow his advise. And
another feature to be noted is that
Morrison did not always tell them what
to do. 1t is not too much to say how
ever that more often than once, in
molding legislation of party sort,
mere word has outweighed |
The White House patronage and no one
nan, whether in or out of congress,
las more directed the general law
making.
Morrison hates Cleveland with the
'ervor of Corsiran. This is because
Cleveland three three years ago actu
Ally and definitely selected Morrison as
secretary of the interior and told him
md his friends of the fact. Later a
abroad influence headed by Jim Hill
If the Northern Pacific opposed Mar
ison to consult Morrison on some
angle of the day and politics.
Astronomers once declared the exist
Ince of and then the size Of Neptune
IS we'll as Uranus Neither had been
cen; no glass was then strong enough
or such journey of sight. The sky
discovered the presence
nd giant size of these plants by the
'ay the other planets acted.
So it is with Morrison. Do ones
est one cannot lay ones finger on the
ecret of his power. But that he is
owerful, that he is great. is shown
y the action of these men to him.
hey consult him, they express their
ratitude, and part to carry out his
ord. And this at last is true not on
: of score of congressman, but of all
leyelapd's cabinet.