Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-19
That Gossip of Politics
Heard at the Capital
New York Journal.

Heard at the Capital.
New York Journal.
Washington, November 16.-This is
not meant to discourage. 1t goes rath-
er as note OF warning to ardent ones
of politics and journalism, just now
| diligent in linking Tom Reed TO Nc
Kinley in Cabinet letters.
No miracle Of the sort will come to
] pass. Why? Because Tom Reed will
take nothing at the Mckinley hand.
Because Mckinley will give him, ten
der him, nothing
Put Tom Reed in Olney's place
brilliant daring, a born grand stander
as he is-and he'd outshine the dull
and russell Mckinley like the sun. Nc
Kinley is well aware of the lustrous
difference between himself and the big
Maine man, and, in the words of the
+, sapient Falstaff, he'll have none OF
it."
Aside from what movement might
| find eXertiOn in the Mckinley mind,
! Reed himself is not one to take ap-
pOintive place. Peculiarly would he
resent and refuse a perch. however gid
ed, proffered by the Canton President
! Reed himself feels toward Mckinley
about as Satan is said to feel toward
holy water. He not only dislikes, he
despises Mckinley and holds him
light.
And Reed seldom iorgives and never
forgets. He does not forgive Mckin-
ley for running for the Presidency
| Still less does he forgive him his sue
cess. No one, bar Bryan, would have
more rejoiced, more benefited person
ally, as a politician understands the
word, by McKinley's defeat, than Tom
Reed
There has been feud between Tom
Reed and Mckinley for that the latter
/ sought a nomination at st. Louis.
| There is still blacker fued now that
! Mckinley is to be inaugurated. And
! Reed never forgoes feud. lie fosters
one as a mother might child. Rely
on il from first to last, there VIII be
spice of malignancy, fashion OF sheer
/ ing malevolence. in all that Reed says
or does concerning Mckinley in the
quartet of years to come. Mckinley
has not only set Reed aside on this
Presidential occasion. but the Ohio man
will be the nominee in 1900, and Reed
will find a further, bitter Difference un-
til 1904.
Reed will hate him for those eight
waitin gyears. Nor vii lReed feel pre-
/ sentl ypressed for any JtIiee Mckinley
might supply. He is Speaker now. He
will be Speaker of tn congress next
TO come. Mckinley. With oil his pat
ronage. couldn't iefea5 Kim for the
place. even if he dared attempt it.
Reed will be Speaker while he lives
and the Republicans hold the mastery
of the House. This is higher as a place
/ and nightly potent beyond any that
Mckinley could confer.
Some have dubbed the Speakership
the second highest office in the land.
This was the merest bowling tc the
White House. The SpeaEership stands
alone. and is second to nothing in the
way of Office.
The Speaker has little or nGught TO
! ask OF a President The White House,
on its part. must come often TO the
( Sneaker for aid. support and comfort.
| The Speaker. what with gavel and
what with his leadership of the Rules
/ Committee. whose membership he
might change at will, holds reins, whip
an dbrake on the House, as might a
| coachman on his team. He starts It,
stops it. drives it where he will.
The White House must ask the
/ Sneaker for his tariff, for its approprla-
tions 70 rthe legislation TIT it needs.
During the four years coming it Will be
Mckinley asking aims OF Reeu moi
Reed begging of Mckinley.
Reed is aware OF all tnls' anu aS iOe
| from any unloVe for Mckinley, Is TOO
wise to permit himself to be transplant
ed from coign of such vantage as the
/ Sneakership. where it is all power and
/ irdeDendence. to some place near NC
| Kinley to exist solely by that Magls-
| trote's favor and selection. Write II
/ down that Reed will not be in Mchin-
I Iev,s Cabinet. Reed will be Speaker;
/ incidentally in all ways not overt, he
will be a thorn in the Mckinley hesh.
There's one New Englander who has
Dicked out his place and anXiously
/ awaits ElcKinleys notice to give up his
seat in the Senate and succeed Bayard
at the court of St. James. This citizen
on the anxious bench is Cabot Lodge
/ of Massachusetts.
/ Lodges ancestors came over IN the May
flower: n fact he bears ever in his flatter-
ing mind. lie pretends. too, bit in the
matter of literature. In this last field.
however. Lodge has started no one but
himself. To add to blue blood and the au-
thorship of a book or two. Lodge has mar
/ Red wealth.
These make three good reasons with
+ Lodge why he should go as ambassador to
England. Bayard Taylor was al the court
of the Kaiser Russell Lowell preceded
the present Bayard at St. James; why
should not. says Lodge. another OF polite
learning be selected as the nations repre-
sentative before the Queen? Then he
names himself.
/ There is no objection in capital circles,
F certainly. to Lodges ambition. Every
body here appears to favor a foreign app
/ pointment for Lodge: the foreigner the
/ better" to quote the late Rosco Conkling
But it's to be feared that Mckinley. or.