The Anaconda standard., 1897-12-31
While They Walt.

| known to the world as Macbeth"
We're alive to-day, he would say to
the hesitating gentlemen in the federal
senate who are wondering how they
may best go out of the administration
circle. stand not upon the order of
your going, but go at once" Senator
Wolcott, Senator Warren and the rest
Of them seem to be casting about for
the manner in which they may make
their exit from the goidbug precincts
as dramatic as possible Plan as they
may, they will never be able to do that
which in impressiveness. will match the
scene that was presented when Henry
Nj. Teller and the little band of true
blue silver republicans walked out Of
the ST Louis convention
The plain, everyday prose of 1t, as
the Standard has already pointed out,
is tnat it has ceased to be an option
with Mr. Wolcott and his sympathizers
whether they shall withdraw from adj
ministration fellowship. To all intents
and purposes they are out already: prac-
ticaliy the administration has dropped
their names from the roll. Is it not
true that the administration, by many
recent acts, has sought TO give the
widest possible publicity to the fact
that it renounees these so-called bmet-
allist senators and all their works and
all their talk? As if by concerted
action, the close friends OF the presi-
dent have gone quite out of their way
to impress on the public the fact that
the administration distinctly disclaims
all sympathy with the plans these west
ern senators have been exploiting.
1t is remarkable that in the whole
range Of administration newspaperdom
one does not find a line in the way of
appeal to these dissatisfied western
senators to be true To the president;
the Standard has looked FOR something
Of the sort and found it not. Quite the
reverse. the administration most loyal
organs have about made up their minds
that the Gage policy cannot carry con-
gress anyhow, and one finds in them
the suggestion that the president would
better let ii be distinctly understood
that he Is entirely aloof from the sena-
tors whom these organs call disturbers.
This eastern talk lacks a good deal of
being complimentary to the western
senators who are now in erisscross re-
lation with the president, but the gold
bug editors have written within ten
days a good many columns of comment
that are in that spirit It's the old
story of the foolish boy and the we'll
heeled mule--the western men who
thought they knew it all will really
know a good deal mere than they used
to. The administration made use Of
them for time-just as 1t made use Of
certain middle -the-road popuists
and of some of the prohhitionists and
that came handy when Mr.. Hanna was
running the Mckinley campaign.
Probably IL bothers these western
senator's, now that the administration
has dropped them hard, to know what
to do next. Naturally that is a matter
of Importance with them. As for the
public, its inquiry Will be what the
constituents of these senators Will do
with them. Drop them, probably
every one of them. even To Woleott He
is a pretty good man. The rest of them
the senate would never miss them.
their retirement wouldn't do hairs
harm To any interest between the
Golden Gate and Sandy Hook
No man is Of good senatorial stuff
who. after the national administration
has knocked him down and jumped all
over him. halts and hesitates and hangs
around like one who hasn't had enough
and as IL inviting the administration to
do il again.