The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26

No Time For Consideration of Important
State Papers How Ofice Seeking In
nuences Senators-Trutb and Sincerity
Needed.
WASHINGTON, May 26-[Special T.
Among the intimate friends of President
Mckinley find considerable anxiety con-
corning his health and his powers of Gu
DURANGO. Although the president is well
In the sense that he has suffered no illness
since he camo to the White House ga
months ago. he is very tired. The strain
which he has been under for a year or n
year and IA half is beginning to tell upon
him, and his nearest friends are advising
him to protect himself in every possible
way. The Cuban complication is sure to
make great demand upon his mental
and physical vitality, to keep him up
nights, TO bring sleepless hours 10 his pill
low. The responsibility of war or peace Is
going TO be a momentous one for him to
bear, and he will have need of all his
strength. In conversation few days ago
with n member of the cabinet | was told
that every one of the presidents official adj
visers had urged Mr.. Mckinley To shield
himself from the horde of people who want
TO see him, TO adopt rules which will give
him certain amount of leisure every day
for consideration of pressing public bust
ness.
A Hard Worked Man.
Il do not believe the country appreciates
tenth part of the work the president per-
forms" said this cabinet officer. ''The
Jident is an early riser. He breakfasts
every morning at o'clock. BY 8 he is
ready for work in his office. From that
hour till late at night he knows not what
rest is. There is no pause, no moment in
which he can sit down and take it easily.
During the forenoon senator's and mem bers
of congress call To see him. There is a
steady stream Of them. They not only
come themselves, but they bring friends
and constituents with them, and to each
of these strangers the president is expected
TO saya few words, to shake hands, to con-
ccntrate his mind upon them and their af-
fairs. Any one that has ever had any ex
perience in this work of concentrating the
mind upon one man and one thing after
another, hour after hour, knows what
strain it Is upon the nervous forces. 1t
just pulls man down by inches, tires
him, takes the vitality out of him and in
the end, unless he gets rest, breaks him up.
The trouble with the president today is
that, while he is sound and well physically,
mentally he is as weary as man can be.
SAT II O'Clock twice week he must
meet the cabinet. This Is not so hard. In
cabinet the president really rests, for the
conferences are as often social as anything
else. We talk and laugh little over our
work and try to make it easier for our
chief. 1t is well understood among us that
we shall make these meetings as lively and
pleasant as we can, not too serious or in
tense, because we want to help the presi-
dent carry his load. We are all amazed at
Mr. McKinley's endurance. 1t often hap
pens that one of us has to run over to the
executive mansion for consultation. We
find the presidents anteroom filled with
people waiting to see him.
The Ubiquitous Caller.
"If the president could have his after
moons or even all his evenings to himself
il would not be so bad. But he permits
the callers to come all day. In the after
noon ut 3 o'clock he goes down to the east
room and shakes the hands of from 400 to
700 people who have assembled there to
pay their respects to him. All this takes
time and strength. Then in the evening
there are nearly always important callers,
senators or members of the cabinet, who
run in for talk, or personal friends from
out of town who must be entertained and
for whom the president has such affection
he wishes to do everything to make them
happy. What time is there in all this for
earnest, serious consideration of important
state matters? What would you think of
| a lawyer whose time was wholly taken up
! receiving people in his Office and at his
| house? What opportunity would he have to
| prepare his cases and make his researches
and studies? The trouble with the presi-
dent is that he likes the people and loves
to meet them and please them, and he is
wearing himself out doing it. He has ac-
copied several invitations out of town, and
every trip of this sort is another straw
| upon the camel's back. Our hope is that
| he will prove strong enough to endure the
ordeal that lies before him"
One day last week President Mckinley
wanted to see the papers filed at the state
| department in the case of certain con-
| sulship. The president had about con-
cluded he would make an appointment to
| that office and wished to look over the ap-
| plications of the various candidates. He
sent to the state department for the docu-
ments, and went OH receiving callers. A
| little later he happened to think of the pa
pers for which he had sent, and asked Sec
rotary Porter to bring them in. II think
| you had better come out here and see
them, Mr.. President, said Secretary Por-
| ter. The president was u little surprised
at this, but walked out in the next room.
and there he saw a large sofa full of for
midable looking papers contained In big
! envelopes and jackets. whats thisY" he
asked. "The papers in the consulate which
you asked about" Mr.. Mckinley gave 1t
up. He told Secretary Porter to take the
documents back to the state department..
He did not want to look them through.
| Too Much Jolly"
There is good deal of complaint among
the Office seekers that certain senator's lie
| to them and deceive them. The truth ap-
pears to be that the office seeking craze
has developed to such proportions that
some of our public men deliberately adopt
n policy which Is slangily characterized as
"jollying. They palaver with their con-
stituents, half promise them, put them
off, say they will attend to 1t next day or
pexf week nut their arms around them