The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-03-25
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experience which would have been so
valuable to Mr.. Cleveland, even though it
did not prove to be so very valuable to
Gen. Harrison, President Mckinley has
bound every Republican senator and rep
resentative over to keep the peace with
the administration in order to keep the
peace with his constituents, and SO is en-
abled to predict the enactment of the
| legislation he has recommended. This
! has involved, of course, more or less of
that involuntary ingratitude which every
| President has to show toward some of
! those who have made him President, if
he would have success for his admnistra-
ton measures, 1t is one of the unpleasant
elements of the price which man must
pay for being President. He can only say
to those friends whom he must thus dis
appoint: 81 must consider the public in
terest before my personal pleasure.
Mr. Mckinley must say, for example, to
Mr.. Whiteaw Reid in New York that he
appreciates all that he did to nominate
and elect him, but that, inasmuch as Mr..
| Platt is the representative of New York
in the United States Senate, he cannot in
cur his wrath, and thereby jeopardize the
great measure which he believes will
bring prosperity to the country, even
though Mr.. Platt's enmity to Mr. Reid is
partly due to Mr.. Reds support of Nc
kinley.
And so it is in Pennsylvania and in
other States where it seems very hard to
+ ''orginal Mckinley men, to have to make
peace with the senators whom they fought
in McKinley's name before they can now
get McKinley's favors.
Mr. Bellamy Storer's is a notable case
of the bitter disappointments which have
already come to some of Mr.. Mckinleys
best friends through the operation of this
inexorabe law of politics. Mr. Storer
was not only a political, but a personal
friend of Mr. Mckinley, and subscribed
so, 900 to the fund to make good Mr. Nc
| kinley losses through the failure of the
man for whom he had Endorsed notes. If
there was anything in what is called per
sonal claims, Mr.. StOrer was entitled to
the highest consideration from President
| Mckinley. Mr.. Mckinley personally, as
| grateful as he is magnanimous, as an in
| dividual frankly acknowledged those
claims. But when, as President having
promised the appointment OF Mr.. Storer
/ as assistant secretary of State. on his ac-
/ knowledged fitness for the place, and at
1 the request of the secretary OF State-Sen-
ator Foraker made a personal protest
against it, based on the well known fact
that Mr.. Storer and his family had cut
| Mr.. Foraker and his family, not for polit-
| zeal reasons, but because they thought
Nj. Foraker had gone beyond the duties
OF a lawyer as counsel for their antagonist
in a suit over property. Mr.. Mckinley
| had to set Mr.. Storer aside, so far as that
office was concerned. Senator Foraker
said, and said truly, he must do business
constantly with the assistant secretary of
| State, who has charge of all consular ap-
! pointments, and that he could not do
| business with Mr.. Storer, and MI Me
| kinley had to choose between Mr.. Storer
and Senator Foraker, and chose, as he be-
lieved, in the public interest, to please
the latter rather than the former Yet no
one can doubt Mr.. McKinleys gratitude
to his friends or his desire to serve them,
in view OF the way in which he made Mr..
Hanna senator, when that was not incom-
patable, but rather the contrary, with his
project for securing the legislation
/ 1t is interesting to note that the theory
that Senator Hanna is to run the admins
tration has steadily weakened as the new
Mckinley has become more and more APP
parent to observant public men. Senator
Hanna, as the chief councillor and chief
| representative in Congress, is undoubted-
ly a power behind the throne, but he is
not mightier than the throne itself, and
it is now well known that his recommen-
dationS are not treated by the President
as commands that must be obeyed. Even
Mr.. Hanna could not put Mr. McCook in
the cabinet, or Mr.. Payne or others that
might be mentioned, and he has been I'M
able to secure appointments for other
people that he wanted them to have; yet,
of course, without any friction that was
perceptible to outsiders.
Mr.. Hanna new role of modesty at the
Senate" self-etfacement one Republic
can senator called it's the role which he
takes also at the White House, where he
is an adviser and not a dictator,
The fact is that in the fierce and con-
slant fighting of the Is months preceding
election Mr.. Mckinley was making moral
muscle steadily, growing and developing
as no one had ever expected he would do.
and whatever he was before, he is now en-
titled to be called great man 1t is no
fancy that the change in his character is
apparent in his face, for although its ex-
preston is as kindly as ever, there are
new lines of strength, and the mouth is
set as it did not used to be-
1t is remarkable that in gaining this
strength he did not lose some of his good
nature and his peace loving spirit 1t is
most interesting to see him, conscious as
he must be of his personal growth as we'll
as of his official power, so thoughtful. in
deed so sympathetic and tender toward
not only his relatives, but all his friends.
His devotion to his invalid wife, always
intense, seems to have increased, even
though physically she is apparently better
for his election to the presidency But
over and beyond that, his atfectionate
consideration for all who have any claim
to it is extraordinary in one of his posi-
ton, with all he has to do. 1t is like his
Democratic ways with those who call upon
him, and is just as free from affectation.
Mr.. Mckinley has already the proud
distinction of being the first President of
our time to be on intimate, not to say
friendly, relations with the Vice-Presi-
dent, and he proposes to maintain those
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