The herald., 1897-02-09

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is fo Alger, and 'leven is fo' sale. And
they made 6icker right there.
M'KINLEY MAY REFEREE.
This old vendetta still hangs like a
cloud between Sherman and Alger. NC
Kinley may yet have to referee Mar
quis of Queensbury conversation over
old times, not to say old scores, between
those two eminent publicists.
Ard so they tell how General John d.
Long is to be made attorney general.
There will not be much for Long to DO.
About all the public land has already
been given to the railroads. But there
( are still 200. GOO acres. He can drive them
about and stampede them, and perhaps
keep himself busy at that.
Long is a dovn-east Yankee. He was
( born at Bucklield, Me. october p. 1888.
Long was a Harvard man of the vintage
I of 1851 And he was also later Boston
lawyer. Long has been a Bay state
speaker OF the house of representatives
of that state.
J BOSTON A BAD SIGN.
No famous legislation is linked to the
name of Long. 1t is some encourage
( ment. however, to find that no infamous
! legislation has been linked to it. Long
was also in the national congress. He
Will come to the cabinet from Boston.
So did Olney. Boston is bad sign, and
has been for some time.
2 Long is short, thick-set and fiorid.
He is smooth, silken as to manner
what Chuck Connors would term floss" ="
His habits are orderly and precise; there
is no slouchiress of method to Long.
He is pleasant to meet and has the gen.
ius of ugbarity. 1t remains to be seen
whether he will have stamina enough
to say mo" to railroad or a trust who
wants TO invade some public right. If
he has, Long will be a wonder in the
department Of justice. 1t is almost
needless to add that Long is a Million
aire. The coming admins tration is as
likely 10 show case of standing room
only" to a poor man as the Cleveland
regime going out.
MKENN-A NOT so OLD.
AS for Joseph McKenna. slated for
secretary of the interior, l cannot say
much. The pleasure and the breath
less honor of his notice has been denied
me. Those who have met Mr. McKenna
declare him to be a man wise. firm and
just. That may be: but ms name sounds
to nervous ears a trifle like the enemy
Mckenna, by birth at least. is Quaker
and was born in the Grab and broad
brimmed town of Philadelphia, which
has given us such names rs William
Penn, Ben Franklin and Dave Martin.
McKenna is not so wondrous old. 1t
was III 1910 lLdt -hCAtillid HIS
fathers family circle which makes the
coming interior department secretary
81 years of age. The elder McKenna
went to California in 1855 and took the
new cabineteer with him. They settled
in Benicia and engaged the acquant-
ance Of John c. Heenan and other lead
ing citizens. The elder McKenna was
a great friend of Broderick. who was
long ago killed off by Terry on a smoky
tf1lifArTi1 sion y r.
Mckenna is 4 lawyer, like Sherman,
Alger and Long And he has vast re-
spect for bankers like Gage. 1t is appre-
hended. therefore, that McKenna will
get along with all of these gentlemen.
McKenna mas held divers offices, such
Is district attorney. member of the leg
islature and member of congress- AS
a member of the national congress Nc
I<enna cut ice, but never in great guam
titles, and excited TO advertisement as
a statesman. Physically McKenna is
tall and spare ard fag-staffy, like Sher-
man.
GOFF rs NOT STARTLING.
Nathan GoT, of whom they talk for
postmaster general, is a Republican of
Indifferent fame. He is good, but not
! startling as a proposition in cabinet
making. He was born in what is now
I West Virginia in 1912 Golf got into the
NOlu+ittNI my, anu uuEliS lnG CIVIL
war fought and bled obScurely on the
union side Sheridan however made no
complaint that Golf was in trance, as
he did of Alger. After the war Goif
went to his books again. He was grad
uated from the University of New York
and became a lawyer,
Then Gotf broke into the West Virginia
legislature. He has run for sundry Of
fees, such as the goVernorship. but they
We're too swift and elusive for him, ana
he didn't get them Before Elkins in
yaded West Virginia with his money
and grim will. Golf was the lling-pin
Republican of that commonwealth.
Other Republicans had come to Gotf
for orders, and he lived a proud lii.
fun of what one might call political
hauteur Goff put on style and said
No and he settled things. If Coz
didn't like a fellow Republican worm
that hated one couldn't get near enough
to Cor to hand him a ripe peach. He
wouldn't let his foes in the party come
to the table al all. They were made to
stand at the back door Of West Virginia
Republican anairs and wait until soma-
body shook a little cloth or scraped a
little plate. They might have the crumbs
and fragments Of the feast.
ELKTNS MADE A CHANGE.
But Ellzins came along, and now things
are changed. Goff roosts nearer the
ground than he did, Those whom he
afOretime diSilied now crawl up to Ell
kins and rest ii safety ard peace. They
find Illkins like unto the shadow of Il
great rock in q weary land. But Elkins
consented to Goff's going into the cab
met. if he hadn't there would have been
no Gcn. As it is now he'll have the let
ter bags
Goff is what is called an able orator" 3"
Like Demosthenes and Brosius Of Penn
sylvaaia IN his youth Goff practicad
talking at 4 mark until speech-making
/ became his specially. In person Golf
is large, handsome and very impressive
90 himself. He, too, has a million. This
cabinet will have money to incineratc
| One would expect that d poor man like
! Mckinley might feel embarrasse
among so many men who could buy AMI
sell him, as the metaphor is
AGRICULTURE HIS HOBBY.
Into the agricultural department We
are told Mckinley viii put that tried
patriot Wilson Of Iowa wis thinks
lies farmer ana reigns as professor
Of agriculture at the agricultural col
iose in the town of Amea la He is
broad, burly and popular The rustics
love Wilson. Wilson has like those
who have gone before a million dollars,
and if he fools with . plow or goes pot
ter!ug about a cornfeld with hoe
It's because he feels scientific, not be-
calusc he has 70 do IT, AS farmer,
! ting on the front porch and reading
an agricultural paper, while his hired
man does a rough and tumble with the