The times., 1897-07-02
Real Work for Warner,


For the first time In many years our
good in fact, everybody's good friend,
Mr.. B. II Warner, has public and political
matter of his own to attend to--the out
come OF which be it prosperous Or dismal
can affect personally only himself.
Hitherto Mr.. warner has voluntarily, but
efficiently, taken care of the political
affairs Of all OF the penrfe of Washington
10 the utter neglect of his Own. What
ever We have needed Mr.. Warner has seen
that we had, from new suburban addition
or a railroad thereto-down to q ladder
for one of our fire companies a picture
of George Washington to lang up in ene
of our public schools.
He has headed committees, erated and
re-created them, gotten up serenades to
visiting statesmen, founded hospitals, re-
tired decrepit ambnIances, new -roofe.l end
down-spouted the Y NJ C. A buildings,
conducted classes for the inmates in bibli-
cal history, political history, business bank
ing and architecture, explained in the ever
subjective Evening Star any knotty prob
lem suddenly sprung upon its always re-
fined readers-in short, Mr. Warner has
left nothing undone that was lying around
waiting to be done up except, perhaps, the
family washing-and now he has some
troubles of his own.
Last fall Mr.. Warner took deep scalp
hold on politics The District seemed to
that way, and Nj. Warner, just after swat
| lowing frugal breakfast one morning, or
| ganized the Business Mems Sound Money
| 4 ssociation, or what the irreverent got to
calling, Warmers political gold cure. MI
Warner gave the association a dusty and
worm-eaten hall in which TO hold its meet
! for some OF the easily exhausted members
who had no gold they We're afraid to nave
degraded by cheap silver and no silver
with which TO degrade the gold, but who
Were stiH stanch Bphoiders OF Mr. Warmers
honest money campaign.
We would not dareto state the number OF
meetings which Mr. Warner attended and
addressed, nor the columns OF encycIo-
pedic articles he wrote for the papers a bout
assignats and continental currency and
wampun money, but 1t wasn't long Before
the community experienced an utter re-
vulsicn OF sentiment and Warner was the
cause of fe. To be sure washingt on deesn' Z
vote Itself, but is the cause of great deal
OF voting by others, and Mckinley was
elected And Warner was the cause OF it,
Nothing less than a Cabinet office ought
to have been offered to Mr.. Warner
Nothing less than that should have been
considered by him. When we recall the size
OF the sunflower badge he wore-or partly
Wore, for il really required him and the
modest but self-sacrficing Gates to wear
the whole pattern-we wonder that he
even contemplated any recompense what
ever as commensurate to his services.
Eight happy months have passed since
Warner blew his last bugle blast Mckinley
is comfortably settled in the W hite House,
and carloads OF prosperity are being
backed up to the door OF every man W be
voted against Bryan and dishonest silver
Things are booming SO loudly that one can
hear them boom Some OF Warmers ad,
ditions to Washington are being populated
so fast that he is forced to contemplate ex-
tensions of them And his son "a nice young
gentleman, as we learn, and as he must
be-has been named by President Mckinley
as consul to Leipsic-a nice place for e
nice young man-but a still nicer place fol
naughty one Could the mind of finite
man conceive Of possible disastrous ter
mination of this story Of enprise? Could
the most fertile Imagination create a being
SO base, so lost to proper appreciation OF
the great and noble and the truly good, a.
IT. atteu.ptto shatter this small testimonial
OF regard which Mckinley holds out t.
Warner?
And yet such being exists-who adds te
his gross blindness of vision the rankes
ingratitude. That beings name is yelling
ton, and in order that there may be suffi
cfent time allotted to our readers for in
dignation before we proceed to apply th,
coiors ofour paIetteto Wellington we leave
the subject, abruptly, here.