The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-27
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Crowds Arriving to Attend the
Inauguration.
y. JOE M'KINLEY's PROGRAMME.
Influence of Senator Hanna--A Tower of
Strength TO President McKinley--A Case
of 81 Told You So"-Two Picturesque
Figures.

attendance at this inauguration will not be
as great as on various similar occasions i'm
The past. 1t is said that when President
Cleveland was first inaugurated there were
10000 strangers in Washington. But
these figures are undoubtedly too high
The tendency to overestimate the size of
crowds obtains in Washington as elsewhere.
Ii Is safe to say that there never were as
many as 300, 0G0 nonresidents In the Amer
lean capital, not even during the war,
when Sherman's army passed in grand re-
view for three days. A railway man who
has particularly good opportunities for cs
the crowds which come TO Wash
ington tells me the approximately correct
figures of recent notable occasions are as
follows: Cleveland $ first Inauguration, 81,
600 visitors; Harrison's Inauguration, 3D.
900; Cleveland's second Inauguration, 3d.
900; the Knights Templar conclaye, 70, 600; |
the Knights of Pythias conclave, 33, 000; |
the Grand Army encampment 107,-
coo. The Grand Army men, therefore,
hold the record up to date. The chances
are that about $4,000 or perhaps 1000
strangers will DC in the capital the day Nc
Kinley takes the oath of Office. You will J
read in the newspapers of the presence of
hundreds Of thousands of out of town poo
pie, but it will be safe to reduce all these
estimates by "a considerable per cent.
A Notable Change.
Now, within few days of the Mckinley
Inauguration, we observe one notable
change from past occasions of the same
sort. This Is the absence of horde Of
Office seekers. Usually in the past the ho-
tells of the city began to fill up with place
seekers week or more in advance of the
coming of the new president. They came
early, on the bird and worm principle, no
| doubt. Their business here SO far in adj
vance of the inauguration of thu man to
whom they We're to look for favors was to
| get the ground prepared, to visit senators
| and members of congress and secure their
Endorsements and their promises to pounce
| down upon the PRESIDENT as soon ms the
doors of the executive II ansion were opened
for business. Now there are very few Of
flee seekers here OF course there are men
camped on the ground awaiting a chance
to present their claims, but they bear no
relation TO the horde that was here or IL
years ago We attribute this change in
part to tho operations of the civil service
law. There tire only 200 places directly
within the gift of the president, not count
ing postmasters, and there is so little TO
como for that the place hunters OF the past
will not risk railway fares and hotel bills
in the lottery where the chances are so
much against them. In this thoy SHOW
their coed selsc.
The Tariff Question.
I announced nearly three months arc
through these dispatches that President
Mckinley intended TO 60 very slow il thg
Distribute oi the patronage OF the ir,sl
DENTS Ccicc. and That statement has siDc'
been confirmed in rany ways. The rev
president vans first of all TO got tie taril
bill through congress No troublo is an
ticipated in the house, where the new
measure will be rushed through withou
delay. But i'm the senate difficulties ar
likely to arise at any moment. A few sen
ators whose votes are relied upon to pas
the bill could combine and hold the meas
| ure I'D till their demands were compiled
with. OF course no self respecting senate
would withhold his vote from tho taril
bill if his wishes concerning an office wcr
not met by the administration, but 1t
easy for men who are dissatisfied abou
ANYTHING to find rates in tariff bill whic
their constituents could never accept
Major Mckinley has had great deal G
Washington experience, and he has com
TO the wise conclusion that it will be bette
to pass the tariff first and attend TO flllin
the offices afterward.
No one expects that he will be able
carry out this programme to the letter
There are many appointments that he wi
have to make. But in so far as he can b
intends to pursue the waiting policy E'
cry effort of the administration Is to
turned to the task of pushing the tariff bi
through. In this work Senator Hanna
likely to play an important part. In som
respects he will be the direct representatiy
of the administration in the senate cloal
rooms. He will doubtless prove tower {
strength to Major Mckinley In that roll
Mr.. Hanna has precisely the Temperament
the manner, the good nature, the know
edge, of human nature requisite for such
task 1t will be his business to help kee
the peace to see that this senator or tha
senator Is in line and generally to mair
tain good feeling between the two ends {
the avenue.
In His Element.
Iusethe term "cloakroom representative
advisedly. Mr. Hanna's work as friend {
the administration will be done chiefly i
the secrecy of the cloakrooms. There, afte
all. is where the senate is managed. Yo
] see the big men in their chairs. You liste
to the speeches. You watch the parlia
mentary maneuvers. This is on the surfac
merely. The wires are pulled, the agree
ment made, the policies mapped out In tn
cloakrooms over the cigars. The senate II
many respects Is nothing but club. MI
Hanna will be In his element here. 1t
iust the sort of public life that he likes
From the first It has been his ambition u
have n seat In the senate, and he refused NJ
10 the last moment to be member OF tn
| cabinet. 49,
Readers Of these dispatches will remem
her that early last December predicte'
not only that Senator Sherman would b
the new secretary Of state, but that Mr.
Hanna would be his successor In the sen
ate chamber. These predictions were no
suesses. They were based upon informa
tion. II Is true that Governor Bushnell o
Ohio has not been eager to appoint MI
Hanna to the senate. If there had beer
ANY way In which he could have avoided IL
he would have done so, but there was N
way, save by bringing trouble upon tn
narty and upon himself. IL was because o
the fact that tho senatorial situation II
Ohio was surrounded by conditions which
pointed uncrringly to the appointments o
Mr.. Hanna that have always refuscd y