The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-02
M'KINLEY'S SECOND TERN.
Already Events Are Shaping Themselves
to Make if Possible
INTEREST IN HANNA'S SUCCESS.
Some of the Topics of Which His First
Annual Message viii Treat as of
Utmost Importance.

Utmost Importance.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 30
President Mckinley is to return to
the White House within fortnight,
andexcept for brief tips will remain
in Washington until he takes his
outing next summer, which will
probably be to the Pacific coast.
President Mckinley, according to
theses members of the cabinet who
4 HAVE betSn az lake Champlain, has
thoroughly enjoyed his vacation,
and pronounces Secretary John Ad-
Olson Porter's Hotel Champlain ex-
pertinent a great success. Instead of
being annoyed by the people who
came to see him, or by the invitations
he had to accept, President Mckin-
ley, who is pleased whenever he is
pleasing somebody else, and who
never wearies of meeting people who
are not after offices, was delighted
with it all. A Presidents work is
never done, and, therefore, he had
some official business to attend to
every day, but as a rule, it was easily
disposed of, and with no Office seekers
on his hands, the President would
have missed the kindly attentions of
his summer neighbors, for he is not
good at killing time, and is too active
to loaf long. His outing was com
plete change, and that was what he
wanted, so that he comes back in
better health, and. thanks to dollar
wheat and other signs of coming
prosperity, in better spirits than
when he went away.
The President, according to the
friends who have seen him recently,
is serenely confident that the country
is entering upon a period of prosper
ity which will last through his first
administration, if not through the
second, which it will do much to
bring about. Political prosperity for
his party and himself will attend the
material prosperity &C the country,
and, therefore, the President feels
justified in anticipating his own re
nomination and reelection.
Moreover, he feels confident that
the reaction against new admins
tration, which has come to be eXpec-
ted, will not be strong enough to pre-
vent the party of the administration
from carrying the debatable states
this fall and electing a majority of
the House Of Representatives next
year, and he is very hopeful that
through the elections of these two
years the Republicans-the regular
sound money Republicans-win Sc
cure an absolute maiority in the Sen
ate, so that on the 4th of March, 1899,
the Republican party will be once
more in entire control of ev ry branch
OF the government-eXec Itive, legis-
lative and judicial.
President Mckinley is particularly
gratitied at the prospect Of Republi-
can success in Ohio this fall. not only
because it is his own state-and its
disapproval of his administration
would be hard to bear-but because
he is so desirOus to see Senator Hanna
elected to u six years term in The
Senate. President Mckinley and
Senator Hanna have differed repeat
edly about questions of policy and
about appointments, and the Presi-
dent has taken his own advice raj her
than Senator Hanna's again and
again, but their relations have con
tinued to be of the same intimate
character, bound by the strongest
ties of friendship, and personal as
well as party interest induces Presi-
dent Mckinley TO do all he can to aid
Senator Hanna's ambition.
And Senator Hanna as chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
is working all the time, through his
ieutenants, at its permanent head
quarters here and throughout the
country, for the denomination of
President Mckinley in 1900.
President Mckinley on his return
will find enough to do to keep him
busy until he has to begin to write
his first annual message to Congress,
which will probably not be until after
the election-the first week in No
vember. Congress meets in its first
regular session three months from
Monday, on the 9Th of December, and
the President will have full month
after election day to prepare his mes
sage. He will doubtless sketch its
outlines in his own mind, and, per-
haps, on paper, as his custom has
been in dealing with such document;
but he will want to know how the
elections have gone before he begins
to draft it in its final form, and, be-
sides, he cannot well get the filling-in
for most of the important passages
before November.
1t is assumed that President Nc