The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-04-30
are particular, commended by the uni

and on the day or MS leaving the city
ne was accompanied to the White House
by Senator Burrows and had a pleas
ant interview with Rresident Mckinley.
While here Uncle mes went over the
list OF postoffices IN kalamazoo county
and made recommendations for the ap-
pointments of proper postmasters. It is
believed that his recommendations will
be followed.
A great many officeseekers are exhib-
iting Impotence with the senator's be-
cause they do not more promptly decide
pending cases. There are numbers of
applicants for each Office, and the sena-
tors propose to take time to deliberate
and reach proper conclusions before
making recommendations in any case
for the action of the president.
The Dingley bill places a duty of II
cents per pound on skirted wool. Two
pounds of the skirted fleece imported
would pay 20 cents duty; but the two
pounds would be equivalent to three
pounds of the American product.
Therefore, the Dingley bill duty would
In reality be only z 1-3 cents a pound.
Senator Burrows appeared before the
committee on finance and explained this
matter so clearly that the senators will
grant adequate protection to the Amer
lean product by raising the duty at
least 16 cents per pound on skirted wool.
Mckinley "a Politician.
"Those men il public life who do not
realize the factsthat William Mckinley
is politician, know very little of the
man." says Congressman McMillin OF
Tennessee. VI had known Mckinley for
a number of years in the house of rep
resentatives, and had no occasion to
take notice of him as a politician until
last year, when / was designated TO
prepare the Democratic campaign bool.
I personally went over all his record
and, with the assistance of others, fer
rcted out and read all Of his speeches
long and short, in the Congressional
Record. tried to prove that he was
gold man, and succeeded in that; but
in every speech that was made by him
/ also found that he was a silver man.
and that that fact could be demon
strated.
when 1 began to read and analyze
his public utterances l discovered at
once that he had been looking for the
presidency all his life, and had carefully
guarded every public utterance on every
public question except the tariff. Upon
the subject of protective tariff he was
outspoken on all occasions, and his rec
ord was perfectly clear. Upon all other
questions L discovered that his record
was blurred by all sorts OF paronomasia
and dialectic tricks His speeches indi-
Gated that he was on all sides of the
financial question; on all sides of the
Behring sea dispute; on all sides of the
subject of arbitration, and on all sides of
the subject of appropriations. Not a
thing could be found in his record which
could be used in the campaign against
him.
"0f course excepted from his
speeches those paragraphs which indi-
Gated that he believed in the gold stand
ard; but the makers of the Republican
campaign book were perfectly able to
take from the same speeches which Nc
Kinley had made paragraphs showing a
friendly disposition towards silver. He
is one of the shrewdest politicians this
country has ever produced, and those
who think otherwise are very greatly
mistaken"
Sure of His Appointment.
Within half an hour after the CONVEX
sation with Mr. McMillin, in which he
made this statement, met gentleman
who is candidate for prominent dip
lomatic position, and he said
IT have been looking over the situa-
ton very carefully, and have come to
the conclusion that Mckinley is a great
politician.
"I know that he is going to appoint
me, and am confident that there is no
reason to doubt that the appointment
will be made. But 1t is a singular fact
that Mckinley has required both of my
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from my state, and several gentlemen
of prominence from other states, to call
upon him and personally urge my ap-
pointment. 1 know. that twenty-four
leading Republicans have called upon
him in my behalf, and to each of them
he has made the statement that IL 1t
was a matter of personal desire on the
part of his caller, he would consider the
matter favorably. / have heard from
all of these friends of mine, and my con-
clusion is that he intends to tell each
one Of my senators and each of my par
ticular friends that when he makes my
appointment he does it as personal IA
vor to each one of them. Thus, when
my nomination is sent to the senate,
there will be at least twenty-four lead
ing Republicans who are under personal
obligations to President Mckinley for
that particular favor. When they come
to him for other favors he will remind
each of them of the fact that he has
done a special favor in making my ap-
pointment. 1t will thus appear that
four prominent appointments will put
about 100 leading Republicans under OBJ
legations to the president"
If that is not shrewd politics, then I
do not know the meaning of the word.
How to Treat the Mississippi.
The weather bureau officials say that
the present remarkable food in the Mis-
sissippi will settle the policy of the gov
eminent in the future for the control or
of the river. If the levees
stand the strain of this phenomenal
flood, the levee system will be continued
II the levees give way. then the levee
system is likely to be abandoned
Existing conditions remind the writer
Of a conversation held number OF
years ago with Professor Edward Fon-
tains. The learned and experienced sci
enlist said that he had for many years
travelled on horseback ard afoot over
The Yazoo basin Of Mississippi, and over