The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-02


He will feel that no matter what emer-
gencies arise there is across the way q
man able to cone with them all by
himself. This is the advantage of hav-
ing in the treasury man thoroughly
familiar with the theory and practice,
principles and the details, of all the
operations of the government-its re-
venues, it's expenditures, its currency,
everything. Governor Dingley is the
man. He is the only one who meas
ures up fully to the ideal.
will be remembered by readers of
Il mes Herald that Nov. % last
pub. 1 an article foreshadowing the
policy 7 President-elect Mckinley,
and saying that in all probability Mr..
Dingley would be secretary OF the
treasury. also said that in few days
Mr.. Dingley would visit Canton by invi-
tation. All this has come true. In that
dispatch was outlined the strength
which Mr.. Dingley would bring to the
new administration--hs fitness for the
task his intimate relations with infiu-
entail public men, the great respect in
which he Is held by all classes of men
in the house and the senate, too, his
ability to secure favorable legislation
from congress and his cordial relations
with Speaker Reed All that was said
then can be now repeated with en-
phasis. II was and is all true. In that
dispatch | further said Governor Ding
ley and the ways and means commit
tee would spend the winter preparing
a new tariff bin to be presented to d
special session Of congress next March.
Those statements were predictions
when made. HFhev are almost history
now. The wayS and means committee
is ut work, With Governor Dingley at
the head, and the new tariff bill, which
.,...
Herald predicted is would be, will be
ready by the end of March.
This measure viii be ready for intro
duction to the present house before this
congress comes to it's constitutional
end. That viii make the new measure
the Dingley bin IT will doubtless be
known as such in history. Though en-
acted after Mr.. Dingley leaves con-
grcss for the cabinet, it will bear his
name, and thus the thoroughgoing gem
tleman from Maine will be able to
achieve the ambition which is dear to
the hearts of many public men to at
taCh their names to a tariff bill-an am
bitiOn that isslikely to become more and
more fashionable, now that men reflect
upon the good fortune which is brought
to one William Mckinley. So far as
know the only instance of the sort to
be found in the history of our country
and this is not an exact parallel-waS
when Robert Walker prepared q tariff
bill about fifty years ago as secretary
of the treasury, and as secretary of the
treasury administered his own law If
Congressman Dingley does not make q
tariff law that will produce enough re-
venues for the needs of the treasury It
is Secretary Dingley who will have the
| trouble of making both ends meet.
I am wholly within bounds when l
say that there is no other man in con-
! gresS who enjoys to a larger degree
! the respect and confidence of his fellow
! members than Governor Dngley. If
| he has an enemy in the world he doesn' t
| know it. He is so well balanced, so
! kindly, SO helpful, so earnest, so thor
! ough, so strong, that men look up to
and admire him and so to him for ad-
| vice and assistance. There is nothing
to me one day, except the friendships
which we form. When we leave here
! we take nothing else with us that we
care for. Certainly we do not take
| much money with us. Since my name
has been so much mentioned in the
newspapers as a possible member of
! Mr.. MckmleyS cabinet, a great many
of both political parties have called on
me to extend their good wishes. 1 do
not know anything at all about the
cabinet place which they talk Of but
I do know that l have been touched by
these expressions of good will from SO
many Of my associates. They are
worth more than forty public Offices"
Mr.. Dingley has indeed been fortu
nate in his friendships. For more than
a quarter of a century he and Mr..
! Blaine We're near to one another. Mr.
Blaine set 50 high an estimate upon
the sagacity of Dingley that he never
took an important step in politics oil
public life without first talking with
the modest editor from Lewiston. Din
gley was his mentor. Other men had
the reputt tion of being nearer to him
They cared more for publicity. They
| loved more to baSk in the sunshine OF
that splendid presence. But under tbs
surface, in the background, was this
| we'll balanced thoughtful, logical jour
| nalist and congressman, to whom Mr.
| Blaine always turned with his greatest
perpleXities and greatest secrets. II
Mr.. Dingley wished he could perhaps
contribute more to a genuine history OF
Mr.. Blaine's public career than any
other man now living. Mr.. Blaine
was one of the greatest men the worlt
ever knew" says Governor Dmgley
He was a full man. as Shakespeare
put it,
the present chairman of ways anC
meas have been close friends for many
years. Mr.. Reed is not a man WHIT
gives his confidence to many persons
He is charry with his friendships
Probably one can count on the finger!
of one hand all the men who are thus
favored at the present time. GoVerno
Dingely is one of them. "Mr. Reed,
said Governor Dingley, when l aske,
him about the speaker, has a wonder
full mind. Even yet his ability, th
| remarkable grasp of his brain, tn
power of the man, are not appreciated
by the people He is one in many mil
lions. He is just, too, and balanced
with all his intrepidity. There is moth
ing too great for him. He is one of tn
few men | have known whom ! WOult
expect to achieve success in any wall
of life in any neld they cared to enter.
President-elect Mckinley and MI
Dingley served together in congress
, They served together on the ways am
means committee when the famou
Mckinley law was framed They know
one another as one knows q membe
of his own family. Their friendsh
is close, strong and enduring. "Gov
ernur Mckinley viii make one of tn
greatest presidents we ever had in tn
| white house" said Mr. Dingley, III
! has grown remarkably even since h
left congress. He has had the wonder
ful incentive of fatc-a fate that wa
l drawing him nearer great responsible
2 ties and honors. Mckinley Is Il per
. foctly rounded man. His knowledge c
I things is equal to his knowledge {
5 men, Some presidents know one an
1 some the other, Mckinley knows buti
| lie has the most remarkable facult
l..