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ne was born in Buckfield, Me-, October
q, 1898. He was the son of parents
who had neither poverty nor riches, but
possessed the golden mean which en-
ables so many New England rural fam
lilies to look forward to sending sons
into the world we'll educated. Mr.,
Long entered Harvard, where he grad
uated in 1857, some months before he
had attained his nineteenth birthday.
He was admitted to the bar in 1861,
but did not succeed in Buckfield, where
he hung out his shingle, so returned to
Boston. In the house of 1876 he gained
an immense and immediate popularity
and when its successor met and found
Mr.. Long a member he was the almost
spontaneous choice for speaker. This
position he held in 1876, II and rs. He
had the great art of getting the house
TO work without letting it realize that it
was being pushed. He was elected gov
ernor of Massachusetts, in 1879, 1880
and 1881, defeating General Butler,
lie was sent to the Forty eighth, For
ty-ninth and F'iftieth congresses, where
he confirmed on the stage of national
affairs the reputation he had won in
Massachusetts,. Greatly interested in
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These influences, together with his for
tuitous majority for governor of New
York and the general obscurity which is
sometimes styled availability, put Mr..
Cleveland into the white house twelve
years ago today, as the accidental repre-
sentative of a hundred years of Democra-
cy, and of Democracys hopes for CEN
tury to come.
HIS CONCEIT.
All this Is now ancient history, but a
brief review of it has been necessary to
an understanding of the evolution of the
man and the significance of this second
term, which the merciful course of Time
and the hand of a benehcent Providence
have now happily brought to a close. He
began as an Accident, he developed as al
Ego, and he ends as a Destroyer.
Next as to the development of the Ego.
This process has gone on swiftly, as swift
ly as in his always sapient judgment the
public forbearanCe would tolerate. He has
studied and learned in progress not only
the extent of the market for solemn didac-
tics, but also the danger line for personal
assertion and arrogatiOn. The role of his
ambition has been that assigned to him by
the complaiSant Bayard, that of the strong
ruler of a violent people, but he has as
sumed it gradually. Between the first of
the first term and the second half of the
second term, wherein the period of in
trigue for a third term merged into the
final phase of utter carelessness of con-
sequences, there is all the difference that
exists between polite reserve and reck-
less self-disclosure. He went into Of
flee in 1885 with the declaration that he
knew he had been "chosen to represent
the plans, purposes, and policy of the
Democratic party His natural vanity,
abeted by the entreaues of some incom-
parable fools, convinced him before long
that his mission was to formulate anew
the plans, to determine for himself the
purposes, and to dictate out his own in
wards the policies of a party that had
once been Democratic. He crawled like a
hermit crab. into the interior of a great
political organization occupying it, ap-
propriating it to himself and his own
glory and advancement and constituting
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Wilson is a practical farmer and his
estate in Tama county is said to be
worth $4,000, which signifies a pretty
good Iowa farm.
James Wilson was born August 16,
1885, in Ayrshire, Scotland, of parents
belonging to the farming class of the
population. His parents immigrated to
Connecticut in the spring of 1852, and
began farming in the vicinity of Nor
wich. They came to Iowa in the fall
of 1865, buying government land in
Tama county. James is the oldest of a
family of fourteen children, seven boys
and seven girls. His father, John Will
son, was a stock farmer and began at
an early day to fatten stock for the
eastern market. The family pursued
diversified farming from the beginning,
having the dairy feature prominent
from the first as we'll as that of meat
making. For many years Mr.. Wilson
was a teacher in the country schools
near old Buckingham and West Union,
and so poor was he that even in the
coolest weather he was compelled to go
barefooted, In the course Of time he
accumulated money enough to pur-
chase the magnificent farm of twelve
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every administrative detail; and he was
likewise Independent with that independ-
ence which springs from a growing mag
nihcation of the third vowel AT this
stage he was described by our neighbUr
the Times, as "a parochal statesman"
and the same journal ventured TO cast un-
warranted doubts upon his strict honesty
as public official. But it happened that
Mr. Cleveland's term at Albany was CO.
incident with the development in national
politics of two general conditions, which
his shrewd sense of personal opportunity
--thc habit of mind which impelled Mr..
Tilden to characterize him as the most
selfish politician | have ever known
fastened upon and utilized for all they
were worth One was the returning wave
of Democratic success which had pre-
vailed Intellectually in the election of 1876.
The other was the appearance in our
politics of a body of voters of a new
school, anxious to find a hero fit to reflect
their own intense self-Consciousness,
ready to turn to any issue branded Re-
FORM and rather Indifferent as to actual
performances, if the performances were
accompanied by nobly resonant words.
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co bar of Judge Joseph McKenna, who
will be attorney general Judge Nc
I<enna is not, strictly speaking, Cali
fornian. lie has resided in that state
continuously since 1866 in which year
he came to the Pacific coast. He was
born in Philadelphia on August 10,
1913. His appearance today is that of
a man Of 40. and were it not for the
slight tinge of gray in his hair he could
pass for still younger man. Mr.. Nc
Kenna is member of the Roman Cath
Ollie church, worshipping at St. Mary's
Cathedral. San Francisco.
In politics James McKenna is of
course, a staunch Republican. His eX-
perence in public life dates back to
1875, when he was elected to the as
sembly of the state of California. In
1876 he received the nomination for
congress in the Third congressional
district of California, but was defeated,
the district being Democratic He did
not despair of being a congressman,
however and, upon receiving the NOM
ination for the third time, was elected
in 1884 to the Fortyninth congress. He
was successfully elected to the F'iftieth,
Fifty-flrst and Fifty-second con-
crosses, and. while serving in the last,
was appointed by President Harrison a
United States circuit judge. During
the period of his service at Washing
ton it is known that Judge McKenna
was thrown into contact with Major
Mckinley to a considerable extent. He
was a member of the ways and means
committee, presided over by the pres-
dent-elect, which reported the McKin-
ley tariff bill to the house.
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land, o., to enter upon his profession.
on the last day of 1860 he set out for
Michigan with little borrowed capital
and entered into the. lumber business
at Grand Rapids with a friend. The
following year the young men lost
everything they possessed by the fall
ure of a Chicago firm, young Alger
having in the meantime married.
The breaking out of the civil war
opened a new and exciting chapter in
his life. 1t was during the August af-
ter Fort Sumter was fired upon that he
enlisted in the Second Michigan cavalry
and was soon after made captain of
Company c. A brother captain was
Philip II. Sheridan. When Gordon
Granger, the colonel of his regiment,
was promoted he sent Captain Alger
as an emissary to Governor Blair to
induce him to appoint Sheridan, the
acting commissary on General Hal
leck's staff, to the vacant command.
In this service he was entirely success
full and thus identified himself with
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-05
WALL STREET CELEBRATES.
Flags, n Song and Cheers on the
Floor of the stock Exchange.

New York. March 4,-The Inauguration
of President Mckinley means much to
those engaged in financial enterprises, and
the event was quietly celebrated in that
part of the city where the banks, the sub
treasury and the Stock Exchange is To-
Gated,
Before noon flags began to give color
to Wall, Nassau, Broad, william New
streets and Exchange Place. Lower
Broadway was also dotted with the Stars
and Stripes.
1t was not until noon that the Stock
Exchange celebrated, Just as the hands
of the clock pointed the hour several hun
dred brokers gathered on the floor and
began singing America" They sang
with will and not unmusically, Then
followed three cheers for Mckinley, and
business was resumed,
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heart ana soul and cranial convoIutions
of the man himself.
HIS AETECEDENTS.

heart and soul and cranial convoutions
of the man himself
HIS A&TECEDENTS.
Up to the age of 45 or thereahouts Mr.,
Cleveland lived the narrow and not al
ways refined or regular life of small
local politician and petty professional
man; and such uterances on public ques-
tions as he was then prompted to make
we're not heard beyond the Buffalo beer
shops Of Mr.. Goetz and Mr.. Mersenha-
gen. He was elected sheriff, and stolidly
executed with his own hands the most re-
pulsive functions of that office. lie was
chosen mayor, and industriou5ly wrote
communications to the common council
charged with sOnorous Senaralities which
sounded hat enough at the time, but We're
destined later to become parts Of an in-
posing ritual. A political accident gave
him the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor of New York i'm the year when the
Republican party was rent by the strife
of the StalWart and Half Breed factions;
and his plurality of nearly 2ol,O0O owe"
Door Tolger was at once characteristically
accepted by himself, and by his now in
creasing contingent of political adherents,
as "A special tribute to his individual quail
ihaations. At Albany he was industrious,
with that minute industry which consid-
ers self as an Indispensable factor ia
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separating rigdly his achievements from
his personal characteristics, and admitting
neither friendly nor hostile consideration.
The question then would be, not what is
he, but what has he really done for his
party, his country, or mankind in gem
eral? Great men are finally measured IN
that way If it We're now possible to con-
slider MIR. CleVlands S publice career apart
from the enmities he has provoked and
the adulation he has enjoyed the conClu-
sions of history concerning him would
doubtless be very accurately prehgured.
But we are confronted at the outset by
the circumstance, without parallel proba
| bly, in American experience that the SELF
appointed custodians of the tWenty-SCc-
ond presidents fame demand that he
| shall be judged according to another
standard than that of accomplished re-
suits. AS a citizen, it is not his deeds
! that are to be weighed for valuation, but
| his indefinite posing as type and an
eXemplar. AS a politician it is not
| question of equivalent rendered for hon
| ors conferred and confidence bestowed,
but we must constantly remember that he
isS greater than his party, and that the
! fortunes of his party under his leadership
! are of trifling significance when COM
| pared with his personal fortunes. AS
| Democrat he must not be Judged by his
| fidelity to the principles that make the
party, and that have marked and moulded
! it's long line of eminent worthless from
| jefferson to 'Hilden; for he is greater than
| Democracy. AS a statesman in supreme
| office he is not subject to the tests ANA
limitations established for the safeguard
| ing of our system of Institutions; for he
! is greater than the office filled by Wash
| ington and Lincoln. AS an American MS
personality emanCipates him from prece-
dents and entities him to promulgate
| revised patriotism, and to decide, obiter,
what constitutes true Americanism; for
| he is more patriotic than patriotism, and
greater than America. Such is the extra
ordinary basis upon which the impartial
critic of this day or future days is invited
to consider Mr.. Cleveland's record; and
the invitation forces the investigator, in
spite of any reluctance which he may en-
tertain, to take largely into account the
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temperance work through the agency of
moral suason. he has long been presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Total Absti-
nence society. An active Unitarian, he
has also been president of the Unitarian
club. t .
Il have no especial aptitude for the
navy department." said he recently,
mo more than any well-informed man
who is interested in all public matters.
1t was simply question of wanting a
man from New England, and when Mr..
Dingley refused to go into the treasury
department Major Mckinley asked If I
would accept a cabinet place. AS ! un-
derstand it, the work of the navy de-
partment is divided among wel-organ-
lied bureaus, whose officers understand
what is needed"
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hundred acres which he now owns.
There is probably not another farm in
the state so well improved in all re-
spects. For many years he was
breeder of fancy cattle, and in that
business he has made a competence.
He served several terms in the Iowa
assembly and was elected to the Forty
third and Fortyfourth congresses. He
retired at the end of his second term
to his farm, when he was appointed by
Governor Sherman a member of the
railway commission. After serving one
year he resigned to take his seat in the
Forty eighth congress. At the end of
this congress he again retired to his
farm, when several editors of county
papers arranged with him to write
weekly letters for their papers, which
he has continued until the present
time In 1891 he was elected director
of the Iowa station and professor of
agriculture by the trustees of the Iowa
Agricultural college, positions he has
held UP to the present time The col
lege during the time he has been con-
nected with it has had an era of great
prosperity. When Mr. Wilson was in
the house the other James Wilson was
in the senate from the same state, and,
Whit was more curious SUN, James
Wilson succeeded James Wilson McDil
in that senate. But the two Wilson's
were distinguished in congress in this
way The senator came from Fairfield,
and his middle initial was F., so he
was known as Fairfield" Wilson, so
that people usually supposed that was
his middle name, and there is nothing
in the congressional directory to show
that it was not. The ether James Will
son, now selected for the cainet, had
now no middle initial, but as he came
from Tama county, he was known as
'Tama jim" and so the two Wilson's
We're distinguished.
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LANES WILSON

The new secretary of agriculture is
spoken of by Iowans who know him
we'll as a large all-around man. His
career in congress was creditable, but
perhaps not brilliant. His speeches are
substantial rather than eloquent Mr..
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This is the New York Suns farewell:
The fairest estimate of Grover Cleye-
lands public career would perhaps be one
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-05
THE SUNS VIEW OF
GROVER CLEVELAND
What Charles A. Dana Has TO Say
About the Ex.president.
A WORMWOOD.SEASONED FAREWELL

Powerful Searchlisht Is Turned Up
on the Retiring Presidents Many
Neakncsses.-A Review of Charac-
ter That Savors of the Proverbial
Plain, Unvarnished Tale.
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JOSEPH M'kENNA.

"He is careful, painstaking, labor
ious, honorable and just Judge said
one of the members of the San Francis
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the start that gave the great cavalry
officer his rapid rise. Alger served un-
der him at the battle of BoonVille, Mo,
where he was wounded and taken pris-
oner, but escaped the same day. About
q year after his enlistment he was
made lieutenant colonel of the Sixth
Michigan cavalry and colonel of the
Fifth two or three months before the
close of the war. Before that also ne
had been brevetted brigadier gen.
eral of volunteers for gallant and mer-
itorous service at Treville Station, and
the June following the close of the war
he was brevetted major general for
general gallant and mertorious" SER
vice. 1t is said that during his mili-
tary career he was in more than sixty
battles and minor engagements. He
went through the battle of Gettysburg
unharmed, but was seriously wounded
at Boonesborough, Maryland, in less
than week after the more memorable
conflict. The Wir>er following he was
employed by President Lincoln in con-
fidential service, and while thus en-
gagged visited nearly every army in the
field.
After the war he returned to Michi-
gan, and laid the foundation for for
tune in lumber. In 1894 he was elected
governor by the largest Republican
vote ever cast in the state. He has
three sons and three daughters, and it
has long beer his custom to buy d suit
of clothes for every newsboy in Detroit
for Christmas.
JOHN d. LONG.
OF Hon. John Davis Long, who is to
be secretary of the navy under Mr.
McKnley's administration, it may be
said that he has a positive gift for
popularity.
To know him is to like him. His pub
lie career has covered but % years. He
was 81 years old when he took his
scat in the hnnse of ranrasa nj tiNas for
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Reform, but reform WAS not reform un-
I'll the word wasi hyphenatAd with Cleve-
land. Successfully the various issues to
his attention, or his always keen expe-
dent, were absorbed into his capacious
self-consciousness and became part of the
Cleveland whole, and went forth again
as emanations of Cleveland. Thus he be-
came greater than Democracy.
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ONE BRAVE DEED.

once, to his honor, he has been led to
intervene for the suppression of domestic
riot. once, also to his honor, he has sound
ed a note of genuine Americansm in
communication to a foreign power. The
Chicago strike proclamtion and the Nene-
zuela message shine all the brighter be-
cause of the black background, but be-
yond them, ranging through the whole
dismal story of effort and intrigue to pre-
vent the national expansion, to restore
monarchy in one island to perpetuate it
in another to eyade the responsibilities
of neighborhood, humanity, and republi-
can sympathy, to avoid our national duty
to our own citizens in prisons at the mer-
cy of butchers, and finally to compensate
for all these outrages of commission and
crimes of omission by juggling the United
States into humbug treaty of perpetual
peace with a nation which the world has
always had to pay heavily to be peaceful
running through all the record of Mr..
CleVeland's domestic and foreign achieve
ments, where else do you find any con-
spicuous deed recorded which justifles the
Mugwump theory that the Man and not
the Principles is what this country needs
at Washington to rule 1t and to shape its
destinies?
What wonder that an overwhelming
majority OF Americans will remember
with heartfelt gratitude March H. 1881 as
a day of deiiVerance and the starting
point of q new era of good feeling and
hopel
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TWAS EXAGGERATED.
Reliable Authority says Famine Is Not
Great In India.

London. Jan. 2l-The special represent
tatiyc of the associated press who Is traN-
cling through the famine districts IN CON-
pany with the governments party OF iu-
spcciion. sends a dispatch to-day from
kolhapur, lie says that the reports
which have been sent to England and the
United States of the actual famine said 10
exist In Southern Maharasheru states
have been exaggerated 50 Ear as his Oh
servatiOn has extended A scarcity or
grain does indeed prevail Ia the extreme
eastern portion OF this region, but the
people there were able to escape want by
migrating TO the fertile kancou plains
and elsewhere, whore u shortness OF the
grain supply Is not felt Rice also is pleu-
tiful and means and measures for the re-
lief of the hungry arc pronounced adc-
auatc where needed The maharajah In
an interview with the associated press
representative on the prospects Of his peo-
pie escaping starvation, said that hts
state expected - famine every i've years
and were therefore not taken unawarrs
or unprovidcd when II calne. They were
prepared. he said. TO spend tive akhs OF
rupees for relief In his territory.
The British resident was also interview
ed and confirmed the statement of the
maharaia iah as 10 the situation, adding
that the relief organization was most cf-
f,cilvc In Bombay province and that the
difficulties from famine and OF oflcring
and distributing relief were lighter than
In former famines. The resident sums M
his views as follows: My observation has
been. In travelling over the whole west
ern country. that the famine ls not severe
there. though II may incrcas. towards
June Hut In the districts In which have
A.
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SENATOR GEORGE ILL.
His Condition .. Considered Critical-An
OIsl-Iime Politician.

Washington, Jan si.-unitcd States
Senator George Of Mississippi Is danger
ously NJ from heart failure at the Gar
Held hospital in this city and owing 10
his advanced age his friends are very APP
prehensive OF the outcome.
For some months he has been suffer
Ing from some trouble and was unable
to he In Washington at the opening OF
congress In December. Less than three
weeks ago. while still very III. he came
To this city and at once placed himself
under the care of DIR. Bermann. who.
with DR. Frye, advised him to go TO
the hospital for treatment. He has
been there since that time. His condi-
tlon not showing satisfactory improve
ment. a consultation was held yester-
day between the two physicians and
Dr. Oslcr. professor at John Hopkins
university In Baltimore, and the con-
clusion was reached that the senator's :
condition was very serious and that he
would require the greatest care and
most skilled treatment Senator
Georges III health Is due To his ad-
vanced age. accelerated by years OF
hard and constant work Senator
George. who Is now In his 18th year.
has served as a member Of the United
States senate for i6 years. lie was n
gallant soldier In the Mexican and civil
wars, tserving on the confederate side)
and IL well known lawyer
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Salem. Ore, Jan. 2i.-Seven members
only answered the roll call at the sun
day session of the Davis house to-
night. The session was purely perfume
tory, and after few minutes the house
adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow.
The close Of the two days recess shows
no change in the hard fight over the
resolution to notify the governor. Sem
ator Mitchell has remained In Salem
with most OF his lieutenants and has
been actively interviewing senators. To
pass resolutian 1t is absolutely neces-
sary TO have 10 besides Brownell, who
Is sick. Mitchell had not obtained them
Friday and there Is no apparent change
in the situa tion tonight n the resolu-
tion comes up In the senate Tomorrow
afternoon. and II probably will. the
prospect Is that II viii lie beaten. But
the vote is known 90 be exceedingly
close and no prediction can be made
with assurance that il Will be verified.