Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-10-29
CHICAGO PEACE JUBILEE.
SEES HANNA's HAND.
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SEES HANNA's HAND.
"It was a very shrewd thing" said
Mr.. Altgeld 1.-THE hand OF Mark
Hanna was In 1t from the first, but
Hanna did not come to the surface
until he took a carriage and rode 10
the procession. l am satisfied that
the Republicans have gained $4,000
votes by that peace jubilee. 1 don't
mean that Mckinley converted 25, 900
men oyer to mis- way of thinking. But
1t has stirred the Republicans up.
The apathy among them was astonish.
ing. 1t was not only apathy, but it
was WEAKNESS and disgust at the way
things we're going. He continued:
THAT trip Of the presidents was
the most shrewdly handled purely
political affair in my recollection.
After the managers Of the peace
jubilee had become absolutely often
ded at the charge that the celebration
was being held in the interest Of the
Republican party, they brought the
president here. He swung around the
circle and made partisan speeches,
which would have been resented by
the American people had they not
been made under the non.partisan
pretext, The president would not
dare to make purely political tour Of
that kind.
ASK THE PEOPLE FOR SUPPORT.
"Take his trip; he comes through
Galesburg on his way to Omaha, and
he makes a speech, In which the peo-
pie are asked not to critlclse the ad-
ministration, but to support 1t, Then
his members Of the cabinet askthe peo.
pie to vote the Republican ticket this
year,so that the administration can be
sustained, The train stops at Dem
ison, Iowa, which Is IN Delivers
district, anc the president himself ap-
peals to the people to vote for Dol
liver. because Dolliyer Is his friend.
DONE IN THE scHooLuoUsEs.
"In Chicago every one knows how
they worked IL. After they had held
the big downtown meeting and the
president had shaken hands with
thousands Of people, they held those
twenty-four meetings Ia the school
house. That's where the work was
done. Those meetings were crowded,
and every one who attended them
heard the old peace jubilee request.
Uphold the PRESIDENT They were
asked not to crltlcise the president,
not TO criticise the appointment OF
inexperienced rich young men with
political pulls to positions In the
aud quartermaster de-
partments Of the army. which caused
the death aud sickness Of so many
OF our boys, but to uphold the hands
Of the president.
SAT Omaha the members Of his
cabinet make speeches for the presi-
dent. At St. Louis, where there is
hard political fight, the same thing.
Then he goes way over TO Terre
Haute. Ind, aud asks the people there
to vote for the Republican congress
man for reelection, because he is his
friend. lie makes his devious way
back through Illinois, stopping at
Paris, Arcola, and finally gets into
the l7Gh congressional district, where
Caldwell is making a tight against
Mills, aud which lsan extremely close
The presidential train stops
at Decatur and Springfield, and his
cabinet members all make appeals to
the voters to uphold the hands Of the
president.
a"As a purely partisan affair the
peace jubilee was success, but l
cannot help thinking that after the
the protest as TO its nOn-partisan
nature there is an element OF hypoc-
risy and pretense in the Republican
party or among its leaders. l don't
think the whole rank and tile is
effected with this hypocrisy and pre-
tense. But IL was uumanly and unfair
for the managers Of the peace jubilee,
after their protestations Of non-par-
tisanship, to turn IL into Republican
demonstration.
81 don't blame the Republican
managers. They are shrewd fell
lows. They have simply outman-
euvered our boys. We Democrats
claim that the peace jubilee should
have been postponed for TIVE weeks In
order TO maintain its non partisan