Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-07
TeIler's Ambition.

Teller S AmDlu0n.
Undoubtedly Senator Teller. when he
made his dramatic exit from the Repub-
lican national convention at st. Louis
had a large sized presidential bee buZ-
zine under his silk hat. With a subl.n
msconception of the character of the
great American people, and of the vast
interests ie0pardized by the raid of the
silver barons upon the national credit.
he nattered himself that the long
speech he had just inflicted upon the
ton upon the great party that had car
ried the country safely through the
greatest civil warm the worlds history,
and placed it in the van of nations His
head was filled with ideas of personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. He ina gined that the
proposition to furnish the silver MIN
owners with an unlimited market fo.'
their bullion at twice its market value
would sweep the country. and that ne
would be the chosen leader of this great
visionary movement. Doubtless as ne
walked down the aisle Of that vast al
ditorum he battered himself that he
had begun the march to the White
House. But.
The best laid schemes o'mice and men
Gang aft a-glcE:
And leave us naught by grief and pain
Fer promised joy.
Mr. Teller ami his aspirations were
ludely spurued by the followers of Ait
geld ard Tilman. He was permitted
to march, at respectful distance. in
the rear Of the Bryan procession, and
to have a generous share in the over
whelming defeat sustained by it. But
Mir. Teller. Hike Caesar. is ambitious.
He feels sure that. by 1890, Mir Bryan
Will have talked himself out of serious
consideration as presidential candi-
date Mr. Teller viii then he 20 years
of age and like Barkis. Wllim'. He has
felt the necessity of putting ont a few
political lightning rods. hence his re-
cent Introduction into the Senate of the
resolution declaring that the bonds Of
The United States may be paid in sill
yer dollars which was 50 promptly and
erectually showed under III the Hous".
Mr. Teller has NO care for he vital in
terests of his counlrynen. 1t is of To
concern Ia him that the credit of TIL.
country should be impaired, that the
wage Gamers should DE paid for thei!'
honest toll in dollars worth but hair
as much as those they now receive;
that the pensions of the old soldiers
should bccut in tWo:that the little say
| ines of toll wherever invested should
should part company with the other
great powers Of The world ana take It's
place with poor Cd Mexico as Il user
| of second rate deprecated currency,
No, these things count as nothing With
| Mr.. Teller as compared With his vault
ing personal ambitions. Recent events
| have clearly established this fact. AL
ready he is recovering from the effects
of the frosts which struck him at the
Chicago convention in 1896, and is bus
! lily engaged in laying his pipes for 1909.
| While the chances Of securing the
+ Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency may not be inspiring, Mr.. Teller
is eager TO take them. But, under IN
circumstances will it avail him any
| thing. No advocate of the free ana
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio
! of Is to l. or any other fictitious ratio,
will ever be elected to the presidency of
| the United States.