Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-10-13

managers of the war department did
not prob6se that any Republican soldier
should achieve any fame who might ap-
pear in the next Republican national
convention as q rival to William Nc.
Kinley in securing the nomination fol
the presidency. See? Had Miles been
given the command of the army operat.
ing in Cuba he might have doomed uI
as o dangerous man for Mark and Mack
in the dog days of 1900.
The Ole story With Variations.
It's the story Of the old king, the
heir apparent and the tall peoples owe,
again with variations.
But, why, being a Democrat, was
General Merritt exiled to the Philip
pines, when neither Napoleon, Hanni.
bal, Cesar nor Alexander could have
won any renown could they have re.
turned to earth in the meridian Of their
power? For two reasons: l. Because Of
Alger's old grudge of "a years stand
ing. 2. Because if Merritt achieved amy
glory, the Democrats might nominate
him for presidept and sweep the land
with him as their leader. So these tive
tried and trusted soidiers-Republicar
and Democfat-were reisgated to the
rear while Shafter the Fat was sent te
order green troops without artillery
against strong breastworks. Suppoet
German, English, Russian o. French
soldiers had been behind those breast
works-men who knew how to fight Of
who wanted to fight. There would moi
have been enopgh Of Skaters men LEFT
| aliye to bury the deAd.
The Springfield {Mass.) Republican,
a stanch Republican paper, declares
| that Skaters soldiers were murdered
by the jobbers and inoornpetents in tbs
war department.. Nevertheless Mark de
clares that Aiger shall not be made {
scapegoat and that the president as
sumes the responsibility, and Marl
knows.
John Sherman is said to be cold d
Greenland's 10y mountains. He hal
generally looked out for No. 1 will
eminent success. It Ia difficult to regart
him In the entirely new lighs as an OBJ
jeet Of pity. And yet the heartless ant
cruel manner in which John has bee,
cheated, chiseled. hoSpswoeejed, bull
lied and browbeAten in his old age b!
the McHanna gang Of f-eebooters woult
move a heart Of stone. Hirc ill@ lao
rime-hehce these tears.
Now, John deserves nothing good
not even oommisefation-at the hand
Of Democrats, but he deserved bette
things from the McHannaites. His lat
ter days have been full Of hard trial
and great ~tribulations. First he wantet
to be nominated for president, and jus
as he was reaching out to grasp tn,
nomination Russell A. Alger knooket
the props out from under him by buy
ing his southern delegates away fren
him.
Made Room For Hanna.
Then Mark and Mao squeezed hin
out Of the senate to make rooua for MARI
and compelled him to enter the cabine
and sit at the council table with tn
aforesaid Alger, who bought his dele
gates as aforesaid. The old man wa
willing to endure that humiliation, bu
Just as soon az Mark had purchased tn
senatorial succession from the Ohio leg
islature they squeezed John out Of tn
cabinet and turned him adrift Ii To
cold, cold world. John knows by thi
time Of day that the way Of the trans
gressor is hard. It took 20 years for hi
Nemesis to catch up with him, bu
caught up with he is at last.
At the end Of fifty odd years Of office
holding perhaps John is the most utter
" miserable old man in America. Con
gresham, senator, secretary Of the treas
ury and secretary Of state, these posi-
lions would have satisfied the ambitio
of most men, but to Johns felicity On
thing was wanting-the presidency c
the republic, and that was withheld.
John dreeuleaf Whittier, the Quake
poet, onoe filed a long felt want b
writing the famous couplet:
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: "It might hav
BEEN"
If anybody has any doubts as to th
great truth therein contained, be ca
have them removed with dispatch b
calling upon the Hon. John Addiso
Porter, secretary to the president. p
is perhaps the most chopfallen stateI
man and patriot Of them all. He ca
sympathize with poor old King Lear !
his remarks on ingratitude, serpent
teeth, etc., for John Addison is fres
from a most narrowing experience
how easily and completely an aspirin
statesman can be dumped in this Ian
Of the free and home Of the brave. job
Addison realizes how the late and !,
mented Mr.. McGinty felt when he fe
into the coal hole and went to the DO
tom of the sea. He can take to hea
the words of Cardinal Wolsey whel
with breaking heart, he remarked
Cromwell:
Mark but my fall and that that ruined m
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ami
ton!
BY that sin fell the angels. How a ma
then,
The image of his Maker. hope to win by i
A Chopfallen Statesman.
Now, be it remembered that Jot
Addison is the only secretary to Il
president that the human optic ev
Toasted upon. Dan Lamont, Major Lil
Halford, the asinine Thurber and q
the rest were merely private secret
ries" Of their chiefs, but when Jot
Addison was about to burst upon Il
astonished gaze of men under the ohape
onage of Mark and Mao the tit
of private secretary wasn't got
enough, so it was enacted and ordain'
that the office Of private secretary
should be abolished and the more stat
~ and pompous n Of secretary
the president should be created, al
for weeks we were surfeited with ella
crate descriptions Of John Addison, b
uprisings and downsittings and we
RECALLED with marvellous prophecies
what J. A. was going to do. He was
! our visions by day and q dreams
i night.
But in a moment unlucky for /
, peace Of mind John Addison oonclud
that he would like to be governor
Connecticut, and, deceived by what
hsard from the oily tongues Of off
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