Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
MO MORE
ANDY JOHNSON.
How q Distinguished Friend Of
the President Views
tho Campaign.
OLD FEUDS ON THE SHELF.
While All Kinds of Republicans
Vote With the Flag.
OLD FEUDs ON THE SHELF.
NO OFF YEARS IN WAR TIME.

Republican who Says He VIII Leave
1.-THE Old Man, In the Hands of Prov
idence TIL the War Is Over-No
Room For Dickering With the De-
mocracy This Year.
Especial Correspondence
Washington, July 19.-"I am glad to
see that the Republicans of Pennsyl
vania have not forgotten Andy john
son, nor the terrible warning of his
career in the White House," said one
of the few members of the house ways
and means committee who still tarries
here in the summer smell of the hot
asphalt street pavements
He says it is to clear up some odds
and ends of departmental business. He
is known, however, to have the conf
dence of President Mckinley to an
unusual degree. and it is more likely
that he foreswears the delights and
comforts of seashore and mountain at
the presidents request, in order that
his advice may be had in any critical
situation which may arise out of the
present war; They were old associates
in congress. and have been close to
each other for many years.
Under the present circumstances"
he continued, with much earnestness.
1.-The election proclamations in the var
ious states ought to appeal to the
party spirit of Republicans as the
presidents call to arms appealed to
the patriotism of the country. 1t
should meet with like response. This
is especially true of Pennsylvania,
whose magnificent and answering Re-
publicanism has so often stood the
keynote of party success. We of other
states do not forget that Pennsylvania
was the state of Curtin, nor fail to re-
member how Lincoln leaned upon your
great war governor in all the darkest
hours of the rebellion, and it is among
the most gratifying signs of the times
to observe by the press reports from
what under other circumstances might
be discontented sections of your state,
that your leaders are patriotically lay
ing their rivalries on the shelf until
this war and it's problems are settled
But with Santiago surrendered.
Manila under Dewey's guns. and the
Spanish navy either under water or
hunting a hiding place up the creek.
do you seriously think the war will last
past election day."
II sincerely hope not so far as
actual fighting goes. but war is like
measles or diphtheria. The dregs 1t
leaves are often harder to deal with
than the disease itself. The greatest
and gravest problems of this war will
only begin to be set for the statesman
ship of this country when the last gun
is fired. 1t was so after the last war.
1t will be doubly so after this one.
Some of these problems we have upon
us already: some we cannot even Yet
predict. They have come without ex-
pectation or warning, and they will
likely continue to come that way. Ad-
miral Dewey's guns, in couple of
hours of a Sunday morning, changed
the map of the world for generations
to come. and the few modest lines In
which he announced, In effect, that he
had an island empire as large as New
England and Pennsylvania ready for
the American flag, brought with 1t
questions of international and enduring
moment, such as have not confronted
us for hundred years. Is this time
to swap horses, or to bubble over local
grievances and differences? Is 1t a
time for Republicans in states like
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois. or in any
Republican states, to speak with any
tnluS put OVERWHELMING
You speak warmly"
Every Republican who is close to
national affairs feels warmly upon this
subject. 1 value above anything else
that has come to me in my life the es-
TEEN of my neighbors. and the unfail-
ing confidence with which they have
returned me year after year to con-
gress, but If it seemed to me tomorrow
fhof cop,o otbar pan,,hlicaO NV httfor.
est enemy even, could be elected next
November more certainly than I, or
that his election would be more signifi-
cant of the loyalty Of my district to the
president and the party. would tele-
graph my resignation from the ticket,
and urge his nomination with all my
might. l am by no means alone in this
feeling. Shortly after the war began
received call here in Washington
from a distinguished gentleman in my
district who made vigorous cam
paign against my nomination two years
ago, chiefly urging that l had been in
congress so long that l had become
negligent of local interests. He had
been openly pointed out as likely to run
on an independent ticket against me
this year with Democratic support. He
Travelled all the way to Washington
to notify me that the war had changed
the situation. He offered to go into
the convention as one of the delegates,
If desired it. saying frankly at the
same time that he made no pledges be-
yond this year. Said he:
81 know l am throwing away Cor
rather Sagasta is throwing away for
mel my best chance. The next election
will be in presidential year. and with
your we'll known closeness to McKin-
ley you will be hard to beat. I had
been thinking that as this was natural
1y an off year we might make the land
ing. But there are no off years in war
times.'"
And you think a similar feeling is
developing in Pennsylvania
II know it." he replied. "and so they
do up at the other end of the avenue"
Jerking his thumb in the direction Of
the White House.
You know he continued, I'VE took
IN unusual interest in your affairs this