The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-03-30

must be 20 years Af age.
James Ii. Kids editorial I'm the lonia
Sentinel on "McKinley's First Year"
has been copied quite extensively I'm
eastern nawsr yrs. including one of
the papers i'm this city. The editor OF
the New York sun says: 1T is a
strong statement i'm behalf OF the pres
ident, without being an over-state-
ment'
General Miles Claim Criticised.
Major General n lies is being severely
criticised In army and navy circles for
pushing his claim for promotion at "A
time OF great national emergency. In
the Army and Navy club one of the
veteran retired army officers OF the civ
! II wal said:
AT the commencement OF our trou-
bles here Phil Sheridan wrote that he
hoped TO be promoted to be major OF
| Ills regiment. IL the war should last
long enough. Ulysses s. Grant was glad
10 get back into the army as a captain.
| Tecumseh Sherman was delighted when
! he was made a colonel. Schofield was
perfectly satisfied TO await his chances
! for preferment The two men who be-
! came lieutenant generals won their
stars. Now, then. Miles is simply SEN
| ior major general because he has grown
old in the service, az others are grow
| ing old. and when there is some little
prospect Of war, he goes to congress and
! asks TO be made lieutenant general
before a gun is fired"
That is sample Of the way people
arc talking of Miles and his bill One
of the naval officers Of the club, who
has seen battle experience, says No
body knows yet whether Miles or some
other fellow will prove to be our great
est leader in the event of war with any
| country. Actual warfare will develop
that fact The civil war developed the
real leaders. Mcclellan. Halleck. FREE
mont stepped aside for Grant. Sher-
man and Sheridan. Nobody entertains
feelings of envy or antipathy for Miles,
but he is certainly not displaying good
! Judgment or patriotism in pushing his
claims for advancement at this time be-
fore there has been any war and when
we are trying to avoid a war"
Does Not Want Adjourn ent.
You may deny the report by my au-
| thorty." says Congressman Dollver,
| because / know that the president has
at no time desired or expressed a de-
sire that the congress should adjourn.
| Moreover, while there is an impending
crisis / know that he wants the con-
gress TO remain in session. Further
more, you may say that | know that
| If congress were not in session now,
the president would convene the con-
gress by proclamation. He is not afraid
| of the congress. He was SO long a
member of the house Of representatives
and so thoroughly understands the con-
gress That he has confidence in the con-
stitutional representatives Of the peo-
Pile. Excepting the brief term Of poor
Garfield there has been no president in
the White House since Lincoln's day
who has been so thoroughly in accord
with the congress as Mckinley is and
has been from the beginning of his ad-
ministraton."
Mr.. Deliver is one of McKinley's per-
sCnal friends. In reply To an inquiry. he
said: While he does not want war
he anticipates It, and is preparing for it,
He will intervene in Cuban affairs re-
gardless of what may be the outcome
of the Maine disaster. Whether or not
there shall be war must be decided i'm
Madrid. and not i'm Washington. The
American people expect the president
TO take proper steps to bring TO "a close
the barbarous conduct of affairs in
Cuba. and the people will not be disap-
pointed in their president i'm this mat
ter. The congress merely reflected the
popular will when it placed $50, 600 coo
at the disposal of the president for the
national defense"
Changes in Political Conditions.
The death of Blanche X. Bruce. the
only colored man who ever served A
full term i'm the United States senate
and one of the only two of his race
who ever entered that body as SEN
ator, must recall the swift changes in
political conditions which made the
slave of 1866 eligible to the highest po-
litioal honors of the republic. II l.
worthy of note also that Mississippi
the home Of Jefferson Davis. who was
president Of the Southern Confederacy
was the only state to call the negro e
senatorial honors.
The country was startled in Febru-
airy. 1870, five years after the close OF
the war; by the announcement that
Hiram X. Revels. a full-blooded negro
had been elected by the Mississippi
Legislature to serve an unexpired tern
as United States senator. II greatly
convulsed political circles generally
ana even the republican leaders o.
that day who had led the nation int,
the flame of battle for the freedom anC
enfranchisement Of the colored race
shuddered at the advent of the black
man in the first legislative tribunal o.
the nation. When Senator Revels APP
peared at the door of the senate on tbs
25th of February, 1870. he was admitted
and qualified without dispute and he
served until the expiration of the term
being little more than a year.
Senator Revels was born a slave in
North Carolina and obtaining his free.
dom in early life. he went To Indiana t.
obtain the educational advantages
which were denied his race I'm his ma
tive state, and later entered the Meth
odist ministry.
Located in Mississippi.
After the war he located i'm Missis-
sippi being officially connected with
the management OF the Freedmen s
bureau. and al the time of his election
to the senate was Methodist presiding
elder of the Natchez district. He was
alfoopthp the hest representative of