The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-30

hess IN Miehigan about that time, and
hence VIII go to Port Huron. Appli-
cants for civil service examination
must be 20 years OF age.
James II. Kidds editorial In the Ionia |
Sentinel on "McKinleys First Year"
has been copied quite extensively in
eastern newspapers. including one of |
the papers In this city. The editor OF |
the New York Sun says: "It Is a
strong statement in behalf Of the pres
ident, without being an over-state-
ment."
General Miles Claim Criticised.
Major General Miles 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 war said:
AT the commencement OF our trou-
bles here Phil Sheridan wrote that he
hoped to be promoted to be major of
his regiment, If the war should last
long enough. Ulysses s. Grant was glad
TO get back into the army as a captain.
Tecumseh Sherman was delighted when
he was made 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 sem
Tor major general because he has grown
old in the service, as 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 &c NIL nP a nann1a
are talking of Miles and his bill. One
Of the naval officers Of the club, who
has seen battle experience, says: mo
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 Adjournment
"You may deny the report by my au
thority," says Congressman Dolliver,
because 1 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-
pie. 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 adj
ministration."
Mr.. Deliver is one of McKnley's per-
sonal friends. In reply to an inquiry, he
said: while he does not want war
he anticipates it, and is preparing for 1t
He will intervene in Cuban affairs re-
CARELESS Of what may be the outcome
Of the Maine disaster. Whether or moi
there shall be war must be decided In
Madrid and not in Washington The
American people expect the president
to take proper steps to bring to Close
the barbarous conduct of affairs II
Cuba, and the people will not be disap
pointed in their president in this mat
ter. The congress merely reflected tn
| popular will when it placed $5O,OOO,OO
at the disposal Of the president for TIT
national defense"
, Changes in Political Conditions.
The death Of Blanche X. Bruce, tn
only colored man who ever served
, full term in the United States senate
and one Of the only two of his rae
who ever entered that body as a sen
ator. must recall the swift changes Ii
, political conditions which made tn
= slave of 1866 eligible to the highest po
: | Ntical honors of the republic. IL
worthy Of note also that MISSISSIPPI
the home of jefferson Davis, who wa
president of the Southern ConfederacI
was the only state to call the negro t
5 senatorial honors.
, The country was startled In Fepru
Q airy, 1870, five years after the close {
3 the war; by the announcement tina
Hiram r. Revels, a full-blooded negr'
p had been elected by the MISSISSIPPI
o legislature to serve an unexpired teri
n as United States senator. 1t greatl
: convulsed political circles generali!
n and even the Republican leaders
that day who had led the nation INT
the flame of battle for the freedom an
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the colored rae
sbuddered at the advent of the blac
q man in the first legislative tribunal
. the nation. When Senator Revels al
neared at the door of the senate on Il
25th of February, 1870, he was admittt
: and qualified without dispute, and !
- served until the expiration of the teri
a being a little more than year.
. Senator Revels was born a slave
- North Carolina, and obtaining his ire
- dom in early life, he went to Indiana
- obtain the educational advantag
e which were denied his race In his n
tive state. and later entered the Met
- odist ministry.
:. Located In Mississippi.
% After the war he located In Missi
= s,nni being officially connected WI
l. the management of the Freedmen