The age-herald., 1899-09-10
M'K|NLEY CONFIDENTLY EXPECTS ID
 WIN HIS NEXT TWO GREAT BATTLES

and given to much rhetoric Both are subtle and love mystery. Bank head is as homely as Beveridge is fair to look upon. He has no curves in his physical makeup but is of a school boy. Beveridge, however, has curves and symmetrical proportions to attract and the power of speech to hold.
 As soon as he was elected he started for the Philippines. Fairbanks admirers say that Beveridge only went to have secret to effect the one Fairbanks has to tell the senate. The latter was the Alaskan commission and will have some strange diplomatic secrets to unfold in December. Therefore Beveridge went to the Philip pines.
 Lost for a Time
 For a time he got lost. His managers held the whole world by the ears while they whispered the possible fate which had overtaken Beveridge while he was sur veying the enemy and studying the notions of General Otis. Then he was found and the world rejoiced with the Beveridge club of Indiana, and now he has journeyed to Washington to tell the president what he saw.
 
 Rico, Cuba, or the Philippines, has been similarly flattered by the president but Beveridge don't know that. In fact he has never been to Washington before, and when he arrived this morning he had to get a guide to show him the white house and the public buildings. He talked long of what he could not tell to the press, and only a few seconds of what he could re- veal to the public. But he has a story to tell in congress, as exciting as that related by Senator Proctor on his retun from Gu ba. His admirers do not hesitate to say that it will overtop any revelation which Fairbanks can possibly make regarding the Alaskan boundery.
 Cannot Awe Beveridge
 And if the older senators think they will be able to awe or keep silent Beveridge as they did Julius Caesar Burrows they are mistaken. He will talk at once. Of course he knows that 1t is not customary for a senator to speak the first term he is in the senate, and hardly to breathe in the first session, but he will, as Tillman did, defy precedents and from the moment he is sworn in represent in fact as well as in part the sovereign state of Indiana. In
 
 growing up between Beverdge and Fair banks, and the senate may prove too small for both of them at once. One club was found too small for them in Indianapo- lis and so that city now boasts two com- mercial clubs, one representing Beveridge and the other Fairbanks.
 Root May Get Nomination
 The suggestion that has been made that when Governor Roosevelt discovered Elihu Root and recommended his appointment to fill the vacancy caused by General Algers retirement that he let genius out of the bottle who may easily grow big enough to swallow the presidential nomination in 1904. MT. Root has been in office but few weeks but in that time he has proven himself to be a veritable war minister with a grip on the situation such as was found in Stanton and Jefferson Davis, when they were secretaries of war. Instead of the staff under him paralyzing him as 1t did Bob Lincoln and Gen. Alger, it is com pletely subservant to him and is handled as he wills. MT. Root is proving himself to be a most remarkable man, and one who alone seems able to bring order out of the chaotic condition in the Philippines, and possibly success.
 Being Closely Watched
 Republicans are watching him closely, and rejoice that anothe Moses stands ready, If there be any need, to call him later. He is self-poised and has himself completely in hand. He thinks clearly, and every order given is as clear-cut as if he had been trained for military life. Every act stands out clear and decisive and elevates him far above the average public servant. The president has meas ured his worth and feels secure in this find of Roosevelt. He leans Root with the confidence and with peace in his soul such as Lazerus experienced as he rested in the bosom of Abraham.