Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-30
CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE.
The Result OF the State Elections
shows Approval of the Presi-
dents Policy.

Now that the result of the elections
Of 1899 is known the administration can
go forward with the assurance that its
policies have been emphatically ap-
proved by the people. The country has
spoken and its verdict is that new ma
tional issues developed by Circum-
stances have been faithfully and ably
handled by President Mckinley as far
as they lay within his province, and he
has scrupulously avoided going beyond
that. He has been guided By The ira
ditional spirit of Americanism and
kept in the closest touch with the gen
eral sentiment and common sense of
the country. His policy is that of the
mass of the people and his constant
study has been the good of the whole
country. President Mckinley has no
vagaries. His opinion S made up eau
tiously. He is far removed from the
class of brilliant egotsts who think
that conclusions carefully formed are
too humdrum to be up to their political
standard. Long experience in public
life has taught him TO view and hear
all sides, and his temperament is that
of a man well guarded from hasty emo
tion or impulse.
Since the election the president has
remarked TO some callers at the white
house: "The more | see of the conf
dence reposed in my administration by
the people of the country the more | feel
the weight of the responsibility rest
ing upon me-" The sincerity of the
presidents words will be admitted by
all who have inteIligently observed his
character. He is not affected by the
vanities of high station, but feels al
ways the seriousness of the duties i'm
posed upon him, especially those that
require the shaping of policies under
new conditions. Far more than share
of this labor has fallen to his admins
tration. The most perpleXing question
with which he was called upon to deal,
that of the Philippines. was absolutely
unknown in the canvass of 1896. A
| president with a greater pride of self
| assertion, or with n less sensitive re-
gard for the sober and substantial iudg-
ment of the people themselves, might
| easily have made a mistake in meeting
| the complications of diplomacy and an
unexpected war on the far side of the
Pacific. But the voice of the oountry
is that Mckinley in every instance has
done what was right and best.
There are times when the nation adj
| vances with exceptional power and ra-
! pidity. The present administration is
one of the periods. 1t was elected to
preserve a sound currency and bring
back industrial prosperity. This was
! quickly accomplished, but is only one
! item among the important achieve
ments. 4 foreign war was pushed
| through with remarkable success. An
| other war, the unforeseen sequel to the
first. has been vigorously prosecuted
until the enemy no longer pretends
to make a determined stand. The
United States has expanded territorial
| " in the greatest ocean Of the worlC
and which is nearer TO us geographical
" than to any other great civilized
power President Mckinley has me-
every crisis and every problem witt
calm balance, prudence, executive ca
pacity and unquestioned success. The
November elections are the ample proc
that his labors are approved and ap
preciated. Demagogucs will rail a!
usual and partisan drtraction will con
tinue, but the country stands squarelN
with Mckinley and will see that ht
works out the mission so well begun
St. Louis Glohc-Democrat.