Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-05-11
CHAMP GLARES LETTER
MIR. Hanna's Peace of
Mind Disturbed.
RICHMONDS KEEP A-OOMIEG.
Joseph H. Manley the Latest In
the Field.
AsPIREs TO EKISLEYs MANTLE.

The ResOurcefui mark May BE ObliE-
ed 10 import n squad of National
Delegates Fron, the Philippines.
People In Earnest NJ q Popular
Vote For senatOrs-That Unclaimed
Fortune In MOntana-Lack Of Har-
mony Among Republican Leaders.
Especial Washington Letter.l
II really seems that our American
Warwick. Marcus A. Hanna. is to have
no peace of mind. Hardly had he hied
himself home from his Jekyi island
conference until the cry breaks upon
his ear Of Another Richmond in the
held"-not Bosworth field. where a
crown was los. and won, but the presi-
Dental fed. Mark may not know much
most likely does not-about Bosworth
field. about Richmond and Richard. the
hunchhack king, and If he knows any
thing as to them he doesn't are a bau.
bee, but he does know a good deal about
the presidential field and about presi-
Dental RichmondsL he has had expert
ence with them, and he hasn't any
hankaring to see any Richmond, old or
new, appear in the field to snatch the
crown from his Richard. Consequently
even an unimaginative person can guess
how Marks gorge will rise when he
reads in the press dispatches from the
City Of Mexico that Hon. Joseph II.
Manley OF Augusta, Me, alias Senior
Jose II. Manley, is making the grand
tour CT our sister republic to the south,
accompanied by "a score Of friends and
admirers. that he is to be ''the Repub-
lican candidate for president" and that
the Mexicans are quite excited by
his visit Now, Senior Jose h. Manley
is not to be sneezed at, ven if Hon.
Sam Fessenden Of Connecticut did de-
nounce him at ST. Louis in the summer
of 1895 in language too strong and sui
phurous to quote here for what the
great Nutmegger esteemed infdelity to
Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed and did
unceremoniously announce to Senior
Jose that "God Almighty hates a quit
ter" How Hon. Sam learned the Lords
opinion is a thing known only to him
self, but as he boldly declared what
that opinion was be must have known.
don't you know.
Something of n warwick.
There are two things concerning this
announcement of Senior Jose's presiden-
tial candidacy which must perturb the
mind Of our Cleveland Warwick. First,
Senior Jose is something Of a Warwick
himself. He managed all of the cam
paigns of Hon. James Gillespie Blaine,
alias ''the Plumed Knight" and in
1884 would unquestionably have landed
him In the White House, had not an
event happened which was not in the
cards-to wit. the unexpected appear
ance upon the scene Of Rev. Mr.. Bur
chard. The reverend gentleman deliver
ed himself Of an ~alliterative phrase Of
precisely four words, which knocked
Senior Jose's fat into the fre-a most as
tonishingly hot FIRE, at that-and made
soft dough Of s'the Plumed Knight's''
presidential bread. In 1896, Warwick
Jose might have bagged the presidential
nomination for Mr.. Reed had be not
contracted a severe and premature case
Of stage fright. But it Is safe to say
that Senior Jose has learned something
by these experiences and win profit by
these mishaps when he concludes to be
his own Warwick. When be is a candi-
date himself, he viii see TO II cocksure
that all the Burchards are effectually
muEzled and securely tethered out in
some dense black jack thicket. "far
from the madding crowd" That he
should bring down upon his own head
the opprobrious epithet Of 'quitter,"
when he is aspiring TO William McKin-
ley's chair and mantle, is a thing in
credible. So that in this exigency of his
chiefs fate, Mark cannot reasonably
hope either that Senior Jose will quit or
that another Rev. Burchard will inter
vene to spoil Joe's presidential plans.
Presidential Richmond.
The second feature of the appearance
Of Senior Jose as a presidential Rich
mond which must provoke Mark to
profanity is the place from which the
senor's boom is launched. II Mark
is cudgeling his brains to discover
why Senior Jose went to the City Of
Mexico to have his candidacy an
nounced to a startled world, I think /
a inform him, and as 1t viii add 10
Marks worry l will do 1t gratis. Here
is the explanation: This is the day of
expansion-unlimited expansion, uni
versal expansion. While Mark and
Mack are endeavoring to expand by
trying to annex the Philippine archipel-
ago, Senior Jose, being wise in his day
and generation, has concluded to take
time by the forelock and annex the en-
tire Mexican republic before the next
Republican national nominating CON
v%ention. In sober truth, Joe's plan Of
annexing u sister republic Is much
wiser than Marks and Mack's of annex
ing the Philippines. Just how many
states there are in Mexico l do not
know, but as there are over ~, 600, 900
people Senior Jose would have some 900
Mexican delegates--if proportioned on
the basis Of population Of Wyoming OF
Idaho-or about 1, 800 II proportioned
On the basis Of population in Nevada. So
that, instead of being a quitter in 1900,