The evening times., 1899-09-15

ing the PRESIDENTIAL eye. but hardly that
of Secretary Root. And we will not permit
ourselves tc believe that this or any other
Stiffness on the part of the dangerous lu-
natic in Luzon will have the effect to keep
him much longer in power
Not day passes now that some Repub-
lican politician of influence does not plead
with Mr.. Mckinley to assuage the just re-
sentiment Of the country by getting rid
OF Otis. His best friends are warning him
that his course in the Philippines, if longer
eide. Hnother six months CT Otis, in our
opinion, would make Theodore Roosevelt
and net William Mckinley the Republican
candidate in 1900. The latter ought to be
able to realize his peril. If be is not and
| does not speedily break through the little
staff and army contract ring that sur
rounds him, he might just as well surren-
der any ambition he may have to succeed
himself in the White House Even the
peculating corruptionists who run his par
ty, want a person with a little backbone
in that Mansion,
The Presidents Union Label.
There is not a little trouble in Chicago
over that postoffice cornerstone business,
and Mr.. Mckinley may not lay it, On the
contrary, he may be compelled to go on
strike. with his brother stonecutters and
brfrklayers. against the granite quarry of
Mr.. Hanna's friend, the contractor We
should greatly regret to see him placed
in such an embarrassing position, the har-
rowing possibilities of which are easy
enough TO realize.
For example suppose the President were
to visit Chicago for the purpose of doing
little masonry job on the new building,
according to the original programme!
Suppose him to have put on his oyeralls.
stuck a foot rule, a pencil stub, and a
chunk OF chalk in his pocket taken q
fresh bite CT tobacco, and seized his hod
and trowel ready for business! Suppose
him. at this interesting juncture, TO be
suddenly approached by the walking dele-
gate OF his unicn and ordered to lay down
his tools and walk out,
Here is where the conflict between several
duties, number of interests, and nurper-
GUS different promises would probably
come in. AS stonecutter and bricklayer in
good standing Mr.. Mckinley would have to
of Dago Employers, he wodil be in honor
bound to go on and smear mortar. Again.
IL he elected 10 stick 10 his latest union OBJ
legation and strike, there might be violence
in the streets of Chicago. AS a consistent
striker il would be incumbent upon him to
go along with the crowd and heaye brick
bats at pernicious bosses and non-union
Iaborers boycott and dynamite persons with
non-union stones in their rings and scarf
pins. and generally show his mettle.
But. as President of the United States,
ii nigh: become his duty TO order out the
be objected that he would not be called
upon thus to interfere in a purely local
strike and riot; but he might take the
same large-headed and logical view of the
situation that his predecessor did when
that elephantine intellect operated on a
previous emeute in Chicago.
1t is said TO be a matter of unwritten
history that, when the late Grover Cleve-
land was about TO send Federal troops into
the Windy City to suppress the Debs rail-
way strike. his right to do so was question
ed by one of his official family. The great
man, however, quickly silenced criticism
with the unanswerable argument, that the
railway officers, directors, and non-union
employees were all males. and that the
strikers were interfering with their move
ment. Hence, il was plain that as Presi-
dent he had a legal right and it was his
bounden duty 10 interfere. He did, and
braVely sent the regular artillery pounding
and exploding its caissons through the
town. He did not hesitate a minute; any
mere than Governor Mckinley did when
he sent the blood-drinking Ohio mounted
horse cavalry into the Hooking Valley TO
discipline its turbulent and extensively
grimy miners