Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-08-23
REvILED AT HOME.
Even the Republican Press has had .
Fling at its Weak Head.

0 "oooO0L ITSSlueuI k6lDC0 Du-
chanan,' the New York Herald calls
President Mckinley. az hesitatlng
President" is what the New York
Tribune calls him. ais there no one
else?" asks the Republican Portland
Oregonian, as it contemplatee McKin-
ley's apparent certainty of renomina-
ton, and wonders, "if the Republi-
cans think they have a walkover in
1900, do they propose going out Of
business in 1904?' The Oregonian
goes on to say:
@Now Is the time to take into &C.
count the certain impressions made
upon such Of our people as are Meth
er office-holders nor office.seekers, by
the administration of William Nc
Kinley. Is there no one else?
at is an imperfect world and we
must deal with voters as we find
them. 1t would be of all things most
lamentable and to be opposed tooth
and nail that candidate running on
the reiterated Chicago platform
should be elected. But we must reck-
on with the impulses as well as the
reason OF the people. 1t may not be
possible to placate all that are enrag-
ed at apathy to the gold standard; at
betrayal Of the civil service; at sacri-
flee OF the army;at neglect OF Alaska;
at disastrous delay in Luzon: at ap-
pointmeuts of unfit men for Office.
The people like man that doesn't
try to eyade, and delay and eqniyo-
cate, and try to carry water on both
shoulders. They don't Like a man
that will tell his cabinet officer that
he wants him to stay and get two or
three go-betweens to go and tell him
that he wants him to go. They like a
man that has the decision to act and
the courage to speak"
The New York Tribune the fore.
most Republican organ of them all in
a similar vein remarks, @if Mckinley
has erred it has been in hesitating to
assert his own undoubted preroga-
tives." The Tribune takes no stock
in the assertion that a lawyer was
needed for Secretary of War and
says:
"Congress has plenty of lawyers in
it's own membership. If it should
not choose to adopt their suggestions,
it could readily get suggestions from
others. Neither Congress nor the
country is 30 thoroughly satisfied with
the actual work legitmately done by
the War Department under the re-
cent head as to receive with equanam-
ity the statement that a new head
has been chosen for it not 30 much
with reference as to improving it's
necessity and imperative services, but
expressly with view to doing some.
thing else which primarily belongs to
the Senate and House of Representa-.
tives."
SO much for the claim, constantly
paraded, that Mckinley has no oppo-
sitiop within his own party. His
very weakness las proved his strength
with the Observation-Disclosures NOM
nation making bosses OF the Repub.
hcan party. The Platte, the Ouays.
and the Hannas Of course admire a
President that will abdicate his DOW
er OF appointment in their behalf.
But the thinking element of the par.
ty, although they do not pack pri.
mariee. deliver delegates or control
conventions, they, have taken the
measure OF Mckinley, and enough Of
them will vote against him to defeat
his reelection il the Democracy ia
wise.
President Mckinley may find that
so far as the nomination itself ia con.
earned, ne has sold his birthriebt for
not even mess OF cottage. Tho
Platte, Hannas and Quays would not
hesitate to knife him in a minnie
should self interest 30 dictate.-AI.
bany Argus.