The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1899-07-13
SENATOR MAKING
Is the Business the Presi-
dent is Engaged In.
COL. BRYAN
Has Gained a Strong Hold In New
Yerk by The Tammany Stampede.

seems that Mr.. Mckinley Is going
into the business of Senator-mak-
ing, Notwithstanding the ill-fortune
of other Presidents who have en-
gagged therein. Assistant Secre-
tary of War Meiklejohn is the adj
ministration candidate for Senator
Thurston's seat, he having stated
his intention to retire March 3rd,
1901, when his term will expire. OF
all branches of this administration
the War Department is the worst
from which a candidate for any
thing could be taken, and the demo-
Gratis of Nebraska, who already had
excellent chances for elecfing a
majority Of the next Legislature,
and Thurston's successor, ought to,
and doubtless will, thank Mr.. Me-
Kinley for making their task easier
by backing the Assistant Secretary
of War as the administration can.
didate for the Senate.
The latest gossip in Washington
has it that the Alger-Pingree mix
up is the personal work of Mr.. Nc
Kinley, and that the entire influ-
ence of the administration is to be
used to help Alger defeat Senator
Mcmillan, provided, of course, that
the republicans can elect ma
jority of the next Michigan Degis-
lature-a very important proviso,
by the way. In view of what Al
ger has done to discredit the ad-
ministration, this seems to be an
astonishing sort of deal, but those
who have closely followed the
various Hanna Mckinley political
deals from the spring of '96 to the
present time find it difficult to be
at anything. According
to this story, which may or may
not be true, Alger has succeeded IN
convincing Mr.. Mckinley that all
of the attacks on Algerism have
been in reality attacks on the en-.
tire administration, and that unless
Alger can be vindicated by an cleo
ton to the Senate all these charges
will be placed against the McKin-
ley administration by history. 1t
is plaid that the support of Alger
by the Mckinley administration
will be an act of treacheiy to Sen
ators Mcmillan and Burrows, both
of whom have been steadfast ad-
ministration men, but treachery to
friends has long been a Hanna
speciality, and administration Sen"
ators will not be as badly needed
during the remainder of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's term as they were when
the republicans were short of a
majority in the Senate.
Democrats are citing the ease
with which ex.Gov. Hogg, of Texas,
converted the Tammany Fourth of
July meeting, which it had been
generally understood was to ignore
Col. Bryan, if not directly antago-
nize him, into wildly enthusiastic
Bryan gathering as an evidence of
the wonderful hold that Col. Bryan
has upon the rank and file of the
democratic party-the men who
cast the votes, but do not attempt
to engage in candidate making.
That meeting may prove valuable
object lesson to those who now inn
agine the possibility of preventing
the National Convention register
ing the will of the democratic
party at large.
A New Mexican who attended
the recent Rough Riders reunion
in that Territory has let a brand
new Roosevelt cat out of the bag.
He says that Gov. "Teddy" told his
old comrades that brigade of
Rough Riders would be enlisted
for the Philippines at once, and
that he could command it, if he de-
cided it advisable to resign the
governorship of New York to take
it. Nobody in Washington had
heard word of all this until the
arrival of the gentlemen from New
Me xico. 1t may be merely a pro-
duct of the "silly season." or it may
be true, but If Gov. Roosevelt is
willing to resign his present exalt-
ed position to go to the Philippines,
he will surprise those who give
him credit for knowing how to hold
on to a good thing when he has it.
There is hitch somewhere in
the programme arranged for the
giving out of concessions for vari-
Gus sorts of franchises in Porto
Rico, and it was this week semi
announced that the War
Department would probably not
grant any concessions on the island
N advance of Congressional action.
This announcement would have
,roused more public interest if il