Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-09-07

hanna aAu O0hiub Ant civil war e.
hire him a substitute. l can suggestone
10 him who has had large experience In
naying civil service reformers. His
name is General Charles Henry Grosve-
nor. my grim old lion OF Athens"
He's an expert, Charles Henry Is, and
his knife Is always whetted to a feath-
er edgs. There's only one trouble about
Lyman's securing his services as a
dermatologist, and that is that Gen
eral Grosvenor is a whole hog Re
publican and has no particular afec-
ton for new converts-conyerted at the
high price Of cabinet portfolios.
Whether he has yet admitted Lyman
to full fellowship l do not know, but IL
be has Charles Henry is the man that
Lyman j. is In search Of.
short ON Discretion.
The trouble with Lyman was that he
was short on discretion and long-de-
cidedly long-on zeal. In fact, he ex-
hihited the proyerbial zeal of a brand
new convert, a thing which has here
tofore brought better men than he to
grief. Lyman, rushing In where vet
eran Republicans fear to tread, under
took to defend the presidents recent
civIl service order turning over 1900
fat Offices to Republican spoilsmen-a
feat that no man a accomplish. Ii
can't be defended; for, when President
Mckinley was inaugurated, he solemnly
assured a waiting world that no back
ward step must be taken In the glori-
Gus and aesthetic theory of civil serv-
ice reform. and yet by his late order
he did take a step backwards long
step-so long indeed that ave or six
more such steps would absolutely OBJ
literate the entire system Of civil serv-
Ice reform. New England transcen-
dentalists seek the unattainAble. Ly-
man tried TO accomplish the impossi-
BILE, hence his tears and bruises and
discontinue. Mr.. McAneny made him
the laughing stock OF the civilized
world, and be did II with skill and dis
patch. No man can for long in this
world run with the hare and hold with
the hounds, as President Mckinley will
ind out to his sorrow. A man cannot
receive the plaudlts-and what is more
important 10 him, the votes-of cIvn
service reformers and at the same time
turn a wilderness OF downy berths over
to the famished Republican heelers. /
am not saying whether the president
was right or wrong, but / an saying
that President Mckinley can no longer
pose as a civil service reformer. I
haven't the honor OF an acquaintance
with Hon. George McAneny, but new
ertheless | must heartily congratulate
him upon doing a tiptOp job of skin
ming.
SO, after the soldering which John
Bull and Mark Hanna have been doing
on each others shoulders, it appears
that one bullheaded Canadian, Sir
Wilfrid LAurier, is about to knock the
fat in the fire. He really has the pre-
sumption to be in a mood to have n
war with US over the Klondike bound
airy line. This will be awful news TO
those Anglo maniacs who roll up their
trousers because 1t is wet in London,
don't you know, but 1t Is pleasant
reading to all those genuine Americans
who are opposed TO that stupendous
folly-an English-American alliance
and who from the beginning have
known that John Bulls love for Us is =
hollow truce. Not that anybody with
good sense desires war. but because Sir
Wilfrid's attitude demonstrates thor
oughly what all sensible people well
understood before-to wit, that no ma
ton can be door neighbor to England
without being in perpetual hot water.
John Bull never can be cured Of his
bad habit of coveting other peoples
land. On that subject be Is ~incorrigi-
bic, But, much as he bankers after
our ~goldhelds, we will have no war
with him for two all sufficient reasons
ID we have thrashed him twice and
would delight to give him a third
dose. a heroic dose, Of the same bitter
medicine; e. we owe him something
like S7.000.O00,000 In one hour after
war Is declared congress, as q perfect
ly legitimate war measure. would CON
hscate every cen OF that Indebtedness.
John comprehends both these potent
and patent facts most clearly, and he
viii choke Sir Wilfrid Laurier on, and
we viii have our way IN the Klondike,
unless the administration barters away
u rights on this continent to buy
Johns friendship IN Asia. So / think,
on the whole, that the Anglo maniaes
a 90 on sucking the heads OF their
canes, sticking monocles on their eyes,
rolling up their trousers and singing
'God Save the Queen to their hearts
content. We win not twist the British
lions eaudal appendage this summer.
That would be too un-Engligh, don't
you know. But the time is not far
distant when we VIII twist It, unless
that greedy beast learns better man
ners.
MARI Hanna's Crony.
My good Republican friend, Colonel
Charles +. Dick, member OF ongres
and chairman Of Ohio Republican state