Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-04-27

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TO MonEN sent free Il
poid. Nov. according to MeKisSn
Marx and his gang are doing for re
vsnra the veIy sane thing that Teller
ard his Repahiczn friends did from a
ssnse of duty. This MeKisson fight may
turn cut 10 Be q mere tf~0est in q tea
pot CT il may have ; = farresehing
eject. not only On Ohio tate politics,
hut upon national politics as wei From
/ time inmemorial with short intervals
CT psaoe. Ohio politicians Of all psrties
sppsar to have taken the Kilkenny cats
for their models It win Be remembered
BY those who pay any attention to sueh
matters that on two or three different
occasions John Sherman eouh have
been nominated for president If the
Ohio Republicans had supported him
cordially and unanimously, hut be was
always stabbed TO death L the house If
his Ohio friends. Allen @. Thurman
might have been nominated for presi-
dent by the Democrats in 1875 If the
Ohio Democrats had not been divided
in their affections between him and his
mustri0us uncle, sOld Bill" Allen
So that if the McKisaon gang should
make Roadway in the move 70 prevent
Mark from getting a Solid Ohio delega-
ton for Mckinley the latter might not
be nominated in the national eOnTen-
ton. thereby furnishing another illus
tration Of the old saying that ''history
frequently repeats itself II this should
happen and some new man should be
nominated for president by the Repub-
lican national convention, judging
Marks conduct in that event by his con-
duct in the mayoralty election in Cleve-
land. be and his gang would be liable to
bolt, for the boiling habit grows in
strength as ID increases in age. and II
Mark and his gang should bolt it would
deliver the Republicans into our hands,
and we would easily elect Bryan Presi-
dent, "a consummation devoutly TO be
wished
Presidential Possibility.
The truth II, az / long since said in
these letters, that the much Wanted
Republican harmony is like beauty.
only skin deep. and that their differ
enees. like uEliness. are to the bone
Signs are begiuning to crop out every
where that they are at lcggerheads
about everything. One Of the most bit
, Ter and intolerant Republican papers
in the United States Is the New York
Pres, and withal it is an ably edited
paper. Recently it fell afoul Of General
Nelson A Miles. who Is a distinguished
a soldier. an eminent, lifelong Republican,
commanding general Of the American
army, and, what Is more, a brother-in-
law to Don Cameron and a nephew-in-
law to John Sherman and General viii
liam Tecumseh Sherman. The Press
. roasted Miles to a turn chiefly because
! be had had the courage and the honesty
! to tell the truth about the outrageous
] manner in which our soldiers during
! the Cuban war were imposed upon in
] the matter Of beef, and the fear Of The
; Press and Republican papers of that
4 ilk is that Miles may loom up in the
! next national Republican convention al
! a formidable candidate for the nomina'
: tion for the presidency. Here is part Of
what The Press had to say about thii
: distinguished soldier:
1t would give Us pleasure to see Genera
: Miles run for president on the Demoerati,
ticket, for Of course there will be no room fol
him on the Republican ticket. Without dis
cussing his unhtness 20 represent Republican
ism in 3 national campaign, It is sufficient e
d say that there are several hundred reasons
from Mckinley, Reed, Allison, Dewey, Roose
Z Welt and 90 On through the iist-why Genera
1 Miles never will be thought Of by the Repub
a lican convention. but, backed by his yellow
Journal friends and his yellow record Of tbs
Spanish campaign. he would make a first ratt
democratic candidate-to be beaten. Make Il
Miles and German, say, or Miles and Crohei
or, better still and more generally consistent
Miles and AguinAldo. Then watch the fun.
General Grosvenor.
But to return to the ohioans- There
il one Buckeye Republican statesman
, for whom / have great fondness, and
y that Is General Charles Henry Gros-
yenor. l once conferred on him on the
+ floor Of congress the honorable title d
a "the Grim Old Lion of Athens, " and,
a though ! have never entirely forgiven
4 him for his famous Columbus speech in
y the summer of 1898, be occasionally
I performs some work which meets with
Is my entire appreciation. / admire his
a courage, his facility in speech and his
u eternal readiness for any sort Of fight.
+ There IL one subject on which he has
spoken L.LTe times, perhaps. and more
boldly. than any other public man, and
that is the subject Of civil service re
form, which the lordly Roscoe Conkling
once sn~esringly denominated ''snivel
service reform" Not long since Gen.
eral Grosvenor got into a e~ontroversJ
with Mr.. Proctor, the chief Of the civil
service bureau. If Proctor had been a
well acquainted with him as be ough'
10 have been, be would have let hin
alone, on the principle that it is mo-
safe to kick a sleeping lion. But be per
formed that silly feat, and the result o.
Il was that the general took the hide Of
him in pieces as big as saddle skirt
50 long as the general engages in fay
ing that crowd l hope he viii keep hiI
:. knife sharp, for he can render the hu
man race no more excellent service thai
, by being unusually active in that di
rection.
II has generally been supposed b.
4 those who have had an opportunity 4
observe bis condnet that General Gros
venor's chief stock in trade was a frs
= class article and inexhaustible suppl,
of vitriol He has poured it upon hi
enemies In unstinted measure. Nobod,
ever suspected that be carried ~concealel
= about hisperzon any considerable quan
or tity Of soothing strip. hut not lonl
since he wa interviewed about polite
in Ohio. IN which be used more sooth
"a ing strip than can be found anywher
A. outside Of a foundIing asylum he no
only praised Mckinley to the skies
which was natural, inasmuch Is be haI
q good deal 70 60 With nominating him
r. but he also praisea Hanna in the mos
e~ItFavagant flshisn. which wac not m
"a natural, az they belong % the sam
+. wing q the Republican party in Ohio
= bot what was calculated 10 take me-
anybody's breath away, be also laude
Foraker enthusiastically and predieto
a. his certainty a election