The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-28
The Coming Vice President.

The Coming Vice President
All men of pious and proper principles
join in worshiprg the rising sun. Il is a
condition and rot a theory OF human ma
ture. II affects alike the monarch on his
throne. the pale student, who has been up
all night reading the Congressional Rec
ord and the orator Oh his stump. 1t is a
fact which reconciies us largely TO the
vicisstudes of life and makes us all will
ing to be rising suns.
Unhappilv. few Of us attain 20 that sta
ton but one of the exceptions is the Hon.
John D. Long, who has been a famous
American ever since he relieved himself CT
the portentous announcement that the re-
sporsifility of Spain for the disaster" TO
the Maine had been entirely eliminated
from Administration consideration Since
that notable time Mr. Long has kept him
self before the American public, principally
| through Cfowninshield BY this gentle
| means he has been considerably in evil
dence now and again. Occasionally his fine
| Italian han and classical ability have been
seen in efforts o distort geography, his-
! tory, and the nth, so TO show that
/ Sampson was within twenty miles of San
/ taGo when Admiral Schley won his SPLEEN
/ did victory over Cervera. Otherwise, Nj.
Long has been pleasantly prominent as an
! individual who could talk more and say less
at , quasi-public banquet than almost any
other man in the Cabinet 1t should be
| conceded, however, that he always sue
! ceeds in putting his audience to sleep in a
thoroughly gentlemanly and scholarly man
ner. If he knew as much about ships and
the Bureau of Navigation as he does about
Greek particles and the Victorian poets, he
would be one of the most efficient of the
elderly naval men who have held his port
folio in recent years, and afterward lobbied
for the Cramps.
Since Theodore Roose .elt has finally de-
clared that he will not be a Republican
candidate for the Vice Presidency and
Timothy Woodrun's waistcoats are bar
to the ambition of that nice little man, the
prospects are that Mr.. Long will catch the
plum which Hanna intends to shake from;
the Republican Convention tree at Phila-
deIphia. 1t has been our privilege hereto
fore to say that the selection of Secre-
tary Long to be Mr.. McKinley's running
mate could hardly be subject to improve
ment The combined invertebration sug-
gested by such a ticket is too normal and
desirable to be open to the slightest criti-
cism. The leading candidate would repre-
sent all that is best in our piety and anna
bility while his socius would stand for
that literary quality in our American life
which is equaled by few and excelled by
none. How true the latter proposition is
will be judged from a few remarks which
Mr. Long was good enough to make at the |
dinner of the National Manufacturers AS |
ISOLATION, masticated and imbibed at Bos-
ton on Thursday last past Addressing
the assembled accumulators of Dinghy
wealth, he said: 1T has been said, Ow !
ing to the tremendous development of
our Industries, of which you are so
large a part that this is a material
agei" There were twelve hundred fat
and hearty manufacturers present, and /
perhaps the naval orator-Iate in the even
ing-may be excused for considering them
so large a part Of our Industries. But, |
if he CHANGED to be erratic in an opening /
utterance, he was eminently Vice Presi /
Dental and happy in his next turn. He
said:
Grant that in the classic age ant and poetry !
and dialectics reached their highest mark, but
remember the body OF the people were hope
less prastTate caste. and ask whether you wish
that age back again. Grant that today there
Is no poet in America and poet OF the first
order anywhere, but remember that there is no
man so humble under our flag that the song
of freedom and hope and beuaty is not in his /
heart
Could the most carping critic ask for |
anything better? Is it not certain that |
every manufacturer went home satisfied |
that although lin the classic age art and |
poetry and dialectics reached their highest |
mark the present is an age of real en-
deavor, of trusts and suppression of the |
Constitution, of soapy and sloppy persons |
in high ofice-in fact, of Mckinley and |
Long?