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

The Coming Vice President.
All men Of pious and proper principles
join in vorshiping the rising sun. Il is a
condition and not theory Of human ma
lure. j. affects alike he monarch on his
throne the pale student. who has been up
all nigh; reading The Congressional Rec
ord and the orator OIL his stump. 1t is a
fact which ~cconciies US largely TO the
icizsitudes Of life. and makes us all will
ing 20 be rising suns
| UilspTilv. few Of US attain 20 that sta
tion bg; one Of the exceptions is the Hon.
John u Long. who has been a famous
American ever since he relieved himself CT
ihe rurtrntous announcement that the re-
sIorsitlity OF Spain Tor the disaster TO
the Name had been entirely eliminated
from Administration consideration. Since
1 thar notable time Mr. Long has kept him
self before the American public principally
through Nionninshisid By this gentle
/ means he has been considerably in evi-
I dencc now aud again. Occasionally his fine
+ Italian hand and classical ability have been
/ seen in Efforts 10 distort geography. his
tory and the truth. so as TO show that
Sampson was within twenty miles OF San
/ uapo when Admiral Schley won his splen-
( did victory over Cervera. otherwise Mr..
Long has been pleasantly prominent as an
individual who could talk more and say less
/ at a quasi-pubic banque, than almost any
] other man in the Cabinet. i should be
/ conceded. however. that he always sue
ceeds in putting his audience 10 sleep in a
utr. II he knew as much about ships and
the Bureau of Navigation as he does about
Greek PARTICLES and the Victorian poets. he
would De one Of the most efficient Of the
elderly naval men who have held his port
folio in recent years. and afterwaId lobbed
for the Cramps
Since Theodore Roosevelt has finally de-
clared that be VIII not be a Republican
candidate for the Vice Presidency and
Timothy WoodruiI's waistcoats are bar I
to the ambition Of that nice little man, the /
prospects are that Mr.. Long viii catch the I
plum which Hanna intends to shake from /
the Republican Convention tree at Phila- /
delphia. II has been our privilege hereto
fore to say that the selection Of Secre- /
tary Long to be Mr. MeKinleys running
mate could hardly be subject 10 improve
ment The combined INTERPOLATION 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 exceIled by
none. How true the latter proposition is
viii be judged from q few remarks which
Mr.. Long was good enough to make at the
dinner Of the National Manufacturers As
masticaJed and imbibed az Bos-
ton on Thursday last past Addressing
the assembled accumulators Of Dingiey
wealth. be 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
age" There were twelve hundred fat
and hearty manufacturers present and
perhaps the naval orator-Iate in the even
iur-may be excused for considering them
90 large part" OF our industries. But.
If he CHANGED to be erratic in an opening
utterance. he was emineutly Vice Presi-
Dental and happy iu his next turn. He
said:
"Gr1t that lu sae classic age ant and poetry
and dfa.trrius reached Iaair hi-last mark but
remember thJ body of thg people were a hope
Jess, prastIate caste. and ASS whether you WIS"
thai age back again Grant that today there
is DO poet IN America and no poet OF The first
order anywhere but remember that there is no
man So humble under our flag that the song