The evening times., 1900-10-05
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

hung close TO the fianks of the Hon. Ben
jamin Harrison nearly all of yesterday in
New York. Along about nightfalI the ex-
| President escaped from Manley, and was
| heard to say at parting: Il am too busy
| With my law practice and my family" The
Maine man had asked General Harrison to
| do something fo- Mckinley" The ex-
| Presidents declaration was an answer to
| Manley's request. 1t is said that today
/ ManIey Will renew his attack along new
| lines. He win ask General Harrison to
write something that can be used for Mr..
| Mckinley. Evidently this means that the
| big Hoosier finally and definitely has de-
| cided not to make any speeches for Mr..
| Mckinley either in Indiana or elsewhere,
| If this is the meaning of his present hesi-
| tation. it is further evident that he does
| not want Mr.. Mckinley to be reelected.
1t is known that General Harrison talked
with great freedom to his neighbors last
winter about the dangers to the Republic
of the Mckinley imperial policy as ex-
emplified in the Presidents startlingIy
sudden and inexplfcable change of front
on the Porto Rican question. Having thus
spoken his mind freely to his neighbors-
to people who respect him for his honesty
and ability regardless of the renown
which came to him from his incumbeney
of the Presidential offiee-it is thought by
| those who know him best that General
Harrison values too highly The good opin-
ion of these people to risk losing 1t by
stu!tifying himself at the behest of the
Hannaites for other purpose than to
help Mr. Mckinley and the special inter-
ests which expect to profit off OF his re-
election out of a desperate situation.
Then too, it is believed General Harri-
son foresees the result Indiana and is
convinced. from what he knows of the
State, that it would be impossible for
him to check the tide there that Is run
ming swiftly against the Administration.
General Harrison is too old and shrewd
politician not to desire to avoid getting
on the losing side in his own State.
1t IS not doubted that he will vote for
Mr. Mckinley. if he votes at all,
but it may be that he has made up his
mind that he will discharge his full party
duty when he casts a straight Republican
ticket, and that he will perform still
higher duty by continuing to be too much
engrossed with mis- business affairs to find
time to make any speeches Mr. Hanna
cannot deny, as he has done in the case of
e&-Speaker Reed, that he invited General
| Harrison to make speeches for Mr. McKia-
ley General Harrison already has fore
stalled that favorite game of Mr. Hanna
| by stating publicly that he had been asked
/ by the Chairman Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee to take the stump for
Mr.. Mckinley. IT, then, the ex-President
| fails to take the stump. Mr. Hanna's con-
fusion. not to say despair will be com
piete on this important point
Hensey Knows Better. The Hon.
Thomas G. Hensey, local speIlbinder,
whose renown Is not confined to the Dis
trict OF Columbia, thrilled. mixed crowd
of Nebraskans and Missourians last night
with his eloquent advocacy of imperialism
and scathing denunciation of Bourke Cock
ran. Orator Hensey prefaeed his remarks
with positive denial, upon his own re-
sponSfbility, OF the reports that several
western states are pretty sure IL be car
ried by Bryan and Stevenson He said
that only few days ago he met an old
friend who recently had come back to
Washington from the West wearing a Brv
ali button. When he chided this friend
1or decorating himself with such al orns-
mant the person chided had the effronterv
TO MORN Orator HeRsey that after visiting
every hole and corEer in the West he had
been unable to find single, solitary Ne
hfnIey man. AT least declared HeDsey's
kinney buttons, The relation of this story
had decidedly danpeaing effect upon the
spirits OF Orator Henseys audience until
nc boldly struck out upon an original line
OF argument. Now" said Colonel
Hensey, his eyes in fine frenzy
rolling, Il told that man that
he was a fool. There is no use for cnv-
body to tell me that Mckinley is not 60
ing TO sweep everything cut West. know
the West, and though I haven't been out
there lately. / feel as confident that on
election day Mckinley will get all the
votes IL that region as that the election
is held The Westerners may net be
wearing Mckinley buttons but don't Won
let anybody fool you on that point They
nav be wearing nothing but Bran but
tons, but they can be depended uo0n IN
voie all right" Colonel Henssy's audi
enCe applauded this convincing argument
to the echo. But the enthusiasm he in
cited on this score was nothinA Yhep com
pared with the enthusiasm he aroused
when he tackled Bourke Cochran and rip-
ped that orators anti-imperiaIist arsu-
ments into shreds and tatters Colonel
Hensey denounced Cochran as a traitor.
an interioper. turncoat etc And his
hearers yelled and screamed in very
frenzy Of delight.
His Name Too Ffg.-The timeIr dis
eoYery has been made that the Rough Rid
eT's name is too big for the official ballot
in New York. and in consequence thereon
1t will be necessary TO increase the width
of the ballot in order to get all of the IL
corFigihie warriors name upon it. Whethe.