The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-10
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WASHINGTON. March 9-(Special. y
PRESIDENT Mckinley is going to make a
good many enemies by the course he Is
pursuing in ignoring prominent men in
MS party regarding the selection of dele
gates to the Philadelphia convention. 1t
is said to be the purpose of Mai McKin-
ley TO endeaVor to have every delegate
IN attendance his)tpersonal friend. Tn
Ike Benjamin Harrison In 1892. Maj. Nc
h'nley is anxious that professional pol
iticians or federal officeholders shall
not be sent to the national convention at
which he Will be renominated for the
presidency. se 4c
In taking the course that the president
ls' ne Is compelled, as before stated,
to ignore the advice of some of the
shrewdest politicians In his party. To
do this means that these men will not
ne enthusiastically In favor of his re-
nomination or reelection. President
Harrison discovered to his cost, when he
was put up for reelection, that he was
impolitic in not consulting the so-called
professional politicians. Mr.. Harrison
was defeated for second term by Grover
Cleveland, and 1T has since been charged
by men VINO knew the situation then eX-
listing, that had Mr.. Harrison catered
somewhat to the so-called professional
politicians In his party that his defeat
would not have been SO oyerwhelm-
ing.
Mr.. Mckinley in taking a somewhat
different step, Is, however, certain to
anger some of the political leaders, and
they may as a result, give his candidacy
lukeWarm support this fall He is. how
ever, much cleverer politician than
was Mr.. Harrison, and in conducting his
own campaign. so far as the election
OF national delegates favorable to him
IS concerned, may realize exactly what
he is doing, and therefore manage his
own affairs successfully. In giving the
professional politicians the "go-by," so
to speak. Maj. Mckinley may strengthen
himself with the people and the result
will be bigger vote for him at the
polls next November than he otherwise
would secure.
Col. Bryan Is also pursuing rather a
radical course in managing his own can
Vass to secure his own nomination at the
Kansas City convention. He is also en-
deavoring to have sent as delegates to
this convention his strong personal fol-
lowers from every state in the Union. In
attempting to do this he is naturally fall
ing to give due consideration to the adj
vice given him by some Of the old Demo-
cratic leaders They will undoubtedly re-
sent Col. Bry8n's course, but, as the Ne
braska statesman will be in supreme con-
troll at the Kansas City convention, these
old warehouses; Will probaDly consider it
wise to keep their disappointment to
themselves.
Col. Bryan. it is also stated, still pro-
poses, Notwithstanding that he has been
advised against 1t. to take charge of the
Democratic campaign after the Kansas
City convention completes It's work. It
Will matter little to him, so 1t is said,
who is the national committees figure
head. 1t will be Bryans instructions
which will be followed until the polls
close on election day in November, 1900,
1t Is generally understood by politicians
Of all parties in Washington that the
mails in the coming campaign will not
be burdened with such a flood of cam
paign documents as has been the case in
previous presidential and national con-
gressional elections. The Republican ma
tiOnal campaign committee has already
determined to put hundreds of the best
speakers in the party on the stump In
every state as soon as the national cam
paign opens, which will be shortly after
the Philadelphia convention completes its
work. In this big list of speakers will be
found men such as Dolliver of Iowa. Lit
tlefeld. of Maine; Grosvenor. of Ohio; 7.
E. Byrnes, of, Minnesota; Representative
New York; Lorimer of Chicago; Spooner.
of Wisconsin,; Wolcott of Colorado;
Beveridge, of Indiana; Metcalf, of Cali
fornia, and others of equal prominence.
In the Democratic list, for the Demo-
Gratis will follow the same course in
augurated by the Republicans. will be
Richardson, of Tennessee; Bailey. Of
Texas: Mcclellan, of New York; Sulzer,
Of New York; Fitzgerald. Of Massa-
chusetts, and this list of Democrats will be
headed by such star orators as Col. Bryan
and Col. James Hamilton Lewis. of Wash
ington state.
While 1t is not possible that congress
will enact law providing for the cleo
ton of senators by direct vote of the
people. the opinion is gaining ground
among public men in the national capital
that within the near future a bill max
Ing provision of this kind will pass. This
action will be FASTENED without doubt by
the scandal which has grown out of the
-Clark-Daly case which has been before
the senate all this session. In addition to
the Montana scandal the people will prob
ably notice that vacancies, which have
existed in Washington state, Delaware,
Pennsylvania. Montana, Utah and Cali
fornia. could have been provided for
had senators been. balloted for at the
polls instead of the law which provides
that they be elected by state Legislatures.
j. S. Van Antwerp.