Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02

grateful man if he deprecates what
has happened in Philadelphia concern
ing himself.
Instead of receiving a backset from
the office of governor of New York, he
has been distinctly advanced to the
head of the republican party and the
Ohio school has become the passive
portion of the ticket.
Governor Roosevelt owes not much
to any political captain. He has no
Hanna. By the method of his nomi-
nation he escapes from Senator Plat.
What he owes to Mr.. Quay is not di-
rect help, but the utility of his name
and influence to the Pennsylvania
manager.
Mr.. Hanna did not assist in nomi-
mating Roosevelt, and President Nc
Kinley; to all appearances, was indie
cisive to the last, as to whether he
would rather have a substitute for
Roosevelt, or might lose the race I'M
less he allowed the philosophy of
things to prevail and the vice presi-
dent becomeAa new force in the cam
paign. The vice presidential nominee
has not been influential on the cam
paign since Frank Blair was nomi-
mated behind Seymour in 1868.
Seymour could be ikened to Nc
Kinley in the anxiety of his character
and the combination of social skill
with foreboding and apprehension.
Seymour persuaded his opponents that
fbona no was
obeying his conscience.
Thus when he vetoed the New York
LIQUOR law while governor he invited
to dinner Delavan, the head of that
issue, and at dinner bewailed the evils
of incompetence and described the
misery of his mind, that he could not
end drunkenness upon the earth be-
cause of the constitutional law. So
Delavan went away to tell the tenn
perance men who had carried the state
that the governor would veto the Ii
quor law, but he must say also that it
was only because Of the governors
conscientiousness.
So this anxious Seymour hung back
in 1868 until he received the presi-
Dental nomination and behind him
had been intended an OAio quantity,
Thomas Ewing, Jr., brother-in-law Of
General Sherman.
Frank Blair beat Ewing, because he
now typifled the ossbacks Of the war.
He was going to exterminate the re-
construction measures.
In the following autumn elections
in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania,
the republicans prevailed and then the
Belmont school of democrats cried in
their New York papers for another
ticket to be put up, as the weakness of
Seymour and the brashness of Blair
had ruined the party's chances. RoOse-
welt, though young man and in a
subaItern place in the cabinet, has
been the spirit of Lincoln and Grant
in the present administration.
l heard Lincoln make his address at
Trenton on his way to Washington, in
which ne gave the first intimation that
he was going to fight He said in the
senate chamber at Trenton: I'VE hope
there will be no trouble. 1t may be
necessary to put. the foot down firm.
At these words the audience gave
stc1 a fiery response that felt for the
fist time that we were on the eve of
var. So, at the commencement of the
Qban war, there was anguish in the
resident and Hanna and the cabinet.
he merchants, who have been beaten
lere in the person of Cornelius Bliss,
we're deeply distressed. But from the
roost of the cabinet, merely an as
sistant secretary, arose this young man
Roosevelt, and he said: 81 am going
to the war; In the great preceding
war he had been a baby.
His example was not followed, as
far as 1 can recollect, anywhere
around the administration except that
many of the clerks in the department
felt Roosevelt's incentive and enrolled
themselves,
- The administration exerted itself
only On fiscal lines. 1t asked for fifty
millions, a proper thing to do. But
after the president received this money
he kept saying to intermediates that i
congress would let him alone he coulC
SIf1D the Wal. AuG al 0hOAAU ~
have been stnrI ed. The motive for i
was righteous.
Since alm1s the commencement o.
Grants first administration Spain hac
0een re-enac:jng the duke of Alva II
Holland over the Cuban people, who
were of the Spanish race and religion
Grant brought Mr.. Fish in his cabi-
net after Fish protested and refused
He asked Fish as a sUppliant to re-
Eeve him of bad situation.
An interloper had seized the state
department and was doing audaciouS
things in it.
Mr.. Fish told me in his own house
after the administration was over
that a staff officer was sent to him tc
beg him to accept, when he had al
ready refused. He again refused until
given a reason, which he did not state
to me. This reason caused MIN te
bring down his wife, without whom