The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-27
Circulation Statement.
The Presidents Policy.


final and irrevocable expression of law.
True in one or two instances the court
has reversed itself; but, in those excep-
tional cases. all those who loved and re-
spected the Constitution reversed them
selves as fast as the Supreme Court did.
In like and even higher sense the voice
of the people, spoken at the polls in a
fair election. must be taken as final and
conclusive with all good Amer leans Never
In the course of our political history has
that voice spoken mere clearly than it
did on the sixth of November. when ii en-
dorsed the trusts, declared that they were
"a good thing, adopted the policy of I'M
constitutional carpetbag government in the
colonies. agreed with the President in his
departure from our PLAIN duty and. in
effect, declared that all the prosperity we
enjoy is due 10 the oil. sugar, tobacco
eteel, coal. rubber rum, biscuit, and other
private monopolies. Dcctrinaires may lie
found who will insist that the people never
voted for these forces 10 place them in
control of the nation, when they cast the
majority of their ballots for Mckinley
electors; but. in holding to any such the
DRY. such dcctrinaires are obviously in
error. The people knew exactly what they
were voting for. They knew that the e.
election of MIR. Mckinley would inevitably
turn over the real power Of government
to the financial and industrial combination
now in control of its executive and finan-
cial branches, and open the way for the
Supreme Court to be brought under the
same domination. The masses voted with
their eyes open. They voted for exactly
what we have said. They will get it.
Under such conditions il would be only
natural that the successful Presidential
candidate should be highly elated over his
victory, and if he were even a trine
scornful oil his late antagonists that
might be excused. We are. therefore,
pleased to note the extreme and amiable
moderation which marked Mr.. McKinley's
ALTERED dinner remarks at the Unicn League
Club banquet in Philadelphia on Saturday
evening last. The fact that he was speak
ing to a sympathetic audience including
many of the trust magnates. who contrib
uted literally TO mis- success, and do not
grulge the money. although they expect
TO get it back in contracts. opportunities,
or legislation. does not seem to have eX-
cited the orator to the commission of the
slightest indiscretion. No one can say
that he uttered one word or thought
which was not justified by his political
and personal position, and the logic of
both
In his own case. it was quite unneces-
sary for Mr.. Mckinley 10 say: We are
always in danger of exaggeration on an
occasion of exultation over a polite al
victory" 1t must be admitted by every
sane American that the victory won by
Mr.. Mckinley, under the auspices of his
powerful friends, Hanna, Rockefeller,
Morgan, Havemeyer. Carnegie, Flint,
Duke, and the rest of the combination,
was so great as TO be unacceptable of ex-
aggeration. 1t is but a fitting compli-
ment to the Chief Magistrate that-for a
Republican-he displayed amazing mod
Grafton in referring to it.
While grateful to his own party for its
strenuous. and often duplicative or tripli-
catiye work at the polls, and for its abil-
ity to obtain subscriptions for She benefit
of the silent vote" the President did not
forget to praise that great body of our
citizens who, belonging to another party,
powerfully assisted in the achievement of
the result which you celebrate tonight.
This, We may say, is little vague. II
Mr. Mckinley referred to those of the
former Democrats. the gold boilers of
1896, who are supposed to have helped
him in 1900, his statement is inaccurate;
that is, IL he meant to convey the i'm
preston that they belonged" or belong to
the Democratic party. That organization
would rather suffer defeat fighting for JEFF
fersonian principles than TO sacrifice
those principles and again put itself I'M
der the leadership of traitors owned by
the Republican trust machine, but ready
10 masquerade as Democrats when there
IS enough in it for them.
Nor is any accounting for the victory
observed Mr. Mckinley, either just or
accurate which leaves out of the calcula-
tion the almost unbroken column of labor
engaged in mechanics and agriculture"
This proposition is manifestly unassail-
able. The workingmen and the farmers of
the country carried the day for the Re-
publican ticket. Thereby the first class
registered its solemn decision that farm
products should be kept down in price
properly and that everything the farmer
buys should advance in cost to him. so
that the trusts may be further enriched
The second class announced its acceptance
Of the doctrine that we ought to have
government by Injunction, backed by Fed
eral bayonets, and that low wages and a
low scale OF living for our laboring popu-
lation are not only to be desired, but to be
prayed for. The President continued:
The business men in every part of the coun-
try, t.pihed by this great organization, were q
mighty factor in the recent contest. And may
We not also ascribe much to the influence OF the
hone, with its aiiliationsf In any previous
election was II greater, or in any did the
councils of the freside determine more largely
the vote Of the electorss''
Indeed the business men in every part
Of the country did what their bankers
told them they must, and, for the most
part, invested much Of their money to
make sure of the result THE home"
too. with its Affiliations is indeed sug-
gestiye Of the way in which the Republic
can campaign managers worked the pros
perity argument on the wives and depen-
1ents Of the agricultural and industrial
sorking classes; and it was an effective