The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-31

career in q somewhat similar manner
In his case he was forced to take the
place Of a prominent speaker who he'd
failed to appear
Oliver P Morton was Indiana's great
man. Lawyers who came into the room
where Morton was, felt the presence of q
great man. During his career he held the
state in the hollow of an iron hand and
| took particular care 10 keep such men
as Harrison and Gresham down. IN the
| pension Office at Washington there sits
at a clerks desk General McMillen, one
! Of Indiana's great soldiers who com
/ manded 10000 men. He is giant in frame
and carries the scars Of saber cuts all
/ over his massive head. Sheridan wrote
/ the war department that Mcmillan made
/ his famous ride successful. After the
war Mcmillan applied to be minister to
Russia. but Morton advised him that he
had another man for the place Thereup-
! on Mcmillan obstinately persisted until
! he was compelled to secure his bread and
butter by taking q 81 200 clerkship.
Harrison was great by reason of the
purity of his personal habits and his
! physical and moral courage. He estab-
lished his bravery during the war and
courage by his course as a politician. At
| ter Mortons death he was Indiana's best
orator The only occasion where We
ever saw people weep in the galleries Of
the United States senate was during one
Of Harrison's speeches. The people al
ways listened to Harrison with perfect
attention and none turned TO leave while
he was addressing an audience.
But Harrison was not creative. We
= NOT eir7c~Ia GREAT r,iocn Of fae-ie-
lation of which he was the author. He
absorbed from others. and thus he adopt
ed the reciprocity ideas Of the immortal
Blaine After he became president, in a
speech at Galveston, he spoke confidently
Of his reciprocity treaties with South
America. without a word of credit for the
great Maine atesman-that remarkable
man who first saw disaster by over-pro-
ductiOn. unless we set about establishing
foreign markets by a foreign policy. In
the years to come as history is written by
some scrutabIe hand with exact justice,
Blaine viii take his place as the greatest
man after Lincoln.
Colonel William W. Dudley was IN
diana's greatest practical politician. In
1880, with his 1900 precinct workers. and
without a word of corruption, Dudley
secured the election of a Republican legis-
laure over a Democratic gerrymander.
This Gettysburg hero was importuned by
the legislature to be their candidate for
United States senator, but refused. He
was urged 70 use his efforts for Gresham,
but would not, thereby losing the friend
ship. He gave everybody to understand
that Harrison was the proper man be-
cause he had the previous caucus nomin-
alton The legislature made Harrison
senator and presented Dudley with
written testimonial that they We're en-
abled to elect Harrison by reason of his
efforts. When Harrison became Presi-
dent he turned his back on Dudley, pre-
ferring to accept the Democratic New
York Worlds version Of blocks Of five"
as a scheme to corrupt voters, instead Of
the usual Dudley method of energetic pre-
cinct organization.
Stil he gave one man a $4,000 job whom
Gresham at one time, fin the writer's
presence and to the writer, pronounced
thief He also made Wannamaker who
donated $4,000 for campaign purposes,
postmaster general
The first Mrs Harrison. after forty
years Of devotion as a wife, in the earlier
days. doing the washing and cooking, died
i'm the White House. begging the removal
of the present Mrs. Harrison from her
presence and that she be allowed to die
in peace. This General Harrison refused
and we turn from the remembrance of the
sad occasion TO President McKinley's
tender devotion to Mrs. Mckinley. Not
that the breath of scandal ever entered
the Harrison home, but his absolute sense
of purity and justice refused even to be
swayed by the appeals of a dying wife.
Verify Harrison was a strangely strong
character.
A word before we close relative to the
later events in Indiana politics after Har-
risons return to Indianapolis.
The temptation to take the field against
Fairbanks would have been irresistible to
man who felt less the delicate respon-
sbilities Of his position Fairbanks had
not only been the most active. but the
most potent and resourceful of the friends
of Gresham in Indiana politics. Gresham
while judge of the federal court had
made Fairbanks receiver of the I. Il. and
w railway property and the two had
worked together in politics as against
Harrison.
The election of Fairbanks was a severe
trial 20 him. and that of Beverage hardly
less So with unfailing dignity and
courage he never gave outward sign of
opposition to either. or of any sense of
disappointment at their success. but there
IS too much reason to think that his later
attitude of opposition to the policies OF
The Mckinley administration was due i'm
large measure ct least. to his resentment
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