The age-herald., 1901-05-05
TWO PRESIDENTS WERE HARD WORKED. Lincoln and Mckinley ToiIed
 Night and Day. SOME POLITICAL GOSSIP What Would You Think If McLaurin Were Nominated for Vice Presl- dent on Republican Ticket?
 Imaginary History.
By Julius Chambers.

By Julius Chambers.
 Washington. May 4.-Abraham Lincoln
 and William Mckinley have been pre-.
 eminently the two most hard-working of all the Presidents. This, of course Is
 owing to the fact that each of them had
 to conduct a war which required unre-
 hitting attention. President Polk had, 1t Is true, the Mexican war, but 1t did not require an hour day of his time There
 was no telegraphic communications be- tween the war department and headquar-
 ters in the field. If there had been, Scott
 and Taylor and the others would have | kept him up half the night, as did the
 score of more generals of the civil war
 the great martyr President. MT. Lincoln,
 however, in having no cables to bother | him, was fortunate. This Is why the
 Spanish war made such heavy drafts on
 President Mckinley. Before the conflict
 began and during it's progress, not only | the generals in the field but the ambassa- | dors and other agents of the United
 States all over the world used the cable | whenever they had the slightest news or l importance to communicate. On one slde | of the globe St. Petersburg, Berlin, Rome Vienna, Paris and London were pouring
 constant stream of cipher dispatches Into
 the state department The war and navy
 departments were bombarded with mes
 sages from the great military camps all
 over the country and from Cuba, Porto
 Rico, Jamaica and the South American republics Then there was the other side
 of the globe, China, Japan, the Philip
 pines The Presidents office was the
 focus of the vast system. Never in all
 history had any one government been in such constant communication, day and night, with so vast an extent Of the
 earths surface. Normal conditions are at last restored, and it is fitting that the
 President should have his holiday. He
 has splendidly earned it.
 | The great record in the line of reform
 made by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., has in the opinion of the knowing ones here, but him far In the lead of all East ern Presidential possibilities for the Re- publican nomination. In dealing with the
 Legislature and the inside management of his own party his independence, cour- age and firm adhesion to the general ln- | terest of the whole people instead of the | special interest of powerful classes and | ciques, are commended in the very high l est terms and have raised him to an em- | thence in the esteem of political friend
 and foe alike that any man might be 1 proud of No other Eastern man Is any
 where near him now. Can he keep up the | pace Is the question? His friends con
 hdently answer Yes"
 | With respect to Aguinaldo's proposed l visit to us the opinion is heard now and then that it might be well for the admin istration to give the Filipino chief to un-
 derstand that he can be of more service to his countrymen at home than he pos
 sibly could be in the United States. It
 is pointed out that thousands of homes
 have been made desolate all over the
 union owing to the war waged by this
 man, and that the immense number of
 widows, orphans and parents upon whom he has been instrumental in infiicting
 wounds which can never be healed, should certainly not care to see him feted at the public expense from the Pacific to the Atlantic Aguinaldo has been fairly cap turned in arms against the government;
 his life has been spared, and the proba- biity is that he will get an office of some kind as a matter of expediency. Surely that is as far as the authorities ought to
 go in the effort to consiliate him. To
 parade him through the United States as hero would be an insult to the memory of the gallant men whom he and his semi
 savages sent to their graves. The thing
 to do with his is to set him to work and
 
 A Southern man for Vice President on the Republican ticket in 1904! The sug- gestion Is rather startling, but there are | not few political prophets around here that are confidently making this forecast | When asked if they mean ,McLaurfn, the | answer Is "Nov' They believe, however, that while the McLaurin movement is | certain to grow, he will have only pioneer | honors, that, as in the case of all the | other advance political reformerS in our history, he will miss the great prize of leadership The only exception Is Thomas
 Jefferson. He created a party and he led it to victory during quarter of cen tury. He made Madison and Madison
 made Munroe Every student of Jefferson must admit that McLaurin's recent
 speech Is the most thoroughly Jefferson ian address that has been made below the
 line of Mason and Dixon in nearly three
 quarters of a century Calhoun and, later
 on Davis and all the secession. crowd
 were as far from genuine Jeffersonian
 doctrine as William Jennings Bryan.
 Towne 6 Co. are at the present time. And that is why they were all beaten. Jeffer-
 sonism won in the first election of Abra-
 ham Lincoln, and 1t won in the re-elec-
 tion of William Mckinley.
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 The anachronisms that appear in one of the bas reliefs on the base of the Logan monuments are not the only artlSlic eNl- dences of departure from historic truth to be found in this city. In the great TO- tunda of the capital millans of visitors
 have looked with patriotic pride at Trum-
 bulls immense picture of the Surrender at Yorktown" On the canvass Lord
 Cornwalis is depicted in gorgeous uniform
 offering his sword to Washington. The
 whole scene, so far as Cornwalis Is con
 cerned, is pure imagination. The incident
 might have occurred, in fact, should have taken place, but 1t did not. So,chagrined was the British commander over his de- feat that when the time to carry out the terms of the equalization came he, pleaded illness, and asked the privilege of ap-
 pointing a deputy to take his part in the ceremony. Washington generously ac- ceded to the request and Cornwalis sent along his sword by Major O'Hara- Trum- bull painted the surrender. not as it was, but as if should have been