The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-19
CONTINUING M,KINLEY,s POLICY.


Not only the business interests of the
country. but the sound sense of the peo-
pie, apart from divisions of political be-
lief, will applaud the act of President
Roosevelt in deciding to maintain the ma
tional policy represented by his prede-
cessor.
The country has responded in a. man>
ner altogether without parallel to the
popular faith in President Roosevelt and
in the permanence of our political insti-
buttons through the entire absence of
business hesitancy or uncertainty. Amid
the popular excitement attendant on the
bloody deed which deprived the nation of
its executive head, there was still mani
tested the abiding faith of the people and
the stability of the prosperity they are in
such large measure in enjoyment of.
Maintaining the policies of the Nc
finley administration, there will be absent
all the incentive to speculative excite
ment which displays itself all too often
in our great centers of trade The busi-
ness interests of the country will know
that the machine of government Will con-
tinue to run as smoothly as it has dur
ing the past five years, and that the in
eYltable results, on which so much of
commercial and industrial calculations
have been based, will be undisturbed.
Any thoughtful man who reads In sue
cession the address delivered by Presi-
dent Roosevelt At the Minnesota state
fair, and that delivered by President Nc
Kinley at Buffalo, will readily see that
the two leading officers of the national
government were in the heartiest accord
in all the essentials of national policy.
1t is no mere concession which President
Roosevelt makes to the party or popular
will. In taking the position he does he
really carries out what is his own policy,
aside from any preferences he might en-
tertain as to the personnel of his Of
fetal family.
The action of President Roosevelt In
retaining the present cabinet will rightly
be regarded as a thoughtful and alto
gether right concession to public senti-
ment. From the Republican standpoint
the present cabinet is an exceptionally
strong one. It represents the certain full
fllment in the various departments of the
national government of the public policy
which met the signal approval of the
people in the last presidential election.
1t was chosen with reference entirely to
the public reputation, character and con-
Nctlons of those who form it, rather
than on any basis of personal preference
on the part of President Mckinley.
Democrats and Republicans alike can
indulge the hope that in the immediate
future, at least, there will be no change
effected in the personnel of the presi-
dents cabinet, and that the president
and his body of official advisers will find
themselves individually and collectively
In as perfect accord as if the choice of
his advisers had in the first instance been
made by the president personally. The
statement made by the president to the
members of the cabinet reveals the
oroad-minded and generous nature Of the
man, and imposes on each and every
member moral obligation in his per-
sonal conduct to meet all the demands
Of the occasion in the same spirit in
which they have been met by the chief
magistrate himself.