The age-herald., 1901-01-03
REPUBLICANS In
 HARRISON IS~Clz


 Washington, January 2.-(special.) )-It ap- pears that there is not little feeling among the Republicans over ex-President Harrison's contention in his recent lecture at Ann Arbor that the constitution of it's own force extended over the Philippines and our other new possessions so soon as the treaty with Spain was ratified It is held by several prominent Republicans that the ex-Presidents argument, at this time, was unnecessary and unwise, and that he has simply embarrassed the administration and the Republican party without any ad- vantage to any one. Some apprehension is felt by several Republicans of prominence but that the President holds this view does not follow-lest ex-President Harri- sons view may, to degree, prejudice the Supreme Courts decision; not that that court would be inclined to follow the ex- President blindly, but that it might dispose their minds to take this view on the sub tect The friendship that exists between the ex-President and Justice Harlan is quoted as an indication that that justice might hold the Harrison view while the fact that Justices Brewer, Brown and Shir- as were appointed to the Supreme Court by General Harrison while President, is
 thought by some to make it probable that
 these justices hold somewhat similar views to those of the ex-President. It would
 seem, however, that this fear is unwar- ranted, though there is always the poss-
 bility of similarity of thought among such men as General Harrison and the justices of the Supreme Court who have been named
 The suggestion has been made that per-
 haps General Harrison might be found available material for the Democratio nomination for the Presidency in 1901. His views on the extension of the constitution over conquered territory are in harmony with those held by the Democratic party,
 and with the silver and tariff questions disposed of permanently, as most Demo- crats agree they are, and with new ques- tions touching the trans-oceanic territory of the United States certain to be promi- nent in the next national campaign, and the probability of the development of oth- CT issues on which the Democrats and Gen. eral Harrison might agree, it is not be- yond the range of possibility that he might honestly and frankly be able to stand on the Democratic platform of 1904. As a man who made a good President with a spen- did reputation, and in harmony, to a de- gree at least, with some Democratic views it might be that General Harrison's name would attract attention from Democrats. Just at present that seems highly fmproba- ble, but politics are in a transition state and stranger things have happened. A very prominent Republican said to me to- day: You laugh at the idea of Harrison as the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1904 and think I am wild, but put his half years from now and remember I suggested him as possibility, and you will be surprised at your astonishment at my prophecy" But what of Democratic leaders who would not take Senator Teller because a Republican and make him a candidate for President or Vice President? Is it not likely the same suspicion of a for- mer Republican-and it will not do yet to regard General Harrison as anything but a Republican who is not entirely in har- mony with his party-would exist as re- gards General Harrison and be even more pronounced? It would certainly seem so, but the suggestion of him as a possibility at least indicates the breadth and depth of the separation this Republican thinks ex- ists between the present Republican party and General Harrison