The age-herald., 1901-05-12

Morgan ships are to have a slive of lti Ten millions would give them hardly a bite apiece.
 The old hidebound Democratic politi- clans, and some of the young ones also, are rather glum at the warmth of the Presidents reception in the South They talk of him as the great bouquet thrower, and question his sincerity, This Is all very small, and really very un-American. What would they have the President do? Throw rhetorical brickbats at the people of one-half of the union and thereby help to keep alive the abhorrent sectionalism which, to come down to it, has been the political stock in trade of a big percent age of the Southern statesmen during the last half century? President Mckinley is well received in the South, and he de- serves 1t all, The economic policies for which he has contended through all his public life, and which doubly triumphed in his election and reelection, are the policies that have put the South on it's feet and are gemming it with great fac- tories, employing free labor, as the sub- stitutes for the old system. We all have our ideas with respect to that system and, to use the vernacular, let it go at that What did John c. Calhoun's free trade theories ever do for the South? And, by the way, MT. Calhoun was at one period of his meteoric career pretty tall kind of a protectionst. He thought 1t was the winning game then for the South and his speeches attest the fact. Before him Thomas Jefferson saw it. The author of the immortal declaration, was the greatest of market chasers for American products That is what William McKin- ley Is today. Markets, he declares, not maxims, are what we want. And he Is right. Government by maxims means de- cay and death It Is the very worst form of government-that of China, for in stance.
 David B. Hills declaration that he is not candidate for the Democratic nomi- nation in 1904 is not, of course, taken se- riously by any one here. It Is simply notification to his more Zealous friends and followers. or to those that seek to ap- pear in that relationship to him. that he Is running his own campaign and wants no outside interference with 1t. Samuel J. Tilden was the ex-Goyernor's political preceptor. and from him MT Hill thor oughly learned the lesson that hunting up delegates to a. national convention with a brass band Is sheer lunacy. Hill is an organizer. cold. cautions, secretive, tireless He proceeds as carefully in the work of capturing delegation as does J. Pierpont Morgan in the formation of a trust But unlike Morgan. he Is always in the background where his own interests are at stake. When friend Is to be ad- vanced, he is at the head of his followers, asking no quarter and giving none until the fight Is won. Then, he Is magnanimi- ty personified.
 Hill not a candidatei Not only Is he seeking the nomination but his plans are so we'll laid that If the convention were to be held this fall he would be nearly cer- tain to capture It on the first ballot. When the Kansas City convention met it was a foregone conclusion that Bryan would be nominated. The repeated ap- plause for Hill proved that if he had cared to force the fight several ballots would have to be taken before the nomination was made. But Hill was not then in a position to make the contest. He had left the Chicago convention and given no sup port to Bryan In the campaign. Whether his course then was or was not mistake is a question on which opinion Is and win be devided. but 1t Is of little or no conse- quence Hill resumed his old place in the party in the campaign of last year, and. fully rehabilitated.
 Tom T.. Johnson Is another one who says he does not want 1t. His closest friends tell a different story, of course. confdentially. I met one of them in New York the other day, Henry George, Jr. MT. Johnson holds young George in the same intense esteem that he held the