The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-24
A COMING MAN.
Pen Picture of Man Who May Give Trouble to the President.

Harry Walker in The New Yorker.
 Believing the.'e is another Presidency in the affirmative end of the protective tariff. Senator stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, Wasningt )1 and New York. has started after it. He has a bad case of bee in the bonnet" and cannot rest day or night for its buZzing. He Is posing as an apostle of high protection and as the logical repres sntative of conservati| |e Americanism. His enormous wealth puts him in touch with the capitalisttc class, which he discovers is lining up against Roosevelt, and he IS posing as q safe man on issues affecting material inter- ests
 His recent move for the annexation of Cuba, according to the plan carried out in the case of Texas, is a distinct gal lery play and obviously anti-Roosevelt. His many recent utterances. private and public, lre designed as much to call pointed attention of the protected classes to the wobbly and uncertain attitude of the President on the tariff, as to his own loyalty to that beautiful grah-all princi- pie In addition to his own vast wealth and financial connections among the money powers behind the political scene. Senator Elkins can command the mill lions and the pull of his father in-l w. former Senator Davis, of West Virginia. Senator Davis might be worried If forced to choose between son-in-law Elkins and his close friend and business associate, Senator German, but with either in the White House the latch spring would al- ways be out for him. It would not he necessary for him to send a delegate ahead to secure for him an audience.
 Senator Elkins is much misunderstood man. As means to an end he amaSsn1 a fortune first. and was not over pa-- ticular how he got money so that he got it. Audacious land piracy in New MeNi- co and partnership with Steve Dor y and others in star mall routes made lEn d millionaire many times over before nc was fifty. part of his accumulati Als he investeI in West Virginia coal ani lumber land and he Is now worth $15,- COG. GOO to $20.000,000. As a youth he was re rognized as the most Studious and thorough student in Columbia College. Missouri. The ludicr)us termination Of q wild prank the night before the col lege commencement d'mmed somewhat the briliancy of his valedictory. but the spot in the Elkins cuticle. was not inn perta1t. In later years Senator Elkfns las profited much by the habits of study formed in those Missouri college daYs. He is an incessant reader and has one of the finest private libraries in the United States. He is singnlgrlv endowed for the career of politician, having the brains for intrigue, the genius for organization. the nerve tO execute. the money to eqnap and a species of cold-blooded calculation akin to cruelty At his right haud is Dick" Kerens one of the most infiuen- tiaI politicians in the West. who. by the way, has been turned down by President Roosevelt and has therefore a deep per- Sonal reason for plotting the downfall Of the White House incumbent. quite aside from his wish for the elevation of his next best friend, Steve" Elkins. Yet rise to predict that even though Steve Elkns succeeds in killing Roosevelts $ chances. the nomination will not be for him. but for Hanna.