The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-30

to the country east of the Alleghanies and north of Maryland and West Vir- ginia. It lasted only few days and the total mileage was very small, com pared with what later presidents have done. Cleveland went as far west as the Missouri river and as far north as the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota He touched at Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City on the l Missouri, and then crossed the state to St. Louis, from which point he returned to Washington by the Ohio river route, making frequent stops. On the way 1 west by the northerly route he visited Chicago, Milwaukee and the chief cit 1 ies of Ohio and Indiana. He was away from Washington bout three weeks and covered about twenty-five hundred miles.
 This one long trip was the only one { of consequence made by him as presi- ] dent during either of his terms. He i went occasionally on hunting and fish ing trips to the rivers and bays near the coast and within easy reach Of i Washington. but on these occasions he was invisible to the public and away from the scrutinizing gaze of the corre- sDondents.
 l President Harrison took up the presi- dential junket where it had been left off by Cleveland during the latter's first term, and added to it both in the num- Der of miles travelled and in the num-
 Der and importance Of speeches made. : The Harrison junket-there was but one of then-Was a memorable one in { several Wayh. In the first place, 1t re- vealed the president to the country as 1 one of the most eloquent. forcesul and tactful sehort-speech makers of it's en-
 tire history. The speeches of the liar rison junket were models of style and their subject matter discloses much of ! the culture and polish of Harrison's ! splendid mind. In book form they con- stitute the most popular volume of his ! collected writings.
 In the second place this junket re- vealed to the country a new desire, namely to see the president occasion ally in person, and to hear from his { own lips a non-partisan discussion of i the questions OF the day. A radical change in public sentiment as it had
 existed at the time of Johnson came about seemingly in single day, and
 the country accepted as a matter of course and as one of it's rights that which had been so severely criticised in the days just after the great civil war.
 It is to President Mckinley. as al-
 ready suggested, that credit is due for the full development of the presidential | tour. Departing from Johnson's model,
 he planned it along non-partisan lines,
 and in each of the long journeys which
 he made over the country he was sim pie the chief executive of a great peo- pie, going from place to place, for the
 purpose of stimulating in the public a i loftier patriotism and drawing useful
 lessons for the nations present and 1 prospective greatness.
 Mckinley traveled on his tours mora
 miles than all of his predecessors com 1 bined, and was seen by more people, No partisanship was displayed in any
 of these touds, and with that fine tact for which he was distinguished abCya | all of his predecessors, he adapted his addresses to the environment in which ! they were made, and, while not com
 promising with his conscience. said
 nothing that would give offe Ice.
 Three long tours were made by Pres ident Mckinley, in addition to scores of i minor ones. The first of his iong tours
 was from Washington to Chicago, 1 thence to Minnesota and the Dakotas.
 and thence back to Washington by way
 of Kansas City and St. Louis. The sec
 ond was that remarkable tour of the
 south, turing which |e said So many
 things which served to help men to for
 get the bitterness growing out of the
 great civil strife. The third was only
 partially completed. It was to have in-
 cluded the entire Pacific coast, the
 journey out by soutnerly anl the jour
 ney back by northerly route. This
 tour was abandoned at San Francisco.
 owing to the sudden and serious illness
 of Mrs, McKinley-C Journal