The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-09-05
Many Successful Statesmen Have Been
Fortunate in their Counselors-
their Mark Hannas.
Roosevelt has no Great Lieutenant but the
Time has Come When he Cannot
Well be Without one.

William l.. Yancey and Jefferson
Davis We're the followers of John c.
Calhoun, and they We're faithful to the
end, even as Claverhouse was faithful
Ito the plume Of Montrose." William
he had found Il Mark Hlnna. He was
always OrthodoN-always regular, al
ways for the party. Had New York
been wide enough for him and Wright
to stall together it would have been a
grand thing for the democratic party.
He was in polll's cabinet with Bucllln-
an. 1t is one of the whimscalities of
fate that Buchanan. who lost the he
gotiation over the northwest boundary
--''54 40 or fight''-became president.
While Marcy, who was the Carnot Of
the Mexican war; could never get the
nomination. Marcy was afterwards
secretary of state in Iierce's cabinet, |
but that was Jefferson Daviss admin
istl;ton rather than his. 1t is one of |
the curious things that the democratic
party did not have the wisdom to make
this grim old statesman president: hut |
unfortunately. he did not find !; Mark |
Hanna.
Stephen y. Douglas had many thou
| sands of friends. He WAS the Blaine
of the democratic party. Young Amer
| lea worshippcd him. He proclaimed
IAN oceanbound republic" He twist
ed the British lions tail. He refused
an introduction to Queen Nictoria-
| that is. he would not wear the ncccs-
sary court dress Doubtless there was
politics in it. Marcy was his rival for
the nomination for president. and Mar
cy had issued his famous order against
court dress. Douglas was not the man
to let it go out that Marcy had Il great
er contempt for the aversion to the
trappings of royalty than he. In those
days George ~ Sanders, William III.
Cory and Ed Marshall had charge of
Douglass fortunes. Their plan was to
annex Canada. Cuba and Mexico
They were brilliant men. ardent and
eloquent In the Thirty second or
Thirty-third congress Marshall was Il
representative from California, and
Humphrey Marshall and John G.
Breckinridge had seats from Kentucky.
breckenridge was for William 0. But
Ter for president and Humphrey Mar
I,,1,. tp
l IL debate over the question of the presi-
DENTAL succession and it was brilliant
, in the extreme. John G. Breckenridge
was a most gifted man, whose star
was then in the ascendant. 1t is not
/ too much to say that Humphrey Mar
E shall was the most gigantic intellect
. the Mississippi Valley ever produced,
| and his life is Il mOurnful illustration
2 Of the futility of mind without repute
5 His name suggests the British states
l man Sir William Yonge. of whom il
: was said: Nothing but such Il charac
ter could pull down such parts. and
l nothing but such parts could buoy uI
e such a character" Ed Marshall was
Y magnificent on the stump-the equal
@ indeed. of his more famous brother
il Thomas II. Ed Marshall subsequently
o returned to Kentucky. In the demo
v cratic state convention of 1871 he wat
= Il delegate. and had many colleagues
O from the Ashland district. then Eepre
sented in congress by James p. Beck
4 More than half dozen ambition.
f young men wanted Becll's place. anC
4 the only way to get it was to scnt
Il him to the senate. The one way
p to get him to the senate was to gc
e Thomas c. AIcCrecry out of his way
: and the only way to do tliat was t.
= force the nomination for governor OF
s McCroery. ''the siver-tongucd slug
t gard of the senate" as he was know
s in Washington. Ed Marshall was Sc
s lected to present McCreery's name t.
!. the convention. and it was holtpd that
n he would stampede it: but the ronven
i vention would not hear him. He was
t fishing with a bare hook. When Becl
got out of the way in 1874 Ed Marshall
3 ran against Joe Blackburn for the
. democratic nomination. 1t Mas truth