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an interesting question. He can block
their game if he will, If he is not Sc
duced, for they will not dare to retire
him forcibly before he reaches the age
limit. He has too many friends for
that experiment to be considered safe,
though it was undoubtedly considered
seriously at one time. FIattery may
win the grizzled old warrior over, and
he may at last let two or three of his
inveterate enemies reach the coveted
rank of lieutenant general when he can
easily prevent such consummation.
Graceful oratory.
When Mr.. Secretary of State Hay
does not talk politics, he is most in
teresting orator. Few things have
been more gracefully spoken than the
following, which he uttered at the Ohio
society of New York:
A distinguished American some time ago
leaped into unmerited fame by saying,
"Some men are born great; others are
born in Ohio"
This is mere pleonasm, for man who
is born in Ohio is born great. 1 can say
this as the rest of you cannot without the
reproach of egotism, for I have suffered
all my life under the handicap of not hav-
ing been born in that fortunate common
wealth, Indeed when look back on the
shifting scenes of my life If am that
altogether deplorable creature, a man
without a country, / am, when it comes
to pull and prestige. almost equally be-
reft as 1 am a man without state.
/ was born in Indiana, I grew up in Illi-
,1f~ T o<7,, tod i'll Dho1 Tclo I'D
it is no blame to that scholarly community
that know so little. l learned my law in
Springfield and my politics in Washing
ton, my diplomacy in Europe, Asia and
Africa. have farm in New Hampshire
and desk room in the District of Columbia.
When I look to the springs from which
my blood descends, the first ancestors I
ever heard of were Scetchman who was
half English and German woman who
was half French. OF my immediate
progenitoFs my mother was from New
England, and my father was from the
south.
In this bewilderment of origin and ex-
perience l can only put on an aspect of
deep humility in any gathering of favorite
sons and confess that l am nothing but an
American,
I lived little while in Ohio and was
very happy there; but, obeying a call
which seemed to me imperative, went to
Washington some twenty years ago.
might be pardoned for thinking had not
left Ohio, for every great department of
national activity and power was under
the direction Of g citizen of that master
ful state,
The president was an Ohio man equally
distinguished in character and achieve
ments; the finances of the country were
in the strong and capable hands of John
Sherman; the army gladly obeyed the or
ders of Tecumseh Sherman, with Phil
Sheridan as second in command while at
the head of our august supreme court sat
Chief Justice Waite, the purse, the sword
and the scales of justice all in the hands
of men coming from state which natu-
rally breeds men who know how to make
war, to make money and make laws.
What a roll call of great names is found
in the presidents from Ohio! The two
Harrisons, old and young Tippecanoe;
Grant, one of those simple, great men for
whom history has SO sure a partiality;
Hayes, the ideal Republican citizen, and
those twins in fate and fame, so like in
destiny and so different in temperament
and in methods, Garfield and Mckinley
all Ohio men by birth or adoption, all IL
lustrious in peace and war, citizens and
soldiers, too, without reproach.
Amazing journalism.
The Kansas City Journal regards it.
self as a great paper. Thousands Of
Republicans in Missouri and Kansas
read it with the same reverential feel
ing with which a devout Mussulman
peruses the Koran. Truth to tell, gen
orally when it discourses upon any sub
ject save politics or about anybody ex-
cept a Democrat it is quite readable,
sometimes instructive, but surely 1t
has the queerest idea of wit and criti-
cism ever entertained in this world.
It's idea of wit is to put into a Demo
Gratis mouth words of precisely the op-
posite meaning from what he did say
and then to larrup him for saying what
it says that he said. Its idea of criti-
cism is to wrench sentences and parts
of sentences from this context, tumble
them together and represent this het-
erogeneous mass as what somebody
said. This may be up to date journal
ism = at any rate, it is Kansas City
mend itself to the judgment of candid
persons who desire to form correct es-
Inmates of public men, and most per-
sons would like to form correct opin-
ions touching public men.
What follows will illustrate the Jour-
NAILS methods. On the 18th of January
General Charles II. Grosvenor and my
self INDUCED in a political debate in
the house, during which some half
dozen or more Republicans came to the
generals aid. 1t was what is called a
sough and tumble debate, a perform
Ance in which the participants do not
stand very much on ceremony, but hit
wherever and whenever and howso-
ever they can. 1t may be that the
Journal man, who is so wrought up by
my remarks and replies to interrupt
.ers, believes that when his speech is
broken in upon the average member of
the house retires to corner for an
hour or two to hold communion with
his own soul and to devise an elegant
and elaborate rejoinder. If he were in
congress, he might change his opinion
not only radically, but suddenly. In
fact, he might learn a great deal in o
very short time.
General Grosyenor jumped me and
in closing his carefully prepared as
sault, which required an hour for its
deliy cry, expressed the opinion that
next year Missouri would cast her vote
for the Republican candidates. be-
gan my reply as follows:
Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Ohio,
General Grosvenor, says he expects to see
Missouri go Democratic in 1904. If he is
fortunate enough to live until Missouri
casts her electoral vote for Republican
candidate for the presidency, he will dou-
BILE discount Methuselah as the Oldest
man that ever lived. That state had a
bad case of Republican maladministration
for eight years, and I undertake to say
that since the morning stars first sang to-
gether there was never such a saturnalia
Of crime in the history Of the human race
as the Republicans held in Missouri.
A burnt child breads the fire, and a
scalded cat is afraid of cold water
Missouri will not go Republican in a
fair contest until the people of that mag
nificent commonwealth have lost the pow
er of memory.
have never vaunted myself or been ex-
plotted by my friends as a prophet of
either the major or the minor variety.
Disclaiming all powers Of yaticination. I