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out OF MIS- snort career as Convoy.
This is said not to disparage him, but
to state historic truth. Individually
I am glad that he was western
rancher. That experience makes him
better president than he otherwise
would have been, but clearly General
Miles does not intend that Colonel
Roosevelt shall as a presidential can
didate monopolize all that sort Of
glory, as is shown by the following
dispatch:
Cody, Wyo., jan 27.-General Nelson A.
Miles will reach here tomorrow to meet
with other members OF the company Of
which he Is president, for the irrigation
Of the Cody-Salisbury segregation. They
plan to build dam across the Shoshone
at the mouth OF the canyon 400 feet high
and water 10000 acres.
Another plan of General Miles and Colo
mel Cody is the establishment of school
to train youths from the east in the art OF
rough riding. This has long been pet
plan of Buffalo Bills. AT the time Of
General Miles retirement he secured his
cooperation. They will have Il school
where out Of door sports like riding and
hunting big game will be taught Mill
tary tactics will be part of the training
OF course opening irrigation bitches
IL not as strenuous or hilarious n per-
Torrance as rounding uD, roping ana
branding wild steers. but 1t serves 10
westernize General Miles as candi-
date and is intended to take some of
the wind crt Of the Rooseveltian sails
as the fric:il in chief Of irrigation.
But the above dispatch discloses the
fact that General Miles proposes to
still further infringe the Rooseveltian
patents by opening up a training school
for rough riders, with Buffalo Bill as
principal teacher! General Miles won
fame as an Indian fighter. but his mp
pearance at the age of siNtyfour in
the role Of buster of the obstreperous
broncho is decidedly novel, not to say
spectacular.
A lady long resident in Washington,
wife of distinguished ex-senator, told
. me the other day that she dotes on pol
tiles. Then she enlarged on General
Miles good points as Democratic cam
didate, including oil said above. She
Is an intense Republican, but then the
/ reader must not forget that there are
two camps OF intense Republicans just
now-one for Colonel Roosevelt and the
other against him. There is an old say
ing about the necessity or wisdom Of
fighting the devil with fire." an adage
Of which the proponents of the Miles
boom have evidently heard-not that
Colonel Roosevelt is the devil, but that
they propose to fight him with his own
weapons. 1t would certainly add to the
gayety of nations to have two rough
rider candidates for the presidency at
! the same time. Still 1t might be well
for the proponents of the Miles boom to
remember that those things which they
seem to think increase to great ex.
| tent the strength and availability OF
General Niles as .vs.e eandjaa}se , MsEe
tial candidate when they contributed IL
the popularity Of Colonel Roosevelt as
| they undoubtedly did, and that they
helped him upward and onward be.
cause they were new.
A New Richmond.
That veteran statesman and soldier,
General Daniel e. Sickles OF New York.
rises to suggest General John G. Black
Of Illinois, now head Of the G. A. R.
and president of the civil service COM
mission, ms suitable person for the
presidential candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket. He says that General
Black would have million men work.
Ing enthusiastically for him without
money and without price, meaning
thereby the members of the G.. A. r.
Perhaps General Sickles is too sanguine
| In that respect. On Pennsylvania ave-
nue. is the heroic figure in bronze of a
great soldier, General Winfield Scott
Hancock, named by General Ulysses
Simpson Grant as Hancock the SUI
;; perb," who was nominated by the Dem.
ocrats in 1880 largely because Of his
supposed power to poll the bulk Of the
soldier vote. but he did nothing Of the
| sort. He got the Democratic soldier
vote, and General Garfield, who hadn't
done one 1.-THE the fighting that Han
COCK had done, bagged the Republican
soldier vote. And SO It will be with
General Black. He is most estimable
gentleman. He has played many parts
IN public life and played them oil well.
he was q. good soldier and bears mauy
honorable scars as evidences Of his
valor. He would make an honest,
capable. painstaking and patriotic
president. The Democrats might 20
farther and fare worse in search of a
candidate. He is popular with all the
men with whom he served in the house
and no doubt with those with whom
he served In the army and elsewhere.
put that any considerable number of
Republican members Of the G. A, r.
would vote for him is not borne out
BY the facts of history. This is stated
with becoming modesty, for General
sickles has kept in touch with the
veterans Of the civil war and really
ought to be able to form a tolerably
correct opinion as to what they will
do orswill not do in any given emer-
gency, but the chances are that his
personal regard for General Black has
warped his judgment. 4
Tho Kansas Situation.
That Jordan is hard road to tray-
el" in Kansas Republican politics is
demonstrated by the retirement of \
Governor w. j. Bailey from the gil