The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-24
Lines Of Factional Dernarca-
ton Were Beginning to
Appear in Early SOS
TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT
-M'K|NlEYS HIGH PURPOSE!
Refused to Appoint Henry e. Payne
of Wisconsin to Cabinet Position
Over Endorsement of Leading Re-
publications of the Nation.

New York, Nov. Ex-senator Rob-
ert NJ. La Toilette treats of the Reed
congress and new national issues in
the installments of his autobiography
in the current number Of the Ameri-
can magazine. He also recounts some
of his personal recollections of Will
liam Mckinley. In these two con-
nections Mr.. La Toilette says in part:
During those years in the eighties.
while was in congress. the lines be-
tween the progressive and stand-pat
elements were already beginning to
appear. The alignment Of forces was
not SO clear to me as 1t Is now
but 1 knew we'll enough where the
leaders stood. Reed always used his
great powers in defending the exist
ing system. He sneercd at those who
desired new legislation. He closed
one of his speeches with these words:
"'And yet, outside the patent Of
fee there are no monopolies IN TINS
country and there can never be. All,
but what is that see on the far hori-
zon's edge, with tongue of lambent
flame and eye of forked fire, serpent
headed and griffin n-clawed? Surely It
which unreasonable talk this is. A
dozen men fix the prices for sixty
million free men. They can never do
it. There is no power on earth that
can raise the price Of any necessity
of life above just price and keep it
there. More than that. If the price Is
raised and maintained oven for a
short while. it means ruin for the
combination and still lower prices for
the consumers
Reed had no sympathy with the
interstate commerce bill and voted
against it.
resented the newer view. OF course
Mckinley was a high protectionist,
but on the great new questions AS they
arose, no was generally OH the side
of the public and against private in.
tereste.
"And this the people tnstinctively
sensed. In my own state of Wiscon-
sin during the campaign for the Re-
publican nomination in 1896 1 was
strongly for Mckinley. but the old
machine leaders, Payne. Sawyer,
Spooner. Pfister and keyes all were
working vigorously for Reed. Reed
had big business with him; hut the
sentiment in the state was too strong
for the bosses. The Wisconsin dele
SdIiOH " tllc 81 AOuIS CoIlSoIlllOIi, Vu
which I had been elected as an anti
machine member, was instructed for
and stood solid for Mckinley.
II know of my own knowledge that
Mckinley stood against many of the
corrupt influences within his own
party--that he even stood firmly
against the demands of his best
friend, Hanna.
Mckinley had no sooner been
elected than the Wisconsin machine.
backed strongly by Hanna. demand
Payne as postmaster general. And
with others brought forward the name
of Governor Hoard of Wisconsin as
candidate for secretary Of agricul-
ture. A few weeks before McKin-
ley's inauguration. upon his invita-
tion I went to Canton to see him. I
explained to him what forces Payne
represented in Wisconsin, and indeed
he had already known Payne's work
as lobbyist in Washington in con-
nection especially with beef trust
matters. and I knew that he abomtn-
ated that sort of thing. But he told
me that he believed that no other
man had ever been SO strongly en-
dorsed by prominent and influential
politicians in every part of the coun-
try as was Payne for that appoint
ulcul. WueL II was. nearly time Tor
me to go Mckinley said:
Bob. I may not be able to ap-
point Hoard. but will say to you
that Henry Payne shall not be a men,
ber of my cabinet
when / saw Mckinley at the white
house in the following winter he told
me how the effort to secure Payne's
had eliminated. He
said that Hanna had come to him Just
before his final decision was made
and said:
You may wipe out every obliga-
tion that you feel toward me, and I'll
ask no further favors Of you il you
will only put Henry Payne in the cab
met
'McKinley's answer was, Mark, II
would do anything in the world II
could do for you but I cannot put a !
man in my cabinet who is known as
a lobbyist
"And he kept his word"