Life — October 20, 1898 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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1, OCTOBER 29, 1898. . 19 West Tuimty-Finst St., New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year In ad- vance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Volo, 4104 a year extra. Sinsle current coples, Back numbers within six months, 25 1x months, # cents, on will be returned unless ied by stamped and addressed envelope, The illustrations in Lxve are copyrighted, anil ave not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. Prompt notification should be sent by sub- scribers of any change of address. T must be exas- perating to Mr. Hearst and Mr. Pulitzer to have Colonel Roose- velt give as a foremost reason for electing him Governor, that a Demo- cratic victory in this State would be accepted in foreign parts as a repudia- tion of the war. The Colonel is strongly averse to swapping horses while crossing a stream, and he wants the voters to support him for the sume reasons that they supported Lincoln for a second term. He suggested in his speech of acceptance that, if be were not chosen Governor of New York, someone might get the Philippines and Cuba away from us, He pointed out that an easy life isa mistake, either for an individual or a nation; that China has found no profit in minding her own business, and that that policy won't do for us, either; that we need a far larger army and navy than we have had, and that we must learn to help ourselves, and to be brotherly and hustle like anything, like the Rough Riders. We must dare to be great, the Colonel said, and he left no doubt in anybody's mind that after New Year's, if things go well, the State of New York will have a foreign policy that will make all the expansionists skip for joy. Of the condition of the roads in Cat- taraugus County he did not speak, nor did be mention the Erie Canal, nor say whether he favored filliog it up or spending another nine millions in trying to make it float barges. Indeed, the only pointed allusions to State concerns made at the Carnegie Hall meeting were made ‘LIFE: by the Honorable Timothy Woodruff, who is our present vice-Governor, and seems to know the State when he sees it, for all that he lives in Brooklyn. It is evident thut there are just two things in the Colonel's mind just now, and that one is soldiering, and the other our foreign policy. After his summer's work, it is natural that it should be so. It secms almost a pity that he is not bead- ing for Washington instead of Albany, but, after all, Albany is a good place to cool off in, and there will be work to do there presently in which, when he gets down to it, he will doubtless find food for thought and chunces for energetic action. Lire could give much better reasons for electing him Governor than he has given as yet. He is honest, able. and independent, and, in whatever job h is put to work at, those qualities will HERE is a good deal of point to what Mr. Choate said about the inex- pediency of having one Van Wyck for Governor while another is Mayor of New York. It is the intention of the Consti- tution that the Governor shall be a check on the Mayor, and, though brothers don’t always pull absolutely together, that useful end seems hardly likely to be promoted by sending Judge Augustus Van Wyck to Albany. Every man hates a row in his own family, and of course the Judge would think twice before he meddled with the Mayor, Not so the Colonel. If he and the Mayor should disagree it would be one of the grandest scraps in history. Every sincere sportsman will vote for the Colonel for Governor, Both he and the Mayor dare to be great, and both believe in self- help, and scoro an easy life. If it should come about that they should both want to help themselves simultaneously to the same thing, there would be doings that would be profoundly soothing and help- ful to all of us lazy, timid people. 23 J. T has seemed as if the President's Commission of Inquiry must have been investigating some other war, and not our late trouble with Spain at all. Almost all the witnesses, so far, have spoken with politeness and consideration about everything they saw and ate last summer, and have testified that there never was a similar affair so well man- aged, Two things we must expect. One is that no officer of the Regular Army who hopes for advancement in the com- ing reorganization of the army will allow himself to testify adversely about any arrangement for which the War Depart- ment was responsible. The other is that the Commission will not exert itself very much to bring bad work to light until after election. It is believed that a good deal of information about the conduct of the war could be picked up here in New York, but it may be time enough next month to start the quest for that. 6 6 6 66 6 ENATOR QUAY, of Pennsylvania, seems to have been found out again, this time, apparently, in gam- bling with funds of the State of Penn- sylvania, He has been arrested, and released on bail, It remains to be seen how much inconvenience the incident will cause him. He has been found out often before. His ways of doing things are familiar, and moralists find much in them to regret. The voters of Pennsyl- vavia, however, are very tolerant of Mr. Quay and his methods, and scem content 1o let him rule them as long as he is able to keep out of State’s Prison. Mets is a distressing rumor to the effect that Senator Macmillan, of Michigan, is to be appointed Ambassador to England, in order to leave a vacancy in the Senate which can be used as an inducement to Mr. Alger to give up being Secretary of War. It would bea lamentable pity if this rumor should turn out to be true. Such deals as this have been at the bottom of the worst blunders of President McKinley's admin- istration. Such a deal made Sherman Secretary of State, and brought Alger into the Cabinet. Senator Macmillan, though an able man, is not the sort of able man that is suited to be Ambassador to England. The man for that post should be chosen for fitness, and nothing else. comicbooks.com