Show I COJn ENTS ON THE JdESSAGE St Louis GlobeDemocrat No sur DHses will be found in the presidents message sent to congress yesterday at the opening of the first regular session It Is calm in tone well considered In argument and language and moderate in I length The president keeps in mind as is habitual with him the pledges on which he was elected and his earnest I wish for the wplfare and prosperity of the whole people is manifest throughout the document San Francisco Examiner The message has the virtues and fallings of Mr JMc Kinier his sympathy with humanity and justice his loyalty to his country and paty and his shrinking from strong I ineasvres at home and abroad But as coii ij rarely pays attention to the recommendations re-commendations of the presidents message mes-sage it is of no great importance whether a message be good or bad Chicago Dispatch The message is long labored and in tho nature of a special plea The task before the president was full of difficulties He was forced to congratulate the country on a prosperity which is not general to urge monetary measures upon which his own party is divided to plead for Spain when the people wished him to plead for Cuba to promise future revenue when a present deficit stared him in the face and to recommend Hawaiian annexation In opposition op-position to public sentiment Chicago TimesHerald President Mc Kinlqys first message to congress will rank among the great state papers in our history Calm sincere and straightforward straightfor-ward it treats every Question with the simple frankness that is always becoming becom-ing in American statesmanship Denver News President McKinley is the Mark Tapley of American office holders hold-ers He is determined to be cheerful I however much afflictions prevail and make the American people blue rather than hopeful He Introduces his message mes-sage with an outburst of congratulations for the many blessings providence has extended ex-tended to the country Kansas City Times = Mediocrity apologizing apolo-gizing for bad faith and mcompetency epitomIzes the quality of the presidents message Kansas City Star The message Is more voluminous than was expected in view of its agreeable omission of the usual review of the different departments of the government but in a country like this there are always good many things for the president to say and for congress to do Chicago InterOcean The president is not an alarmist hutrwhen his utterances on Cuba have been read and reread the people will conclude that he stands I where he always has stood ready to carry out the policy of congress and the will of the people and that when theme I the-me comes for action he will not hesitate We believe that titnfi is not far distant I St Louis Republic The tone of Mr McKinleys message is Please dont pot angry with me if you dont like what Ive said and TIt try to please you the next time I San Francisco Call Conservatism Is the dominant characteristic of the presidents presi-dents message It contains nothIng of a nature to disturb the business interests of the country and much to strengthen 1 r 4l I movement toward prosperity u There l will be of course differences of opinion concerning I con-cerning the recommendations made in regard to the mnin issues of the time Wlc some of thorn die justly subject to I criticism even frtfm the tsl loyal 1c Republicans Re-publicans but in the main the message proval will be read with gratification and ap j |