Show DENOUNCING GAGE SHIELDING liTKTNLEY The Tribune hasnt much to say about Senator Wolcotts speech it talks about his mind being in great unrest nowadays nowa-days One would think that after he got that load off it called his speech that it would be much easier But the speech shows that the senator has a rather peculiar mind and our contemporary contem-porary also shares this peculiarity It says that the best feature of his speech however was the impaling of Secretary Gage for his unmanly course in seeking to discount the efforts of his principal There is nowhere any evidence that I Secretary Gage attempted to discount the efforts of his principal Who Is his principal None other than President I McKinl y And his every official act has had the approval of his principal If any attempt was made to discount the efforts of Senator Wolcott it should be charged to the president and not to his secretary of the treasury Mr Gage was invited into the cabinet and asked to accept the secretaryship of the treasury treas-ury by Mr McKinley His financial views were as well known when he received re-ceived this invitation as they are today to-day for he has never sought to conceal them And he was asked In because of his well known and pronounced views I on the financial question To assume tt the president asked Mr Gage Into his < > cabinet not knowing his views or I because they were at variance with his own is to assume that the presidentis I a dolt Ifj Mr Gage as the secretary of the treasuiy does not represent the presidents financial views why does the president retain him I Senator Wolcott scores the secretary of the treasury and the Tribune rejoices re-joices in such scoring Why not come out in a frank manly way and score the responsible party President McKinley Mc-Kinley It is a cowardly thing tf charge Mr Gage with Mr McKInleys J sins and then proceed to castigate him I I as the sinner In fact Senator Wolcott and the Tribune are acting towards Mr Gage much as the wolf in the fable I acted towards the lamb that was drip ing at the brook below him What is I there so sacred about President McKinley Mc-Kinley that hemusnt be held respon slble for his ac 1 sjhml those of his seer see-r tarj s who at for him It is a t dfe Tisting 1hip ffi to see those who probe fessip pro-be fflndscf silver apologize forM for-M KhUe and the1 denounce Gage I |