Show How Great Gr at Men in Come and nd ci Go E s ct St LI De t It was wa w an odd ode that in the te canvass which bh has just ended end d tens t Is of thousands of persons were we ready to o pD declare dele with wit just how h w wj w wI j I Washington Jefferson Jackson and j Lincoln Licot would have voted voe on Nev Ney 6 j 1 1500 W if i they tey had been alive alv while no nobody noby nobody body by except Mr Cleveland and an the few who were in his confidence could have told tod on which side the dent deat det would cast c his hi ballot Everybody Eve bodY i knew that tat he was opposed ops to tor Mr Bry Bryan Br Bryan an on te the money question and was against in Mr McKinley on tIme the tie Philip Philippine Phippie Philippine pine pie question He was with wih the te Dem Democrats Jem JemO em O t on the latter laUer question and with the Ue Republicans on the former forer and andus thus us perceived a divided duty which was WA more embarrassing than Desde Dese l 1 monas The declared shortly before the election that it i was wasa f a most mo distressing ng campaign but he gave ve no intimation as a to the party for he be would east cast lt his vote vot EsSec r t Carlisle Clile and Reed let lt It i be known knon that bat they were likely not to vote at all aI while Harrison Harrisn though In sympathy with the Republican party ply on nearly neary all aU the is issues isSe Issues sues Se declined to make imke any speeches in ft inthe il the canvass 01 2 Carlisle was a a large rge figure for a much longer er time than ex ox X President Cleveland though tough of course coure at no n time such a potent p ten t personage Though a Union man man during bhe the war he remained a 8 Democrat D em or at and nd entered e nt ered plic plc life Ufe soon noon son after the war wr closed cosed first frt in i state ste offices and ad afterward on I Ithe the national stage In the te twenty I years in which he wa was t in j national po positions beginning with wih his entrance into the house hous of representatives in 1877 18 and ending endig with his retirement from Mr lIr cabinet at the close of second term in I 1897 Carlisle was a big figure in his party Since the death of Beck whom he succeeded In Ute the senate enate Carlisle was the most powerful PO personality o allty in Kentucky The drift in his party patty away from Cleveland however In the last I year of second term turn turned turned turned ed many of Carlisles old friends against him and he left Kentucky and located In New York In the past three e eor or four years he has virtually been a aman aman aman man without a p rt Although in sympathy with the Republican side in inthe inthe the canvass c of as In that of df f 1900 he be took no active e part in politics The field of political effort in which he was wasa a distinguished figure for over a quarter quarter quarter I ter of a 8 century suddenly seemed to have lost all its charms for him and j I Ithe the active work of political direction in his party was done by men who in general were far farbeloW below him in ability as well as in experience Thus in the campaign vic has just ended he was wasa a political cip 0 Isolation in inthe inthe inthe the recent campaign was not quite so marked as was that of Cleve Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland I land and Carlisle Unlike them he was in harmony harm ony with his party part on most of the issues of national concern More Moreover Moreover Moreover 1 over for his refusal to make speeches or take any active part in m politics he could plead the demands of advancing age General Harrison is 67 years old and he has bas d in the heavy work of campaigning for a third of a cen century c n tury Advancing a age e was sas virtually the reason which he assigned for not appearing at any of the gatherings of I Ithe the Republican party Only eight years i iago ago General Harrison the titular chief of his party was ann also an active iH ti e po pis political pO J worker but the intervening time j short as it is has put new men menat at the I front and many of the older magnates of half a dozen dozeD or half a score years ago are as obsolete as if they belonged to toa a different generation Grant presided at meet rings ings and om made ade speeches s hes in time the t Garfield Garfi 01 d campaign ent Jackson ra n who r left the n Ae m in u was was sider by enemies In mills his own and andI I the opposition party to have dominated d Van Burens administration of I and he certainly certainty exerted all his influence influence I ence enee in in 1844 although vainly in this particular case ease to get the nomination tion f for Van Vim Buren B ren In lit that year ear despite Van Burens Bur ns nd heterodoxy heterodox on the vital vitali i I Issue of that day Texas Teras annexation I Both Madison and Monroe consulted I J T Jefferson ferson on all alt the Ute im important important important measures measure of their administrations It was nearly half halt a generation after Jefferson Jeffer n left eft the White Whit House that on Monroes request he outlined a n on the t e holy question which the president fit of that lJ day followed in its general features and which has been known ver ever since as the Monroe doctrine In th the cane cate of Cleveland and Harrison however though not no to he a ne e eJ t with the latter atter as ViUl Jor for Harrison H ri tl made a few f w speeches in retire retirement ment from political poll Heal office has h s meant the extinction e of party interest and ac as activity activity J 5 But the striking instance of me t which has occurred within the memory emory of the present gen generation generation is that has taken place in Reeds case APing until the meeting of 0 the Republican national convention at lt St Louis ouis L in 1886 1856 Mr Reed was the th most m powerful personage in public life The contest for tar the presidency in that year was between him and Mr McKinley and though the latter TV won on the speaker retained his old interest in the party and took the stump for the Ule ticket He retained his old power during part of the first half of the present administration though he was wa J opposed to the administration on onan an important part of its policy that relating to the war which Spain and the accessions of territory which that conflict brought This diminished di his prestige pre tige to some degree though until he left congress less lees than two ago he was still the most potent per personality personality personality in the party and nd the country next to President Pres 4 pt McKinley himself His retirement 1 front public life how however however however ever seems to t have ended not only all his presidential pre aspirations he will be 65 15 years of age when the next national conventions meet but to have extin extinguished extinguished extinguished all his partisan connections and interests One of Clays s earlier biographers said Paid that Clay as speaker M wielded more pov power er than the president Thomas B Reed however made the a much more powerful and I important post than Jt was under any person who held that office during Clays half century of public life 1 i I Among mong the prominent persons who retired from congress around the time I at which Reed left public life Ufe were Senator Mills of Texas Texan Gorman of Maryland aryland Smith of New Jersey Mur Murphy Murphy Murphy phy of New York and Gray of Dela Dole Delaware Delaware ware and od Representatives Walker of Massachusetts and Johnson of Indiana All AU of these have b been en effaced except Gorman though Gray has become a circuit judge in the United court and of course Is thus out of active politics Gorman is still an in influential influential influential personage in his party and amI may go back hack to public life but all an the others are probably off the stage for good goot Hill who stepped out a n little earlier then the men laet mentioned is sun still a personage pers nage of con considerable considerable consequence cop in his party and possibly has half a future but in the pres present 1 re eat ent strife in all niI parties for nomina nomination tion for office n na in n the frequent fr luent shift shiftIng shifting shi Ing lug of party ground on one issue or an another age other when a person Irson leaves leves office he sometimes finds find find himself outside of the sphere phere of his interests and ao r r I |