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Show Tin: Mil: nti.sim r. Tho former Vice President, Levi P. Morton, was wrhips the moit com pletely occulted man that held high position uuler tbo government during thu lust rtdmluUtrntloii. Ills name was sol torn mentioned and It Is a qur-llou whether a few of thuiu nlirm place It Is to keep publlo moii constantly constant-ly before them did not nt times forget him altogether. All did list do ao, ot course, and som4 luw perlupi had hint beforo them (apnaklug rnetapborlo all)) all the lime, rlloco he wont out uf otllce, however, lie has been thu rrclpleut of suv erat kindly expresdooa rromtbu pruts and oltierwlio, pirtly berautu of tho goueroui niinuer lu which ho received his nuoccteor and pirtly bocauio bis rceord contalna nothing to J il ill fy one In aieaklng ullierwlae. lhrae exprianlousoame at nuiueroutly and feelingly from Demo-cratlu Demo-cratlu aa from Uqulillcau tourcia, which makea them all tho more gratifying. grati-fying. Ol.uof thu papera which "apeede I tbo parting guuil" lu u moat generoua and graceful manner waa the Phlh-Uelphla7Yms Phlh-Uelphla7Yms Democratic. luextond Ing a "suilal word of kind farewell," It claimed that no onu hai ever reallted moru coiuplctely the Idetlot this tin munlutlUr. Hie Vice I'rtaldeiit hai nothing to do lilt In resile uvir the innate md wait. Moil Vice l'resl lentr, It .e , lue thought It neeie ary whllu Hulling to I. up theuitilves lu e-videiicr. Tuey have often forme 1 little centers ot Intrigue, such aa may fotmaruund the heir expecUnt lu a mruarcby. They bavu dreamed uf trtllog uptorthimtelviaaud becoming thuluherlloisot power by other process Ihuu tbu accidental one rovlded tor them In thu Constitution. Mr. Morion has Uouu notbl ig ot thu sort. No man ever tilled the Vice Prealduncy for four years and kept Ulitxi If more nuoiuufully tub-duej. tub-duej. Ha has pieitled over lho rionntu with the ulmitt dlgulty uud imiartlallty. A betl.r ehalrmau, It Is lalmeJ, the rlenate hai never had, Jet hehua so enrelully uvolded any self. atacrtloii lu tbu chair that ou one ur r tva ..-"ssts, . jjgu two ncraalonr, when his ca-llnij volo would have been lininriant and might havn determined tbo policy of hl party, he has taken i are tu be away. It Is itrange tbttan cfTI o intended I by tholramcri ot our syatmi lo lo but ! little beneath that of the Prealdenoy I llielf and second to that only, should by the usage of ro-cut times hivo fallen Into lla'h low esteem. It was ilealgned at llrat Hint Hie cfllo shctild I a I eld ly tba msn who was tho peoj la'a seonl choice for Prialleiit and therefore that hoihouM be In all nrptcta except t 111-dally 111-dally the r of hit rlnclal. Tboy never thought of putting a luaulnt) the Vlcel'reldeiicy that they would not be willing to liavu In thu dlhor (lace, and thus such lllustriuui names as John Ailan-a, Tliooias Jellcrajn, l.lbrldftu Our), Jolin (,'. Cillioun, Martin Van Huron, .Millar 1 Kiilnuru and John C. Ilreikenrldgc better qualified In inauy InttauceH for tbo llrst place limn Ibotu who hetllt were not aver-u lo being Vlce-Prttl Uuntaud they were not elH.liI no-bodies no-bodies duilng their terms rlthrr. Thu ouo lait natnet Inveati-d the naliency of thu Heuatu with h dlgulty an 1 Willi luch ability an. preclilvli auntie the ob'curemautheoneat tnu u'uer end of Ponusylvaula avenue. Hut look at It luwl Thu Koueiallty of uur modern "aUtc-jnieii" who live at. talntd to uonillerablu promlnencu mint be President r nitblmr, Ibe moil conapiciioue exception of late )eara lelog riiomaa A. Ilendrlckr, who ran with TllJen aud then with Cleveliiid, Moit ul the dais named would rather I u lu thu cabinet or tho Hiuiitc, an 1 liny sal them woul I rather be H( taker ot thu Houru than Vice President, and It Is all wron-. That ellloe should not becontemutd 111 the way It has bteu forsoveral yean, tbo pretsaud rroplu should teu to It that tbo iwllllclihs do not have It Ihelr way altogether and that tho second ITLu In the laud in I therefore In thu world be treate I In ucci.rdaucu with Ita dignity aud Iraiortaucr, |