| Show I r POSSIBLE ALLIANCE BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND l 1 o a There Thoro I Is not a 11 nation today toony that In is cultivating the friendship of ot the tho Amer Amor lean Iran people as Is England In Wash Wasla Washington I ington l n g to o astute anti and farseeing men MO sc o In th the not distant future tho the United States and Grout Groat Britain standing shoulder to shoulder to stop the tho Cossack Co hordes hordeR from overrunning Asia and to stop of at tho the habitable portion of ot our cur lobo globe l from pasting passing under tho the oil elly garchy which surrounds tho the throne at It lit Bt Petersburg With those theRa words Walter waiter Wellman tho the Washington correspondent of or tho the ther r n n and ond a close observer of oC affairs at nt tho the nations capital cx ex expressed pressed to an audience his hili b h belief ef In the tho coalition at nt no distant day dBy of ot the tho two great nations to stay tho the hand III nd of ot tho rho Muscovite In Inthe tho the orient That rh t tho rho speakers prophecy coy ecy truck struck n popular chord in tho the eneo enee wee was evident from the prolonged applause that greeted tho ho declaration Mr Wellmnn subject wee was Behind th the Scenes at nt Washington Ho no spoke nt at the tho First Methodist Motho church chur h bofort a 0 crowded house arid and appeared under r tho the auspices of ot the Students atud Christian of Northwestern city elty IIII W U t Before the tho Spanish h war America was Will a negligible quantity said Mid Mr Ir Wollman Wellman Now Non No very every over nation n H ft e t Us Its most rnest astute and ond but brut trained diplo diplomat mat for tor th the position at nt Washington It Is Interfiling interesting to 10 the Ihn hack b k bit hit lug InK quarreling and scheming of the tho French 0 a German rm n English anti and diplomats IN as 1 ono one or the other apparently Slit I gets an advantage In the tho favor of ot this government Our Ours today to n I is tho tin greatest nation the tho sun eon shines upon When wo wn found It necessary to push outdo aside Colon I bin bla who ahn stood Blood In the th way of tho the worlds progress not Ilot a n 1 nation MUon shrugged ged 11 ir t 1 shoulder or ar rained raised nn an ey And Anel t It if this country should hould find nn It to I I chastise e or even annex the whole of oC Central or South America them tho unions of at th tit u world would w uld not tire lire a gun cun r I Mr Wellman n told man many of at Presidents Roosevelt nut anti described at some length tho the char chur of ot each ach President Roosevelt Is the most In Interesting character seen In Washing Washington ton tun In 25 5 years curs he ho said life Ills Is le the most positive nature IH tur since shire tho the days duya 11 of lit Andrew Jackson on I 1 know Mr Boote veil voll but hut circumstances over ewer which I had no control prevented mo me from knowing Mr Air ou but In a n romper leon Iron Ill back buck Mr Ir to win the blue ribbon Whatever he does ho he does with nil all his might Ho Un hat has 85 35 men to carry carl nn on onlie his lie correspondence and he lie Is obliged from its ItH to give Ith his personal pr nt at tendon to tu perhaps hall half of ot It Ho lie Inn has on onan onan an average 60 0 callers each day Ho lie has lum speeches and messages IlIe l to preparo and messages to give The social duties re ru required reo of him arc aro enough for Cor ono one man manto manto to endure end tire Besides he ho receive receives socially and talks with hit hla friends line has time to read tho the current book books magazines and nud reviews and every eVer morning rends tho the Chicago H Ho lie also hue lum given to him a 11 big hig pile of oC newspaper clippings which ho he looks over Ocr for tor ev ov pry cry ono one contains contain somo some reference to himself The Tito presidency is the tho hardest Job In InI I this thiN a and an election to tho the thoi i shortens horlen the Ilfe lit of the th Ih Incumbent 10 years 1111 It Is e There arc aro th the tit nervous rous and physical strains of tho rho antes 1 the tho 1 t able abl mm and damnable dangers danger which sun Gur round the tho duet chief executive In tha the last 30 3 years l r eight sash men have havo held hehl the but them is tl only cite IO ex alive today toay Mr Wellman toll told a 1 story which h he said had n never vcr been published of ot how holY Manna had declared to him hint af nt after after ter tel th the death of President McKinley tint the presidents was wag not able to recover front from the tho wound be 00 entice of what he had h 1 undergone In his hh to his hla Invalid wife It II Is a mistake to suppose that Mc Mo Ic was a Ii weak man because ho he hoVilA VilA urns gentle ho fro sold said lie He almost nl aL aLways ways n had his hili own awn way but he lie had Imd It In such a fI way WU that lint other othor men nten always thought they thoy were having their own i i It 11 his h Iran sold said that he ho was wn dominated by the strong will of ot Mark Hanna but butI I Mr r no so 0 lood rl that he ho never naver mado made tho the slightest effort to dom him hi III nut But McKinley lel by b love did twist t Mark Hanna around his little fin In finFer Ier Fer cr Mr Ir Wollman declared Washington to be he tho the most moral meant sober anti orderly of or all nil the w worlds orida great reat capitals a Paris In beauty but bu not a n Paris In III mor root ale |
