The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-27
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The fact that President Harrison is
not to secure q denomination from his
party without a bitter fight among the
leaders is announced in the usual fash
ion. The lion. William Mckinley has
declared i'm an interview that he con-
siders it certain that Benjamin Harri-
son will be 'renominated almost with
out opposition and triumphantly re-
elected" This is the Hon. William
McKinley's breezy fashion of letting
| the world know that he is still on deck
and ready to he struck by any presiden-
tial lightning that may be lowering
around. The Hon. James q. Blaine
has caused il to he intimated through
various indirect channels that he also
believes that Benjamin Harrison will
be renominated and reelected In ls!2.
In this crooked and devious manner
does the Hon. James q. Blaine inform
the world that he is still doing bust
ness ut the old stand.
In much the same tanner are var
ious other republican statesman stand
ing up i'm meeting in order to proclaim
that, in their opinion, the name of the
next president will be Benjamin llar-
rison; and every mothers son of them
is consumed by a mortal longing to get
the nomination himself. IL is not
necessary to assume that all these
| statesmen are liars because they say
they are for Harrison when really they
are for themselves. Probably some of
them really do not themselves know
that they have the presidential itch.
But whenever any statesman thus long
before the convention feels it incum-
bent upon himself to talk through the
newspapers about the next presidential
| election, it's a sure sign that he is talk
ing to attract attention to himself in
the same connection. lie is like the
small boy with a sweet tooth who
hunted up his mother between meals
and said: Ma, don't you think
brother Benny ought to have
"A nice, big piece of cake:'
The republican small boys are all very
sure now that Brother Benny ought TO
have a piece of presidential cake, but if
they have the cutting of the cake two
years from now Brother Benny will
have to hump himself with the rest of
the boys or get left.
No doubt President Harrison under
stands this as well as anybody else and
smiles grimly to himself as he reads the
ostentatious asseverations of fidelity to
himself on the part of this or that re-
publican statesman that stud the re-
publican press. No doubt, alas, he is
quietly but firmly applying the knife
where il will do the most good about
the political persons of these statesmen
who are making SO prematurely con-
spicuous the presidential bee in their
bonnets. Benjamin IIarrison's politi.
cal eye-teeth were cut several years
ago and, yet, what foolish fuss it all is.
For, anybody with a grain of political
sense and average ability to tell which
way the political wind is blowing, must
see that the name of the next president
will be neither Benjamin Harrison,
James q. Blaine, William Mckinley
nor that of any other of the statesmen
who are fastening to call the country's
attention to their own presence in the
presidential arena. Who will be the
next president is clearly enough seen
out this way, anyhow, however dense
may be political vision i'm Washington.
We have known the name for some
time, and it is violating no confidence
for MS to say that the initials of il are,
4 Democrat.