The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-29
AS TO 1892.

MI DepSNs lltSl III l<ollS&oAS
declares that MI. Harrison's renomina-
ton is a foregone conclusion. AS Mr..
Depew will have very much to do with
the vote of the New York delegation in
the republican national convention this
declaration is of Importance at this time.
MI. Depew is an ardent admirer of MIR.
Blaine and New York is a pivotal state.
Yet Mr.. Depew puts his Maine friend
out Of the race and is willing to go into
the fight next year under the leader
ship of the man from Indiana. We are
inclined to believe that MI. Depew
gives expression to the views of the cor
porations and manufacturing interests
Of the east in thus acquiescing, without
enthusiasm or warmth of devotion, in
the denomination of the president. The
republican heart is with Blaine, but the
republican pocket is for Harrison, and
the campaign of 1892, like that of 1888,
is to be a campaign Of the pocket-book
versus the people. The money changers
of Wall street, the silver spectators and
the pig iron kings are we'll satisfied
with existing conditions. Blaine might
sacrifice their interests for personal
popularity; even Mckinley might not be
SO certain to follow the straight and
narrow path marked out for him by the
men who made Harrison president.
Harrison may not be popular, he may
not be genial or especially able, but he
~ v1;n,f onI nall hro1yap m norroco @
reason these men who hold a first mort
gage on him-and what is the use of a
change?
The coming session OF congress, too,
is quite likely to strengthen these ties.
1t is almost a certainty that both houses
of congress will pass a free coinage bill.
That Mr.. Harrison will veto it is a
foregone conclusion. He threatened it
last winter and coerced a republican
house into strangling the measure. The
new congress will send him a bill to be We
toed. The democratic house will pass il
over his veto, and it probably will lack
two-thirds vote to carry 1t over a veto
in the senate. The issue will then be
squarely made and, with the support o.
a solid east, Harrison will be renominat
ed on an anti-silver platform. So far al
they can control the direction of the
canvass of 1892, the republican leader!
will sink the silver question out of sigh
and fight along the line of protection.
Upon the democratic nomination 70
president depends the question
whether the silver controversy il
a prominent issue. If Mr.. Cleve
land is nominated, the tariff
will be the paramount question. Will
Gov. Hill or any other eastern candidat
the situation would be nearly the same
but with a western standard bearer il
sympathy with western interests Their
would inevitably be a straight fight TO
free coinage. The nomination Of
western man seems at this time to b
improbable, but If the south and Yves
stand together in the convention TO
free coinage they might force the nomi
nation of a man who fitted the plat
form.
At any rate, SO far as the republican
are concerned, there can be no furthe
pretense Of friendship for the silver in
terests. The Mammon Of Wall stree
outweighs in the political balance th
mines of Montana, and if free coinage i
an issue it will be because it is forced t
the front by the democrats.
1t is too early yet to forecast tn
shape the democratic campaign wi
take. In Ohio Gov. Campbell is COZ
centrating his attacks on the citadel G
MoKinleyism, and if he takes it an ire
sistible impulse will be given to til
tariff reform movement along the whol
line.