The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-15
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OHI0-l0WA.
The campaign in Ohio has not open
ed yet. An intelligent forecast of the
result there, is not possible ut this
time. Numerous newspaper reporters
and political quid nuncs are talking,
and the air is full of conjecture, but it
is all worthless. The INTELLIGENCER
would warn It's readers to take with
many grains of salt the various predic-
tions the daily press is making, more
with Il view to selling papers than
affording valuable information. Be
yond the ~shal.owest conjecture there
is nothing.
There is this solid fact lying across
the democratic hope. Ohio has always
been republican when a full vote was
polled. A fact like this is a stubborn
thing. In political things, moreover,
Ohio is IL most incorrigible coquette.
One year she may be all g~raciousness
and smiles. The next she will drop a
lump of ice down your back that al
most paralyzes you. A promise to
wed she will make, smile all dalliance
AS one puts the sparkling signet upon
her finger, then with changed mood
give her sutton his congo (Which is
French for mitten) with an hauteur that
smells visibly of the North pole.
In all this talk about II conflict of
aspiration between Ex-Governor Fora
ker and Senator Sherman there may be
much. There may be nothing ut all.
These astute politicians have II way
that becomes incomprehensibic, at
times. You think they are quarreling.
They are only putting their heads to-
gether in some netarious scheme for
partisan advantage. You think they are
working together. They are masking
their real feelings, and trying to locate
each others fifth rib. They are coy when
they seem most in earnest They are
sincere only when sincerity is profita-
BILE. Men say that Foraker and Sher-
MAJ are at outs. Others say they met
each other in Cincinnati the other day
and laughed long and merrily over the
rumor that they were seeking each
Others scalp. We may reasonably
suppose that there is peace between
these two, and they will both work
hard for McKinley's election. Yet
both may have worn masks during
those lively peals of merriment that
struck with amazement the democratic
reporters listening at the key hole, and
which filled the republicans with such
joyous glee. BE this as it may, the
INTELLIGENCER would advise its read
ers to not bank too heavily on fruit
full results likely to grow out of this So
called Foraker-Sherman quarrel.
Possibly the weakest spot in the
Mckinley armor Is the present discour-
aging price of wool. The Ohio wool
grower is almost exclusively Il republic
can. His only principle in politics Is IA
desire for a better price for his wool.
He would c%heerfully sacrifice his
try, his hope fG heaven, all his wife's
able-bodied relatives, if the sacrifice
would advance the price of wool. He
is even jealous of the 'golden fleece"
fearing that the stars may some night
slip in a little wool free of duty. This
creature readily embraced Mckinley
ism because it proposed TO rob all the
balance of mankind for the benefit of
the Ohio wool grower. He embraced
it because under it he was promised a
better price for his cherished clip. But
he has made an important discovery.
Protection doesn't always protect.
The Mckinley bill has not advanced
prices on wool. The price is lower by
several cents than it was when the
new tariff schedule went into effect,
and the Ohio wool grower is out be-
hind the barn thinking. He feels that
he has been played for a gray, and he
is mad. He may not vote at all, or he
may wiring the agony out of his soul
by joining the peoples party. Should
he do this, the effect upon the McKin-
ley ticket would be disastrous.
The democratic field seems to be in
good shape. The detection in Hamil-
ton county is dying out. At best it
was only a factional abscess growing
out of a personal grievance, and of
all disgusting things in politics the
personal grievance is the worst. 500
off and nurse yourself" is the COM
mand of the party, and aid and sym
pathy are sawed off short. Campbell
will undoubtedly poll the strength of
his party. VIII that suffice?
In Iowa affairs are running along
smoothly. Governor Boies is a capt.
tai man. He has made u capital chief
executive, and his party is standing
with him like a Grecian phalanx. The
republicans are not harmonious. They
Shrew a Jonah to the whale in the
person of a rich farmer, but assimula-
ton is not rapid and it will require
several doses of soda-meat to throw off
the gases and relieve the iatulency. A
united republican party in Iowa would
defeat Boies, but harmony has not yet
come, and without harmony, union is
impossible.
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