The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-06-25
WHAT THE CONVENTION DIS
CLOSES.


situation is an interesting one.
The Baltimore Sun, one OF the
leading Democratic journals OF
| the South, says:
The political situation in Ohio
disclosed in the proceedings ofthe
convention which on last week
nominated Major Mckinley fol
Governor, presents several curl
Gus and interesting features
Senator Sherman, hitherto &
| tower of strength to the republic
can party of Ohio, and soon to be
Il candidate for reelection to the
United States Senate, has now
it appears, ''lost his grip
Foraker and Mckinley, the two
men whose public activity has
done most to bring the party tC
disaster in the State and nation
are shown to be the favorites o.
the party machine. Nothing
seems to have been learned from
| the defeats of 1889 and 1890. In
the former year Foraker, having
been renominated for Governor,
| was defeated by Campbell, demo
| crat, by a plurality of 1882
This result being a great falling
| off from 1887, when Foraker had
a plurality of 23,319, it might
have been supposed that the re-
publicans of Ohio had had enough
of the Foraker management,
and would this year push popu-
lar men to the front. The com
ing contest for the governorship
is evidently going to be Il close
one. Governor Campbell has
been very successful in his admin
istration of the States affairs
and he will almost certainly be
renominated by the democrats.
Hence. under the circumstances,
it argues the greatest folly to
continue in control a politician
who has been repudiated by the
voters and who has grudges to
satisfy. To do SO is of course
only perpetuating faction in the
party-a thing which selfish
bosses unhappily are everyw here
willing to do on occasion.
Having no taken State issues
with which to 60 before the PEG
pie this fall, it was to be suppos-
ed that the Columbus convention
would have nominated for Gov
ernor a candidate not identified
with theMckinly bill, against
whichthe people OF iopronounc
ed SO emphatically last Novem-
Der. In the F'ifty-first Congress the
republicans had sixteen of the
twenty-one members constitu-
ting the Ohio delegation. In the
Fifty-second Congress, after a
campaign in which the beauties
OF the protection policy were full
ly presented, they will have but
seven. The democratic gerry
mander undoubtedly had some
thing to do with this result, but
tits clear that SO complete
change could not have been ef-
fected in Ohio if the Mckinley act
had been popular measure.
That the farmers of the Buckeye
State do not any longer relish
being taxed to encourage manu-
facturers is shown by the fact
that while they voted for demo-
cratic Congressman, they at the
same time voted for republican
secretary of State and elected
him by a plurality of 1O,969.
1t was therefore, it would
appear, adding folly to folly
when the Columbus conven-
ton, by nominating Mr.. McKin-
ley for Governor, undertook the
advocacy of the Mckinley tariff
act. That act was odious to the
people in November, 1890, when
its provisions were but imper-
fectly understood, but now that
and criticism have full
~ disclosed it's absurdities it is
doubly hateful. 1t has not in
creased wages; it has not pro-
duced prosperity; it has not
averted panics, failures and COM
mercial stringency. Onthe other
hand it has facilitated the fOrma.