Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-22
NATIONAL POLITICS
FLAME, HlRaSON OR TKlNLEY?-MEvR-
LAND, ELL or CAMPBELL?
Eow tie Situation IS Viewed Prom the National
oSpial-fAiags Greatly AiIsd in Psnnsyl-
vauia and 0hiO-WatigsOns Attack On
Governor Hill-Ths Kentucky 3D.
tor B1l1ys Fight

WASHINGTON. July 21.-The piano.
rama of National politics, as seen from
this point Of observation, is growing
in interest. As the scene changes from
State to State, and as the time APP
proaches when all these events are 70
eliminate in the National Convention
the interest becomes more intense.
Except as to Mckinley and Ohio, mat
tiers on the Republican side seem to be
merely drifting. Nothing else seems TO
be possible. Everything depends upon
Mr.. Blaine. n Mr.. Blaine's health
shall improve matters will go one way
in the Republican party. If he
gets worse they will go another
II Mr.. Blaine is well and can
dldate he will be nominated next year.
II he is not we'll Mr.. Harrison
NAV be nominated, and II he is well
and no. a candidate Mr.. Harrison may
be nominated in that event likewise. II
Mckinley wins in Ohio and Mr.. Blaine
is in sound health next year he will have
Mckinley 20 beat IN the National Con-
vention. lie may beat him with Harri-
son, or he may find IL necessary to enter
the lists himself; but he will beat him.
McKinley's friends are in no doubt
uuon that point. Mckinley is running
for President: the GOvernOrship is only
q step I'm that direction. But he fully
cOmprehenjS the attitude toward him
Of MIR. Blaine and his friends, and the
good logic OF il In view OF his own stub
born resistance TO Blaine and recipro-
city. These circumstances plant many
thorns in the pathway TO Gubernatorial
glory which Mr.. Mckinley has laid out
for himself. There have been many re-
cent indications OF Mr.. Blaine's great
strength with the Republicans OF Ohio.
The Club Convention at Cincin-
natl, with its crowded galleries,
and the State Convention at
Columbus rang with his name. All
these outbreaks uniformly accompany
the appearance OF Foraker on the scene.
Foraker has appropriated the Blaine
sentiment, and be IS going to make the
most OF it for Foraker, and II iSan analo-
gous circumstance for Major Mckinley
that Foraker not only aroused the en-
thuslasm of the groundlings in Ohio,
but controls the campaign machinery.
Between Blaine, Foraker and Sherman
Mckinley has a hard road TO travel.
This mixing up of Presidential ambi-
tions and National issues in State cam
paigns may dispose OF more than one
Presidential candidate before the Presi-
Dental year is on. The undertone OF
gOssip from Ohio and about Ohio among
the Republicans themselves Is anything
but encouraging for Mckinley. The
feeling towards Mckinley in certain
Republican quarters IS much more Oit-
ter and threatening than among his
Democratic opponents.
On the other hand, CampbelPs re-
nomination under the extraordinary
circumstances gives rise to speculations
not unlike those in the Republican
camp. The charge Of CampbelPs le-
Rions was magnificent. His organize
ton seems to have been nearly perfect
They ran down the enemy by sheer
weight of numerical force. 1t looked
like a war of determination. VIII the
vanQuished Of tho Convention field carry
their fight TO the polls? Will the threats
with which the air Of Cleveland was
blue be executed? Can they hold the
comparatively few Democrats behind
him to such a warfare? Can they hold
themselves to it when the
horns begin to blow and the
battle is Joined with the common
enemyP Venomous factions divided
usually command little respect abroad,
but they are frequently capable OF Sc
rious work at home. Campbell is doubt
less very much loved for the enemies
he has made IN Hamilton county, unless
IN the meantime matters shall be
straiehtened out there, may figure
very disastrouSly to the candidate in
the returns.
Unfortunately for Campbell his
friends also have Presidential plans,
and in some OF Blaine'S followers may
sulk in their tents or bolt Mckinley,
some of Mr.. Cleveland's may perform
the same service for Campbell. The
deliverance Of the Campbell Conven-
ton on silver puts an issue between
the Complexities and the Clevelandits,
inst as McKinley'S Bourbon tax views
and decided opposition to reciprocity
has raised the opposition between the
McKinleyites and the Blaineites.
To an unprejudiced mind in Washing
ton the situation in Ohio Is anything
but clear.
Mr.. WatterSOn returns TO his assault
upon Gov. Hin, taking for his pretext
a paragraph or two from the columns Of
the World He dances around the stall
wart Governor with his keen, delicate
and flashing rapier as il he was very
fond of the play, and he Is. Mr.. Wat
terson is delightful in controversy
having a tinge of personality, and he
knows It. lie shines in these light at
tacks. and he would be the happiest
man in Kentucky If Gov. Hill would ad-
dress him an open letter, or state in an
authentic interview that In his opinion
his brilliant friend, Mr.. Wattersou, is q
liar and thief
But il is not generally believed among
Democrats that Mr.. WatterSon'S lungeS
Hillward are doing anybody any good,
unless IL be Mr.. Watterson. 1t is clearly
not helping Mr.. Cleveland, but doing
him q great deal OF harm-all the harm
in fact that q sincere, but too active
friend is capable Of doing. Mr.. Cleve-
land IS strong in the country. Even
South and West, where the silver mania
is supposed 10 have made greatest pro-
greSS, no Is SIohE MISUNDERSTANDING, anu
neither silver Dor any other minor Ques-
tion could deprive him OF the delegates
in the next Democratic Convention
where the issue must necessarily be
Joined I'm behalf Of local seli-government
and tariff tax reform upon which the
PARTY is united In the main. New York
i recognized by sensible politicians
~ his weak spot. Whatever tends TO
defeat and distract the party there
tends to weaken aud defeat Mr.. Cleve-
land. II his iniudicious friends who