The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-06
GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
Mckinley Sure to Be the Repub-
lican Nominee.
The TARIFF BILL WILL AID HIM.
Beneficial Effects Of New Law Already
Appsrent-1f SILVER II Not n
Issue He WIN win.

WARRINGTON CIrY, March Especial. +
After meeting few business engagements
and arranging his private affairs, Congress-
man Mckinley will 60 to the Bermudas in
hope that the balmy air and ocean breezes
viii benefit his wife, who has been 80 long
an invalid. He will remain there about
two months. His boom for governor of
Ohio is progressing meantime. He was
asked today if, in his estimation, the cost Of
living would be higher or lower this year,
and he answered that generally it would
be lower. He said:
"Ls.t year srsnulstsd sugar was bought It
aWill 1t run higher this year7' was asked.
"No. It win be cheaper BY from to "a cents
per pound"
When asked if trusts would keep up.
the price, Mr.. Mckinley said they could
not, as the difference between the refined
articles Of home productions and lmporta-
tions Of foreign refineries was only l-5
Of per cent, and an effort to send prices
up higher or to maintain them at an exor-
bitant figure would only serve TO open the
American market to foreigners. The Nc
Kinley bill afforded ample protection in
this respect. He continued:
This question Of the price Of sugar will play
autumn, as 1t will then be that fruitgrowers
will put up their fruit the country over, and any
change In price will be quickly seized a. An
law for which the Republican party il respon-
sible.
The price Of sugar is watched more
closely by the working people than any
other staple, and its fluctuations will have
more direct bearing upon the political
fortunes Of Mckinley than upon any other
man, because he framed the bill. and there
is no doubt that he will be the Republican
nominee for governor at the next election.
when the most important contest of
the year will occur in Ohio.
Mr.. Mckinley is perfectly content
with. the situation as he now views
it, and his serenity and confidence
the last disastrous election was great
shock. At this early day the effects Of the
Mckinley bill are becoming apparent, and
word comes from the farming commune
ties that the cost of subsistence is growing
apparently less, and that after all the Nc
Kinley bill is measure to benefit the
masses and not to be used solely to enrich
few manufacturers and middlemen.
A well known Republican high in the
councils of an eminent statesman, who is
not particularly lost in admiration of Mr..
Mckinley, and whose name need not,
therefore, be used, today said:
Mr.. Mckinley viii lead one of the most event.
1ul uS0 tS ever IecOIOeO IN pOltlC6l nl9LOIys anu
4 he can keep the battle confined to the issue Of
fruit growers and farmers Of the great middle
states have had opportunity to test the bill in
practical way. and you will find them giving
the lie direct to the false prophets
OF the Democratic party and putting
to shame the cheap tin peddling
poll ticians who invented brazen lies to antici-
pate events of the future. On plain tariff Is
sue Mr.. Mckinley will be thoroughly vindicated
and triumphantly elected, but am afraid other
things will initiate against his success, among
them the silver question. There IL no use OF
freely discussing the financial question and be-
coming more interested in 1t. It 10 also true
that they are friends Of silver. John sherman
sounded the rams horn In favor Of gold stand
ard in the Senate only q few weeks ago, and the
Republican party Of Ohio, Mr.. Mckinley not ex-
cluded, stands committed to it. II this issue Is
raised, and rest assured it will be, there will
be trouble. II the silver problem Is
allowed to foreshadow the tariff
question, . contingency not ct all
remote or uncertain, the next governor Of Ohio
Kinley ON this subject, but he did not reply. He
. looked serious and seemed p fully realise the
gravity OF the situation. Aside from this, he has
nothing to fear. His record snd the tariff law
will carry him through. have examined the
act very carefully and can only find two mis-
takes, IL mistakes they are, and these are in
significant when compared with the other
provisions of this remarkable bill The first
mistake was adding duty to the cotton
workingmen adorn their clothing and the second
was in raising the duty on pearl buttons, but in
this case we have bone and celluloid buttons.
which are equally az seryiceable.