The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-16
THE GOVERNORS MISTAKE.


There is weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth In Washington, over
the unpretty conduct of the Ohio dele
gates In Minneapolis. Our Governor,
who went to Minneapolis as Harrison
delegate, gets the bulk of the abuse.
Our old time friend, Chas. Foster,
Secretary of the Treasury, for whom
we have no small share of admiration,
is mad over the foolish and futile exhi-
bltion of uncommon sense stupidity
which characterized our Ohio delegates.
Foster Is not man to fly into a passion
like red.headed seminary girl on the
slightest milf. Hence his madness at
Mckinley is not an iridescent convolu-
ton of the nerves of sensibility; but a
real old fashioned, belly deep madness.
Foster said, on Saturday, that mo
amount of explanation that Mckinley
can make will ever satisfy the President
or myself that lie (McKinley) did not
play double role in Minneapolis"
When we reflect that Gov. Mckinley
and Secretary Foster have been feast
Ing on each Others love, even as did
David and Jonathan, the deep terrible
ness of this utterance can be better
appreciated. The Minneapolis CORES
pondent of the New York World tele-
graphs his paper as follows, under date
of June TO-
TN every dispatch have written since
Mckinley arrived l have insisted that
despite his professions of fealty TO Harri-
son, he was his own candidate. 1t was
hypocritical performance throughout,
and nobody need regret that II has envel-
oped the solemn Major in universal con-
tempt Had he forseen the impossibiity
OF playing so transparent game success
fully and forbidden the use of his name
he would have been heralded throughout
all Christendom tomorrow as q man more
honorable than Brutus and more loyal
than Fides. But he sacrificed the oppor-
tuntty of his life to over weening
ambition and returns to Ohio detected
and discredited.
MCKINLEY, party to a scheme TO defeat
Harrison, whose friend he professed TO be,
by combining his forces with those of
Blaine against the President, sat for two
hours like q body under the knives of
surgeons, with the thousands OF spectators
studying his emotions-his excitement
and i'll concealed triumph as the tide of
success tlowed towards him, and watching
tEe mental and physical collapse which
followed the dissipation of his hopes.n
Let us look back a few days over the
ground Travelled by the Major and his
his conduct are not unjust.
1t is true the Major went to Mime
apolis as Harrison delegate, but did
not General Garfield go to Chicago as
Sherman delegate, in the memorable
campaign of 1880; and did not General
Garfield become a candidate from the
day of his arrival, and did he not receive
the nomination for President, He was
not only nominated but elected. He
defeated the gallant Hancock, and since
his tragic death more monuments have
been erected to his memory in Wash
ington than to George Washington,
Gen. Jackson, Abraham Lincoln. or
Gen. Grant. With GaTfeld's career in
his mind, why should the Major be
blamed for giving history a chance to
repeat herself. Why should the man
who betrayed John Sherman in 1880, be
idealized as martyr, along side of
Lincoln, while the man who betrayed
HARRISON in 1892, be greeted only with
violent cuss words.
The only difference is this, Garfield
woO and Mckinley lost. But this does
not change the character of that sweet,
Christian word, Fidelity.
The mistake that Mckinley and his
Ohio friends made at Minneapolis was,
in not properly estimating the situation
McKinley's personal popularity was
taken to mean political force: whereas,
outside of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and
in localities where his tariff
bill has benefited certain interests.
Mckinley is the most unpopular
Republican in the United States. All
over the West his tariff law is severely
condemned among Republicans.
The vote in the Minneapolis cOnven.
tion shows that Mckinley has no polit-
iCal popularity in any of the states
west of the Mississippi river. Look at
the vote in the convention.
In California beet sugar man gave
him one vote.
In Colorado he did not get vote.
In Idaho he did not get a vote.
In Iowa he got one vote, reason not
accounted for.
In Kansas he got 8 votes; all cast by
IL per cent. money lenders like Ingalls,.
In Minnesota he only got one vote.
In Mississippi he did not get vote.
In Missouri he got two votes only.
In Montana he did not get vote.
IL Nebraska he got only one vote.
II Nevada he did not get vote.
In North Dakota he did not get
vote.
In South Dakota he did not get a
vote.
In Texas he did not get vote.
In Washington he only got one vote.
In Wyoming he did not get vote.
Neither did he get vote in
Alaska, or Arizona, or Indian Territory,
or New Mexico, or Oklahoma, or Utah.
This does not say that Mckinley is
not a popular Republican, but it tells
the story of his robber tariff. We have
been saying this, you know, for some
time.
1t is refreshing to have the statistics
at hand to prove it.
Hence, let us observe with calmness
and condescensiOn, that Mckinley made
q sad mistake in Minneapolis, in test