Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-01
SIGNIFICANCE OF M'kISLEY.S VIC.
TORY,

1HE tribune, BISMARCK, y. -.
slGNIFICASCE OF M'kINLEY.S VIC
TORY.
In a recent issue of the New York
Herald there appeared an article from
the pen of Hon. Murat Ha!stead, review
ing the recent elections. Mr.. Clark
Howell took some exceptions to the i'm
portance attached to the result in Ohio
and the implied inference that Mr.. Hal
stead pointed to mckinley and Reed"
as the logical presidential ticket for
1896. Mr.. Halstead now comes out in
another communication in which he re.
views Mckinley's great victory and the
significance of his success on the plat
form of high protection. The article is
intensely interesting and suggestive. Mr..
Halstesd, after reciting the remarkable
republican gains and landslides in New
York and other states, refers to Ohio
and Mckinley as follows:
One does not need to call attention to
the vote of Ohio. 1t is. all things con-
slutlcu, lilC ulOSl 1eu!dI hdUlc ever pUlleu
in that state. The defeat of Vallandigham
was by a larger majority than the defeat
of Neal, but the election of thirty years ago
was in a war crisis. and the Ohio soldiers
in their camps voted. Ohio is. as a rule, a
republican state, but there have been four
democrats elected governors of Ohio since
the wal and two others defeated by mar
row majorities. The democratic party in
Ohin ic vary fnryniIa t1a md oarrnt no I.-
feated withoutthe most strenuous efforts.
The democracy have had in succession
Thurman, Pendleton, Payne and Brice in
the senate.
There were many republicans in Ohio
who thought Mckinley's protection was
overdrawn, and We're afraid of him as a
candidate. There were others who held
that he had received more than his share
of lionors. The state has an unusually
large share of ambitious men. 1t is the
successor Of Virginia as the mother Of
presidents, and William Henry Harrison,
born in Virginia, and a citizen of Ohio,
connected the dynasties, The republicans
have never elected a president, with the
exception Of Abraham Lincoln, who was
not born in Ohio. This has a tendency to
intensity personal factions and promote
conflicts arising from competition for the
public favor.
There are those who thought a year ago
in Ohio that it was unfortunate for the re-
publicans in the state that the party usage
required the nomination of Mckinley for a
second term, and there was questioning
whether something might not be done 10
avoid the rugged, and, it vas held, danger
Gus issue.
Ex-President Harrison was the first, l
believe. to see and say that it was fortunate
for Mckinley and the party that SO pro-
nounced a candidacy as his should take
place at such a time, for a great victory
was certain. No man knew better than
Harrison that the second election of Cleve-
land was not a matter of principle, but Of
preveTication-a combination Of fukts
fads and frauds.
Mckinley was early in the field and the
democrats waited. 1t was fit that the au-
thor OF the tariff law should be confronted
by the author OF the tariff plank with
which the reported platform was amended
at CHICAGO. Mr.. Neal made a vigorous
canvass. He did not get much help from
Cleveland. No one does. And the popu
lar strength Of the president in Ohio does
not 90 beyond the solid ranks of the party
save as to the seven or eight mugwumps
in the state. They Are for Cleveland and
he thinks they are an army.
There were a few feeble efforts made by
the democrats to divert the Ohio fight from
the explicit and overbearing issue of pro-
lection or tariff for revenue only, and talk
about the administration of benevolent in
stitutiODs. 1t would not work, however,
Mckinley forced the lighting straight on
the line of policy with which his identified.
ton is known to the whole world and there
was no nation that did not know what the
contest in Chic meant.
AS for nominating him for the presi-
dency, l am not now engaged in the next
presidency business, but l may speak of
what is i'll the air without caring for the
accusation Of alertness. Iwould rather be
elastic thar indurated; nimble than stiff.
1t is too early 10 nominate the ticket for
1896, but the people will have to be in
duIged according to their disposition. Mr.
Mckinley's victory is the leading feature
OF the political Developments of the year,
and that it will be influential is certain: and
1t must be remembered that Ohio is in q
remarkable degree representative. There
is no other state that ranks with her in
thai respect; and this enhances the signit-
canoe OF the exceptional victory won
within her borders.
dill mention the name of T. b. Reed for
vlce-pIesident. If he lives long there are,
Of course, high honors for him. He inst
now strikes the popular fancy for the
presiding officer of the Senate. He is the
ideal presiding officer for that body. I
should be sorry not to be quick to perceive
the growth of popular intelligence, sym
pathies and convictions and policies, and
claim to be nimble in susceptibility. if not
a~daptability (about which there is doubt)
to the changing phases aud conditions Of
sovereign public opinion.
In the judgment Of Mr.. Clark Howell, to
the effect that the prOtracted delay of the
democracy In defining their tariff policy has