St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-13
FOR M'KINlEY.
With Foraker Sulking in His
Tent Napoleon Is in
Danger.
Harmony at Columbus Be-
cause Only One Faction
Was There.
Gen. Grosvenor's Sharp Criti-
eism Of the Platform
Adopted at Louisville.
The Democrats Will Fight a
State Campaign on State
Issues.
Special to ths Globe.

WASHINGTON, June l2.-l ne hepuD-
lican politicians who make their head
quarters in the natiOual capital are
greatly alarmed over the outlook in
Ohio. They are making no claims, ana
frankly concede that the defeat of Nc
Kinley is not only possible but proba-
ble in case the Democrats name strong
candidate and the preseut apathetic
conditions continue in their own party.
There was harmony at Columbus last
week, but it was the harmony that pre-
walls at a funeral. There was no clash
Ing of rival factions, but this was due
TO the fact that the representatives of
only one faction were present; not to
the unification of the party by any
means.
Foraker Was Absent.
Foraker was absent, and at the pri-
maries in Cincinnati, his home, only
1000 men took enough interest in Me-
Kinley's denomination to turn out and
vote for delegates to the state cOnven-
vention. Of course, the Hamilton
county crowd at Columbus were for
Gov. Mckinley, but the absence Of the
men who do the work for the Repub-
lican party in Cincinnati means, unless
all past history in Ohio politics is to be
disregarded. that the Ohio metropolis
will give from 5000 to 5000 plurality for
the man whom the Democrats nominate
for governor. instead of the usual plu-
rality for the Republican ticket. And
this will be sufficient to turn the state.
Notwithstanding the fact that the For
aker element kept away from the con-
vention and allowed the other fellows
to have their own way in everything,
the victors were impolitic enough not
to be magnanimous, and have thus
given Little Breeches" the opportunity
he would probably have sought in any
event. In the speech of Gen. Grosve-
nor, as temporary chairman, he gave
the following slap TO the young element
which Foraker claims. with good deal
of right, to represent, and which he led
at the late Louisville convention.
"The Republican party is progress
i've party. Above all 1t ObeyS the be-
hests OF the great body of the party. 1t
Does Not Tolerate
that minor organizations within the
party shall adopt new platforms, and
incur new responsibilities, but it looks
to the party convention in its quad
rennial sessions to frame and fashion
the Jenets of the party. 1t waits with
patience following the overthrow of
1892, and stands by its guns, its organ
izatlon, and its platform, without read
JuStment or modification, until the party
itself, through its great representative
body in 1886 shall adopt changes. if
changes are desired, and suggestions
and notifications of old platforms if
such be deemed wise"
To this that conservative Republican
paper, the Columbus Dispatch, enters
an objection, saying: "Only in one
place does the speech contain a menace,
and that is in the early part where the
speaker serves notice that the edictS OF
the young men composing the Repub-
lican club organizations will not be ac-
cepted as the law of the Medes and Per-
slams by the party"
Its Record Was Bad.
Although Gen. Grosvenor eulogized
abe last legislature. which was strongly
Republican in both branches, trying to
make it appear that it was respectable
and honorable body, this was time and
energy wasted, for the reason that the
people OF Ohio, and, indeed, the whole
country, know that it was one of the
worst i'll the history of the state. Ii
passed bill gerrymanderIng the con.
greSslonal districts that was so unjust
that the people rose up, and instead of
giving the Democrats five members of
congress, as the Republicans had
planned, they elected no less than
eleven Democrats, majority of the
delegation. In regard to this portion
OF Gen. Grosyenor's address the Dis
patch states:
Deserves No Monument.
1--WE regret that we cannot coincide
in the rosy retrospect concerning the
work OF the adjourned general assembly
of Ohio. That body had entirely too
much to do with politics and too little
with state patriotism; it lost its admra-
BILE opportunity and in place of the solid
structure it could have reared as a credit
to the Republican party, it left a rick
ETY. frame work which will collapse from
the force of the first adverse wind.
Generally speaking the record OF the
Seventeen general assembly is not
worthy of monument. If anything
condemned it more than another it was
the gerrymander of the congressional
districts. point which Gen. Grosvenor
sees proper to forget"
The convention followed Obediently
in the path marked out by the chairman
and adopted platform after the style
of the Minneapolis deiverance of wear
ago. Many Republicans advocated that
all attempt be made to meet the Demo-
Gratis with platform making state is
sues most prominent, but the majority
OF the convention saw the danger in
An Attempt to Switch.
Mckinley had to be nominated and
he had to be nominated with platform
indorsing McKinleyIsm, protection for
projections sake and all the other is
sues which the people have diSapproyed.
A brief resume of this platform will
prove interesting because of its lack of
the life that was once to be found in the
declarations of the party. Refusing to
follow the lead of the Louisville con-
ventlOn and come out sQuarely for
woman suffrage there was little save
McKinleYism to indorSe. The tameness
Of the convention, in view of the fact
that it was, in the opinion of many OF the
delegates, at least, TO name man who in
all probability would be the next caudI-
date Of the party for the presidency,
was remarkable, to say the least. and
starts anew the talk that the party has
really received its death-blow. When
the old Wing party reached this point
away back in 1855 Seward in his ceIe-
brated Albany speech said:
Gentle Shepherd, Where?
.Shall we report ourselves to the
Whig party? Where is it? Gentle
shepherd, tell me whersI Four wears
ago it was strong, vigorous par ty, hon.
orable for energy, noble achievements.
and, still more. for noble enterprises;
But now, the platform. The first PLANK.
of course, reaffirms the Minneapolis
platform; the second indorses the adj
ministration of Benjamin Harrison: tbe
third approves the acts of the last state
legislature, and is, by the way. The only
reference to state issues in the entire
platform; the fourth affrms devotion to
the Mckinley act and favors amend