Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-12
THE MEANING OF IT.
Gfue Significance Of the Candidature Of
Mr.. Mckinley.

Xfoe Significance OF the Candidature Of
Mr.. Mckinley.
The candidature of William McKin-
ley for reelection as governor of Ohio is
not of itself particularly important 1t
carries with it no element of special in
terest to the people who reside out of
Ohio. nor is it particularly thrilling to
the people of the Buckeye state itself.
Oh1o Is republican state or at least
has been since before the civil war; and
We're it not that its people have lucid
interval about once in six years, the
outside world would not concern itself
about Ohio politics at all
Gov. Mckinley, in the course of the
long and rather dull speech with which
ne opened his canvass, quoted from his
opponent the statement that s'the voice
OF Ohio will be held, with universal &C
claim, the voice of the nation" and said
that he accepted the issue thus ten
dered As usual, Gov. Mckinley was
unfair. The voice of Ohio in favor of
tariff reform, which was what Mr..
Neal was speaking of, might well
be accepted as the voice of the
nation, because Ohio has SO long
been a steadfast and bigoted advo-
tective duties. Her pronouncement in
favor of an honest tariff for revenue
might we'll be accepted as the voice of
the nation. To reverse the case, if the
protectionists would come over into
Kentucky and get verdict in favor OF
the robber baron, they might we'll call
1t the voice of the nation, but they have
never been willing to accept our devo-
ton to the star-eyed goddess as repre-
senting anybody but ourselves. Mr..
Neal may well say that Ohio's declara-
ton for tariff reform would be equiva-
lent to the voice of the nation, since it
she reverses herself on that ISSUE every
other protection state might be ex-
pected to do likewise. On the other
hand her adherence to the heresy of a
tariff for spoilation would mean moth
ing more than a repetition of tie old
lesson that ''Ephraim is joined to his
idols; let him alone" Gov. Mckinley
should know that we long ago
made our arrangements to reform
the tariff without the aid of Ohio.
Should she, however, decide that
she wishes to have share in
the great and glorious work without
the hope of fee or reward, her assis-
lance will not be rejected. Her re-
pentance will have come too late, but
who shall set bounds to saving grace?
Nevertheless, there is something pic
turesque in the candida ture of Gov.
Mckinley. The serenity with Which
he hobs up with the most delightful I'M
consciousness of the fact that he has
wrecked his party is without parallel
in history or fiction. Perhaps t}Ayoung
gentleman mentioned in ''Greay1EXpec-
tations' who fought Pip in Mrs. Haver-
sham's back garden, without the faint
est suspicion that he was outclassed, in
spite of dozen knockouts. may afford
something like suggestion of Maj.
McKinley's state of mind; but that
guileless youngster involved nobody
but himself in defeat. while Mckinley
called down the displeasure of the
greatest nation on earth, not only on
himself, but on his party also. That
he dareS again to raise his head high
enough to be shot at shows a curious
Inconsistencies of the mischief he has
done, or else wonderful confidence in
the ignorance of the Ohio electorate.
Perhaps both these reasons cooperate
to make possible the eandidature of the
putative author of the most foolish and
abomip a BILE tariff law that ever encum-
bered the statute book of any enlight-
ened nation.-LouisviIle Courier-J our