Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-30
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY
Democrats in Congress Expect to Have
Him for an Opponent
In the Next Presidential Election-He
Has Aged in the Last Year
Two.

There is great revival of interest in
Gov. Mckinley among the politicians in
Congress. However opinions may differ
among republicans as to McKinley's
chances for receiving the nomination for
President by the next republican national
convention, 1t is almost a universal opinion
among democrats that Mckinley is going to
be the nominee with whom they will have
to contend in the next national campaign
They regard Harrison as a candidate for
nomination again, and at one time many
were calculating on him for an opponent,
but they are now settling down to the
opinion that their next fight is going to be
with the tariff and Mckinley. member
of McKinleys official household was in
Washington yesterday.
Has Aged Considerably.
He says that Mckinley has aged consid-
erably within the past year or two, and
that his hair is beginning to turn gray
about the temples and that lines of care
have appeared in his face, and that he is
altogether a more thoughtful and graver
man than he was two years ago. His mail
since his last election as governor has been
most astonishing. In volume 1t has been
more than he and his secretaries could at
tend to. He receives hundreds of letters
every day from all parts of the country,
from democrats and republicans, full of
enthusiasm for him for President, and the
curious thing about it is that since the ways
and means committee of the House have
disclosed the plan of their work on the
tariff he has received many letters from
southern democrats, some of the men of
considerable prominence, who are dissat-
isfed with the democratic tariff policy, and
who declare to him that he will have
strong support from democratic protection
lists of that section should he secure the
nomination for President at the end of Mr.
Cleveland's term, and that he will have a
strong southern following in the republican
convention.
Keeping His Own Counsel.
1t is said that the governor receives all
this with great complacency, keeping his
own counsel carefully and drawing from
his own experience and the experience of
other men who have heard the buzzing of
the bee to discount these bursts Of enthu-
siasm and to hold down hopes which might
be but disappointment At the same
time there is no question that he Is i'm
pressed with the situation in which he finds
himself with relation to his party. and be-
lieves that the next presidential election
will be a battle over the tariff, with a great
protection champion at the head Of the re-
publican ticket
Popular Appreciation.
When. after Gov. Mckinley had lost
everything he had. and his wife's property
was about to be sacrificed, a popular SUBJ
scription was started to relieve him from
his disastrous position, as is known, he de-
clined this money and had returned all that
had been sent to him. The fact that since
that every penny of his obligations has
been relieved is not generally known. The
sympathetic admirers of the governor were
not to be stopped in their good purposes.
When the governor refused to receive
money those desiring to give simply sent 1t
to his trustees for the benefit Of the cred
itors. The contributions came largely from
the working people. in sums of fifty cents,
a dollar or five dollars In a short time
every debt was lifted, and a considerable
amount Of money had to be sent back,
through there being no need for II.