The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-11-04

said IN to his character and fitness.
His record as President has been made,
and needs no defense. Grover Cleve
land has shown that sitting Presi-
dent n ay be once rejected and after
ward accepted. Benjamin Harrison
may repeat the achievement. Shelby
M. Cullom is hardly i'm touch with the
generation that nominates Presidents,
and they must be nominated to be
elected. How much Of the feeling for
Robert II. Lincoln rests upon senti-
ment is hard to be determined, but
sentiment is. not business, and the
campaign Of 1896 will be fought on
business lines Then, why not nomi-
nate William Mckinley Of Ohio?
Now, what are the elements Of his
availability? Wei, he's an Ohioman
That's not much, but Grant, Hayes,
Garfield and Harrison We're all born iu
Ohio. He was a soldier, and That
is going to count for more in 1896 thar
it did in 1892. For this we may thank
Hoke Smith. Mckinley is states
man, versed in every public question.
He il a good Governor. In Congress
he was as prominent and influential a.
was James G. Blaine, as is Thomas B.
Reed, and, chieftest Of all his quail
fcatiOns, he is, and is so esteemed, the
greatest living exponent of the Ameri-
can doctrine Of American protection to
American industries and American
workingmen. And that is the issue
pom which the next presidentia CON
test will be fought and won. He is
the tariff personified. His very name
is craven on the law that embodies
ard makes vital that policy and when
men speak Of the tariff they speak OF
the mckinley bill" He knows all
about the tariff Schedules, rates,
wages, productions, imports, exports,
all of these flow from his lips in an
elcquence as clear and simple as it is
practical, persuasive and powerful,
Powerful because, like Blaine, he has
that wonderful faculty Of taking a
bundle of the dry sticks Of statistics
and making them blossom like Aaron's
rod. Practical because he talks OF to-
day and for tomorrow, and of their
affairs, Persuasive because he sum.
mons the experience of his hearers tc
strengthen and confirm his words.
William Mckinley is popular-pop
uar with the people generally because
he is Identified with the policy thai
is popular with the people-populal
with those who know him because
he has popular ways. He is neither
starchy nor sloppy, He neither falls
on the peoples necks nor holds him
self aloof, grand, gloomy and pecu
liar" AS public official he is digni
| fed, as a citizen he is plain. In hi
tour through Ohio 'all sorts and con
! ditions OF men" have flocked to hes
him. We see him among a surg
ing throng of thousand men, mil
hands and millionaires, miners anC
manufacturers, farmers, and merchants
black and white, Republicans aut
D emocrats, all eager to grasp his hand
W hen he arrives at town it is no
alone the party leaders who meet him
the lawyer, the editor the prominen
citizen, but the mechanic, the farme
and the laborer, Herepresents to then
the policy that would protect their toll
On the trains every one comes to gree
him, bIakemeD, engineers, passengers
On one train was the Methodis, Chap
lain MCCabe, white whiskered an,
keen, telling him that "if the Ameri
can people know their duty they vii
retire the Democratic party forsnothe
30 years. On another two Roman
| Catholic bishops, clean-shaven an,
with the Episcopal purple on thei
breasts, soughtto shake his hand am,
wish him success.
All the Important industries of Sharon
, Pa, VIII resume Ou Monday and citizen
I predict prosperous winter.
The powerful kabyle tribes of Naluy
are reported TO be upon the point of joiI
. ing the Arabs against the Spauiards.
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