The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30
A DEclDLD SLUMP.
The Death knell to McKlnley's Presitlen.
tial Aspirations.

VaI !ASpIruuOno.
Reports from Ohio indicate ruin
GUS slump in Mckinley stock Prior
to the holding of the republican state
convention his chances for n nomina,
ton to the presidency in 1896 were
looked upon by his immediate follow.
ers as amounting to certainty. The
faithful of the Buckeye state were
pluming themselves upon the crafty.
ing outlook and were already figuring
upon such division of the loaves and
fishes as would insure their comfort
through one national administration,
provided the popular electorate ratified
the selection of the highest priest Of
protection by the convention. In theil
supreme confidence they characterized
the booms of Reed and Harrison rs
mere artificial creations in which was
wanting the essential element of pub.
lie approval
Since the convention there has been
significant and startling change OF
front. The straddle on the silver ques
ton was so awkwardly executed that
the party was split by sympathetic ac.
tion. The Columbus Journal, an old
influential party organ, which is the
political gospel of thousands of the re.
publicans in the state, had hoisted the
standard of Mckinley for president in
1896 at the head of it's editorial col
umns, in season and out of season pro
claiming its allegiance to his candi.
dacy. Immediately following this
catch-vote convention the legend dis
appeared and the Journal briefly con.
fessed change of heart toward tho
one-rut one-speech politician who has
been kept to the front by monopolistie
wealth and influence. 1t was virtual
removal of the keystone from the arch
doomed to destruction.
The Akron Beacon, another party
organ of the stalwart type, went
farther than the Columbus Journal.
1t took accurate measurement of the
governor and went at him as man
unworthy of the position which he
holds as we'll as that to which he as
pires. 1t denounced his state admin.
istration as extravagant, corrupt, sub.
versiye of the peoples interests and
controlled by the very influences to
which Mckinley has given his services
ever since they selected him to exact
tribute from the unprotected masseR
to swell the Golfers and augment the
power of the favored few The Bea-
con did not assault the little major
in half-hearted way, but used both
hands in cutting him up to peak; and
the attitude which it has assumed has
caused many other republican papers
of the state to line up in support OF
it's position.
BY its cowardly play of policy the
convention in which the governor par
ticipated sounded the death knell to
his presidential aspiration. He can
never command solid Ohio delega-
tion in national convention; and the
same causes which have brought him
into disrepute at home will fatally i'm
pair his chances in other sections. In
the heartless language of the political
heeler and handler, Gov. Mckinley is
"a dead cock in the pit What must
be particularly CALLING to the ma.
poleonic" statesman is the claim that
it was Foraker who digged the pit
into which the governor fell as if he
liked it. 1t is openly declared that the
fiery Cincinnatian had that silver
plank framed for Mckinley to slip on,
and not even the enmity of Foraker
could desire the governor to come
down with duller thud than he did.
Detroit Free Press.