Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-28
A DECIDEp SLUMP.
The Death knen to Mckinley'S PrcsideK
tial Aspirations


tiaI Aspirations.
Reports from Ohio Indicate ruin
Gus slump in Mckinley stock. Prior
to the holding of the republican state
convention his chances for a nominal
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 a division of the loawes, 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. their
supreme confidence they characterized
the booms OF Reed and Harrison. as
mere artificial creations in which. was
war ting the essential element Of pub
lie approval
Since the convention there has been
q significant and startling change Of
front. The straddle on the silver ques-
ton was SO awkwardly executed, that
the party was split by sympathetic;a c-
ton. The Columbus Journal, an old
influential party organ, which. is the
political gospel of thousands Of there
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 it's allegiance to his candi-
dacv. Immediately following the
catch-vote convention the legend dis
appeared. and the Journal briefly con.
fessed change of heart toward the
one-rut, one-speech politician who has
been kept to the front by monopolistic
wealth and influence. 1t was a 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. It denounced his state admin
istration as extravagant, corrupt, sub
versive 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 masses
to swell the Golfers and augment the
power of the favored few. The Bea-
con did not assault the little major
In haIf-hearted way, but used both
hands in cutting him up to a peak; and
the attitude which 1t 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
In which the governor par
ticipated sounded the death knell to
his presidential aspiration. He can
never command solid Ohio delega-
ton in a national convention; and the
same causes which have brought him
into disrepute at home will fatally inn
pair his chances in other sections. In
the heartless language of the political,
heller 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. It is openly declared that the
fiery Cineinnatian 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 a duller thud than he did.
Detroit Free Press.