The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-09-21
M'KIELEYlSM DEAD.
It's funeral Orasicr Delivered by Ex-Cxar
Reed.


Reed.
The funeral GRAFTON Of Nckinleyisrn
was pronounced by Hon. Thomas Is.
Reed on Saturday at old Orchard. Me
me orator did not declare the purpose
or effect of the Grafton. but IL was un-
necessary. Mr.. Rect was making his
biennial appeal for election 10 the
house OF rcprcsc n ,ative aud IA is percn-
NAL appeal for n chance ut the presi-
dc initial nomination Of his party. which
has So often gone in late years 10 men
OF far less ability than himself Nat
urally the basis Of his appeal was a
dc hinton Of the issues ofthc approach
in z elections. Two wears ago and four
years ago the definition was not diff
cult II was ckinleyism-th he pre- :
crvation intact of tina, complex mass
Of public legislation for private I'D
vantage embodied in the Mckinley
net This year there IS not word of
NJ chinlcy ism. ard tie issues are very
va Sncly Indicated and BY inference
only.
Mr. Reed holds that the democratic
party ought t. be turned out of con-
grcss. first, because it showed itself
unable to reduce the tariff as much as
IL had promised TO do. or IN the way IT,
had promised. and, second. because
II IL is not turned out it will do whu I
lie ''assevervatcs" that i is utterly in
Gu aable OF doing That i. nett her log
icsal nor aggressive, and we doubt if it
81 tistici Mr. Reed, whose mind is both
aggressive and logical. but Il Il plain
IS the best he could do in the circum-
stances. II he had not rcsorteI 10 this
Ella boratc and contradictory statement
OF the situation as he would like to
ha We il appear. lac would have been
obliged to say something about Me-
Ii nleyisni. and that he was bound not
- do. or course he had his own
reasons for not alluding by name to
his highly respected and somewhat
feared leader in the Eifty-nrst CON
gross and for not giving prominence
70 anything with when the name OF
that gent lemaa is connected. But il
he had had no personal reasons for
such rcticcnce. he would still have said
nothing about Mckinlcyism. because
he IS a shrewd observer of politics. and
he knows that Mckinleyism l., dcader
than Old Scroogc
Consider the facts as the record
shows them. La 1870 the Mckinley
act was passed by practically unani-
nous republican vote as the ernboli-
mcnt Of the repI bli.an policy. In 1892
il was de featcd without qualification
in a presidential election. 1t has just
4.
su bstituted for it entirely different
in principal. making many of the inn
portant materials of manufactures
free. reducing the duties on Others. re-
ducing the duties on finished products,
and generally seeking to promote the
int erest> OF the consumer, OF com
mcrce. and Of all manufactures not
given special favors under the Nckin-
ley act How can the aclSnow lodged
leader Of the republican party in the
house and the leader of far the great
est ability in or out Of the house 20 be-
fore the country without one word OF
kindness for the Mckinley law or for
the policy which that law has made
known a. Mckinleyism. unless lie be-
lie YES that il Is q dead issue? II Nc
kinleyisrn is what Mr. Reed and his
party declared il to be two years
ago. the plain dnty of the party
is 10 demand its reenactment. Mr..
Reed does not do this and darcs not do
il. lie knows perfectly well that the
country would reject such demand
with derision. His spccious and con-
Trajectory speech is, as we have said.
the funeral Grafton Of Mckinleyis ism
n. y. Times.