Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-13
DEATH OF M.k,NLEY,sM.
Its Funeral Grafton Delivered by Ex-Csa
Read.

It's Funeral Grafton Delivered by Ex-Csa,
Reed.
The funeral Grafton of McKinleyism
was pronounced by Hon. Thomas B.
| Reed on Saturday at Old Orchard, Me.
The orator did not declare the purpose
or effect of the grafton, but it was nm
necessary Mr.. Reed was making his
biennial appeal for election to the
house OF representatives and his peren-
NAL appeal for a chance at the presi-
DENTAL nomination of his party, which
has so often gone in late years to men
OF far less ability than himself. Nat
urally the basis of his appeal was a
definition of the issues Of the approach
ing elections. Two years ago and four
years ago the definition was not diff
cult. 1t was McKinleyism-the pres
ervat1on intact of that complex mass
OF public legislation for private ad-
vantage embodied in the Mckinley
act This year there is not word OF
Mckinleyism, and the issues are very
vaguely indicated and by inference
only.
Mr.. Reed holds that the democratic
party ought to be turned out of con-
gress, first, because it showed itself
unable to reduce the tariff as much as
it had promised to do. or in the way it
had promised, and, second, because.
If it is not turned out it will do what
he ''assevervates' that it is utterly in
capable of doing. That is neither log
1cal nor aggressive, and we doubt if it
satisfied Mr.. Reed, whose mind is both
aggressive and logical but it is plain
~ the best he could do in the circum-
stances If he had not resorted to this
elaborate and contradictory statement
of the situation as he would like to
have it appear, he would have been
obliged to say something about Nc
Kinleyism, and that he was bound not
to do. OF course he had his own
reasons for not abiding by name to
his highly respected and somewhat
feared leader in the Fifty-first con-
gress and for not giving prominence
to anything with which the name OF
that gentleman is connected. But if
he had had no personal reasons for
such reticenee, he would still have said
nothing about McKinleyism. because
he is shrewd observer of politics, and
he knows that McKinleyism is deader
than Old ScrOoge.
Consider the facts as the record
shows them. In 1890 the Mckinley
act was passed by practically unani-
nous repu blican vote as the embodi-
ment of the republican policy. In 1892
it was defeated without qualification
in presidential election. It has just
been repealed, and an act has been
substituted for it entirely different
in principal, making many of the i'm.
portant materials of manufactures
free, reducing the duties on others. re-
ducing the duties on finished products,
and generally seeking to promote the
interests of the consumer, of COM
merce, and Of all manufactures not
given special favors under the McKin-
ley act How can the acknowledged
leader of the republican party in the
house and the leader of far the great
est ability in or out of the house go be-
fore the country without one word OF
kindness for the Mckinley law or for
the policy which that law has made
known as McKinleylsm, unless he be-
lieves that it Is dead issue? If Nc.
Kinleyism is what Mr.. Reed and his
party declared it to be two years
ago, the plain duty of the party
is to demand its reenactment. Mr
Reed does not do this and dares not dc
it: 4s knows perfectly we'll that the
Country would feject such demand
with derision. His specious and con-
Trajectory speech is, as we have said.
the funeral grafton Of McKinleyism.-
N. Y. Times.