The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1894-06-29
The War Against Mckinley
Continues.

A few days ago we published an inter
view with L Conger, ex- member Of cor
gress, and ex-member Of the ational
republican Committee, in which be took
strong grounds against the nomination of
Mckinley for president on account Of his
high tariff views. We publish below an
extract from an editorial published in the
Akron Daily Beacon and Republican which
seems to have Stirred up a hornets nest
in the party: During the past fort
night there have been passed by county
conventions and by the State Convention,
resolutions, all of similar import, and all
highly eulogisiic OF the present Governor
of Ohio. O.her. and Ike sets of rvsolu-
tions will be passed by other conventions
yet to assemble. To the casual onlooker
this would indicate a wide spread enthusi-
asm, which will, like a tidal wave, sweep
away all opposition and land the chief ex-
ecutiYe of this State in the Presidential
chair. 1t would be well to carefully coz
slider the opposition with which Governor
McKinley's candidacy before the next Re-
publican National Conv ention is TO be met.
The New England States, with the possible
exception of Massachusetts, will, in ali
probability, be unit for ex-Speaker Reed.
New York will put forward Levi P Nor
ton, or the man who W i'll be elected Gov
ernor by the Repdblica ans next year.
Pennsylvania will s:an1 by Don Cameron,
and his well known position on the silver
question will draw to him a large follow
ing from the West. Ex-Presidrnt Harri-
son will receive the solid support of Indi-
ana. Each one of these probable candi-
dates is in his own particular section
about as strong politically as Governor Nc
Kinle is in Ohio; though not one Of them
has been using every known ard possible
agency to develop and 10 foster a Presiden-
tial boom-as our chief executive has been
doing SO vigorously. So much for he
opposition in other States
The time has arrived when, for the fu-
ture success of the parry. plain words
should be spoken upon the subject of the
tariff. The Republicans will elect the mex
Congress But the new Republican Con-
gress should not go into power imbued
with the belief that the Mckinley law
should be continued as the ablest express
ion Of the patriotic principe yet enacted,
as was declared in the resolution adopted
in The State Convention The Mckinley
bill caused the defeat in 1892 Nine
tenlbs of the Republican patty of today
concede the fatal errors Of the Mckinley
tariff.
1T would be deatbbIow to the party if
it should attempt 10 make the contest of
1896 hinge upon that issue In the ma
tional party platform Of 1888 a revision Ct
the tariff was promised. The inducement
was held out by the party press and on the
stump that this promised revision should
be dowDwards, as The great mass of The
people demanded il should be. This work
of such importance 10 all eur mighty com
mercial and industrial interests WAS paced
in charge of Major Mckinley, and tie re-
suit waS he bill which hears his name.
The promises under which the party came
into over ir 1893 w"re uof fulfilled. The
country was not satisfied and then followed
the Waterloo Of 1892.