New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-14
MKINLEY THEIR FAVORITE
o,,,o REPUBLICAN CLUBS NAME HIM
FOR PRESIDENT.


DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION. AND
SHOWS THE NECESSITY OF
RADICAL CHANGE.
-o,,mbus Ohio Feb. Ex-Governor Mckinley
-..s nominated over and again in the con-
''a,,,on of Republican Clubs of Ohio here to-day
cor President Of the United States. ana wheh
no appeared. in response to an invitation, ana
addressed the club briefly. the delegates cheered
hin, wildly This evening at the Lincoln ban
ouct. given by the League of Clubs, he re-
snonded to the toast Our Country. He spoke
as follows:
The present condition of the country is neither
cheerful nor attractive The pause in our pros
oarity is apparent and he's given occasion as well
rs opportunity for reflection. The last year mas
Seen one Of compulsory education. The elections
OF 1882 did mean free trade. any more than
yer, II the party in power at Washington would
reject the free trade doctrine as they have already
their want Of good faith to party pledges and party
professions and add another to their many neon
called did not bring the relief promised by Pres-
dent Cleveland
COSTLY But USEFUL LESSON.
The people are just feeling politics. We are
attending upon the school Of experience; and while
the scholarship is free the expense is enormous.
Nor is there business workingman who
would not If he had the power TO do it, defeat the
Wilson bill and stop at once all present agitation
of the tariff. This sentiment IS not conIned 10
Ohio or the East, but extends TO the South ana
West. Louisiana and Tennessee. Alabama, West
Virginia anu :Torh diol''a arr ~. as go, Nil
against the Wilson bill as any OF the Eastern, ma.
die Western Pacific States. The school of
events" Lincoln called it. has many graduates
Just now. Il is to be regretted that the people
must so long walt. long suffer. and suffer from
law the people who are the sovereign. must sub
nit 10 the law. The lesson. however dear as IT
be useful. Ii will teach all that elections are
serious public transactions. and that their effect
tinues through the legal and constitutional term
for which President and Congress are elected. and
10 Congress- but that has no influence. That makes
no Impression. These petitions are coming up from
assase of the wilson bill and they have had no
more effect than though they had come from outside
, ms before the committee Of Congress. but they
be refused and have been REUSE ana t has sem
pounced TO the public that their views will not
even be heard in its councils .,..., . a..
While Congress is engaged in reducing the rev
itca faith as Congress. is increasing the revenues
BY what II calls temporary loans Congress Is
Of burdens, and Cleveland is adding TO their bur,
dens by fastening upon them bonded debt OF
are pledged to reduce the tariff. and must do it.
ii interrupts the property n Of i d couray
the receipts of the Government are falling short OF
in their career of tariff reform. Again. while they
reducing the revenues Of the oovernnenI t1s S
Government. and people are getting poorer at the
same time and from the same cause Lyery VA, VA,
party of tariff reform entered upon its possession
Of ss The Soy mn BOND ron, government to
municipal bond. has felt the depreciatnG influence
Of the threatened free tracs
A COMPLETE CHANGE DEMANDED.
The people want change and they want it
badly. They want it sooner than they ever
dreamed they would want 1t; they are tired OF
their contract before the period of its legal termi-
nation They are tired Of this tariff -tinkerng'
bond-ssuing debt-increasing, Treasury depicting
business parayzing Xage-reducins Cueen,restor ,
Of this programme, and they would not stand II
twentyfour hours If they had an oppN'annty tho se
gentlemen in charge Of the Government os IL les Is ga
case of landlord with ned tenant a ynyis,on for
forfeiture. This country will not however have
long to wait-too long fear Tor many IL ye5
Der the people VIII have chance to deal "a.
Brtish poiicy viii be dethroned and genuine Amer
icanisrr enthrone6 and the final work VIII be com
pleted in November 1895 in the restoration OF the
Republican party. which, through pique and pas
sion and prejudice was hurled from power III 1872
The other speakers and their toasts were:
Abraham Lincoln" General Horace Porter. of
New-York; protection in the South" Major J.
+, Hanson, Of Georgia; The Republican Party:
It's Records of Deeds Done It's Sufficient Eulogy,"
General William H. Gibson. of Tifin. Ohio;
Three Decades Of Freedom" Bishop Il. W.
Arnett OF Wherefore, Ohio; Western Reserve
Republicans" Senator +. NJ. Avery Of Cleve-
land Ohio: "Vim Nigor and Victory" Miller
Outcalt Of Cincinnati; The Campaign of 93"
Major G. w. i. Dick. Of Akron; The Young
Man in Politics." Louis ". King, Of Youngs-
town; Capital City Republicans" Henry c.
Taylor, of Columbus; THE Maumee Valley Re-
publicans" Charles p. Griffin Of Toledo. and
"A Political Reflection or Two" John J.
Sullivan, of Warren