The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-08-02
The Coming Presidential
Campaign.
FINANCIAL POLICY THE KEYNOTE
The " est and South Will Not BE
Dominated By the East Any
Longer There Must BE Free
Coinage l6 to 1 Plank or
NOthing-Some Aspirants.

| LILO cdplGol ls current OIL pOllClcal Ga4t
which gives evidence that the leaders O
both parties have their weather eye
scanning the horizon of 1896. This tall
is all the more interesting because i
seems to indicate an almost unlversa
belief that the tariff will not be thu
dominant issue in the next campaign
According to the prophets, the two
national conventions Of the next presi
dental year will make financial policy
the keynote of the fight. "
The fact that two presidential boome
have already been launched at the capi.
tol and are being hoated down the stream
of politics gives an unwanted interest il
the matter.
The prayers and good wishes of Thos
B. Reed, Of Maine, go with one of these
booms. He invoked, as he hopes, a
fayoring tide when he signed his name
to the Fortnightly Review article, and
he has been on the anxious seat ever
since. He is, however, somewhat disap-
pointed. Anyone would naturally be-
lieye that the amount of attention which
this article has attracted and the mini
mum of criticism which it has elected
would satisfy an ordinary man. Mr..
Reed is not an ordinary man and he is
not satisfied He is in daily conference
with his friends in both houses, mapping
out plan of campaign which shall de-
velop his insiplent boom. It is not
merely to discuss the weather that he
rambles into the senate chamber and
settles himself on a sofa, with his lieu
tenants, Dubois, of Idaho, and Lodge, of
Massachusetts, on each side of him.
The trouble with Mr. Reed is a doubt
whether he shall merely nibble at the
silver bait or swallow it whole. The
first he has already done; the latter is a
choking operation, and has not, as yet,
been even attempted. It Is. easy to
imagine, however, that if he takes coun-
sci from Senator Dubois, the unwavering
friend of silver, he must come to believe
that the only salvation of the republican
party is a free coinage plank, and even
Mr. Lodge has to pave the way with a
proposition which recognizes silver as a
medium of commercial exchange.
As the situation now stands Mr., Reed
fears no eastern, man in the race for the
presidential nomination. He regards
himself as head and shoulders above any
body in that section who can be named.
He has said that his successful rival, if
he should himself fail in his ambition.
will come from the west. Naturally two
names suggest themselves Harrison and
Mr. Reed does not like Har-
rison. He does not even believe he can
be renominated. He does fear Nc cKinley.
He knows that as presidential candidate
It is better to come from Ohio than
Maine. He hopes that the present tide
of McKinleyism may turn before the
aext state conventions begin to assemble.
More than one democratic senator be.
ieves that the next presidential candi-
late of their party is to be seen daily in
he senate-Adlai Ewing Steyenson, Of
illinois. In his recent campaign in Ala
'ama, Senator Morgan took occasion to
uggest in more speeches than. one the
Idvisabi]ity of nominating Mr.. Steven
on. and he found chat the suggestion
vas most favorably received. Tt is said
hat Senator Walsh, of Georgia, is also
most favorably disposed towards Mr..
stevenson, and at least four other south
rn senator's will try and secure instruc-
ions in their states in the same direction.
IL the recent utterances OF Senator
Walsh indicate anything, they point out
J determination on the part of the south
md west not to be dominated in the
lext democratic national convention by
he north and east. They will demand
free silver plank and western man at
he head OF the ticket. Demands like
hese have been heard in the past-before
he convention !; but they have died
lway to whispered remonstrances when
he convention proceeded to do the very
opposite thing In 1896, however, Ito
1850 the expressive words of southern
enator) it will be cotton thread back
zone" in the spines of the southern and
Western delegates.
This same kind Of. talk is also heard
mong the western republicans No
more is to be witnessed, they say, the
Gene Of 1892, a, Minneapolis, where,
fter a gallant figG:. for an outspoken
liver declaration, Senator Teller and
lis co-workers meosaly accepted COM
romise and then went forth to defeat
their own states. There must be, in