The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-06-30
PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS.
Senator Dubois Gives Warning to the
Republican Leaders.

sion at the Capitol is a current of
political talk which gives evidence
that the leaders of both parties have
their weather eyes scanning the
horizon of 1896. This talk is all
the more interesting because it
seems to indicate an almost univer-
sal belief that the tariff will not be
the dominant issue in the next cam
paign. According to the prophets
the two national conventions of the
next presidential year will make a
financial policy the keynote of the
fight.
The fact that two presidential
booms have already been launched
at the capitol and are being foated
down the stream of politics gives
an unwanted interest in the ma tier.
The prayers and good wishes of
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, go with
one of these booms. He invoked,
as he hopes, favoring tide when
he signed his name to the Fort
nightly Review article, and he has
been on the anxious seat ever since.
lie Is, however, somewhat disap-
pointed. Any one would naturally
believe that the amount of atten-
ton which this article has attracted
and the minimum of criticism
which it has elected would satisfy
an ordinary man. Mr.. Reed is not
an ordinary man and he is not sa-
tisfed. lie is in daily conference
with his friends in both Houses,
mapping out plan of campaign
which shall develop his incipient
boom. 1t is not merely to discuss
the weather that he ambles into the
Senate Chamber and settles him
self on sofa, with his lieutenants,
Dubois, of Idaho, and Lodge, of
Massachusetts, on each side of
him.
The trouble with Mr.. Reed is a
doubt whether he shall merely nib
bic at the silver bait or swallow it
whole. The first he has already
done; the latter is choking opera
ton, and has not, as yet, been even
attempted. 1t is easy to imagine.
however, that if he takes counsel
with Senator Dubois, the unwav-
ering 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 medium of commercial ex-
change.
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 anybody in that
section who can be named. He
has said that his successful rival. if
he should himself fail in his am
bition, will come from the West.
Naturally two names suggest them
selves, Harrison and Mckinley. Mr..
Reed does not like Harrison. He
does not even believe he can be re-
nominated. He does fear McKin
ley. He knows that as presiden-
tial candidate it is better to come
from Ohio than Maine. He homes
that the present tide of Mckinley
ism may turn before the next state
conventions begin to assemble.
More than one democratic sen
ator believes that the next presi-
dental candidate of their party is
to be seen daily in the senate
Adlai Ewing Stevenson, of Illinois.
In his recent campaign in Alabama,
Senator Morgan took occasion to
suggest in more speeches than one
the advisability of nominating Mr..
Stevenson, and he found that the
suggestion was most favorablv
received. 1t is said that Senator
Walsh, of Georgia, is also most
favorably disposed towards Mr..
Stevenson, and at least four other
southern senator's will try and Sc
cure instructions in their states
in the same direction.
If the recent utterances of Sena-