Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-06-21

for his personal agents, and for the recipi-
ents of his official favors proves most con-
clusively that he is not fitted for the presi-
dency. If in Ohio, where he has had an
opportunity to know thoroughly the charac-
ter and abilities of those whom he has ap-
pointed to offices-and then, even with such
opportunities for information, has made so
many fearful mistakes-how could he be ex-
pected to act to with credit to the party at
Washington, when appointments in every
state in the union would to be made, when
the pressure from skilled professional poll
ticians would be many thousand fold greater
than that to which he was ever subjected to
in Columbus, and when he could have no op-
portunities for personally knowing the
qualifications of the hosts and myriads of
applicants for Office? The scandals liable to
result from such lack of administrative
ability would be enough to forever ruin the
political party responsible for them.
MCKINLEY Nor THE NAN.
Governor Mckinley is an eloquent orator:
he possesses remarkable abilities as a tariff
expert, he has charming manner and win
ming personality which draws people toward
him; he is wonderfully big-hearted and gen.
erous, his private life is above reproach. But
he cannot read human character; he cannot
estimate men; he is too readily imposed up
on and is too easily influenced by those who
surround him. He is not adapted by nature
to be president of the United States, and
long before the assembling of the Republi-
can national convention his unftness for the
nomination will become so apparent that
his support even in his own state will be
vastly less than his present followers now es-
innate that II will be. He could serve the nc =
tion and the party with infinitely more power
and honor in congress than he could in the
White House.
The man who is to be the next presidential
nominee Of the Republican party should be
deeply versed and skilled in fuance-for the
silver question will surely overshadow that
Of the tariff and all other issues in the next
campaign. He should also be able to call
about him men who are in touch with the
great business interests of the country and
who are thoroughly familiar with the wants
of the laboring masses. In the past, Gov.
Mckinley has not succeeded in enlisting un-
der his personal standard those who, as a
class, are in sympathy with the great and
real interests of the country, nor has he Civ
en- positive evidence that he can secure the
allegiance of men possessing the abilities
which the welfare of the nation requires.
The candidate for president selected by
the Republican party in 1896 should be gift
ed with craftsmanship as broad a. d great as
that of James G. Blaine, who at the time of
his death had the largest following of any
man who ever entered American public life.
His spirit is still ABROAD in the land, and his
friends propose to take up his work where
he laid it down and to carry it onward with
increasing ordor.
DEFEATED BY MoKNLEY1sM.
But the new Republican congress should
not 60 into power imbued with the belief
that the Mckinley law should be continued
"as the ablest expression of the patriotic
principle yet enacted" as was declared in
the resolution adopted at the state conyen-
ton at Columbus last Wednesday. The Nc
Kiney bill caused the Republican defeat in
1892. Nine-tenths OF the Republican party
of to. day concede the fatal errors of the Nc
Kinley tariff.
1t would be death blow TO the party if it
should attempt to make the contest Of 1896
hinge upon that issue.
In the national platform of 1888 revision
of the tariff was promised. The inducement
was held out by the party press and on the
stump that this promised revision would be
downwards, as the great mass of the people
demanded that it should be. Congress was
urged and besought that this revision might
take place in the house of its friends. This
work of such importance to all our mighty
commercial and industrial interests was
placed in charge of Major Mckinley, and the
result was the bill which bears his name
The promises under which the party came
into power in 1888 were not fulfilled. The
country was not satisfied and then followed
the Waterloo of 1892.
It cannot be said that this Ia late day to
criticise the Mckinley bill. Long, long ago
Republican leaders recognized and denounc.
ed its defects and weaknesses. The greatest
statesman of this country, and of the world
James G. Blaine, criticised the bill at the
time it was first reported, and pointed out
the facts that it was direct violation of the
pledges of the party; and he did no hesitate
to say publicly and to his associates, but ow.
ing to existing iealousies, his advice and
that of his friends we're overruled. But il
Mr.. Blaine had at this time been endowed
with the divine gift Of prophetic vision, he
could not have more clearly fortold than be
did then, the inglorious defeat of 1892, and
all the disasters and hardships and calamities