The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-15

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outlook for 100 10 principally on tho 10.
publican sldc and thoro aro no Domo.
cratic booms In sight. Tho stocks Of
Mckinley, Rood. Allison, Lincoln, Nor.
ton, Harrison and NIL tho othors nro
spoculatod OIL inn wny TINT rondors II
hard 10 estimate tlloir relative strength,
with regard TO thevarioua Issues. Thedo.
termination Of tho FREQ silveri,es (dis.
guised as n bi.motallic party to force
tho mUtal money question to tho front
and insist upon its bong made tho par.
amount issue, 1t Ia believed, will mako
1t necessary Tor tho Republican party,
rs tho ono party which has over boon
ready to faco a crisis, mud shown its
ability 70 doai with every Important
qucs! ton affecting tho welfare OF tho
people, to moet tho matter with the
same courage II has always exhibited.
IL has always boon MI honest money
party, and everybody naturally looks to
1t to moot tho silver question and settle
1t sa!oly aud forever, II 1t Ia made the
paramount issue." But tho Republi.
can party will also keep In mind that It
owed to PROSTATE industries n correction
OF tho evils OF the crazy patch work
tariff law, and will not lose sight OF the
duty tho country expects it 10 perform
in this regard; 80 that it will havo two
great missions to accomplish. This Is
why tho selection OF a presidential can.
didato with regard to his relations to
those two issues 10 looked upon US a
matter oil supreme Importance.
THIS being true, thinking mon are
discussing the availability OF the various
Republican candidates with moro than
ordinary interest. There Is n clashing
between the gold men OF tho east and
tho silver men OF tho west. the high
tariff fellows who believe that tho Nc.
kinley bill embodied the prime princi-
pie OF protection, and tho conservative
pro.ectionists. who believe tho McKin-
ley bill went too far, and who believe
that in 80 far as the Wilson bill sutTi.
GENTLY recognized the principle OF pro.
lection it should DO left alone, but that
wherever it embraced tho FREQ trade
viper 1t should be reformed in tho di.
rection OF true Republican protection.
While there is no danger OF tho Repub.
licans falling out among themselves over
the selection Of candidate, because all
SEQ tho necessity OF maintainin: the
splendid organization and harmony that
exists to-day, still there is the problem
OF how 10 bring the elements together
especially on tho silver queation. Honest
money Republicans are largely in the
majority, and the rabid, uucompromis.
Ing free silver tail will no; was the big
conservative dog, but candidate will
have TO be chosen upon whose supper,
the whole party can center. This is tho
way the talk is here. There is. there.
lore, more talk about q possible dark
horse than there has ever been. 1t ia
urged that Mckinley and Reed, though
each will develop strength, would DO
opposed too bitterly by tho silver OK.
tremists OF the west. Mckinley is tho
more conservative and would be moro
acceptable to all elements than Reed.
But many are looking in the direction
OF that great inancier VI the west, ALI
son, OF Iowa. or the conservative Nor.
ton, OF New York. while others favor
the taking up OF such man MS Lincoln
or some other who is not identified in
any with any financial or currency fac.
ton. The bcst man OF course will be
tho man who Will tit the platform. The
Republican party usually chooses such
men aud the President-makers who are
doing alllhis advauce talking seem to
be doing SO merely 10 pass the time
away. '
There ia an astonishing unanimity OF
sentiment over tho county that rep
resen,ative southern man should be
placed on the ticket for vice president,
aud ! am told that tho President.
makers take kindly to tho suggestion
that Judge Nathan GoG, OF West Vir.
GINA, would como most nearly filling
the bill. An eastern man. whom met
here yesterday, said that GoE would,
Tor tho rcasons that are already famiI.
lar to newspaper readers. be available
Tor the vice presidency, no matter who
should lead tho ticket. or from villa,
section lie should come. II, does not
matter, for instance" said he, that Nc.
kinlcy and Goii hail from neishborinv
states, with only river dividing them.
This objection to Golf being placed on
tho ticket with Mckinley has been
urged by some, but it is absurd. Tho
TACT that West Virginia and Ohio Dor.
der each other would be lost sight OF BY
the country. should thc,ticket happen
to DO Mckinley and Coll Tho two men,
MS candidates, would represent different
ideas, or rather sentiments, in one 70.
spcct. Though both the candidates OF
tho great national Republican party,
representing its principles, yet the ono
would DO dlstinctlvely so, while the
other would be representative OF that
portion OF tho country which is atruy-
Cling to break loose from the bonds OF
sectional prejudice aud to make the Re.
publican party n national pnrty in tho
trucst aud hest senso Of tho term"
s'e
West Virginia having broken away
from the solid acnth and joined tho
protection column, Wes, Virginia state
politics are attracting moro attention
than eyer IN Washington. ut was
great day for your state" said one ioun
political observer 10 mo, wien tho Ice.
stature chose Elkins 10 tho senate. 1t
insurus that Ncst Virginia will cut
figure in national legislation for the
next six years. ut least. Mr.. Elkins is
ono OF those national leaders whose in .
iluence will DO felt in tho senate from
the first. Not even the oldest sonators
have wider acquaintance among tho
leaders OF thought in this country, aud
mono are better equipped than Mr. El.
kins to mike himself felt us power for
good. say for good advisodly. No
man in tho country has boon more
ioully slandcrol by malicious partisan