Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-04-18
M.ksNLEY OR SHERMAN.
Indications That Ohio Is waverins
Her Choice.


Indications That Ohio Is WavertnR
Her Choice.
The Mckinley presidential boom in
the eyes of many politicians is the most
interesting boom OF all. These men
are very fond of dwelling upon certain
features it is thought to possess. They
regard it as sort of test boom.
Shall the next campaign be waged
upon the tariff issue? If so. who is
the foremost representative of the
tariff issue on the repu blican side? All
OF the republican aspirants for the
nomination are protectionists and all
have declared time and again for the
fostering of home industries by high
customs duties. But whose name is
found at the head of the list when the
champions of protection are called off?
And if there is one man among
them SO conspicuous that he stands
singled out both by his own and the
opposing party as the most pronounced
protectionist of them all ought not he
to carry the banner when protection is
the issue? This is the Mckinley case.
The friends of the government insist
that the tariff must be the issue and
that he is the foremost republican rep
resentative. It is not his only merit
in their eyes. They are willing to
match him against any of his rivals on
any score. For all-around ability, for
high and attractive personal character,
for patriotism and the best order of
Americanism, they maintain that he is
the peer of any man in either party,
and would prove an exceptionally
strong presidential candidate. They
tQ seq him oinafa6
Another point of interest attaching
to the Mckinley boom relates to what
may be termed it's home embarrass-
n,ents. How is it to shake off these
and the different interpretations put
upon them at distance? For time
there was misunderstanding as to
Gov. Foraker's attitude. A doubt ex-
listed as to hisreal interest in Mckinley S
success. An opinion prevailed that this
doubt ought to be removed. Friends
of the two men conferred and the doubt
was removed. Foraker in an author
lied interview declared unequivocaliy
for Mckinley for president, and Nc
Kin1ey as unequivocally declared for
Foraker for senator. All seemed cfear
then SO far as Ohio was concerned, and
full delegation to the national con-
ven GIOLi, well Se1oCtGO anu cOTOId1Iy
pledged, was guaranteed.
But a bigger man than Foraker is
now the subject of talk we'll calculated
to disturb not only the friends of Nc
Kinley, but the friends of all the other
aspirants as well. Mckinley is most
in interest because this man lives in
McKinleys state. Ali speculation
about the next presidency has'come to
include the name of John Sherman.
His great abilities, his past eminent
services, the influence he exercises in
matters of finance, are the subject OF
much comment. His face is again one
of the most prominent in the pages OF
the pictorial press. No colOred cartoon
representing the presidential aspirants
is complete without it.
Whenever it is suggested that the
financial, and not the tariff, question
should be the issue for next year the
suggestion follows that Mr.. Sherman
would best represent that issue. 1t is
even insisted that his nominal ton
would be so conspicuously fitting in
such circumstances that if the party
failed to make it the contest at the
polls might be lost. The people, it is
claimed. would resent the presentat ton
of such an issue without the candidacy
of the man best entitled to stand fo1
it and best prepared to give it form and
substance in oftice.-St. Louis Republic.