St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-29
THAT THOMAsVILLE MEET.

The chapter Oh incidents l1dt liOW
out of that purely accidental and
entirely unprecedented meeting
down in the Georgia pines Of Gov.
Mckinley and Joseph Medill, III. III.
Kohlsaat, Mark Hanna, with Will
lam Elroy Curtis as scribe and duct,
is as interesting in it's complications
and results as a realistic novel. We
do not wonder, as we reflect on it
and them, that the Chicago Inter
Ocean maintains such an imperturb-
able silence regarding it, while we
have not the slightest doubt that
William Penn Nixon, in the SeclusiOn
of his private sanctum, is borrowing
words not in Sunday school books
to express his disgust.
First in outcome was the unbos-
oming to Mr.. Curtis by Uncle Medill
of the tremendous announcement
that Maj. Mckinley had abjured
and renowned McKinleyism, and
would soon announce to the waiting
and wondering business and manu-
featuring interests of this country
on just what general lines he would
proceed hereafter to regulate their
business. While protection is not to-
be abandoned, it is to be materially
modified. AS to silver, our revered,
because aged uncle said, in a large
Podsnapppian way, that Mr.. Nc
Kinley need make no declaration, as
he had made that sufficiently clear
in his speeches. He is, however,
abreast with the times, and in hearty
sympathy with the policy of his
party.
Next in Importance there emerged
from the resinous depths of the pine
forests the statement that the
groomed candidate for honors presi-
Dental had received a letter from
prominent Atlantans urging him to
declare for protection and free coin
age, and promising that, with these
points tipping his lance, he would
split the solid South. And there
came quick and hot the response
that if the Republican party came
out for free silver he would leave
it. Whether Uncle Joe Medill was at
his elbow then, like the toad" Nixon
would say, squat at the ear of
Eve the report sayeth not
And the wires of the Associated
Press bore, no, flashed the fateful
words in every direction, north and
south and east and west, into every
sanctum Of every editor for their
edification, education and those 9TH
er sensations produced when the
great ones of the earth are delivered
of their weighty thoughts 1t went
into the editorial rooms of the Chi
cago Tribune and the Inter Ocean
alike, and it appeared alike in both
papers down to the final and impor-
tant sentence where the doughty
major hurled his ultimatum at his
his party; and there the watchful.
angry, silently forceful editor of the
Inter Ocean drew his blue pencil
through the brave words, killed them
dead, and the readers of that silvery
sheet will never know from it's col
umns that Maj. Mckinley will let
go of the Republican party. and
leave it to drop into innoclous
desuetude should it say that it want
ed the free coinage of the dollars of
the daddies.
But pity tbs there should be
but" to thiS-as we read these
spirited words of the major it stirs
memories of other days when he sang
quite another tune The faithful
scrap book yields up the speech he
made in Toledo in April, 1891, just
four years ago, in which he charged
the administration Of Mr.. Cleveland
with "dishonoring one of our pre-
cious metals" He reminded his
hearers how Mr.. Cleveland, even be-
fore his inauguration, had coun-
seled. the stoppage of the coming
of silver dollars. He was "dishop-
oring one of our great products: dis
crediting silver and enhancing the
price of gold,' said the major. Mr..
Cleveland, during his term, Mr.. Nc
klnley Indignantly stated, was de
termlned to contract our circulating
medium and demonetize one of the
coins OF commerce, limit the volume
OF money among the people, make
money scarce, and therefore dear"
Rising to his climax, the orator as
serted that in thus "dishonoring sill
yer" Mr.. Cleveland would have in
creased the value of money and di-
minished the value of everything
eise-money the master, everything
else the servant
Thus we see how fateful that
brownsville meeting was: to whom
though, 1t is too early to determine.
1t results, however, in Mr.. McKin-
ley making a double retreat from
Moscow, turning his back ON pro-
lection and silver. We are glad he
did 1T. We always rejoice when
men admit that opinions they have