Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-11
MACS" LETTER.
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES
BIackburn's Mistake in Counting Tilt With Carlsle-A Lesson From the Result
 in Kentucky

presidential candidate tand of course he is) he must be keeping up a devil or thinking these cool August days. At all events he is saying nothing, and is appa- rently perfectly content that MT Me I<iuley should make al the noise and re- ceive all the plaudts of perspiring pop ulace. Mir Reed is an old enough poll fjcian to understand that it is not always best for a boom to have it sprung too soon or worked too vigorously. He Is just as anxious as MT. Mckinley to cast anchor in the White House, but he is able to cork his ardor and spend the heated term in the pine woods of Maine, while the Ohio statesman is answering calls to make speeches. It does not follow that because the Ohio mans little boomlet Will wear itself out before the campaign De- gins that the Maine man will have the satisfaction of answering present when the name of the nominee is called. ln- deed, Mir. Reed is only as yet possibil- ity-not a probability; but he is proba- bly more of a probability than IS MT. Mckinley. While the latter is making good deal of noise these days 1t is by no means certain he will be able to go into the convention with the prestige of even his own state behind him. He may be able to do this and he may not, much de- pending on the outcome of the fall elee-
 
 erner is elected, and if a republican leg islature passes the United States senator ship over to him of the diminutiye panta- looms, then may MT. Mckinley secure the support of the Ohio delegation to the na- tional convention. But there is many slip twixt the cup and the lip and it is by no means certain that the name of the next senator from Ohio will be Joseph Benson Foraker.
 As time goes on apace it becomes more and more apparent that MT. William Me Kinley will be a very illogical candidate for the republicans to place to the fore for the presidency. He still stakes his all upon protective tariff, and has not realized apparently, that the country has repudiated once and forever the house that Jack built" Wages that were reduced under the operation of the Me Kinley tariff are being advanced under the present tariff bill, and the toiler has had ocular demonstration of the fact that the bill of the Little Napoleon fos tered the manufacturer, but was rank poison to the wage earner. Ocular de- monstration is a great factor in preSi- dential campaign. as the republicans will discover if they nominate MT. Mckinley and go before the country with the old hypocritical wall, Protection to labor"
 Some of the prophets far from the field of action are beginning to note signs . of democratic success in Ohio. The claim is made that Foraker and Mckinley hate each other like poison, and that as. the tides of March" approach the friends of these leaders will in sheer desperation begin cutting each others throats.
 Mir. Foraker is master of the situation. He captured the state convention horse, foot and dragoon and the state ticket there created bears upon this label. He in fact was supreme dictator at that lit tie Ohio pow-wow. This was gall and wormwood to MT. Mckinley of course, INA.. alrD fall Axytd hn balm for the wound inflicted by declaring in the resolutions, We are in favor of Mckinley for the presidency" The latter gentleman is on such hot trail for the nomination that he neglects his duties as governor and Is so seldom at home that his subordi.saies probably nave to be reintroduced to him whenever he makes a periodical visit to the capitol Now, Mir. Mckinley doesn't care partic- ularly that his good friend, John Sher- man, should have Foraker as a colleague in the United States senate but he real izeS that he is the under dog in this fight, and that he will have to hold his forces in line for Foraker's state ticket and the legislature that Foraker counts upon to swing him into the senate or witness the maddening sight of Ohio voting in con- vention for some other man than William Mckinley. Unfortunately for the demo- cratS the election of the legislature and state ticket occurs in the fall. Mckinley is bound to deliver the goods in his pos session to the Foraker crowd almost a year in advance of any reciprocation that can be made by Foraker. If the McKin- ley republicans fail to vote for the repub- lican ticket then MT. McKinley's name is
 Dennis' so far as the nomination for the presidency is concerned.
 do not suppose Uncle John Sherman will sit up nights perspring for Foraker. Possibly no greater calamity could be- fall him than to have Little Breeches'' for his colleague. His dislike for Foraker dates back to the time when the latter, in his endeavor to defame the character of Governor Campbell, gave out for pub lica tion document purporting to con meet him with a dishonest transaction. Two or three metropolitan papers pub 1ished fac simile of the document in question, but left off all signatures but that of MT Campbell. The governor, with characteristic promptness, denounced the charge as libel and did not rest until he had run down the author of the docu- ment. When the facts came out and Mr. Foraker was compelled to give out the document in full. it was found that not only MT. Campbells signature had been forged, but those also of Mr. sherman and number of other prominent gentle men, whose standing was in itself enough 10 stamp the paper as forgery. MT. Floral ker was doubtless innocent of know ing1Y giving publicity to forged docu-
 
 orable political foe, but neither Mr. Camp bell nor MT. sherman will ever believe there was not colored gentleman in the wood pile from which MT. Foraker drew his campaign fuel. Therefore will it be a sad day for MT. sherman when he takes MT. Foraker by the arm and escorts him to the vice-president's desk to take the oath of office. Let us all hope he will escape this trying ordeal, for the senate is already top-heayy with statesmen of the Foraker style of architecture.
 Secretary Carlisle knew the Kentucky people 6, great deal better than did Sena- tor Blackburn, apparently. Kentucky declared forninst free silver notwith- standing the fact that Senator Stewart (whOse tongue wags silverward without the least provocation) spent a good deal of time and wasted a good deal of his inexhaustible breath in an endeavor to teach the Kentucky idea how to shoot. Wonder how the old man of the sea likes the volley that was fired in Kentucky on the 26th of June? It does not matter much, however, what the result may be so far as the feelings of the windy warbler from the west are concerned,