Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-21
M.kInLEy NOT WANTED.

Mckinley NOT WANTED.
Western People Are Not In Ksvor q Hlsh
Profession.
From several sources comes intclii-
gence OF combinations among rcpub-
lican leaders to prevent the nominal
ton Of Mckinley. Quay, of Pennsyf
wanna, is in this deal, and presumably
the head of it. He is apt to assume
the leadership in matters of this sort,
or, indeed, in any case where it is pos
sible. Platt is the ..me too" in the COM
bine. Now it is affirmed that John
r. Tanner, who aspires to be boss of Illi-
nois, is not only in the combination,
but that he went into it with the assent
of the republican managers of the
state.
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois
will have 70, Ga and 4s delegates respect
lively in the next republican national
convention, in all 1874. OF course they
cannot do anything by themselves,
but they would form a fine nucleus
for others to gather around. They
might hold the balance of power in all
important discussions. The transfer
of their votes on a ballot might easily
compass the nomination of one of the
contestants.
Mr.. Quay, for reasons of his own,
is hostile to Mckinley. Why he is SO ~
not well understood. Plat declares
himself for Morton, but the general
opinion in republican circles is that Mr..
Morton's age will take him out of the
list of real contestants. 1t is believed
that Quay and Platt are both looking
to Reed, though this is guesswork.
As to Tanner, it is questionable wheth-
er he would undertake to turn the state
of Illinois over to Reed, but this does
not prevent him from working against
Mckinley. The reason for his opposi
ton to the Ohio man may be inferred
from what he said in an interview
nearly year ago:
1.-THE republican party has won a great VIC
tory because the people are again willing &c
trust it with leadership The party was de-
feated in 1892 because it had committed itself
to the folly OF McKinleyism. The people OF
Illinois and OF the western states generally do
not believe in the high protection advocated
by republicans of the Mckinley school II
the party leaders take a conservative position
on the tariff question In 1895 the republican
ticket will be elected II, on the other hand.
the party should make the mistake of pledgine
itself to a revival OF McKinleyism its candi-
dates will be defeated"
Mr.. Tanner not only takes ground
against Mckinley, but he is disposed to
ignore the pretensions of Shelby NJ.
Cullom. He does not like the idea of
throwing away the influence of his
state in advocating the cause of mere
~ nominal candidate who is certain TO
drop out before the decisive ballot. In
doing this, however, h antagonizes all
of Cullom's friends, and exposes HIM
self to the danger of being beaten by q
combination of the supporters of Gull
lom and Mckinley. So for the present
the position of Illinois in the anti-Mc-
kinley combination may be treated as
doubtful.
1t is well to bear in mind that good
many things are certain to happen be-
tween this date and the meeting of the
republican national convention, SO that
combinations made now are likely to be
confronted with very unexpected condi-
tons. In little more than a month
republican house is to meet, and it will,
undertake to formulate some
legislation to supply the deficit in the
revenue that was caused by the judicial
defeat of the income tax. There are
known to be many republicans who are
anxious to use this pretext to reopen
the whole tariff question and to formu-
late bill on Mckinley lines for the
president to veto. Should the party
commit ;tSaf fhrouOh its ronrosepfa-
tives in congress to policy of this sort,
it would render it somewhat awkward
to reject Mckinley on the grounds mem
toned by Tanner. Indeed, If new
tariff fight should be inaugurated dur
ing the coming winter, it is difficult to
sec how it could fail to give Mckinley
considerable prestige in his own party.
Mr.. Reed, however, who will be speaker,
will have direct personal interest in
preventing this, and it may be in his
power by the makeup of committees
and the exercise of his authority to
head it off.
ject to the nomination of Mckinley, for
it will be impossible in the campaign to
his candidate from Mckinley
ism. They have especially to congratu-
late themselves that the time is near at
hand when the republicans will have
to abandon the policy of negation. and
commit themselves to some definite line
of action. In doing this they will speed
lily develop the rivalries and antagon-
isms among themselves, and manufac-
ture a good deal of campaign material
for their OppouenfS-In ,IiSyille (.our