Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-13
NJ KIN LEY'S BOOM
It Seems to Have Been Quite in Evi-
dence Recently.
FORAKER OUTSpOKEN In His SUPPORT
How He is Regarded in the South
ern States.
TARIFF ON PROTECTION LINES

The Mckinley boom has been little
more in evidence the past ten days than
that of any other republican aspirant for
the presidency. Comment heard is all Of
a respectful character Gov. Mckinley, it
Is observed, Is a man of such excellent
pose and thorough good taste. that even
in a spirited contest for political suprem-
acy he carries himself attractively, and
wins the regard Of those who lean to the
fortunes of other candidates.
Foraker Supports Him.
At present Mckinley stock is thought to
be looking up. The Mckinley people de-
clare that the distinct understanding ar
rived at with Foraker has had good eff
feet everywhere. In Ohio it has served to
harmonize all of the warning factions and
concentrate the efforts to capture the prize
for the buckeye candidate. Gov. Foraker
himself Is now an outspoken advocate Of
McKinleys nomination, and In New York
the other day outlined Indirectly the plat
form to which he thought his party was
committed. He mentioned particularly
that the tariff should be revised on pro-
lection lines, and this has been construed
spoke by the card. therefore, the New
England republicans. headed by Senator's
Aldrich and Lodge, who are insisting that
the tariff in all of it's leading features shall
be permitted to have a long rest are likely
to find their position assailed by their
brethren from the Mckinley stronghoids.
The tariff as 1t stands today Is, 1t is claim
ed, protest against Mckinley rates, ana
while the cuts made were in no instance
heavy, they were all regulated by a de-
clared purpose to free the schedules as Tar
as possible of Mckinley prices and protec-
tion.
Mckinley in Georgia.
And while Governor Foraker is talking
and aff roOff Inc
attention by his utterances Governor Nc
Kinley is in Georgia on a visit, and meet
ing with many evidences of personal appre-
citation. He has been cordially received in
Atlanta, and will spend a week at Thomas
vile, a popular health resort. He cannot,
while there, escape the discussion of poll
tics, and he is in the very quarter where
the question of protection Is of greatest
interest at the present time. He may even
meet the Massachusetts assemblymen who
are down there investigating the methods
of cotton manufacturing in the south.
Governor Mckinley, 1t is suggested, advo-
Gates but one kind of protection, and that
is high protection. He still stands by the
schedules of the Mckinley bill, and be-
leves that they ought never to have been
1t been permitted to remain on the stat
ute books, would have justified itself, and
the the.,nsI business Of the country would have
means that with the power given him he
would re-enact that law Is a question 1t
Is certain that he looks upon the present
law as unwise and injurious to business,
but he has not outlined as yet the
changes he thinks ought to be made
He Leads I'm the South.
Some leading southern newspapers, after
sounding sentiment on the subject declare
that Gov. Mckinley, so far, leads his re-
publican rivals in the favor of his party in
that section. His strength is represented
as two-fold. In the first place. he is the
great apostle of protection who ENCOURAGED
southern manufacturers with high rates
on their products and who paid the Lousi-
ana sugar planters a most remunerative
bounty on their sugar crop. And, In the
second place, his personal address Is most
agreeable to them. The prediction is made
by his most enthusiastic boomers that he
will have more southern delegates at the
national convention than either Reed or
Harrison, and that these coupled with the
strength he will develop in the west and
middle states, will give him the nomination
on the first ballot. Nor has he, according
to his friends, abandoned the east to Reed.
He will be heard in that section on several
occasions and In several states before the
time for choosing national delegates, and
this campaign will open with an address
from him on Memorial day at Grants tomb
on the Hudson.
Tariff Cannot BE Eliminated.
The friends of Gov. Mckinley cannot be
brought to understand how the tariff can
be eliminated from the next campaign.
The republican party, they insist, must
stand to its guns on every question. 1t is
the party Of protection, they say, or it is
nothing. 1t fought the Wilson bill from
start to finish, upon the allegation, thou
sand times repeated, that the measure was
a blow at American Industries and design
ed to destroy the American market for
those Industries. The measure, notwith-
standing, was adopted, and is now in oper-
alton. Clearly, therefore, the Mckinley
people assert, 1t must either be thoroughly
revised on protection lines, or else If the
bill is left to stand without attack. even
from a republican Congress, the party will
be put in the attitude of having fought
sham tariff battle in the last Congress.
Protection, and Mckinley protection at
that, seems to be the cry with which the
followers of the buckeye statesman are
going into the campaign to secure his nomi-