The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-04-13
REPUBLICAN FACTIONS IN OHIO.

kEPUBLlCAN FACTlONS In OHIO.
Writers for Republican papers
in this state occasionally break out
in impotent Indignation over state
ments that there is trouble In their
party. They appear to look upon
exposure of the true inwardness of
their politics as treason, and scold
dreadfully. They sing the old song
that there is harmony; that the
whole programme is laid out; that
everybody is for William McKin-
ley for President of the United
States, and for Joseph B. Foraker
for United States Senator; that all
the candidates for Governor are
for this combination; that nobody
objects, and that all people are en-
thusiastic for su h a union.
There are few journalists of the
Republican persuasion who prob.
ably believe such twaddle. Pos
sibly the Cleveland Leader places
full faith and confidence in it. Such
journals have not been advised as
to what is going on and are not
able to gather the facts which, are
made plain to other people from
the surrounding circumstances.
If the situation were one Of the
dregree of amity which our scold-
ing contemporaries say 1t is, there
could be no occasion for their dis
play of temper. There would be
such beatific state of affairs that
doubts would be gently "pooh-
hoohed" and not stormed at.
William Mckinley is not for
Foraker for Senator, and Joseph
Foraker is not for Mckinley for
President; and the respective fol-
lowings of these gentlemen are in
line with them. The Mckinley
Foraker combination was a cry for
campaign pur poses last year, and
it has lasted several months after
the election for the purpose of
screening schism.
Neither one of these leaders could
be for the other and maintain self
respect. The Ex-Governor has said
things about the Governor which
ought to preclude him from even
making the pretense of being for
the Little Napoleon now, and Ger.
tainly render him unreliable in
convention. We don't undertake
to arbitrate between these COM
batants. Mckinley did all he
could to put Foraker down when
when Mr.. Sher nan was last elect
ed the Senate, and Foraker bore a
heavy hand in making Mckinley
and his Ohio delegates ridiculous
at the last Republican National
Convention.
If there is plain sailing over a
smooth sea, and if there is no COM
bat over the proposition to put one
man in the White House and the
other in the Senate, why are the
lines drawn in war-like manner? +?
Why has the Mckinley faction a
ca ndidate for the nomination for
Governor, and why has the For
aker crowd Il different candidate :?
Why is the Governor so poverty
stricken in praise of the ex-Gov-
ernor? Who has heard Mckinley
say that he is for Foraker for any
thing? Who could deliver the in
f1uence Of Nash as Governor to
anybody but Mckinley man for
Senator?
Jot this down on the tablets of
your memory, brethern: McKin-
ley is going to capture the State
Convention If he can, and If he sue
ceeds he will have n candidate for
the Senatorsl'ip whose name will
not be Foraker. 1t may not be
Mckinley, either, but it will be a
man who, If he gains the election,
will throw the tremendous weight
of a Senator's influence toward the
unification Of Ohio for the Gov
ernor in the National Convention.
The knowledge Of this progra me
is not confined to one side of the
conflict. The faction which has its
headquarters In Cincinnati is not
blind or deaf or silly. 1t knows
what there ia to meet.
There is going to be a fight-one
that will be worth reading about.
The chaps who are singing the old
harmony song are out Of tune
Enquirer.
WHO MADE THE BILL.