The herald., 1896-11-03
THE REPUBLICAN REVOLT
Why the Friends of Silver Left
the Party
FRIENDLY TO hi'KlNLEY
But Could Not Stand Ills Present Owner,
Mark Hanna
Wyllys Abbot, Formerly of Ohio, But
Now of Los Angeles, Gives His
Views On the Subject

The San Francisco Examiner began it's
long list of interviews with Republic
ans of the far west in earnest revolt
against the financial policy of their
party" published by it since last J,Hy,
with one by Wyllys Abbot now of LOS
Angeles entitled: This Country Is Big
and Rich and Can Force the Silver Dol
lar in Any Market. The Examiner re-
ferred to Mr. Abbot as a practical bus
mess man, a scholar and student of
current issues, whose connection with
the leading economic magazines of the
country gives unusual weight to his
views upon the present political sit
uation. MIR. Abbot has made number
of speeches in Los Angeles city and
county and elsewhere in Southern Cal
iforna the past month He says:
Two years ago l was in Boston. con-
nected with the Arena in business ca
pacity An article came signed by
William j. Bryan which was a severe
endorsed now by Mckinley. 1t was
published in the February number of
! the Arena, 1895. and again VI J1iy of
this year. l asked at that time of Mr..
Flower, the editor of the Arena. his con-
fdential opinion of the political situa-
tiCH. I1c sSilu tHdl III tne next pTeSl-
dental campaign there would be a land
slide of the people against the corpora
tion corruption and the encroachments
of plutocracy, and that that man (Mr.
BryaD would be heard from. This
sounds like prophecy now. I am Re-
publican. but ! am not an acrobat.
like to talk, especially to Republicans.
Sixteen years ago in June, 1880, left
home and college in Ohio. my native
state, with a letter of Identification
written by the late Moses Welker, L. j..
D., United States judge at Cleveland
1t certified from personal acquaintance
to my good moral character, industry
etc. 1t bore the endorsements of num-
erous neighbors and among others was
this one: Il heartily concur William
Mckinley, jr, NJ. c. Sixteenth Ohio dis
trict''
Major Mckinley and my elder brother,
Howard S. Abbot Populist candidate
for superior judge at Seattle in 1892, had
peen friends and comrades in the war.
AT his own suggestion the major Of
'fered to try personally at Wash
ington to have me appointed ex-
aminer in the United States pat
ent office. L did not get that ap-
rointment then, nor any other since, bu:
| have always felt grateful to Major
Mckinley for his voluntary offer ami
kind efforts in my behalf
[ fully expected to vote for him until
l read the platform upon which he
stands. 1t does not represent him, AMI
his record contradicts it. l am sorry
for him in his present predicament, mort
gagged for twelve times his possessions
to a heartless money shark representiny
what lie does not believe and believing
what he does not represent Like thous-
ands of Ohio Republicans, who would
never tire of voting for him as he was,
J. cannot consistently vote for him as he
is.
No one is better known or worse hated
throughout Ohio than Hanna, McKin-
lcy's mortgagor and political master. His
brutal wreck Of the Seamens union, mis-
bloody war against the coal miners, his
utter ruin of old John Ellsler and others
like him, and a continued career of COM
mercial cruelty, have destroyed the hap
piness of more thousands of homes in
Ohio than any one human agency be-
tween Marietta and Cleveland, Bellare
and the Indiana line. No reports nor
statistics in advance of election returns
can convince me that a majority of the
moral people of Ohio, populated by Puri-
tan descendants. can be bought to vote
for Hanna's hired man. McKinleys
connection with him has hurt him in
Ohio and lost him hundreds and thous-
ands of votes. His Irritation with the
jaundiced damsel may cost him his JOB
; in spite of his yellow label.
Ohio people, familiar with Major Nc
Kinley's features, have seen in him a
marked change Of physical face, con-
temporaneous with his Mark Hanna
change of political base His sunny,
fair, round and open face of former
times has taken on the anxious, haggard,
stem-wound expression of his present
portraits.
They pity him in his desperate posi-
ton. They can feel for him but they
cannot reach him. They are resigned to
the defeat of their former favorite as
was the Dutchman to his death, "be-
cause, py Gracious, he had to BEL"
l have stood upon Republican plat
forms all my life. 1 have had to stand
upon one leg part of the time, but have
staid there until, with one foot lifted
from the proven fallacy of high pro-
tective plank, and the other unable to
plant itself upon the grosser class leg
islation of the gold plank, found myself
and my party trying to stand where
Rome stood when she was falling.
In six thousand years man has not
produced or discovered one single new
domestic animal, nor one new cereal
save maize, and that is but partially
wrtaenAxA In all that time we have used