Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-02
THE NOMINATIONS.


an convention nominated William Nc
Kinley for president on the first ballot.
as three months ago the World prophe-
sled it would. Mckinley is nominated
with a Shrek for protection, when the
country is already provided with q AZ
per cent. tariff-a rate one-Quarter
higher than the famous Morrill, war
tariff. He is proclaimed as the advance
agent of prosperity" ''McKinley's tri-
umph is democracy's opportunity" 50
said the World when his nomination be-
came certain. The saying is true to-
day. Nothing but the most open-eyed
laundering, the most fatuous folly by
the democrats at Chicago can deprive
them of a splendid chance to elect the
next president. Shall it be campaign
or suicide?-N. Y. World.
The republicans have nominated Nc
Kinley with unanimity not expressed for
any successful new candidate, with the
exception of Fremont. the first repub-
Hcan candidate, in 1856, and Grant, the
third, in 1868. They alone were NOM
mated for a first term on the first ball
lot. 1t is a shallow view which sup
poses that this extraordinary demon
stration has been a mere matter OF
the Elinutiae of convention politics.
An amiable. engaging. snowy, but
rather shifty commonplace like Nc
kinley often reaches public distinction,
but personality or individual achieve
ment hasn't drawn to him the SEN
timent which has made his nominal
ton possible with an irresistible ma
jority in the republican national con-
vention.-N. Y. Sun.
If Mckinley shall be elected presi-
dent his four years term of office will
present an example of misgovernment
without parallel in past history. 1t
will be a repetition on a larger scale
of his weak and corrupt state admins
tration in Ohio. 1t will be period of
IniSrule and of riot for all the schemes
and conspiracies by which the treasury
is robbed or by which the people are de-
frauded and oppressed. Popular insti-
buttons. a system of free governments
through pure ballot box will be test
ed to their utmost capacity. Under an
administration of McKinleyism the
traffic in duties and subsidies, in pat
ronage and spoils, will be a greater
strain than that of slavery in the past
on the conservative forces of honest re-
publican goyernment.-Chicago Chron-
icle.
Mckinley is nominated and the
republican party is before the
country. The nomination was secured
by a money campaign two years long.
The republican party bought, with the
cash put up by McKinley's investing
hackers. proposes to buy his election
with cash pledged by the financial in
-
What Mckinley and Hobart represent
consists of a few thousand owners OF
powerful, consolidated moneyed cor
porations in a few states on the Allan
tic seaboard. This is our tariff" said
a Philadelphia manufacturer in 1890;
1--WE bought and paid for it," 'This is
our ticket" the bankers and tariff bar
ons are saying of Mckinley and Ho-
bart; 1--WE have vouchers to show how
much it cost us.'-St. Louis Republic
The brilliant and decisive victory won
by the republican champions of gold
at ST. Louis should be at once warning
and an inspiration to true sound money
democrats. A few days before this Wa
terloo of silverism and straddle coward
ice would have seemed more like a
dream than a possible reality. There
publican managers, lacking the cour-
age to take q bold stand either for or
against sound money, would straddle
on that vital issue, as we'll as accept a
straddle candidate. But the gold re-
publicans arose, rallied, made a vigor-
Gus onslaught on silverism, cowardice
and duplicity, and triumphantly car
ried the day as far as the platform was
concerned.-N. Y. Herald Qnd.).
1t is noticeable that Mckinley was
not the choice of the great republican
states. The failure of these to agree
upon a candidate gave the democratic
States, which will send him no electoral
votes, an opportunity to force him
.Ipon them. The most eloquent sig
nificance of the situation is that his
candidacy will fail to arouse that
hearty enthusiasm in the republican
states which would have resulted had
they agreed upon and named a candi-
date of their own. 1t is a wonderful
spectacle to see the solid democratic
south thrusting down the threats Of
the northern and New England states
. candidate whose nomination the lat
ter fought so bitterly to defeat.-San
Francisco Examiner.
The nomination Of AfcKin1av Uas q