St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-13
MCkINLEYITEs AGGRESSIVE.

The Mckinley boom is breaking out
all over the country. Some weeks
ago the Globe announced the evil
dent drift of public opinion in
the Republican party toward Nc
Kinley. 1t was clear then that the
great mass of Republicans in most Of
the states regarded him as their logical
candidate. The party stands today for
nothing except ultra high tariff. Mr..
Mckinley has no public views aside
from his identification with ultra high
tariff According to the axiom that
things which are equal to the same
thing are equal to each other, he
should be the party's candidate. With
the growth and deepening of this feel
ing, we find the Mckinley movement
springing into new life in unexpected
places. Mr.. Allison gathered in the
Iowa delegation just in time. If the
state convention had been postponed
another month, Mckinley would have
had half the delegates enticed away
from him. They are electing McKin-
ley delegates in New York and Indiana
and Illinois, under the very noses Of
rival candidates for the nomination. A
concerted effort is on foot to carry
Minnesota for Mckinley, and the meet
ing at Crookston and developments in
the other districts show that this is
not a sporadic outbreak, but part Of a
well-matured plan.
What means this sudden aggressive
ness of the Mckinley faction? Why
have they abandoned the ordinary plan
of campaign, the one said to be ap-
proved by Mckinley himself of a
friendly division of territory and dele
gates, on the understanding that he
would be the second choice of all the
states having favorite sons after they
had given their dark horses a compli-
mentary vote or two? This activity in
assault is to be explained on the same
basis as the election of Mckinley dele
gates generally throughout the South
1t is to be referred to the abundance of
the sinews of war. 1t is plain to the
naked eye that the great moneyed in
terests of this country have set out to
capture this government and use the
forces of legislation for their own pc
cuniary benefit for four years to come
That is the assault that is being car
ried on all along the line against the
interests of the people, under the BAN
ner Of mckinley and protection"
With the manufacturers, politics is a
pure matter of business They want
the extra profit which a high tariff
promises to wiring from the con-
sumers of this country. They believe
that the time has come when they can
get it. They recognize Mckinley as
their man. No doubt any other Repub-
lican, if elected as president, would
sign almost any tariff bill that might
be presented to him, put together as the
Mckinley act was, by dumping into an
act all the different rates of duties
which the several manufacturing
interests had agreed upon as sat
isfactory to themselves. But these
gentlemen are not going to take
anything on trust. Mckinley and
all his works they know. Moreover,
it is not only the president, but con-
gress that they have to deal with. Mr..
Reed or Mr.. Allison, or any other Re-
publican nominee, might be trusted to
sign high tariff BILL but a congress
that should be elected at the same time
that Mr.. Mckinley should be running
would be committed, by the mere fact
of his candidacy, to the passage of a
bill levying duties not less than
those imposed by the act which bears
his name.
1t is the programme of the great
corporations that profit by high tar
ifs to leave no loose ends, but to
force the nomination of William Nc
Kinley, and to impose upon the country
such legislation as meets the amplitude
of their wishes by that act. They are