New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-19
WKINLEY AND HOBART.

The people have won at st. Louis.
William Mckinley has been nominated for
President of the United States because TO the
popular reason and imagination lie represents
more completely than any other citizen the
great Republican policy which made and kept
the country prosperous. Protection of Amcri-
can Industries amply justified by the opera
ton of the laws IN which it was embodied, but
the stupendous losses which have resulted from
the victory Of a party pledged TO destroy ii
were seemingly necessary TO establish an over
whelming and permanent conviction OF the
truth. The leaders of that minority Of voters
which still answers TO the name Of the Demo
cratic party have coined and employed the word
NcKinleyism to designate the sentiment which
has nominated the Republican candidate for
President We checrfully accept as an accu-
rate definition the term which they foolishly
mean as taunt. 1t is McKinleyism which was
triumphant at ST. Louis yesterday, and which
will be triumphant at the polls in November.
The success of an individual alone, however
popular and respected. would have been now.
as 1t has been before, comparatively insig-
nificant event 1t Is a cause for profound
qualification and renewed confidence in the sta
bility Of our institutions that the Republican
Convention, avowcdly and Of universal knowl-
edge, proclaimed a creed in choosing IL can
didate, and that the man whom circumstances
have made the chief exponent Of that creed Is
in all respects SO admirably qualified for the
Presidential Office 1t Is conceivable that the
determination Of the Republican party, and, as
we are compelled to believe, of the American
people, to render an irreversiblc verdict against
the economic fallacies which have caused uni
versai disaster during the last three years. might
have led to the nomination Of n not wholly sat
isfactory candidate, if the course Of events had
identified such a candidate more completely
than any other with the policy Of Protection.
In the choice Of Major Mckinley the party
recognizes with pride and gratitude the happy
reverse of that possibility
Doubtless the extraordinary triumph Of the
nominee over all his competitors tcstifes to the
zeal and skill Of those by whom the preliminary
campaign in his behalf has lecn conducted, and
especially of the able and farseeing man who
has chiefly borne the burden Of responsibility.
But no one realizes more fully than Mr.. Hanna,
or has more frankly declared that lac has been
successful only because an overwhelming ma
jority Of Republicans were resolved from the
first TO nominate Mckinley. II is no disparase-
ment of his powers of organization, but rather
proclamation Of his sagacity. to say that he
has followed public opinion closely that he
has seemed to lead II. As the experience Of
many eminent Republicans, long honored and
trusted in their own States, has conclusvely
proved. the people took the choice of nom
inee out of the hands of the politicians this
year. and the Convention has merely given for
NAL expression TO their will.
That is at once the most impressive and the
most encouraging fact Of the political situa-
3 ina Inn, LIANT .rf.. ~
trcksters in New-York, who cannot harm the
party though possibly they may contrive TO
reach a still lower level Of self endorsement, and
by coalition of financial heretics, who may
find that they have taken themselves alone
and not their States out OF the Republican
Union. the nomination Of Mckinley will be
caDdidly and cordially recognized as the com
pletest illustration of the principle Of popular
! government which this generation has seen.
| There are no resentments to cause anxiety, and
| the enthusiasm which sometimes has to be Ia
| boriousy created will this year spring spon-
! taneously from the triumph Of National senti-
ment.
If at any time there has been more than n
semblance of danger that the ticket would be
intudiciously completed. it disappeared before
| the first rolcall. The leader Of ruined fac
ton burned to display a remnant of his former
power by bringing about nomination for Vice
President which was sure to cause disappolnt
ment and doubt, but he was compelled to aban
don his sinister purpose. The Convention with
great unanmty Of feeling and with conspic-
uous wisdom chose for the second place the
candidate for that honor whose nomination was
most certain to add positive elements of
strength to the Republican forces Of the East
and made the ticket Mckinley and Hobart
The work done yesterday at St Louis is worthy
of the victory with which it will be crowned
In November