Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-19
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WatersOn, editor of the Louisville
Courier Journal, who was prominently
urged for the nomination for the pres
ldency at the indianapolis convention
but whose name was formally with
drawn, has remained in this city since
the election. His views upon the re-
suit OF the national campaign just
closed have been furnished in the fol-
lowing revised interview:
The election of Mr. Mckinley" said
Mr.. Waterson to-day, is but the be-
ginning OF the end of the struggle,
which one way and another has been
going on in the United States for
twenty years. 1t began in the west and
south with a demand for fat money.
No sooner was the groenback party
diSpOced of than the free silver party
took its place. Other questions being
at the front, free silver was able to
commit to the new monetary delusiOn
many men who, except for their ig-
norance of this particular question,
could never have been reached and
who were sound to the core as TO the
national credit and a safe stable circu-
lating medium. Among these public
men was Mr.. Mckinley himself The
lCSders of the fat money movement
reinforced by the silver mine owners
finally made an incision into the Re
publican party and got possession Of
the machinery of the Democratic party.
This eliminated i'm the nomination
and defeat of Mr. Bryan. With that
defeat ends the free silver frenzy and
the danger Of a 16 to 1 kind. But the
elements of disorder it has called into
being and the agrariau issues it has
set into motion are left upon the scene
and we may be sure that these will
continue their assaults upon the life
of the nation and the integrity of the
people until they are swept ont of eX-
istence in 1900 Mr.. McKinley's elec-
tion settles nothing. 1t merely re-
moves fat money and deprecated sill
yer dollars from among the rocks
ahead"
Mr.. WatersOn was asked if the union
between the gold Democrats and the
Republicans could last and he replied:
81 do not see how it can. The differ
ences are too doctrinal and radical.
Mr.. Mckinley is an extreme protection
list. The sound money Democrats are
sincere revenue reformers. Certainly
craftsmanship is largely an affair of
compromises. But to be efectual' ana
beneficial the compromises must be
logical and just
Organism was simply mobism and
before such an issue whenever raised,
party distinctions must vanish from
the minds of patriotic men. But the
immediate danger over the original
Disbursements are bound to reappear.
But Mr.. WatersOn,' said the inter-
viewer. has not the Republican vic
tory been so overwhelming as TO carry
all before it,
For the time being, yes was the
reply. "The Republican party has had
in it's time great good fortune. 1t found
for itself a clever opportunity. But
it cannot rest its case upon the doe
trine of protection. Neither as policy
nor as a theory, nor as a keynote can
protectionism hold its own or stand
alone. It is at war with the genius
of American institutions 1t should he
no longer necessary. if it ever was truly
necessary to the American manufac-
tllrer. 1t is the father of paternalism,
and the Godfather of Populism. 1t is
the occasion of constant corruption in
Congress-. The manufacturers them
selves ought to lead the movement to
discard il. They could if they would.
have the question settled by statesmen
and save it from the hands of the mob.
On such a line all conservative men
could unite to rescue the people from
anarchism. But with Mr. Mckinley IN
the presidency. this seems impossible
and | confess ! dread to think of the
attempt 10 which he is committed to
bripl back the Mckinley duties under
the mere preteXt of supplying deficit
which is not likely to exist at the close
of the fiscal year.
what of the sectional spirit and
tendency"
Among a people so great in numbers
and occupying such a vast territorial
section. sectional distinctions, growing
out of conflicting local interests are in
evitable We had a North and a South.
Now we are beginning to hear of an
East and West He who knows the
whole country and is familiar with
the people from the Canada line to the
Mexican border and between the two
oceans. needs not to be told that to be
Judged by other nationalities, the po-
pular homogenity in America is little
short of amazing.
"But. the demagogue is always
around. and there is ever a chance to
stir ND strife between rival cOmmuni-
ties but he finds work to his hand, and
Darticularly to his mouth, it being with
him usually a hand to mouth affair
"a few resolute, sclf-confdent leaders
may as they often do, compel the reluc'
taut acuuiescence of timid, vacillating
majority: and thus whole communities are
driven like herds of cattle down the noun
rain side. they know not how or why, by
, sort of unconscious impulsion. I do not
believe that I'm 1S60-6 more than two OF
tho Southern States actually voted them
selves out of the Union; certainly the
states Of Virginia. North Carolina and
tennessee did not. and yet-such Is the
pressure and infection-the immene union
ma iorlty of February and March of the
latter wear were found i'm July, fighting
the battles of the Confederacy.
DO YOU apprehend the serious growth
Of the new secuouaiism which with TIE
death of the old sectionalism seems to be
struggling into life in American
IF human experience goes for anything
and is even to count for much, the world
ought to be wiser for the lessons it has
had am afraid, however, that organ