The herald., 1896-04-20
The Real Friends of Mckinley
Preparing for Battle
AN APPEAL NEARLY READY
Signed by q Large Number of Repre-.
sentative Republicans
cussd Of Using the Ohio Band Wagon to
Ride to Glory and Then Jump

DelilS uue 10 the dlleSeu snap Jud5iiCHl
believed to have been taken in the call
ing of the primaries and district con-
ventions of the party, which will take
place in about ten days or two weeks
Several conferences have already been
held by the leading supporters of Will
lam Mckinley, the object of which is
to map out plan of campaign to cap
ture for the Ohio man the delegates to
the Sacramento convention from this
congressional district. The objectors
to the Lindley- Sheldon primary insist
that both of these two astute leaders
want to ride into the coming national
convention from this end of the state
through Mckinley enthusiasm, both be-
ing at the same time engaged in Sc
cretly knitting the Napoleon of protec-
ton. The various local councils of the
American Protective association are,
1t is alleged, being used by Ex-Governor
Lionel A, Sheldon and through him, by
Hervey Lindley, to manufacture sem
timent against Mckinley. 1t is freely
predicted by both factions that McKin-
ley's candidacy, no matter what may
in the end be the result, will burst the
\. p. A here and elsewhere, as future
political faction, wide open.
The local council are awaiting with
GREATNESS suspense the result OF the
investigation now being made by
special committee of the national ad-
visory board into the Ohio mans past
religious affiliations Among the Sc
rious charges which have been made
against Mckinley are that brother
is married to Catholic wife. that the
Ohio mayors private secretary, James
Boyle, is q member of the Roman
church, and that the mayor himself
was at one time elected an honorary
member of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians. Chas. A. Day, who is one
of the state vice-presidents Of the "A.
P. A., and Mckinley supporter, does
not believe that the charges quoted
he thinks that some of the leaders in
the order here and elsewhere are like
" to have load dropped upon them,
from under which they will not be able
to crowl out. Hervey Lindley. 1t is
charged, although not himself mem
ber of the order, CONTROLS the political
destiny of each one of the nine local
councils, through Governor Shell
don, with whom he has just
defensive de alliance. sheldon's word
in the council has thus far. upon
political matters especially, proven
nearly a law.
sheldon, while insistin' that his per-
sonal ties in the past compel him to be
a Mckinley supporter, is objecting
most strenuously to going to st. Louis
instructed for the Ohio nah. This is the
system also being played by Hervey
Lindley himself. and by his various
ward lieutenants. presumably under his
instructions, and by the leaders of the
party generally throughout the state.
When Lindley is pinned down to hard
pan he confesses that his personal choice
for the presidency is William Allison,
because both are Iowans. When James
S. CIarkson was recently here, Lindley
informed him that the two were work.
inc q Iay
had parted, Clarlkson is said to have
been heard to remark to a bystander:
That fellow is for Tom Reed, because
the Southern Pacific railroad is for
Reed. and the combination is drawing
to the same hand" Clarkson. as far
seeing politician, has the reputation of
being able to see beyond his nose. and
the supposition is that he struck Hervey
Lindley's trail before his special car had
been tied up in the Santa Fe yards.
An address is now in the course of
preparation signed by over one hundred
OF the leading Republicans in town,
which viii urge all Republican voters
to cast their ballots at the coming pri-
maries only for such delegates to the
district convention as are known to be
Mckinley supporters first, last and all
the time. There are to be two sets of
tickets in every one of the assembly
districts in the city-the machine and
the opposition. Each will be labeled
Mckinley, the prediction being made
that the Lindley-Sheldon people will
carry their battle of mock sentiment
to the polls and beyond. The protest
referred to against the tactics of the
sham Mckinleyites is already out and
is being circulated for signatures. 1t
will contain the names of the leading
Republican business men, venders and
professional men in the community.
McKinley's real friends hereabouts
have done all within their power to
curb the proud spirit of their self-con-
stituted leader, Col. Harrison Gray Otis,
but all to no purpose. In the midst of
the agitation during last week as to
whether or not William Mckinley was
friendly TO the sentiments of the A. P.
A., Col. Otis launched forth against ad-
vice with the following editorial:
There have been vague rumors of
late, to the effect that the American
Protective Association would oppose
Maj. Mckinley. A recent dispatch
stated that 'Mr.Stevens and Mr.. Thomp-
son, of the national advisory board
were instructing all American Protec-
tive association members that they
must oppose Mckinley The alleged
reason of this alleged opposition is the
alleged fact that Mr.. Hanna, who is one
of those conducting Maj. McKinley's
campaign, neglected to appear before a
committee of the American Protective
the attitude of Maj. Mckinley toward
that organization.
Notwithstanding the vague rumors
above referred to. taken also in con-
junction with some few facts which
seem to bear them out in part, the
Times does not fully credit the state
ment that the American Protective as
sociation has committed itself to for
NAL opposition to Maj. McKinley's can
didacy. Such "a course would be the
sublimest folly for that organization.
Mai Mckinley is infinitely stronger
than the American Protective associa-
ton, and could far better afford to be
opposed by that order than the order
could afford to oppose him. The pres
ent situation will fully warrant the
statement that if the American Protec--
tive association enters upon formal
campaign against Maj. Mckinley, the
dissolution of the order will surely and
speedily follow.
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'If the American Protective Associa-
ton is antagonistic to Maj. Mckinley
creed Or cajo1ed into making pledges
citizen could make. Antagonism Of
this kind is high compliment to
the man against whom 1t is directed
1t is based upon the same ground as
the antagonism of Platt, Quay and
other would-be bosses who recognize
IN MAI. Mckinley a man of incorrupti-
bic integrity, and therefore q man who
cannot pc used as all instrument for
the furtherance of their schemes.
An attempt was made in the Ne
nraska state convention by American