Evening journal., 1896-06-16
TIE mcKInIey DsIugs.

liam Mckinley OF Ohio Tor the presidency
OF the United States by the Republican
National Convention which convened In
st. Louis to-day Is now 3 foregone con-
cluslon. His personal popularity with |
his party has overcome ell the mAchina.
items Of his political enemies, and he |
stands 90 day the foremost Republican |
in the United States. His support in the
convention Is phenomenal aud over
whelmiDR, and he and the able men |
whom he has gathered about him nre In |
supreme control and those men like
Platt, Q lay aud Addlcks, who sought TO |
be the dictators find themselves suppl
cants at the feet Of the man whose defeat
they sought to encompass.
The bosses who have heretofore made
and unmade presidents find Themselves
helpless and unable to battle against the
resistlsss tide of McKlnleyism which hiss
swept from all parts OF the country and
csntsred in st. Louis The high tariff
advocate Of Canton has become by will of
his party the boss Of all bosses and the
idol OF Republicans ths country over
In the midst OF all this Republican
jubIlation It is cheering to the Democrats
to note that the seating and unaeating OF
delegates has made some of the states
which would otherwise have gone Re-
publican sssuredly Dsmocratic.
Even New York may be lost TO Nc
Kinley by the cverbearinE attitude that
his managers assumed toward Boss
Platt, that astuto Republican leader Of
the Empire state. la the fuBh Of
victory accompanying the overwhelming
certainty Of securing the nomination. the
Mckinley men appear to have lost sight
os the fact that It Is one thing to secure
the nomination and another thing to
secure the election. II is dangerous for
any Republican asplrant for presidential
honors to trhs with a man like Plstt
who holds thirty ak electoral votes in
his hand and can throw them in any
direction that he desires. The more
conservative Republican leaders OF the
Mckinley faith realizs this and have
endsRvored to get Mark Hanna to grant
the concessions demanded by Plstt and
accord to him the recognition that
his position In national politics demands.
but thus far he has only in part accsded
60 their request and the arbiter Of th'
fate Of the Republican parry in the mos
important state in the union Is stil
sulking in his tent and nursing th'
remnant Of that Morton boom which wal
to have been the political making Of that
trio OF political WORTHLESS Plat, Quay
and Addlcks
Qlay and Addieks have now deserted
Platt and are endeAvoring to ineratrat
themselves into the good grAeos OF Nc
Klnlsy, but It is not such an easy matter
Addicks Is especially discouraged, for
believed that he had assurances whic
justified the expectation that the NatIOr
al Committee would plscs him aud hi
colleagues on the roll. whereas It dl
Just the thing which the Gas King leAl
dsaired-thrsw the fsht to the commltts
on credentials, whenos It will be csrris
to the 4 oor Of the convention with ever
prospect OF the regular Republican
being seated or both delegations keI
out
Should the regular Republican deleg
tion be seated 1t will DO q terrible bio
TO Addlcksism In Delaware, for it wou
be equivalent to declaration on the pa
Of the Republican party OF the nati'
that Addlcks is not a Republican aud th
It repudlatss him and his following
Such declaration would be nectar
the regular Republicans but worm-wo'
aud gall to the Addick sites and thi
leader, and the Longest knife they cou
devise would not be snfislsnt to graft
their hate tow .rd Mckinley at the &c
eral election this Fall.
Nor would the hate and the knife
restricted to tho head OF the ticket
would extend to every state and cour
candidate placed In nomination nut
the auspices Of ex-senator Hlggi
Washington Hastings, General James
Wilson and the other Dslawaresns '
have repudistsd him In Delaware .
made such an effective fight to secure
population by the National Convent
81 st. Louis.
Ops great mistake that Addicks N
WAS In not having his delegates
structsd for Mckinley. he placed
much faith In the political Hstutenes
Plstt 5ad Quay and gave too little b
TO she strong Mckinley sentiment
Delaware and throughout the coun
The regular Republicans wsrs quic'
take advsntage Of his blunder. 7
bound their delegates with an iron
Mckinley pledge and tksn sent % v