The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-03
THE CUISINES MANS CANDI.
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| BILE position of one of the greatest coun-
| tries in the world. Its occupant is not
like the queen of England. merely the
nominal head of the government, but
| the actual, potential head. The plan of
| our government imposes upon him
| participation in the details of govern
ment many times greater than that of
| any other president, or of any king or
emperor In a variety of ways, quietly
and insidiously, and in the name of pat
riotism, he may, for the benefit of him
| self and a chosen few, rob the masses,
wreck the republics credit, and per-
vert Just and necessary powers of gov
eminent into instrumentalities of ty-
ranny and destruction. In addition to
executive powers, manda tory and dis
cretionary, he is, through the right to
exercise the veto, endowed with legis-
lative power equal to that possessed by
one third the membership of the SEN
ate and house of representatives. And
through the skillful and interruptions
use of the official patronage at his dis
posal, he may compel the initiation,
consideration and adoption of legisla-
ton detrimental to the best interests of
of the United States is an exalted po-
sition of extraordinary power for good
or evil, and it should be only filled by a
man of high mind, broad vision, indie
pendence of character, unfettered by OBJ
legations. untrammeled by pledges.
William Mckinley does not fiji the
ideal just suggested. If he is a man of
high mind and broad vision nobody out
side of small coterie OF processing ad-
mirers has made the discovery. Like a
piece of driftwood he has floated on the
tide of political circumstances into pub
lie prominence. But for the necessity
of placing at the head of the house ways
and means committee in 1890 man of
narrow observation and so welded to
the theory of protectionism that anything
branded protection" would pass muster
with him, Mckinley would today be
enjoying no greater place in the popu-
lar eye than any other of the mediocre
congressman who served with him. And
his most conspicuous achievement on
that committee was to give to the tariff
bill 1t reported a name. The authorship
of the bill belongs to the clerks who
wrote out the lists of articles It con-
tanned and the agents of the interests
it protected who filled in the amount of
the duties to be imposed on the articles
named. If Mr.. Mckinley has any
kkppoyW.ledge of, or deep interest in, sub
Upon the multitude of other matters
that are of public Importance and with
which, in greater or lesser degree.
president is liable to be called to deal,
Major Mckinley has not shed the light
of his wisdom to any noticeable extent
Even on the financial issue, which is of
such transcendent interest that parti-
san aiignments are being shifted as
never before In the history of the coun-
try, unless the period preceding the
outbreak of the civil war be excepted.
Major Mckinley does not seem to be
able to give out an opinion that will
convey with clearness and certainty
Just what he thinks, or thet Will show
whether he thinks at all about the mat
ter. With dignified pose and impressive
manner, he has talked about an honest
dollar" an ''untarnished dollar" as
though we had them made of brass, and
full dollar" and about the mainte-
nance of our dollars at parity, but
lust what an honest dollar" an "un-
furnished dollar" or a full dollar
is, or by what method he would main
tain our dollars at a parity, he has failed
most persistently to explain. 1t is plain
that as far as finance in concerned Ma
ior Mckinley is either an ignoramus
or a cowardly trickster. He is to be
! known alone by his Identification with
| the cause of legalized robbery known as
protection; not as tariff builder even
| but as a tariff exponent. Nothing vii
ever fit him better than The Herald:
| designa tion-William of-the-tariff.
The personal Independence so essen
TALLY a qualification in president Nc
Kinley is conspicuously deficient in. H
has been called the "mortgaged candi
date" not by slandering Democratic
stump speakers and editors, but by SOM
of his own distinguished political broth
rem. And he has been called such will
good reason. He is the property of {
| syndicate composed of Marcus A. Han
ma. H. H. Kohlsaat and Myron T. Her
rick He became the property of thes
gentlemen by virtue OF his financial re
demption by them when it was foun
that his private assets, valued at $lO,OO'
were totally insufficient to liquidat
s11S, 900 of indebtedness incurred throug
the Endorsement, while he was COVER
nor of Ohio, of promissory notes to tina
| amount. Think of the governor of Obi
guaranteeing $11S,O of notes on $1,000
worth of assets. Estimate, if you cal
the absurdity of ell individual posin
as business mans" candidate fc
the head Of the greatest business inst
tuition on earth, the United States GOV
ernment, with a record of promisin
to pay in the event of another's defau
a sum aggregating more than eleve
times his entire private fortune! Wh'
would a reputable commercial agenc
call such a record? What kind of stanC
r ing would such record give Major NJ
f | Kinley in commercial life? In what r.
speet does it fit him to be "busine
| mans" candidate?
Messrs. Hanna, Kohlsaat and HerriC
paid the debt of $11S,000. and made Nj
y jor Mckinley free--from the credito
j represented by that amount. Messl
Hanna, Kohlsaat and Herrick have bee
$ and will continue to be Major Ncki
S ley's managers during his campaig
|, | They will be his managers during /
u } administration. if he should be electe
n | They did not pay out $11S00 for the II
d of the thing-they have no reputatio
r as philanthropists. They paid out t
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