The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-04
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Harper's Weekly Doesn't want mckinley
to be President.
New York. April 3.-Harper's Weekly
has the following editorial attack on
Mckinley:
''The author of the Mckinley bill is an
amisble man, with a pleasing manner
of speech, but of all men who in the last
twenty years have risen to leadership
in the house of representatives We know
of no one, with the exception of Mr..
Springer whose leadership was nominal
and not real, with less capacity for the
post either in character or intellect.
During his chairma nship of the ways
and means committee he was the tool
and servant Of the protected manufac
turers. It was to do their bidding that
he was placed a the head of the COM
mfttee that is theoretically charged with
the duty of preparing measurers for
raising revenues for the support of the
government. He carried out the pur-
pose and intent of his selection.
He became the nominal author of a
measure of which its beneficiaries were
the real authors. 1t was not a measure
for supplying the government with the
ways and means for its maintenance;
ii was a measure for incre asing the pro-
fits of a. favored few at the expense of
the overtaxed many. The country ex-
pressed its opinion of Mr.. McKinley's
effort at the election Immediately fol-
lowing the enactment of the law by
choosing a large Democratic majority
10 the house of representatives. Mr..
Mckinley himself was defeated, and il
was because of his martyrdom that a
sympathetic party nominated him for
governor of Ohio.
'"This election to the governorship was
MI a c G.
toned by the loss of his seat in congress
so that there is no reason for his NOM
ination for the presidency except that
which led TO his appointment as chair
man Of the ways and means committee.
That reason is, as We have already ex-
planned that Mr.. Mckinley will do what
ever Is commanded by the men who in
sist on having the right to tax the peo-
pie of the United States for their own
profit.
In other words, he is the chief of the
sect Of extreme protectionists who be-
lieve that all Americans ought to pay
high prices for the necessities of life in
order that a few Americans may gain
riches by manufacturing them, and that
to this end it is right and constitutional
10 levy taxes directly for the benefit Of
private citizens, making the public rev.
enue a secondary or incidental consid-
GRAFTON.
He is the chief politician of this sect
not because he is a great economist
he has not even an ordinary acQuain-
lance with the Subject-not because he
originates ideas, or on his own initiative
develops and stimulates protective leg
islation, but simply and solely because
he is willing to take orders from certain
manufacturers who know what they
want and who are willing 10 pay large
sums of money TO secure a political
agent who viii turn over 10 them the
taxing power, TO do with it as they will.
lit is not to be wondered at, then,
that the Republican opponents of Mr..
Mckinley are making charges touching
his virtue of the men who are conduct
ing his campaign They are saying that
rich manufacturers have been corrupt
ing the primaries throughout the coun-
try, and that Delegates have been pur-
chased. However that may be. II is
clear that a. public man must gain
reputation that units him for the pres
idency If ne is the servant of those who
are interested in government only as 1t
inureS to their peCuniary profit.
Whether Mr.. Mckinley's strength in
the convention has or has not been pro-
cured by the corrupt use OF money;
whether, il Il has been, he is or is not
a party to the corruption, he is the can
didate of those vino want TO divert the
government from its constitutional
function of promoting the general vel
fare that its chief power may be used
for their own selfish purposes. And il
is because Mr. Mckinley has already
permitted himself to be employed as the
agent Of such men, and is presumably
willing TO be 50 employed again. that
the extreme proteCtionists show such
anxiety 20 bring about hrs nomination
that prominent men Of their own party
are led to accuse them of employing cor
rupt means 10 accomplish their end