The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-07-02
M.kINLEY FOR PRESIDENT.
Opinions of tho Republican Press ON the
Nomination.

INOHuA00GAO0s
The nomination Of William Mckinley
for president by the votes Of more than
two-thirds of the members Of the re-
publican national convention was SIM
ply formal ratification of choice al
ready made by the people. There can
be no question about the fact that he Ii
the preference of q large majority Of
the republican voters Of the country.
The sentiment in his favor extends all
over the country and among all classes
Of citizens. II has not been manufac-
tured by the familiar processes of polit-
tcal manipulation, but has been . spon-
taneous growth. rejecting q general
tendency of opinion and desire. More
over, and more significantly. it repre-
sents a feeling of perfect popular faith
In distinguished party leader, . man
whose ability has stood the severest
tests and whose personal character is
entirely clean and admirable. There is
nothing hidden or uncertain about him.
His record is part of the history OF the
country, his life is an open book for oil
men to read. The people know him
thoroughly, and have said in an em-
phatic way that they want him for their
president. In selecting Garret A. Ho-
bart as a candidate for vice president,
the convention made a.judieious and
satisfactory choice. He is q man of
fine ability, unquestioned integrity and
long experience in politics. His name
will be worth many thousands OF votes
to the party in New Jersey and other
eastern states, and the more the country
learns about him the better it will like
him. With such ticket, there will
thusiasm.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The St. Louis nominee will be elected.
The people who made Mckinley their
candidate will make him also president.
The states will vie with each other in
rolling up Mckinley majorities. Fortu-
mute in his friends, he is fortunate also
in his enemies. With him are the wage
earners, the property owners. the home
lovers, the patriotic, the industrious.
the God-fearing masses. Arrayed
against him are the already baffled free
traders, the debt dodgers, the advocates
of a debased currency, the cranks, the
socialists, the anarchists, the foes OF
law and order and the demagogues and
their dupes. Party lines will cut q
very small figure in this contest. DEM
ocrats as well as republicans recognize
that in Mckinley lies the country's
hope Of return to honest methods, a
full treasury, national debt and re-
vival of prosperity. There will be as
little difficulty in electing Mckinley
and Hobart as there was in nominating
them.-Chicago Times-Herald.
The election of William Mckinley
will mean infinitely more than the ele-
vation to the presidential chair of an
American citizen who will adorn the
highest office within the gift Of his
fellow citizens. It means that the doc
trine of protection to American indus
try and American labor will become the
established policy of the government;
it means that our financial system shall
not be experimental with or over
thrown; it means that the prosperity
enjoyed in the days Of the Mckinley bin
will be restored to all the people of the
United States when the republican
party is returned to power under the
leadership of William Mckinley
Springfield Qll.) Journal.
Mai. Mckinley is not only the logical
but the ideal candidate. His high char
acter, his fine public spirit, his record
in congress and as governor, and the
purity Of his private and official life
make him a platform of himself. He
stands for the best there is in the repub-
lican party, and for the best aspirations
of American manhood and citizenship.
The nomination for vice president went
to Hon. Garret A. Hobart as much be-
cause he was presented by New Jersey
as because he is one of the stanchest re-
publicans and one of the best equipped
public men of the Middle East--Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
William Mckinley is distinctively
man of the people. In putting him at
the head of it's ticket the party OF
Abraham Lincoln has acted coura-
geously and consistently. Garret A.
Hobart, of New Jersey, is forceful
and clever statesman, as thoroughly
identified with protection as Maj. Nc
Kinlet. He is the idol of . state long
reckoned as democratic, but now safe
in the republican column. Victory in
November is as nearly certain as any
thing in the future can ben. T. Re
corder.
It is an idesl ticket. The candidates
suit the platform, the emergency and
the need of the country, as well as they
suit the desires and the temper of the
people. william Mckinley il one of
those soldier candidates whom the re-
publican party delights to honor. His
is the natriotism of war as well as OF