The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
GOD PREPARES THE VERDICT.

to the daily life, the sweat OF the dali!
toll. the pinch of the daily emptie(
purse, the thoughts of the evening fire
side of all the common people is Major
Mckinley?
Assured Of the nomination, with al
election, barring death, a certainty
does he feel sympatheticaIy the needs
the sorrows and the hard lots of the
man who has neither position, money
or great respect?
The individual American, who works
for his daily bread, is not a dominant
political factor as rule. He is hard
worker, who values far too highly the
| surcease from toll in his home at night
to attend actively TO the machinery OF
politics, absence from and neglect of
more or less. follower, and at best a
mere apprOver of candidate or a mea-
sure which someone else, attending
closely to the machinery Of politics, has
arranged fer him and thousands more
of his kind. Mckinley lives in the
| little town of Canton, Ohio, reached by
| several railroads. He is a poor man,
living in a modest home, plainly fur
nished, as his table is plainly and SIM
| ply victualled. This house is open TO
| everyone, and his hand is cordial 10 all.
But the men who visit him, are the men
of wealth and political power-men
who come to ingratiate themselves
with him, and TO advise him. The
poor man does not reach him, not that
the poor man would not be warmly re-
ceived, but because the poor man could
not leave his labor, or not laboring
could not travel so far. SO that TO-
day, the men whose influence is exert
ed upon Mckinley are the greater poll
ticians, whose efforts are divided be-
tween the expedients of personal and
party advantage, and the rich men of
business affairs, whose hopes for gen.
eral prosperity unfortunately never
overreach the wide bounds of their
own selfishneSS.
For many years past it has been the
regret of the poor man that the presi-
dent is far removed from him; that
even fellow labOrer and toiler, as the
foremost figure in the republic, comes
to hear so much of the rich mans needs,
that in rectifying them, he forgets the
poor man and fails TO offer the poor
man any relief, other than reflex
benefit from the rich mans advantage.
The poor and the rich alike in this
country are for Mckinley today. What
opposition there is to him is purely
political. His boom is contemporary
with great depression which follow
ed the desertion of his policy. The
people look for a return of prosperity
with restitution of his policy. But
conditions, even commercial conditions,
are never the same, and what the poor
man fears is that a restitution of a pro-
tectiye tariff, while favoring the poor
and rich alike. will offer the greater
proportional advantage to the rich, if
the president of the United States,
when such law is passed is not keenly
sensitive to the needs of the poor.
Such men need but one assurance
that when the long line of influential
callers pay homage to Major Mckinley,
he has ever a thought of the man
afield., the man at the forge, the man
in the mine. the man before the fiaring
furnace, none of whom he sees daily, |
all of whom he sees only from the |
speakers platform. If without their |
presence to prick him, Mckinley thinks |
of them, and their needs, sorrows and |
troubles they Will be happier.
These men are not dangerous to any |
mans political ambition. They are |
only dangerous to the life of the repub- |
lie. The peasants Of America are not !
peasants. They are hard working and |
patient, but they are quick in intelli- |
sence, restless in understanding. They |
have little 10 do with actual and orig
inal control Of any political situation,
primary, convention, nomination or
election. They will go on for years
meekly submitting TO the injustice and /
vice and wrong OF professional politics.
without revolving, but all the time faith
and love of the government and its sys-
tenn of popular suffrage is being under
mined.
1t is only when such a man as Nc
kinley is fOrtuitously thrown TO the
front that they do Surrender their
doubts of virtue in politics and do sur
render their stolid Indifference to the
result There is 4 widespread feeling
among this part of humanity today
that Mchinley's personality is their
anchor. They are not worrying them
selves as to his political beliefs or
tenetS- his silence on the money oues-
ton or his sentiments on revenue or
protecting impoSts. They are not vaIu-
Ing him as Republican-they are sim
ply putting him down as the poor mans
friend who feels the poor uan's needs.
and who. no matter how great n
heighth he artains. will still remain
alive 10 their interests and protection.
Ii Is not worth while 10 argue with
any mind which conuovertS this claim
for Mckinley The politician who i
against Mckinley. or any man. who
is prejudiced against him. cannot make
himself susceptible 20 argument In Nc
Kinley's favor. But fhis much maybe
said. by the way, IN support Of the con-
giction thar Mckinley has a heart ike
Abraham Lincoln: Mckinley has So.
sIrFasf the ncuinar riny, over rhs. efforts |
4 I political combine 20 defeat him
he has come up in a national condi-
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