The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-31
THEMANON HORSEBACK
A Combination Against the Ohio
Candidate.
M'KiSLEY AGAINST THE FIELD.
While the Opposition Were Dreaming OF
the Hour" the Ohio Mans Friends Were
Arranging For solid Delegations = An
Intcresting Contest Looked For.

WASHINGTON. March 5O.-l special lit
would no doubt be interesting 10 your
readers II ! were 10 review the Political
situation, so far as the Republican part OF
II Is concerned without any bias or preiu
dice / shall do SO In this dispatch. giving
only what appear 10 me as facts, without
the slightest thought of helping or hurting
any candidate. The campaign for dele
gates has progressed so far that In this
center of Information we have sufficient
data upon which 20 base a satisfactory es.
innate of the first ballot In the St. Louis
convention This estimate gives McKin,
ley about 3s5 70 400 votes and the remain
ing 500 are divided between the other can
didatos The convention will consist OF
from 900 10 9lS votes, according as it Is
decided by the convention itself to admit
extra delegates from the various territories.
Therefore something like ass to 45S votes
will be required TO nominate, and 1t is
practically admitted that Mckinley will
go into the convention with something
less than so or 90 of that number
Common Enemy.
This being so, it was the most natural
thing In the world for the other candidates
20 make common cause against Mckinley
This they have done and there is now
clear understanding between the friends
and managers Of all the field candidates.
They are not fighting one another. but
helping each other, wherever possible
They have n common enemy and they join
hands for the purpose OF pulling down the
fast running candidate from Ohio They
have agreed TO carry thor campaign
through on these lines TO the meeting of
the convention itself Their alliance will
last long enough to cause them to stand
together till tho convention shall have
been organized, till the committee on Gre
dentials has been appointed has met. con.
sidored the contests, reported and the re-
port has been either adopted or rejected by
the main body; il will continue till after
a ballot or two shall have resulted In the
nomination OF Mckinley or in what the
managers of the alliance hope for. q dem.
onstration that he cannot be nominated
II that moment should como and the favor
lite should fall back beaten. then the com
bination Is at an end and 10 Is every inan
for himself
That Is tho present aspect of the fight
1t Is already apparent there are no more
than four real candidates In the field The
favorite son movement, by which IL was
planned to tie up state after state tina,
might otherwise go To Mckinley, Ia al
mitted TO have been % failure. IL has failed
particularly I'm tho west. whore the mon
who set 1t going had hoped for SO much.
Only Senator Ailison remains as an actual
candidate In that region. excepting, OF
course Major Mckinley The only serious
candidates today are the leaders II Ohio |
and Iowa, Governor Morton nnd Speaker |
Reed. The candidacy Of Senator Quay |
despite ell the talk about &c. has never |
been regarded rs anything but % political
move of that willy captain
Contrasting Delegations.
There are other features OF Tho situation |
which demand the attention Cf every one
who wishes TO be veil informed Tier, /
Will be an unusually large number Of con
tested seats at the ST Louis convention
probably more than ever before la tho his
tory Of the party. 1t Is estimated that
there will DO 100 OF these, and that 1875 OF
them Will come from the southern states.
Charges arc made by both sidos that the
ether has deliberately adopted a policy OF
boiling and setting up contests wherever
10 cannot win. In hopes that II may |
gain some advantage thereby ut St Louis
1t Is true that both sides have played this
game, and IL is difficult TO say which has
most offended.
While every ono can see that there Is
great popular movement for Mckinley:
hat in most parts of the country no Is the |
'ayorite of the masses because they believe |
his election will bring good times again,
9 would be grave mistake to suppose |
hat this Is all there is to the amazing |
In the Ohio mans interest
which we read so much of in tho papers |
some or the shrewdest and most fore |
handed politics known to the history Of
)arties in this country has been PLAYED In |
Mr.. Mckinley's interest While the oppo- |
ition were asleep, and simply dreaming
II the hour, the Mckinley men were trav. |
ling through the south planting their |
'gents and arranging for solid delegations |
or their man The work was not only
lone early, but 1t was well done 1t was
one before any one else had stirred
Iand
Tho Game OF Politics.
Last fall some of the big mon of the |
arty, who have nearly always stood TO. |
ether met and agreed that thoy would |
orm an alliance on the presidency They |
elieved they could control the nomination |
Trough the sheer force of their leadership |
hey were some time in getting down TO |
tactical work, and when they did they |
ound the Mckinley agents had been ahead |
I them all through the south This OK.
lains why the friends OF the field cand. |
ates are dissatisfied with the condition of |
fairs In that section and why they are
making large number OF contests They |
re trying, even ut this late hour, TO undo |
he work which was done for Mckinley
acre than year ago
In the opinion Of many shrowd observers
no fate OF the presidential aspirations OF
lr. Mckinley will depend upon tho de-
Ision OF these contests If the national
turns out TO DO friendly 10 the |
cid and against the fayorite. II 1t places ,,
early all the anti Mckinley men on the
'mporary roll II the opposition captures
be organization of the convention. includ !.
~ the important committee on creden- | !,
ais, and then has votes enough TO push | ,,
trough n report leaving tho Mckinley
elegates on the outside, that may prove
10 turning point of the whole affair. !
his is what the leaders of the opposition
re- working for and working with n des-
Grafton rarely seen In anteconvention pol.
les
or course the Mckinley people claim !
lis programme cannot be carried out
hey claim the national committee will I've
ir and just and will make up the tenn r
lrary roll OF the convention on the merits /,
the credentials, that tho committee on =
edentials will also be just and judicial =
Idy, and that, no matter what else hap
ms, majority Of the whole convention
going TO DO friendly to tho nomination 4
Mr. Mckinley. WALTER WELLMAE. e
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DR.. W. n. Salisbury, of Menominec, spe-
Hist IN diseases OF the eyes, ear, nose s
ID throat, will be ut the New Jewell W