The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-09
Ii He Can't be President R9 VIII Retire to
Private Life.

Washington, April Sit seems strange
that at this critical period in Mr.. Reed S
campaign, a report should get out that
| the speaker is contemplating retiring
| from congress, and that offers have been
made to him of business connections in
| New York. While'it cannot, of course,
| be believed that Mr.. Reed intends to re-
| tire from the presidential race at this
period, still it is intimated that the
| speaker, seeing that he is already beat
en- for the nomination, is preparing to
retire from public life. He has attained
his ambition in congress. There is no
likelihood OF his going into the senate
at this time, and being denied his one
great desire to step from the speakers
chair to the White House, il is but nat
ural that in the hour of his disappoint-
ment he should feel like leaving Wash
ington altogether and going to work
making a fortune for himself. Mr..
Reed is not a rich man, and beyond
doubt, with such a connection as is pro-
posed to him in New York, he would
be able TO soon make a comfortable
fortune
The presidential Trust" now claims
that Mckinley will not get over 300
votes on the first ballot. They place
Mr.. Reed second. Allison following with
Z
below that figure. They still claim that
Mckinley can never reach the goal, and
that Notwithstanding the dismal news
from New England, he will fall short
of the required number TO nominate.
To this end the name of Benjamin Har-
riSon has been more frequently men
toned in Washington than any Of the
other candidates who now constitute the
field against Mckinley. A movement
has been steadily pushed at the Capital
for the last few weeks to gain Suffi-
cient strength for the Indiana man, that
when the time comes at St. Louis his
name can be sprung upon the conven-
ton, and he can be nominated. But,
like the other schemes of the ''Presiden-
tial Trust this seems TO have been in
augurated just a little too late. The
people throughout the country want
protection and good times once more
The two are so closely linked, and Nc
Kinley stands so clearly for protection,
that to unDrejudiced minds il seems as
if nothing can prevent his nomination
now. 1t must ne confessed that there
IS still a great deal OF potency in the
name of Harrison, and thar William Nc
Kinley has much more 10 fear from the
ex-preSident than he has from the spea-
ker of the house "All the world loves
a lover" and the bridegroom of Monday
NAV yet play havoc with things at st.
Louis. The bride-elect has lived in the
White House, and beyond doubt she
would ike 10 return once more as its
mistress.
The McKinleyites. however. are not
sentimentahsts. and the leaders here
claim that they fear no man yet named
for the nomination When, in a con-
fidential talk with one Of the Ohio mans
managers. the possibility of AIcKinley's
defeat at ST. Louis was mentioned, he
said:
While Of course. I cannot see such a
thing. because already We have almost
enough delegates 10 nominate, L viii
say that II Mckinley Is beaten. the
nominee at St. Louis viii be a Rspubli-
can who has not been mentioned 50 far.
and who viii not be known until that
time comes"