The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-26


Sensible Thing for Him to Do on the
Financial Question-McKinleyh has No
Use for Mugwumps and VIII be for the
Republican Party.
Washington, May Ex-senator Quay's
pilgrimage to Canton, Ohio, is still the
subject of much gossip and speculation
at the capital, and it has become a
standing salutation among Republican
senators as to when they will follow
Quay's example. While this is said in
jest, there is reason to believe that a
number of the Republican leaders are
seriously considering such trips TO Can
ton, and for the same reason-that they
have been invited. Among Quay's
friends there is not the slightest doubt
that he had a very earnest and cordial
invitation from Major Mckinley, and
that other senators and representatives
have received the same invitations.
There is nothing unbecoming in Nc
Kinley extending such an invitation or
in others accepting them. The contest
as TO the candidate is now settled so
far as the election of delegates goes.
They are all elected and everybody con-
cedes that Mckinley is far in the lead
of all the other candidates, if il is not
conceded by all that he has enough del
egates pledged to him to nominate him
on the first ballot.
No one here who knows anything
about national politics believes that
Mckinley has invited Quay or any 9TH
er leading Republican to Canton TO Sc
cure his support by trades or concess-
ions, or otherwise. But now that there
is a iulI in the contest over delegates,
the leaders are considering the more i'm
portant question of what shall be the
platform. On the tariff there is no di-
vision of sentiment among Republicans
but on the financial question there As
much difference, and this must be har-
monized in the platform and not in the
candidate.
Senator Quay probably told the exact
truth when he said he was going to Can
ton to talk over the financial question
with Mckinley. Among the leading
Republicans here there is no doubt that
they did talk of the financial situation
more than anything else. Other sena-
tors have been in Canton for the same
purpose, and others will go for that
purpose and no other.
Major Mckinley does not propose to
discuss this question in the newspapers
but he is DESTROYS of having party lead
eTs agree upon such platform as will
represent the great Republican states
and secure the approval of the MAORI
~ Of the Republicans. He is taking
the lead in this because he is the lead
ing candidate, and can more appropri-
ateiy ask others to come and consult
with him. 1T is not his own candidacy
but the welfare of the party, that
prompts these invitations to conference
Silver men have been among the pill
grims to Canton as we'll as gold men,
and some of them have been frank
enough to say to Mckinley that what
ever is said in the platform it must
not be capable Of double meaning.
SILVER MEN WANT.
The silver men do not want a plat
form that may be Interpreted for gold
in the east and for silver in the west
They want a platform that will say
frankly what it means, and stand for
the same thing east and west, north and
south. One of their leaders said the
silver Republicans would sooner vote
for a gold platform than for one that
did not mean anything.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon has seen
Mckinley. and so has Senator Hans
brough of North Dakota. Senator
Lodge and a number of other senators
have been invited, and the next two
weeks will no doubt record number of
conferences in Canton between McKin-
ley and Republican leaders here in
Washington.
There is another point on which Major
Mckinley does not wish to be misunder-
stood. There is no reason why he
should be misunderstood, except for the
mouthings of some of his self-constitu-
ted managers. A close friend of McKin
ley had. ever since he entered public
life, been a straight-out Republican,
and always allied with the Republican
organization. There was nothing he
despised so much as the mugwumpery
and the hypocrisy of those who denouh-
ced Republican organizations as ma
chimes. He had always been a machine
Republican, and in Ohio, and in con-
gress had always trained with what
the mugwumps called the machine. No
state in the union has had better polit-
ical machines than Ohio. The machines
OF Sherman, Foraker, and Mckinley
had been the best working machines
ever seen in the country. They were
just like the Republican machines In
New York. Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Illinois. They represented the party
uesq p9q 6sIu!Y0K 'elepIpuT0 eQl puB
more haraSsed by the ojficious mug
wumpS who had used his name 10 de-
nounce Republican organize tons in 9TH
er states than by anything else in the
campaign. He had no sympathy with
such political SANDER. If nominated
for president he would call upon all the
Republican machines in the country 10
roll up the biggest Republican MAORI
~ ever known in the country.
NOT IN HIS LINE
He had no intention OF posing as
political reformer." as that term was
used by the mugwumps, and he would
countenance no man or faction who pre-
tended to work for him and against the
state ticket. He would be just as anx-
ious 10 have Republican state tickets
elected as for his own election. and he
had no hopes of carrying states for the
national ticket without also carrying
them for the state tickets. This
would be true Of New York. Pennsyiva-
MIA, Indiana. and Illinois. as well as OF
Ohio. Mckinley wanted the leaders
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