New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-08
THE WKINIEY BOOM.
WHAT THEY THINK OF IT ~ CALIFORNIA.

From The San Francisco Argonaut.
The McKirle, boom i backed up by the American
people The cry If "Mcknieysm' will not hurt
the farmers ana the workinemen have had wilson
ISM ana "Clcvclandsm" enough and to spare.
As for the threat that merchants fear revlva.
OF tariff agitation" all the merchants I'm the country
know that business could not be any worse than
for ''d h las, hr~e years TRrcas OF business
paralysis in of change in the tarT are ide.
There coud be no worse business paralysis than We
arr suffering under Every time the tariff has
been reduced in the United States lhe same cor 4,
dltion has occurred. When the tarin was reduced
In 1872. IT brought this country 20 condition which
made even Thomas Hart BENTON. Democrat though
he was. say N speech mar thete - no pre-" Tor
property: there are no sales except those OF the
Shern' thcre Is no einp'oSi''n. io AZ - ,s
Is no demand Tor labor. t.'rc - no saI" lor NE
products OF the farm; there Is 10 sound OF the
down property" These woris OF Senator Benton
sound almost II they had been based upon the
condition OF affairs that hay" existed IN this country
since Grove Cleveland. the Democratic party. and
the wilson tariff nearly ruined II.
Mckinley let ms look at his practical chances
There IS DOUBT that, while he has the people he-
within the last week that they have become con-
WINGED that his candidacy Is dangerous. and they
that they have split the party, IN s@ine southern
Stats ara in Texas there NJ be Mckn.ey ara
for the last few months meeting In New York and
Washington and discussing whom they shond put
tbcy wouli lake no chanccs'' rhey d!a succeed
in making an arrangement with Tom Reed by
which they made him think that they were for him.
and hence the silence u that once 0ufSpokon IN
dividual since the present Congress has been IN
session. Tn. three original bosses. Pat. Quty ana
Garrison. bc.an fixing things" rlth others Marley
and Sam Fcsscndcn were taken IN as representa-
tives Of Tom Reed ans cM-Englani ilobart. q
New-Jcrsey. joined them. They male advances %
Foraker but he and Bushnell wer" committed .
Mckinley by "A bargain Ia Ohio. Tho bosses "a
succeed In getting X zig. OF Lousaun. cln"y. q
Texas AMI som" other lesser southern bnss"s
They failed to make terms with Aigcr. OF Michigan.
Henry Payne. SpOoncr. Sawyer Steve Ek.ns ana
Carter OF Montana. But they thought they had a
strong enough combination 20 down Mckinley, AMI
thcy began encouraging The "fnvor!to-son' business
This they hoped. would keep Mckinley do"n 20
about three hundred votes. Quay IL trying 10 hold
Pennsylvania. P.au New-York, Reed TIE New
England States. Carkson IL holding Iowa for Az
son Elk'ns West Virginia and Mandcrson Ncofsska
Bur they have failed There does not seem - Toe
the ghost 81 a chance for any "tavOrite son. Even
Tom Reed. who "A var ago was the foremost can
dliate IN Republican eycs. seems 10 have faded
away and his bulky person is as msty a. an
X-ray photo. His friends have practically given
up the fight IL New-York. the Morton men s'il
talk I'm a melancholy manner, AMI Iowa IL strong
for Allison. But when the convention meets these
"favOrie sons Will b" swept from Their feet hy
the popularity Of Mckinley. = Is e, marked: th2t
Tom Reed recently remarked sarlorlcally. 1t -
an III wind that bows nobody good The har J
times are making Mckinley Pr"s!ien, o! the United
States"