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tion's platform stands.-Burnngton, VI.
Free Press
There have been great men who stopped
TO conquer. Mr. Reed is not among them
There have been truly great Statesmen IN
this land or ours who have been dazzed
by a profIer OF the Presidency. There un-
doubtedly have been regrets over acts done
under the spell, but Mr. Reed VIII escape
all this, whether he be President or not.
He has not swerved u hair 10 gam per-
SOnaI point. at least, there Is nothing 70
show that LIE has. We all know that frUIn
the first, in making up committees, IN Op-
posing IrIcntiS with cravings for appToprISt-
tons and promises Of support. in encOUTag-
ing wise appropriations Tor the navy and
coast defenSes, IN maintaining from the
tune he took up the gavei i bCsIuesslke
administration OF his duties. Mr.. Reed haS
not deviated from the ghtfOrwdEd. hon
Orahie course he laid down When people
generally come 70 appreciate all tnl>-and
We have 10 telieve that time VIII come
Mr. Reed will be seen 70 have att1ined an
honorable distinction greater than the
Presidency. Per sc, could possibly afford
him. It Is. however gratifying 70 note
that his critics are fe W IN number and fewer
III influence, that nothing has or can he
said that really reflects upon his attitude
throughout il aII.-keHneEec Journal.
The only hope OF the anti Mckinley men
today Is Benjamin Harrison. How strange
are the relations that politics being about.
Here is Reed. who called him an ice cart;
Platt who was terribly bitter againsJ him
in 1892. and Quay, OF whom be said TO
Wanamaker that he was unit 90 associate
with, all looking toward Harrison 70 Slve
them from the terrible Mckinley The day
of Harrison's satisfaction has arrived. No
matter what the result may be. Harrison
knows that ne has brought his greatest
enemies TO their knees Harrison is The
only man by whom MckinIey's nomination
can be stopped VIII Harrison do III win
he please the enemies that be has fought 50
long. and who never concealed their hatred
of him. OF will he stand aside and see the
party that made him President be destroyed
by McKinleyiSm9-Utica observer.
The fact is that MeKinley's candidacy
represents the one issue on which the Re-
pubicans OF all sectiuns-East as well as
West, South as well as NOrtb-agree. All
are prOtectioniSts. Harrison and other
receptive candidates vino would tain
have their partiSanS believe that the tarifT
plays second fiddle To- the money question
as an issue do not strike the popular chord
The money question Is an apple OF disCord
i'll the Republican camp, whereas pFOteCtl"u
is the fetish which they all worship Herein
strengths; he comes heraIded as the advance
agent OF prosperity He stands for a live
issue which the masses can comprehend.
He is to them the harbinger OF better times
To be sure, Mckinley is ''6He-Tdea''
candidate but that lone idea is q e all
engrossing one Just now with the Repub"
HCan masses throughout the United states
Syracuse Evening News.
The boom for Mckinley which his favor
ties claim is sweeping all before him arises
in a great measure from the return to
politics OF the stay-at-bonIss OF 1882 It
Is a fact not generally borne in mind that
Cleveland received fewer votes in S92 than
in 1888 when Harrison defeated him. In
1888 he poled 5,53S, $50 votes. In 1892
the same States gave him but 5,494. 100.
There were over "a million and three quart
ers, nearly two millions Of stay-at-homs
voters in 1892, the great bulk OF them
Republican. They have seen the error OF
their ways in being counted against pro-
lection, and this year they emphasize their
faith by shouting and electing delegates
for Mckinley. the impersonatiOn of pro-
lection as the policy for the country 70 live
and thrive by But whoever the Republican
nominee mas be il is safe 10 prophCsy that
the stay-at-home voters in 1885 viii not
he OF the Republican, ranks --Wilkesba
Times.
Speaker Reed has not abandoned hope,
although he appears TO be foredComed 70
meet the bitterest disappointment human
can experieuCe-the blasting OF hfes
ambition. Tie most serious enterprise IN
which he was ever enga gnd Is his pending
campaign It has transformed the man;
but he is not TO win the coveted goal. ex-
cepG By the happening on the most lmprOO-
able in politics. StlH, he does not weld
the scaut ground he holds gainSt his
triumphing competitor. and viii not DO so
until the last ray of hope fades away
Detroit Journal
Gen. CfrUsvenOr has figured Mckinley
! nominatPd and there is not betting man
in The country reckless enough TO pnt up
! money that Cfrosvenor is wroug.-ToIedo
Blade.