The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
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McKinley's popularity any more than
1 do his worthiness for the presidency.
But, taking even the delegates so Tar
elected, the figures as 10 them disproVe
the cry Of the Mckinley papers as 10
his transcendent popularity for, in the
delegates so far elected, Mckinley mas
carried only six votes more than Reed
and only twelve more than Allison
Speaking generally, great personal pop
ularity and extreme opinions, WINE
they may make popular idols, DO not
make the most successful candidates
A popular idol in a party always ere
ates a faction, and no popular ldol'
from Clay 20 Blaine. has ever been
elected president While he is extreme
" popular with perhaps large MAJOR
ity of his party, an idol or a 1actloh'
always impatient and often lmperl-
Gus. has the other faction extremely
opposed to him. Take the case OF
Mr.. Blaine. 1 am competent witness
from personal experience in regard 10
him. l followed his fortunes IN com
mon with practically all western Re
publicans for twelve or sixteen years,
and as a delegate in four national con-
ventions voted for him, as did my state
three times solidly for him, and the
1889 if he would allow it to do so.
Papers cry now of Governor Nc
Kinley's popularity in the western
states. The popularity of Blaine in
the same region far exceeded that or
Mckinley, as Blaine commanded in
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and other
strong Republican states from 80 to 80
per cent of the party, and commanded
it on his own great personal popularity
and the demonstration of his own mar
velOus personal power and ability. The
prairies We're vocal for fifteen years
with admiration and applause for
Blaine. The strong Republican states
finally secured his nomination, and,
great and splendid as he was, and ca
pable as he was beyond any other man
of that time or this in assembling all
the greater elements of power, he fail
ed because of the intense minority
faction in his party in commanding
enough doubtful votes in the doubtful
but necessary states to be elected.
owegSdhs ion w?O-oactb(oD n
PARTY PLACED FIRST.
"In this year the strong and sure
Republican states and the hopeless
Southern Democratic states want to
remember that, as success for the par
ty is above the ambition of all men,
that the most available candidate, the
one who will draw the most votes,
should for the party and the nation S
interests be chosen. Enthusiasm in
the strong Republican states will not
count as much in November as the cam
didate of even doubtful strength who
will draw the necessary doubtful votes
in the doubtful but necessary states.
Emotional candidates make hysterical
campaigns. The Republicans of the
doubtful states, such as New York,
Connecticut, Indiana. and New Jersey
are better judges as TO the strength of
the candidate who can carry MAORI
ty in them than are the Republicans
of the confident and certain Republi-
can states"
"Of course, you rate Allison as the
strong man TO get votes?"
'Unquestionably I do, and if I lived
outside of Iowa 1 would have the same
judgment He would be a candidate
of even strength, as strong every day
in the campaign and on the day Of cleo
ton as the day when he was nomina-
ted. No republican could find an ex-
cuse to vote against him, while he
would draw many thousands of waver-
among business men and workingmen
in the doubtful states. He is not a
boom or hurrah or hippodrome candi-
date. He is strong east and west,
north and south. He has been thirty
years in congress. His record of votes
is a record of ability, of steady devo-
ton to the better interests of his party
and of a steady devotion to the better
interess of the nation. He has also
always been on the advance line of pub
lie thought and of high-minded mo-
tive"
ALLISON SOUND ON TARIFF.
HE is as sound on the tariff as Nc
Kinley; has helped TO make three tar
ifs where Mckinley has helped to
make one. In 1890, when the great
Blaine, seeing that the tariff was be-
ing weakened by being imposed on the
products of countries not competing
with us, proposed the doctrine of reci-
procity to modify the tariff to the en-
richment of our nation. Mckinley did
not accept of it for his bill, and il was
Allison and Aldrich that accepted it
and secured its adoption in the tariff
bill that bears Governor McKiniey's
name. / squarely resist the idea that
on any of the great Republican issues
or in any record made in congress or
public life Allison has not proved the
equal in devotion with Mckinley or
any other of the Republican leaders.
l also resist the idea that the Republi-
can party, as a protection party, de-
ponds for either its wisdom or ability
on any one man. 1t is the party il
self that is for projections; no man is
necessary to ii to make it for protec-
ton, and if all the men now in the field
as candic.tes for president should die
today the Republican party would be
as strong as ever for the tariff tomor-
row. There is as much of Allison as
there is Of Mckinley in the Mckinley
bill. The most conspicuous and diff
cult psrt of il, the administrative BILL
dealing with the customs, is entirely
Allisor's work. There is more Aldrich
in the Mckinley bill than either Nc
Kinley or Allison. We might as well
tell the truth, and Governor Mckinley
needs no laurels from other men
byows 10 make him strong, and he is
weakened instead Of strengthened by
the preposterous claims that the tariff
depends on his life and his ability, or
that he is in the Arkansas phrase. the
only candidate this year for the Re
publcans.'
so You think protection is safe I'M
der any Of the candidates."
Beyond all possible doubt. The whole
country knows exactly what the Re
publican party will 90 as 10 the tariff.
whoever is elected president. 1 is the
congress. far more than the president
that always makes the tariff. The
tariff will he revised and increased in
the interest Of labor and industry. I
rode the night before last on the Penn
sylvania road along 200 miles of fam
ing furnaces employing fifty and per
haps a hundred thousand laborers. and
l thought how fortunate had been that
great state IN having a man in the
senate 80 great that he. was able 70
kean The FIRE burning in the furnaces