The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-11
BREAKERS AHEAD

perity," William Mckinney. is not
happy. Mr.. Hanna himself is feeling
a trif1e miserable, and all the other Re-
publican bosses are catching that tired
feeling" But there is no help for them.
They must carry the load which they
piled upon their shoulders. The cause
of their sorrow and aches and pains is
the discovery that when President Nc
Kinley turns around to be congratulated
after delivering his inaugural address
he will be confronted by a senate with
enough free silver votes to make any
revision of the tariff in the interest of
the industrial barons contingent upon
an annex to the bill providing for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Mr.. Hanna's pledge is out that his ad-
vance agent of prosperity will convene
congress in extra session to revamp the
tariff law and make it an ideal indus
trial baron maker, and those who want
to be barons, as we'll as those who are
already barons, want legislation i'm
neQ1dIelN lldl Will ddN .ihtO eiiS ~ Nv "a
their factory products, so that they may
not only be reimbursed, at the expense
of the masses who consume their prod
ucts, of course, for their campaign con-
tributions, but be so circumstanced that
their bank accounts will grow like
green bay tree, but the silver senators
stand in the way of Hanna's making his
pledge good.
But that is not all the trouble that is
hedging about Mr.. Mckinley. AS
everybody knows, he has but one clearly
defined idea-a high tariff-and his
heart is set upon having the old NC
Kinley act" resurrected and made the
law of the land, but in addition to the sill
yer senators who will insist upon open
ing the minis to the white metal as the
condition of a high tariff measure, the
gogld Democrats are reminding him very
forcibly that but for their vote he would
not have been elected. Now Demo-
crat. be he silverite or goldite, would
never be a party to fastening high pro-
lection upon the country. and since it
Palmerites elected Mckinley by voting
for him instead of for their own candi
date, they certainly should have as loud
and as commanding a voice in shaping
McKinleys policy as the Republican
bosses.
Then, again. it is claimed that the
Palmerites were given to understand
that the present tariff would not be
meddled with, except as make be-
lieve" to satisfy certain ultra protec
tionists. and that it was with that I'M
election possible. If there is any truth
in these claims of the gold Democrats,
it is very easy to understand why Mr..
Mckinley is not particularly happy.
Mckinley will not be allowed to railroad
a high tariff bill through the senate.
That much is settled, although the pro-
lection barons will not leave stone I'M
turned to accomplish their purpose.
Then the question of the division of
the spoils is one that is agitating all
concerned not a little. The demand is
already made that certain appointees of
Cleveland who were conspicuously ac-
tive in working for Mckinley indirectly
by working against Bryan directly be
retained in Office, and that the foreign
missions and consus be divided on the
basis of work done. Mckinley, or
rather Hanna, is already laying pipe to
have the Canton man renominated in
1900, but he understands very well that
Y he cannot hold the gold Democrats in
line the nominee would not have the
ghost of a show of election. So it
would seem to be a kind of a between
the devil and the deep sea affair for the
Republican party. But, then, retribu-
ton is as certain as sunrise, and no mat
ter which way Mckinley turns ne will
find it waiting for him.