The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-14
The aiehta Daily Eagle riday 1oruuo august H. 1885,
M,KINLEY CLUBS.

M'KINLEY CLUBS.
Partisanship in the more intens.
hours of the campaign holds and sway.
men in a wonderful way, and it ma!
be that by the middle of October the
average voter will be found lined uI
with his old political associates. How
ever it is unquestionably true that In
no national campaign in the history OF
the country has party lines been count
ed for so little as at present. The ac-
tivity so far of the present presidential
campaign is largely outside of party
lines. There are being formed non
political, or rather independent politi-
cal clubs every where, especially in the
large cities. These clubs for the most
part are composed of active business
men. Many of them are almost wholly
composed of Democrats and independ-
ent voters. So far as we have OBJ
served everyone of them have declared
| for Mckinley and Hobart. There are
here and there Republican silver clubs,
| advocating free coinage 16 TO L. But
| these clubs are not for Bryan. The
membership desire free silver, but they
| want TO attain it through safe chan
! neIs and at the hands of tried men.
All of these clubs demand protective
tariff for American labor, for American
markets and for American products.
Besides these are many protective
tariff leagues" 1t is unnecessary TO
say that these are largely made up of
manufacturers and the factory opera
tives, and that they are all for the Ohio
man. AS the Chicago Inter Ocean
says, this confidence of the wage-earn-
ers in Mckinley is not accounted for
simply because these men believe in
the Republican platform, though most
wage-earners do now believe in the
policy of protection since they have
seen tried the experiment of the Viii
sOn-GOrman tariff law. Most men are
Influenced in a measure by their ac-
quaintance with a candidate, if they
have had any personal contact with
him, and more wage-earnerS have come
in contact with Mckinley than ever
before had any personal acquaintance
Kinley has in the last half dozen years
made greater campaigns than have |
ever been made by any other man, |
and he has come in contact with the |
wage-earners in more than half the |
states Of the Union. This was not |
alone through his speeches, but by |
visits to great factories where he met
men at their FORCES and machines, and
conversed with them about their par
ticular work. His close study Of the
wage question in arranging the tariff
schedules of the Mckinley bill gave
him the knowledge which is possessed
by few employers Of labor, and he was
able to discuss miners wages with
miners and how to improve their con-
dition or wage scales with mill men
and the causes for the rise or fall of
this or that scale with a freedom that is
not often found outside of the labor
unions.
The wage-earners Of America have
come in personal contact with McKin-
ley more than with any other man not
at the head Of some great labor organ
iation. They know his interest in the
one great question of how to prevent
the wages in this country being scaled
Down to the European standard They
have even found him a man of true
Democratic instincts and manners,
and, whatever the claims Of other can
1idates who boast their interest in
abor, the great majority Of men in
,ur mills and mines will vote for Nc
Hinley in November, because they
know him by his deeds, and because
hey feel that they have a personal
with him.