The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-31
WHAT M'KrNLEY WANTS.


So far as the desire of the leaders of
the Republican party regarding what
the paramount issue Of the campaign
shall be is concerned, the cat is out of
the bag. Their desire has been, and is,
TO make tariff the issue, but the fact
is being forced upon them that this
cannot be done
The story comes from Terre Haute
and 1t is said to be absolutely anthem
TIC, that there has been a very pointed,
II not sharp correspondence between
ex-President Harrison and Mr.. Mark
Hanna. The story runs that immedi-
ately after the nomination of Major
Mckinley Mr.. Hanna wrote to ex-
PRESIDENT Harrison saying he had de-
clded to open the campaign early and
would arrange the order of things this
year by bringing the big campaign
guns into service at the beginning of
the engagement. He requested General
Harrison TO prepare a speech as early
as possible, and as he, Hanna. had de-
cided to make the tariff the chief issue
Of the campaign, he asked the ex-presi-
dent to give it the most attention. 1T
is our purpose" he wrote, ito give the
tariff the main track and let the
money issue lie on a siding as much as
possible
10 this the ex-president replied, say
ing he had completed his plans for the
summer and did not know when he
would be able to go into the cam
palgn. If his observation of the trend
OF affairs was correct, he said, he fear
ed the money issue already had the
main track, and that the tariff was on
the siding and would likely remain
there. With that the correspondence
closed.
That Major Mckinley and his mana
ger, Mr.. Hanna, have been very averse
to acknowledging that the silver cues
ton is the paramount issue and not
tariff has been evident from long be-
fore the st. Louis convention met.
Since then their conduct can be char
acterized as nothing else but coward
ly. How long it will continue so it is
impossible TO say.
From other sources Major Mckinley
is being urged to meet the issue fairly
and squarely in manner worthy of
a man who is a candidate for the
highest Office within the gift of the
American people. General Horatio
King, general, writes
from West Newton, Mass, to Major
Mckinley, urging him to set aside all
minor political questions and take up
the money question. His letter is in
these terms:
William Mckinley, Canton, Ohio. My
Dear Sir:-The danger now threaten
ing the stability Of the United States
is most appalling. 1 earnestly en-
heat you to listen to the warning ap-
peal of William c. Whitney, as pub
lished in the Boston papers of yester-
day 1t is your opportunity to place
your name along with that of Lincoln
high on the roll of honor and fame.
You know how felt and acted in 1860
IL, in view of the then hostile attitude
Of the cotton states. l feel the same
now. Party fealty gave way to the
most intense anxiety for the salvation
Of the Union. You can we'll afford to
set aside, for the time being, all mi
nor political questions, and lead off
'esolutely in war against the free sill
yer craze, Populists and anarchists
HORATIO KING.
We do not agree with General King
1t all in his view of the silver cues
ion, but he certainly has the courage
IF his convictions, which seems to be
more than Mckinley has. The cat
being out of the bag. it is useless for
Mckinley and Hanna to try and re-
capture it. Now let them meet the
issue of the campaign like
nen or else confess themselves pol
rooms.