The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-05-14
WHAT ABOUT MkINLEY?


Mckinley has several chances more
than a good chance of being nolnina-
ted for president by the philosophers
who are to assemble at st. Louis next
June. As the persons who are op-
posed to the nomination of Mckinley
are easily and rapidly classed as boss
es, and the persons who have been
promoting the nomination of Mekm-
lev agreeably describe themselves as
the people, the simplest intellect can
understand why Mckinley will be
nominated, if nominated he is to be.
His bosses will have beaten the other
bosses.
Outside of Ohio, however, the
news of Mr.. Hanna's triumph may be
received with mingled feelings, and
fail to excite unusual Joy. Suppos-
ing that Mckinley is nominated.
where does he stand in regard to free
silver? HIS opinion in regard to the
tariff are of little consequence. Just
at present nobody is hot or cold about
tariff, past, present or to come. The
Democrats amused themselves with
the tariff in 1894, and were smitten
terrifically in the neck; and, while
the Republicans are willing to exhibit
the Democrats as terrible examples
of the iniquity OF tariff building, they
know perfectly we'll that the so-called
Wilson tariff is essentially Repub-
lican tariff, as arbitrarily full of pro-
lection as a tariff not entirely con,
structed in Pennsylvania can be; and,
whatever they may predict or threat
en-, they don't expect to alter the tar
if in any essential but revenue. The
Democratic change from free sugar
and taxed wool to free wool and
taxed sugar involve no principles;
neither would change back to the
old plan. The imaginative Demo-
Gratis who were going to vindicate
the Constitution and wipe out culmi-
mating atrocity were sufficiently ten
der 10 the prejudices Of the RepubIi-
cans; and the robbery of the great
majority Of .he American people for
the benefit of the few has so solid a
Democratic sanction. that the Repub-
licans will have no particular object
in trying to illustrate that ancient
principle. In fact, the exposition of
Mr.. Mckinley as great God of pro-
lection is rather humorous than seri-
Gus. Protection appears to be as
rock-ribbed as the hills, and, the
Democrats having shown that their
expressed affection for a tariff for
revenue only was purely platonic,
there is nobody to assail protection.
and to defend it under the existing
conditions would be very much like
fighting for the table of logarithms.
The nomination OF Mckinley, then,
should Mckinley be nominated, could
not nationally be regarded as having
anything to do with protection. Grav-
itation and the solar system and San
skirt literature would be as intimately
honored as the principle or interest
of protection would be by the nomi-
nation of Mckinley. II may be true
that Mckinley, like the gentlemen in
DR.. Holmes poem, says such an OBJ
vious thing in such serious way
that he is regarded as the champion
of the serious thing; but it would be
difficult to find anybody, outside of
Canton and Philadelphia, who is wor-
rying about a, the, or any protective
tariff. Irrespective of the feelings of
the Constitution, protection has the
run of the country. By Republican
belief and Democratic default it is
accepted; and it is as easy to get ex-
cited over it as over the obliquity of
the ecliptic.
If Mckinley is nominated at St.
Louis his ideas about the tariff will
induce no emotion in this part of the
country. They are as we'll known
as anything can be known. McKin-
ley's ideas in regard to silver, on the
other hand, will be of great interest.
What are they? Will he declare
them Enthusiastically? Is he still a
believer in the silver standard? Is
ne a gold man, or silver man, or a
still more disturbing parsonage, a
diplomatic and uncertain stradler?
Will he take the trouble to explain
himself?
Probably not. N. Y. Sun.