The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-10
M'KINLEY AT ST. LOUIS.

in St Louis the Napoleon of protection
would be the nominee Of the party be
fore shutdown, as careful canvass OF
Kinley to be the first choice of ma
jority of them all.
1t is not hard TO understand why this
man is such a general Republican IA
vorite Aside from his attractive per
sonality, his clean character as poll
tician, his eminence as a statesman and
his plain and unassuming yet dignified
life and manners, there comes TO every
one the conviction not only, but rea-
lizing sense, begotten of sore exper-
fence, that four more years of Demo
cratic tariff-reform and of insufficient
revenues would leave the country fin
ancially, commercially and industrially
Frustrated. The very fact that he was
so prominently identified with the pro-
| tective policy under which the nation
f1ourished in all her interests and af-
fairs and that the tariff law bore his
own name, turns the faces Of the peo-
pie naturally to him in this their hour
of extreme distress. Combined these
| facts give him national prominence
and strength.
| Probably never in the history of this
country, the years of 1886 and 1887 ex
cepted, were industries so Frustrated
and values so depressed. Such is the
| unrest and discomfort that it would
seem that the last of the line of Demo
| cratic presidents is now occupying the
White House. The Republican party
| itself despite its glorious record and
the unexampled prosperity which 1t Sc
cured for the country, is even endanger-
ed. A mistake made now in the choice
of the man whom the Republican party
will nominate and elect, and whose ad-
ministration in failing TO restore good
times might find the Republican party,
four years hence, in the same deplor-
able condition Of the Democratic party
and its administration of today. SO
the party is turning to the man who
having been measured and found to be
of full stature is at the same time the
champion of the policy above all others
which the overwhelming majority of
the men of that party are convinced
can only bring relief.
Without any disparagement or depre-
citation of the other eminent gentlemen,
named in connection with the Republi-
can candidacy for president, the fact
stands patent that Major Mckinley's
popularity among the rank and file OF
his party exceeds that of any other
statesman named. Probably no man
of this generation has so equalled the
lamented Blaine in holding both the
love and confidence of the people as has
this gallant yet sturdy Ohio man, who
having successfully fought for mis-
state on the field, stood for it in the
councils of the nation and finally, as
its chief executive, administered its |
laws and public affairs, now with a
confidence born of successive trials, |
seeks the highest place in the general |
government
American product, which includes sill
yer, one of the very most valuable. |
he has won the west. The most re- |
cent platform utterance of his own |
party in his own state declared for |
both gold and silver as standards of |
value and as the metals of final re-
demptiOn. The west therefore, is con-
WINGED that Mckinley more than any
other man spoken Of would be the most
likely to exert his power as president
TO restore the destroyed parity between
silver and gold and to favor an increas-
ing volume of sound money equalIing
the full output Of these two metals.
through their free, independent and
unlimited coinage, which will alone be
commensurate with the expansion of
business and the development of the
No man better understands
how Cleveland, during all the years of
his administration, has exerted him.
self in discrediting and diShonoring one
OF our greatest and most valuable pro-
ducts, thereby enhancing the price Of
gold in the interest of the few, running
values of every character and crushing
the life out of enterprise of every char
acter. Mr.. Mckinley declared in his
Toledo speech that Cleveland had en-
1eavOred, even before his Inaugural ;
ton 10 stop the compulsory coinage of
silver, being determined TO so contract :
he circulating medium through the de- ]
of silver as TO limit the
volume of money, to make it scarce.
and therefore dear, until money should I
become the master. everything else ser
Tant"
These are Major McKinley'S own ;
words and they meet hearty response I
rom the west Again in his Septem-
Der speech of '93, he declared that THE
silver product OF This country, one of
he most important We have. should
lot be Disseminated against. but some I
'lan should be devised for its udllza- {
ion as money which will insure not the !
displacement of gold. but the safe and {
I'LL use OF both, as exchanges among c
he people" This quoted sentiment also !
anne more nearly rejecting the con- '
lotions Of both the west and south | I
han any utteranceS upon the subject {
" either of the other candidates. 9
AS q warrior, legislator and execu- 4
i've. as a statesman. patriot and citi- q
en-, he stands the peer Of Americas l
'reatest and purest, respected By his | !
nemies. admired by his associates and a
owed by his friends, stands superior 10 T