The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-02
M'KINLEY'S CALDER
SMOOTH BORE AND EXCEED.
INGlY SMALL
A Man of but One Idea, AMI Power
less to Expound That Except by
Cant and P1atitude-His Indivitlu-
ality Lost in His Pernicious Doc triue.
The Tool of Politicians

tive author of the Mckinley tariff act,
whose name is embalmed in the phrase
''NIcKinleyism' was nominated for
President by the Republican National
Convention. The nomination was made
by great majority of the delegates.
No man as weak as Mckinley. mentally
and in his moral structure, was ever be-
fore nominated for President. He has
not q great mind. But, large or small,
it is occupied by only a single idea
that of protection. Yet he cannot ex-
pound the doctrine of protection except
in series Of set phrases, of platitudes
and in cant which he has worn thread
bare in all parts of the country. Even
as the representative of protection he
Is a mere creature of circumstances.
He Is not the author of the tariff act
that bears his name. He was defeated
by Reed for the Speakership in 1889,
and, under a rule of courtesy, was
made Chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee. This position
gave him charge of tariff legislation.
l1OW uC tLC Nlitii % 40 u AiAtNe
ter Of history. Every monopoly was
invited to be present by its representa-
tiyes at the meetings of his committee.
Neither he nor any other Republican
member of the committee prepared a
schedule Of tariff rates. The lobby
made the bill. The attorney or agent or
each monopoly and trust prepared the
schedule Of duties on it's special prod
ucts. The Mckinley bill was not in the
interest of the people. 1t was in the
interest of the manufacturers, who
specified the rate of duty on every arti-
Gle which they produced for the mar
ket The manufacturers named the
taxes for the peopleto pay. The monopo-
lies and trusts, not Mckinley, made the
Mckinley tariff. McKinleyism is pro-
lection of the monopolies and trusts,
not the protection of the people nor OF
labor. The Mckinley tariff robbed in
stead of protecting the people and Ia
bOr Mckinley protection for the peo-
pie and labor is such protection as the
wolf gives to the lamb.
AS the leader of the House, by virtue
of his committee craftsmanship i'll the
Fifty-first, or "CZar," Congress, Nc
Kinley was q failure. The tariff bill
bearing his name was not framed by
him and it could not have been enacted
through his influence, although there
was an ample Republican majority.
The superior strategy devised by 9TH
ers and Speaker Reeds exercise of die
tatorial power caused the passage of
the bill An impostOr and humbug
as the author of important Congress
sional legislation, Mckinley was fail
ure and fraud as State executive offi-
GER. The State affairs of Ohio never
before were as badly administered as
during the four years while he was
Governor The State institutions were
honeycombed with fraud and degraded
by inefficient management. Weakness.
l. ,pacity and dishonesty marked all
the departments of the State govern
ment. He left Il Scandalous deficit in
the treasury of one of the richest States
in the Union.
Personally amiable and honest, Me-
Kinley represents brutal politics and
all that there is in corrupt legislation
and administration. His nomination
for President is the result of bulldoZing
practices, packed delegations and the
purchase of hundreds of delegates. He
had less than a majority of delegates
until fraudulent contestants were sub
stituted for delegates elected by the
Republican constituencies. The ras-
cally substitution of false delegates
| was not confined to the Southern seats
contested by ignorant and purchase
able negroes. The seats of New York,
Missouri and other States were stolen.
Lawfully elected white delegates were
evicted from the convention and their
places given to those who had no right
full claim. The only title to 4 seat rec
ognized by Hanna's ruffianly boss-ship
was allegiance by the claimant to the
Mckinley oligarchy and fraud.
If Mckinley shall be elected Presi-
| dent his four years term of office will
| present an example of misgovernment
without parallel in past history. 1t
will be repetition on Il larger scale of
his weak and corrupt administration
in Ohio. 1t will be Il period of misrule
and of riot for all the schemes and con-
spiracies by which the treasury is rob
bed or by which the people are defraud-
ed and oppressed. Popular institutions,
a system of free government through a
pure ballot-box will be tested to their
utmost capacity. Under an administra-
ton of McKinleyism the traffic in du-
ties and subsidies in patronage and
spoils will be greater strain than that
of slavery in the past on the conserva-
tive forces of honest republican govern
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