The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05


years. He is being abused by the
Reed. Allison, Cullom, Quay and Nor
ton organs with an intensity that no
Democratic paper will show after he
is nominated and is running for the
presidency.
The several objections that are hurl-
! ed at him are amusing. One is that
his lieutenants are frying fat out Of
| the eastern manufacturers, that is,
they are making these manufacturers
put up money for the purchase of dele
gates. Another is that he is a weak
| ling and if he gets into the president
chair it means an. overwhelming Re
publican defeat in 1898 with a Demo
| cratic congress resulting. Still another
! is that ne is too friendly to silver. An
other is that his tariff ideas are those
Of an extremist, and it is ruinous to
follow an extremist. Still another is
that he is ignorant and innocent.
These objections are not 10 be
sneezed at. Put out day after day by
the anti-McKinley organs they are
bound to have their effect. The anti
Mckinley men, who have hitherto been
listless, are awakening, and the fight
is on.
Can Mckinley stand the onslaught?
He can. He can because the attacks
on him are false.
Major William Mckinley Of Ohio is
going TO surprise the United States of
America. He is going to be president
of the United States and not the presi-
dent of Wall street. The railroads are
fighting him. The corporations are
fighting him. The monied classes are
fighting him OF course the anti-Mc-
Kinley men will outlaw at this. But
they guffaw at it because they desire to
deceive. The Eagle predicts here that
if Mckinley is nominated and elected
there will be such a shaking up Of pol
iticians, such a radical change in the
disposition of spoils, such a freedom
from the dictatiOn and domination of
the monied classes as this country has
not seen since the days of Abraham
Lincoln.
This sounds bombastical TO the Oppo-
sition to Mckinley and is open TO the
doubt Of those Republicans who know
nothing of the man because such sup
erlative statements are common in all
political editorials.
But every man who knows McKin-
ley knows it is true. They know that
Mckinley is a wonderful man. They
know that in Canton, Ohio, his home
town, every man, woman and child
looks upon him as his superior in brain
and gentility and honesty. No unpre-
JUDGED man has ever left a converse
ton with Mckinley that he did not feel
that he had been talking to one of the
foremost men of the century. This is
not true Of the joyial Tom Reed or the
dignified Allison, or the shrewd Quay
or the austere Morton. But every
newspaper reporter, every visiting
statesman, every scheming politician,
every prayerful petitioner who talks
with Mckinley feels the warmth Of his
character and counts Mckinley his
friend, and refuses to ask anything, or
to propose anything or to suggest any
thing that he would not suggest or pro
pose TO his own son or daughter.
This is the presence of the man. It's
dignity is warm, its auSterity cheering.
1t makes the man who comes to scott
remain TO admire, and to go away
sounding its praises. 1t is character
which whether it shines either in pri-
vate citizen or in president will not
tolerate anything that is dishonest or
against the cOmmonweal.
The few thousand men who have met
Mckinley and graSped his hand know
this, and everyone has been a mission
airy and has carried the truth TO the
American people.
And that is why that all the political
tricks known TO the Quays, and all the
surplus funds ready at the beck of the
corporations, cannot in St Louis two
months and a half next tell the Ameri-
can people they cannot have Mckinley.