The morning times., 1896-05-27
VARIOUS POINTS OF VIEW.

Mr. Quay's social visit to Mr.. Mckinley
was OF the sort the cat pays the cook when
the latter is IN the pantry Chicago News.
Reed as a candidate for Vice PresiG,Als
would be square peg IN round hole, but
the people would appreciate the reg for
what II is worth anu not mind he hole
Kansas City Star.
The discovery of gold in Massachusetts
reminds Democrats that they discovered
a pretty good gold standard candidate
there quite a little while ago PEiadel-
pbia Record
Platt has lost his cause, his delegates and
is in danger or losing his head Chicago
Tribune.
We hope that the fact that the three
woman suffrage States. Colorado Wy.J-
ming and Utah, are ali unanimously for the
dishonest dollar is mere coincidence
ratherthan aHinstance of cause andefrect =
Boston Herald
No doubt Senator Quay Is lust a much
of a Presidential candidate as be ever was
or ever will be. His real card Is stiu I'D
bis sleeve. = Boston Herald.
1t is noticeable that the Mckinley finan-
Cial straddle is not so obnoxious 10 Mr.
Quay as it was before bis visit 10 Canton
Friday. Mr.. Quay is a statesman who iS
always open tO conviction, and If a Vice
Presidential nomination should persist IN
attaching itself 10 his person nobody can
allege that his sudden confession or faith
in the Mckinley financial sentiment had
anything to do with it in the slightest de
gree Detroit Tribune.
The current trade reports do not bear out
the predictions that business would inI-
prove as soon as MCKinley'S nomination
was assured On the contrary, mercantile
agencies agree that there has been a pretty
steady dOwnhilI march since Tire nomination
was assured, though few will venture tb
say il is a case OF cause and effect Spring
field Republican
All roads lead TO Canton now. Quay has
been there. Fessenden, the Reed leader IN
Connecticut, is going, and now that the
pilg rimage OF favorite sons and their
friends has set that way Candidate McKin-
ley may as well get ready for business
with the patriots who want TO save the
country at the expense OF the cOuntryS
treasury. philadelphia Times
II is little bit funny now 70 reflect on
the recent pretenSiOuS of The MOrtons. Reeds.
Platts. Quays, and To note how little they
have to say in the present Developments.
A combine of the West and South for pO-
litiCaI purposes has been long predicted.
but it was not looked for on the Republican,
side of the fence.-CbarIestOn News and
Courier.
Mr. Mckinley knows taat any citizen
asking for the support at the polls of the
electorate should be ready a all times To
freely, frankly and unreservediy publicly
declare his opinions or convictions with re-
gard to any political issue in the success
or defeat of which the whole country Is
profoundly interested. and when. instead OF
thus declaring his sentiments or convic-
tions. he virtually says that what he thinks
or " hat he will do if elected President is
none of their business, be should be cuu-
sidered as simply placing himself outside
the pale of the support OF pubtcs spirited,
intelligent and honorable yOters.-P hila-
deIphia Ledger.
Abraham Lincoln could not have made
a very heroic figure while running for the
Presidency If he had refused TO express his
views on the slavery question; and he
would hardly have stood on The pedestal
he now occupies if he had refused to state
to his countrymen his exact convictions
upon the slavery question. the great queS-
tion before the country then, Just as the
currency question is today. But Mckinley
is evidently not man OF the Lincoln order.
Boston Globe.
The farmer in an interior Pennsylvania
town who kept his silver dollars boarded
in n lard keg and found. after they had been
struck by lightning. that he had mess
OF fused silver on his hands, worth only
SO per cent of its former valuation as coin,
had a fine object lesson in the beauties OF
the free silver dOctrine.-PhiladeIph n
Bulletin.
The indignation of Spain over the use OF
explosive bullets by the CubanS is amusing.
OF fCourse they are forbidden byinternationaI
law, but the Cuban war is not being CON
Quoted a ccording TO heruIeSOfinternatiOna
law. Ii it were the murderous outrages
on non-combatants by the Spanish would
not he Observation-Disclosures City Times.