The evening times., 1898-10-24
GENERAL POLITICAL GOSSIP.
President MCKINLEY was keenly disa

President Mckinley was keenly d1sap-
pointed at the scant reception he received
at Cincinnati on his return from his
Western trip last week. He had expected
a regular ovation, sortsa climax, to
speak. to the series off demonstrations
that had greeted him ansalong the line Of
his journey. The Presidents route was
changed purposely, so as to take in the
chief city of Mr.. MeKiniey's own State,
and to give Senator Foraker and his
friends an opportunity to show what they
could do in the matter of exhibiting their
loyalty to the President and his Admin
istration Incidentally 1t was hoped to
stir up enough enthusiasm, to overcome
thesdisaffection that had developed among
the Republicans of the Buckeye State me-
tropolis during the past few months. Mr.
Mckinley. it Is understood, had gone 10
the trouble of preparing brand new
speech for his Cincinnati friends, but 1t
was never delivered. When the Presi-
dents special train pulled into the I'M
ion station at Cincinnati the President
was amazed to find only corporal
guard in waiting, and the few persons
who happened to be in the station had
apparently not been drawn there to well
come the President. An eye witness states
that they looked very much like commut-
ers, who We're waiting for the train There
was not even a reception committee to
explain the failure of the crowd to ma
terialize. Just as the Presidents train
was about to start a belated committee
man rushed up and began a long expla-
nation to the effect that there had been
a mistake in the announcement of the
time of Mr. Mckinley's arrival; the COM
mittee had been advised that he would
not arrive until two or three hours later,
etc. The President listened rather impa-
tiently and said that it didn't matter" I"
He declined to give orders to have his
train held to enable the committeeman to
hustle around and scare up crowd A
gentleman who was on the President s
! train said that the next time Senator Jo-
seph Benson Foraker calls at the White
House he is likely to meet with a rather
chilling reception.
The explanation offered for the Cincin
natl fiasco, that there had been a misun
derstanding as to the time of the Presi
dents arrival, was considered as a trifit
thin BY Mr.. McKinleys immediate com
panions. In view OF the fact that the
schedule of the Presidents train had beer
telegraphed ahead the day before ant
! published In the Cincinnati newspaper:
there would seem to be no good excuse
for the non-appearance of a crowd at the
station except upon the ground of genera
Indifference or a deliberate intention OF
the part of somebody to slight the Chic
Magistrate.
The serious aspect of the frosty recep
ton 10 the President in Cincinnati to til,
Administration from political point o.
view, is that the Republicans general!
count upon the vote of Cincinnati ant
Hamilton County to overcome the Demo
| cratic vote in the interior of the State
LAS goes Hamilton County, so goes tn
| State" has almost become an axiom II
/ Ohio politics. II the Cincinnati inciden
reflects the real situation among the Re
! publicanS of that city. their chances o
| carrying Hamilton County and the Stat
| ON November cannot be regarded as be
| ing particularly brilliant. There woul,
seem to be a rich field for missionar,
work in Cincinnati for the Hon Marcu
! A. Hanna.
/ Gold has been discovered, IT is reported
of a very high grade at Canal Dover
/ Ohio. The ore. 1t IS stated. is almost o.
rich as any taken from the Yukon region
and the vein is said to be several fee
thick. a great rush to this new Eldorad
is, of course, predicted. Residents of tn
/ Buckeye State, however, are inclined Z
! be skeptical on the subject. Said one O
! them last night: II do not doubt for
moment that some one has uncovered
/ pile of gold al Canal Dover, but | thinl
/ you will find that it will turn out {
be one of the private deposits of Sena
tor Hanna. l am informed that Ny
Hanna has been quietly at work collect
ing a fund to be used in the Presidentia
contest of 1900 He could not keep il il
a bank with any degree of safety. as III
associates would be likely TO learn of /
and compel him to use it in the presen
| fight shall be sorry If my theory shoul'
prove TO be true, as il will be apt L
put a handicap on the movement TO re
| nominate Mr.. Mckinley by acclimation
! However. | dare say that man OF Sena
tor Hanna's prudence in financial mat
te-s did not bury alt of his reserve fund
| In one place. He may have other plum
/ trees-or, l should say, plants. l hop
! so.'
| The Hon Bourke Cockran's description
! of the power and resources of the moderr
political boss in a speech delivered a
! Carnegie Hall, in New York, last week
was most graphic and perhaps not over
drawn, so far as it applies to condition:
in the State of New York. Mr.. Cockrar
is conceded to be one of the most e.oquen
public speakers in the country. but hi
| influence in the Empire State has beel
| nullitied very largely by reason of tn
l,.a -v-tsA
| from Mr. Croker and Tammany Hall OF
| account of a personal grievance. Mr.
Cochran was refused denomination fo
| Congress. and he also had an ambition
| to come to the Senate, which Mr.. Croke
did not encourage. Mr.. CrokerS friend
say that the reason why he turned
| against Mr. Cochran was entirely per
| sonal; that he traced the authorship o
| a scandalous article in one of the New
York papers, attacking the social side o
! Mr.. Croker's life, to Mr.. Cochran. Mr.
Cockran's friends have always indignant
Iy denied the charge, but Mr.. Croker hat
what he regarded as sufficient proof tina
1t was true, and he refused to accept Mr.
| Cockran's denial. 1t seems that ther
were certain facts in the published ar
| ticle that were only known to three mel
! in Tammany Hall, and that Mr.. Cockral
was one of the three The Cochran yer
sion is that Mr.. Croker, becoming jealou
of Mr. Cockran's growing power, an
fearing that he might supplant him i
the organization, invented pretext t
get rid of him.
Mr.. Cochran stuanped the country 70
Mckinley and Hobart in 1896. 1t ha
been said that Mf. Hanna paid him a
the rate of $500 speech in that cam
paign.
The astrologers are taking a hand in tn