The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-09
The Result in Ohio.

ncyOnd all QulDDle or QueS-
Il tton pre-eminently involved
national issues and which,
on the Republican side, was waged
on national issues exclusively, was the
campaign in Ohio, and in interpreting
the significance of the Republican VIC
tory in ohio we must keep in mind
the local conditions.
Apart from the perpleNing compli-
cations injected into the nght by the
Jones candidacy. appealing as it did
to every element Of the dscontentcd
and offering before the beWildered
gaze of labor seductive visions of
socialistic Utopia involving wealth
and happiness without work or cares,
there was i'm the Republican ranks a
conspiracy Of trenchcry including not
only the Republican governor and the
majority Of his appointces, together
with the national committeeman but
also, il is suspected one of the Repuh-
liCan senators. notorious for his dis
gruntlcment and So lullewarm in his
professions Of support that he might
better have kept still This conspiracy
WAS "A continuation Of the inconceiv-
ably desperate and bitter fight made
two years before on Senator Hanna,
which split the party from lake to
river and converted into active op-
ponents of Iul%a Nash every Rcpubli-
I can in Ohio whose failure to secure
office on political cmolument could
4 be famed by the Bushnell following
into illme of revolt. This grand
army Of grudro-vcntcrs was plentiful
ly supplied by the Democratic man
ayers with the sinews Of war and it is
the invaHahlc testimony of every ox-
perienccd politician who participat 1
in the Ohio canvass that never before
in the political history of any state
was money more plentiful than upon
McLean's side or ia the devious side
paths which were being worked to
contribute to his success.
Just think for moment of the stake
at issue. Here was Mclean running
on a platform natly challenging in
, McKinlcNs home state the expansion
policy of the Mckinley administration,
| with the underpinninG OF Republican
trcachery So set up as he supposed,
as to make certain the administra-
tion's defeat. For Mclean it meant
the sidctracking of The politically
hopeless free silver issue: the rccast-
ing Of national Democratic policy with
Mclean as the central 1gurc, ready
either to run for president on the rres-
tige Of having defeated Mckinley up
on McEinlay's own ground or to as
sumo behind another nominee of his
own selection. virtual proprietorship Of
the Democratic national organization,
with the immense opportunities which
that would involve ia "A man resident. rs
Mclean is. at the national capital, the
center Of political intrigue and specu-
latiOu. And the ingenious feature Of
tine programme. as Mclean thought,
was the fact that etiquette forbade
Mckinley to meet this attack in person
and compelled him to entrust the de-
fcnse to others, notably Senator Han
ma, than whom there have been more
popular men.
In view of these circumstances, taxi
en- in connection with the hitherto in
variable tendency Of OHIO to coquctte
with the Democracy in of years, the
Republican victory of Tuesday is one
= of the most notable in tho whole his
tory of American politics In con-
junction with Mr. Bryan's victory in
Nebraska, won solely on the strength
of state pride in his personality and
= prominence in national politics, it as
surea beyond further question the pit
ting againss each other next year, OF
the presidential opponents Of 1896 Nc,
| Kinley standing. as before, for ma
tional honor, duty and growth, and
) Bryan for national population OF
solemn obligations for socialism and
= for contraction. This issue the Re
publican party welcomes.
/ And Democracy still holds the cham
pion belt for putting up jobs" tha'
, fail TO bring satisfactory results.