Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-05-25
A REPUBLICAN REVOLT.
Reed E. Co. Said to be Planning to Max,
it Hot for Hanna and Mckinley.

of other interesting articles on timel,
topics
There is war in heaven-tl:e Repuh
lican heaven-Reed and his angels art
lighting against Mckinley and hi
angels. They haye only thrown out E
skirmish line at present; the great bat
tie will follow later. This all comes
about because that obstinate son Ol
New England, Tom Reed, is candi
date for President. He was invited tc
Jeckyl Island to no purpose; he laugh
at eMcKinley, but no arrangement
could be made with him.
Reed is smart and he has thrown the
|speakership into the ring for the rivaI
factions to squable over, knowing that
the administration must take sides
and thus breed enemies. Reed is in
Europe, cool and collected, enjoying
the trouble lie has created. while Nc
Kinley is sweating blood at Virginia
Hot Springs.
This fable of the Reed law partner
ship in New York is for purpose; it
will allow him place there and to be on
the ground next spring when the dele
gates are chosen.
A great cabal of the most influential
and wealthy men in the party are
backing Reed.
Hobart, the Vice President, is for
him. Platt of New York, is also.
Sewell of New jersey.
Quay will be when the Senatorship
is settled. Foraker is willing. if he
can get share of the Ohio delegation.
Several other Senators are in the COM
bine.
Attorney General Griggs will raise
no hand to hinder Hobart and Sewell
controlling the New Jersey delegation.
Secretary Porter has shaken the dust
of the White House from off his i'm
maculate shoes and joined the gang"
The West is also in revolt and the
President has announced that he will
take ''swing around the circle" to
try and recapture it.
Dewey, the brave Dewey, who wants
to keep out of politics, is ordered home
to arouse the pulse of the people in
the subsiding Imperialistic fever,
which has been allayed and appeased
by the sober second thought of a |
righteous people. The President will
attempt to hypnotic them again from
the rear end of special train, fur
nished by the Railroad Trust free of
cost.
His honeyed words will be sown
broadcast over the country by the
Associated Press Trust. The crowds
will howl with enthusiasm,
But that does not carry caucuses
and conventions. Hanna will attend |
to that with the bung knocked out of |
the barrel. The Reed fellows have a
barrel also and they know how to use
it; they were educated in that line
when Hanna was sucking calf in
Ohio politics.
Oh, it will be battle royal; no quar-
ter will be given.
Delegates will come high, the color
ed brother from the Southern States
will be in clover for while. They will
hold the balance of power The scenes
and the Doodle will leave far in the
shade the disgraceful orgies end de.
bauch of 1888, when Sherman was
beaten and Harrison nominated. The
Pretorisn Guard will be there and the
Imperial diadem that Mckinley has
inaugurated will be, as in the days of
ancient Rome, put up to the highes
bidder.
Some may say, How do you know
that Reed is a candidate; what evil
dence have you? Evidence l can not
give you, my dear sir. In these days
of modern telegraphy without wires,
news trav els through brick and stone
and marble walls, and if l we're to ex-
pose my author, the transmitter might
be closed against me in the future.
The convention picture is of my own
painting, but it will, when the mega
tive Is developed, be found true to life
and not overdrawn. l hope to be there
with my camera and show you the pro-
duct of its film in the July number of
the Jeffersonian Democrat, 1900.
Who will be nominated, Mckinley
OF Reed? My guess would be McKin-
ley, and for these reasons:
There will be at that convention four
classes of delegates and in about equal
numbers. One fourth for the Presi-
dent, at all odds and under any Cir
|cumstances. One fourth for Reed, or
any one to beat Mckinley, equally de-
termined. One fourth who will strive
to be on the winning side, making the
best bargain they can for self and
friends. One fourth openly in the mar
ket to the highest bidder. OF the
whole, there will be sprinkling who
are at heart stalwart Republicans
honestly believing that the futu.e
safety Of the Republic depends on their
party Is success; they will be much gov
erned by the arguments OF the Admin
istration people that, to throw over
Mckinley would be to acknowledge
that Imperialism and all that McKin-
| ley stands for had been a failure, and
| to enter the campaign under those cir
cumstances would be to invite defeat.
The great patronage at the service of
the Administration, increased to vast
proportions by the war and the census
legislation, commissioners, and what
| not, will hold many Republican pa
triot in line until after the convention.
Mckinley understands this branch of
politics to perfection, and will devote
many day, that should be used for
the welfare of the republic and it's peo-
ple to usinp il where il will do the