The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-03-15
The AaHa Writing on the Wall.

Mr.. Mckinley was not TO speak
at the Ohio Waldorf Astoria ban
qust last Saturday night, but he
did speak, and from carefully
prepared manuscript. He opened
the campaign over the wine cups q
la Belshszzar, with his scribes,
sycophants, chief priests and sooth-
sayers closed In around him.
Imagine William Mel Kinley|
with his surroundings framing a
Declaration of Independence and a
United States constitution! Tne
present one is not good enough. 1t
is not broad or liberal enough. SO
says MIR. Mckinley, and to say his
congress, the trust magnates, the
banks, money lenders, and Lom-
bard street. There we must repeal
this effete Magma Charta or else
alter it to suit OUR notions of how
the government ought to be carried
on.
It appears that all or our Repub-
lican craftsmanship is exploited ut
glittering banquets, where Bel
shszzsr and Dives, Croesus and the
trusts make themselves conspic-
uous and hiccup their approval at
the resounding phrase, "Hurrah
for prosperityw They find iustii
cation in it, for do they not guzzle
gobs of it In Veuve CliquOt, use 1t
as can opener for their pate de
foie gras? But there was behind
this noisy vapor scheme.
The New York Journal says that
the analysis of the speeches re-
veals clever plan, which was to
open the campaign and give Mr.,
Mckinley and the others an oppor-
tunity to go before the country as
saints ready for canonization.
To give the president a chance
to say:
eve are neither In alliance nor
antagonism with any foreign pow
er.
"The Spanish war thrusts res
possibilities upon the nation that
it cannot escape.
"There can be no imperialism.
Those who fear it want it. Those
who believe In the Republican
party are against it,"
To let Mark Hanna look over the
candidates for the vice. presidency,
to wit, Cornelius N. Bliss, Stephen
B. Elkins and Timothy "Vest"
Woodruff.
To explain why Gen. Joe Wheel
er has been neglected.
To corral the bucking bronco,
Gov. Roosevelt, the Don Quixote
of American politics.
To explain the Nicaragua canal
treaty.
To get the state of New York In
lfne with the administration.
To start off his campaign for a
second term of the presidency.
Campbell of OHIO, Gov. Camp.
bell, wrote upon the wall before the
eyes of the assembled satraps:
"Thou hast been weighed in the
balance and found wanting" He
was not on the program, but there
arose lusty yell for Gov. Camp
bell, and he walked up before the
president and expressed his views,
which he afterwards enlarged upon
in Journal interview:
81 say now, and said before the
president, that wei mean we
Democrats will give him chance
If he does not arrange for the
building of a canal which will be
ours and ours alone; if he does not
admit our possessions on terms ol
statehood in the year that is left tc
him, then we shall put up man
next November who will. l am
willing to give him chance, but
If he does not accomplish these
things he will re beaten.
"If the Democracy makes ne
mistakes 1t will win in the mex,
national election. The number o
people who are not privileged, who
do not belong to the favored class
es, who do not get the crumbs of
the table of the trusts, Is larger
than the number who are support
ing the present administration, It.
self supporter by trusts. The De
mocracy can get the votes of tha
majority"
From this carefully prepared
manuscript the president read:
"There can be no Imperialism
Those who fear are against 1t ThOs.
who have faith In the republic ar,
against it. Our only difference /,
that those who do not agree will
US Me and Mark have no conf
dence in the virtue or capacity OF