The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-05-17
SOUR ON NrKINLEY.

Kansas republican politicians have
soured on Mckinley. a Kansas City
daily of May IL has the following:
cit is related that the editor Of a re-
publican newspaper In Kansas went to
Gov. Stanley the other day and asked
him to write a piece telling how tick
led Kansas people were to have Presi-
dent Mckinley visit them. Gov. Stan
ley declined. Pressed for reason he
said that President Mckinley had
given Kansas the worst Of it all along.
First, he planned to spend three
days In Colorado and three days in
Missouri, neither of which states gave
him an electoral vote; but Kansas,
which went for him last year, had
practically been given the go-by. He
had condescended to stop a couple Of
hours at Topeka. and four other towns
would have him for five minutes. The
balance Of the time he would be shut
up in his private car.
"And when the state officers had
asked permission to meet the presi-
Dental party at the state line, and es-
cort it across the state, they were
snubbed, although exchange Of courte-
sizes Of that character with officials of
other states is made almost daily. In
view of these circumstances, the gov
ernor did not feel it to be his duty to
write the article as requested"
The eyes Of the faithful have sudden
" been opened. They 'see men as
trees walking" Editor William Allen
White, of the Emporia Gazette, says:
Mckinley never had an idea in his
head. He is essentially not a thinker.
He is in no sense a scholar. He has
not kept anywhere abreast of the eco
nomic thought of his time. Until the
campaign Of 1895 he was insure about
finance. He has uttered no sentiment
in all his four years of official speak
ing and writing that has lived 80 min
utes after it was put on paper. Twenty
men in Lyon, county can make as
good a speech-as Mckinley and the ed
itOr, Of the Record can make better
speech than Mckinley ever thought of.
No man who doesn't read can have
much to say. You can't draw water
out Of an empty cistern.
Mckinley is only a man-just a
common, ordinary man, with two legs
and the usual number of feet and eyes
and brains and teeth and vertebrate.
A man doesn't have to know much to
be president of the United States. The
average president of the United
States, stripped of his fame and power,
would not be eligable to membership
in mans literary club in a country
town. There have been three except
ions to this rule in 40 years"
Another republican newspaper man,
Bent Murdoch, of the EIdorado Re
publican, backs up Editor Whites esti-
mate Of Mckinley. He says:
There is nothing inspiring in one
Of MeKinley's speeches. Mckinley is
an educated politician, but not an or
atOr. He is so much Of a politician
that he has no principles of his own.
If you could convince him tomorrow
that the popular sentiment was for
free silver, he would be a free silverite
before you could turn your hand
over"
These "boys" must be off the reser-
walton, and, with all their toggery and
war paint on. This is bad enough, but
from distant California there comes
word that the Ohio tribe are in danger
of going on the war path. Gov. Nash,
Of the Buckeye state, and the Ohio
congressman, travelling in specials" to
San Francisco to be present at the
launching of the battleship, have been
frequently "laid out" in favor Of the
presidential train, and complain of the
general chilliness of their reception in
that land of sunshine and flowers. 1t
is, latter me the deluge."
1t Is refreshing harmony-and
inspiring-the estimates Of the presi-
dents worth-and to hear it from their
own mouth.
1t is refreshing to read. even in the