The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-07-11
Republicans Credited With an
Enterprise.
AS IN DAYS OF GRANT
Hanna, Elkins and Manley Among
Those Interested.
MEN MARKED FOR SLAUGHTER
According to the Story These In
clude Present Members of
the Cabinet.

From The Journal BureauS. Room &S, Poss
6Uadsn9, Warrington
Washington. July 11.-One OF the
stanchest republicans in the United
States, who enjoys a national reputation
for loyalty to country and party and for
Veracity and general personal worth as
man, Is your correspondents authority for
saying that scheme is on foot for re-
storing to power the sort of a national
partizan machine which led in Grants
time to the revolution of 1874
For several years the republicans,
while dominated by small cliques within
state boundaries. have kept nationally
fairiy Independent. Mr.. Hanna's work in
procuring the nomination of Mckinley in
1886, though characterized by machine
methods, was after all only the we'll
planned campaign of a single manager in
behalf Of single candidate selected long
before, and the denomination in 1900 was
matter Of course. The new movement
proposes 8 union of several managers of
whom Mr.. Hanna is chief, with Elkins.
Manley, Kerens and two OF three other
members of the old guard as lieutenants.
Recognizing the futility of the talk about
Mckinley and a third term, these men
wish so to organize party within a party
as to insure control by them of the next
candidate. They have not yet selected
him, but 1t will be soon enough to do
this when they have so made their other
arrangements that whoever they select
VIII be certain to obey their bidding.
The program Of these men. The
Journ ais informant says, starts
with the dismissal from Office of eyery-
one now in position to dispense patron
age VINO refuses to use, or let them use,
MS authority for their SPECIAL ends The
men they have marked for retirement are
Secretary Hitchcock, Postmaster General
smith, Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Brtstow and Pension Commissioner
hVans, and for their places they have
In view politicians of the yielding sort.
or sympathtzers with their purpose When
they have obtained control of all the
postomce patronage, and looted the pen
sion and Indian bureaus and the land
office Of all there is in them worth having
Tor political provender, they will be In a
position to look about for a candidate.
To the man who will consent to keep his
hands off and let them have their wav
with patronage and money distribution
during the succeeding four years, they
Will be able to offer the nomination. to-
gether with support for election which
'hey believe will prove invincible.
Said 7 b Q Journals informant.
Watch the four officers I have named
Evans has had much good luck, the attack.
upon him having been made prematurely and
with almost brutal stupidity by Sickles, who,
as Tammany politician. is, of course, out
SIDE OF the deal and was probably quite un-
conscious OF the kettle OF fish he was over
turning.
AS l said, watch the four victims marked
for slaughter. II the head of one of them
Tails you will know the reason why The
number OF times the report has started that
smith was to take another portfolio and
hitchcock to return to private life and ''re-
sumo the care of long-neglected business in
terests, must have struck every outside OBJ
server as remarkable. The resuscitated ma
chine will not be satisfied till it has pro
NOTED" or denoted" every obstructionist
out Of harms way. 1t doesn't care much
which method is employed, so long as the
man goes. After that, look out for the deluee
OF spoils and corruption; and the slavery of
the republican party till it purchases its
redemption with another thrashing at the
polls.
END OF THE The action OF the
democratic state con-
bhI AN CHAPTER yention of Ohio is of
far-reaching impor-
tance. II decisively marks the end of the
Bryan chapter in the history of the demo-
cratic party. Few northern states have
had so notable q weakness for cheap
money as Ohio, and particularly in its
democratic ranks. Ten years ago. when
the national democratic organization. un-
der the leadership Of Cleveland, was pro
nounced for the gold standard, the Ohio
democrats, with spontaneous originality.
declared for free silver and Governor
Campbell. their candidate for reelection.
In speaking of the campaign, expressed
his willingness to wage it on the free
silver issue.
In the upheaval of 1896 Ohio was one
of the first states to swing into line for
free silver, largely under the leadership
of John R. Mclean and the Cincinnati
Enquirer. No one who attended the Chi
cago convention Of that year can for
get the studied regularity with which the
Mclean boomers, in presenting his name
for the vice presidency, described him
as the man who through the ENQUIRER
has made this free silver victory pos
sible." In fact. nearly all democrats of
prominence in Ohio of that period were
for free silver Even Allen G.. Thurman
d00 PoO4ASAy SAAlASASCQ OlCN6ldQQS action
In working for the unconditional repeal
Of the Sherman silver purchase law.
About the only man now prominent In
Ohio democratic politics who at that time
expressed his disbelief In free silver was
Tom Johnson, now mayor of Cleveland
He mounted the platform at the Chi
cago convention after Bryan had been
nominated and announced that while he
should support the ticket cordially he
made no secret of his opposition to the
leading issue of the fight. But his case
was exceptional. The Ohio democrats re-
mained loyal to Mr.. Bryan and his follies
throughout the first administration of Nc
Kinley. When they met in 1897 they
specifically indorsed the Chicago plat
form and quoted anew its silver plank.
AS the first democratic convention to
speak after Bryan's defeat, their action
then foreshadowed the necessity of an
other trial of the silver issue and of an
other defeat under Bryan, before the
party would regain its sense or go
back to its oldtime leadership.
The Ohio omens prove trustworthy, and
without doubt yesterdays action is equal
1y significant and decisive. 1t is doubtful
II in the history of the country case
can be found Of a more complete party
turnabout. Not only did the delegates
reject q reference to Bryan and free
silver by the decisive vote of $50 to 6.
but they even adopted a civil service re-