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disaffection ana
disgust as to the dilly-dally , wishy-
, washy , namby-pamby policy of the pres
ent administration , are as much in evi
dence as the bad quality of much of the
canned and other beef which was furnished -
nished our army in Cuba. This dissent
and this denunciation are largely with
in the membership of the republican
party. The anti-McKinley element in
that organization is daily growing in
vigor and dimensions. Even in Ohio it
is an unconcealed fact that Senator
Forakor will contest with McKinley for
the delegation to the next republican
national convention. Foraker has a
strong following among the republicans
of Ohio and is quite likely to secure a
delegation from that state in favor of
his nomination to the presidency.
Everywhere there is increasing and in
tensifying antagonism to the smug and
iudecisiyo McKiuley. Everywhere he is
recognized as a weak man entirely in
capable of acting independently upon
his own judgment and out from under
the influences of plotting politicians of
small caliber , by whom he is constantly
surrounded.
Mr. McKiuley has coino to be known
as a very fat and juicy specimen of the
tree-toad variety of politicians. The
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understand , is always the color of the
bark to which he is attached , and
McKiuley is merely a reflection of the
tints , hues and colorings of Hauua ,
Steve Elkius , Matt Quay and other
profoundly dyed statesmen of their
breed. It is not too early to declare
that the prospect for McKinle3T's being
beaten for the nomination to the presi
dency in the republican convention next
year brightens from day to day. Tom
Heed , though he may be located hi New
York ; Foraker , of Ohio ; Allison , of
Iowa ; and Cushmau K. Davis , of Min
nesota , are , any one of them , stronger
with the masses of the republican party
and stand higher in the estimation of
all parties throughout the country , than
does McKinloy. Any one of them is
admittedly of more ability and exper
ience. Any one of them , not excepting
oven Allison , has more self-reliance and
capacity for governing others.
The civil war
More than a gen
eration has passed to the great beyond
since the surrender at Appomattox. Dur
ing the first years of peace the South
was overrun by carpet-bag statesmen
who governed and robbed without
mercy. Only the conservative citizen
ship of the Northern states protested
against the terrible wrongs thus inflicted
upon decent people during the hybrid
reign of negro ignorance , white rascality
and greed. Only the older and bettor
leaders of the Northern democracy , like
Seymour and Tildon , and Hendricks
and Hancock and Francis P. Blair or
ganized to resurrect and protect the per
sonal rights of Southern men and
women.
But not until 1884 did democracy suc
ceed in electing a president of the
United States who had the wisdom to
see and the courage to assert the rights
of American citizenship for the men of
the South.
To President Cleveland the South
owes its political rehabilitation. Ho ex
tended to Southerners a forgiving and
fraternal hand and under his leadership
they came up onto the same social and
political piano which the constitution in
tended them and all other citizens of
this republic to occupy. No other dem
ocratic leader did so much for the restor
ation of law and order and prosperity to
the South.
But during the second administration
of President Cleveland , which began
March 4 , 1893 , a great financial panic
( the logical result of bad financial expe
dients and makeshift legislation , com
bined with high tariff fallacies ) swept
over the United States.
That panic took men off their business
feet and crazed them with new and un
tried monetary theories. And in their
distress and madness they forgot to rea
son , to aualvze and to seek the causes of
their trouble.
The Bland-Allison act , a primary and
potent cause of the pnuic , was not called
in question. The Sherman act , which
was also an error and a mere attempted
mitigation of the Bland-Allison evil , was
repealed , to be sure , but after the mis
chief had been accomplished.
Then there sprang into life the lunacy
of silver , and its free coinage at the ratio
_ of sixteen to one
Silver Lunacy. , ,
as a remedy for all
pecuniary ills. And the South unmind
ful of the fidelity with which the older
and more experienced leaders of demo
cracy had defended the rights of its
citizens against forcebills and all other
abominable legislation and forgetting
how those same leaders had saved the
social and political status of the South
erners from abject degradation , went off
after the fallacy of free silver and under
the leadership of a "Boy Orator. "
This phenomenal lawyer who never
had a client , this resonant statesman
who never drafted a statute , this skilled
financier who never made a dollar , this
soldier who never fired a gun nor saw a
battle is again in the saddle and hoarsely
commanding the South to follow him
once more to disaster and defeat.
But the free South is not indebted to
the apostles and advocates of free silver.
The freedom aud prosperity of the South
were not formulated out of the brains
and efforts of those men who led the
democracy to discontent , disintegration
and defeat in 1896. Nor will prosperity
bo conserved or evoked by wildly fol
lowing again the orders and commands
of those who preach dishonesty in the
payment of debts and exhort for the de
basement of the national standard of
value.
The South needs good credit. It can
have that by voting always for sound
money against repudiation public and
private and in favor of paying all debts
in money equivalent to that in which
they were contracted.
It needs good money and plenty of it
for the development of its unlimited
possibilities in agriculture , horticulture ,
manufacture and commerce. And all
these things the South will have when
free silver and Bryanarchy shall have
been renounced and abjured ; but never
until that time.
NOSK.KOSE. Tnf
TIVE has long been
an admirer of "Driftwood" and , for
many years , a faithful reader of all that
Bixby has written in The State Journal.
But now the said Bixby who knows all
flowers , and revels in bowers , where the
rose , ho knows , always grows , impli
cates a senatorial nose because upon it
may repose the intense color of the red ,
red rose. And without reverence for
Troubadour Thurston he plunges into
parody and mocks the lofty languor and
majestic sentimentality of that top-loft-
ical organism of vocabularies and vac
uities with the reviling verses hereunto
appended as an awful example of what
a man who knows may say about a nose
or rose :
I said to my nose : "O , nose , red nose ,
Will you say to mo , honor bright ,
What the hidden cause in the mutter was
That you came to bo such a sight ? "
I said to my nose : "O , nose , red nose ,
You shame mo at every turn ,
And whene'er I run in the hot old sun ,
You blister and blaxo and burn. "
I said to my nose : "O , nose , red nose ,
Is there any relief in reach ?
Is there any old dye that I can buy
That will work as a nasal bleach ? "
The red nose lifted itself a notch
And answered mo , "Abor nit ;
If you'd drink less grog and more water , hog ,
It would whiten mo out a bit. "
The World-Herald of Omaha main
tains a poet of voracity , veracity , per
spicacity , sagacity and digestive capac
ity. But he has no reverence for that
tender and true troubadour , the Hon.
John Mellifluence Thurston. See :
I said to my lunch : "O lunch ! Late lunch 1
Will you Ho on my stomach tonight ;
Will you nestle there , or rear and tear
In a huge nightmarish fright ? "
I said to my lunch : "O lunch ! LatolunchI
Will you thrill mo with aching pain ;
Will your llts and jerks bust my stomach
works
So I ntivcr can lunch again ? "
I said to my lunch : "O lunch ! Late lunch !
Will you throb like a stonebruised too ;
Will you double mo up like a poisoned pup
And fill mo with grief and woo ? "
And my late lunch gave a dyspeptic hump
And answered 1110 fair and true ;
"I'm onto my job and I'll jump and throb
Till the air with your cussing'e blue ! "
