Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — Subdued and Reflective. [ARTICLE]

Subdued and Reflective.

The bosses of the g.o.p. are not so confidant of carrying the c ,untry with ahurrah as they were six months ago. A distinguished coirespondent of a Republican newspaper savs that the Bt. Louis convention re -iuds one of a funeral procession. “Men who have been attending national conventions for a long time,” he says, “declares that this comes nearer being a funeral procession than any onvention they ever attended. Thoy say it is not the so it of convention the Re üblican party ought to have this year with the tide coming its way so strong. The burdon of the complaint is that there is not anything to enthuse the party; nothing to send its representatives back into the States with’their ■ leaves rolled up ready for work. That old watchword “protection” seems to hare lost its charm. One in ths crowd d corridors for hoars and he will n.t hear the word mentioned. 11 has become quite plain to the men wl o ar* running things that the men. ey question is the question and they have not been able to see yet how the grand old party is going to v ork itself np into an

enthusiastic oonditiod on this question, no matter what the plank may say.“ The hand of Wall street is on the con vention. It leads the g. o. p. elepuant whithersoever it likes. MoKinley is the mere puppet of the moneyed arlstosraoy that is diotating what shall be done. — They are for MoKinlay merely because he is the one candidate who will submit tamely to their command*. They know him because they have used him in their interests before now.