Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — HARRISON, HOAR AND REED. [ARTICLE]

HARRISON, HOAR AND REED.

Trio of Eminent Republican* Wholly ' Ont of Sympathy with McKinley. If the average observer were asked to name the three ablest and most respected Republicans now living, whom would he name? William McKinley, Magk Hanna and Theodore Roosevelt! Not if he were honest and thoughtful. Or would lie name Thomas <3. Platt, “Matt” Quay and Henry Cabot Lodge? Undoubtedly, a thoughtful observer would select ex-President Harrison, ex-Speaker Reed, and Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, if called upon to decide. These men, although widely different, are the representatives of the best ability and character in the . Republican party of to-day. General Harrison was bls own man every minute that he occupied the White House. There was no Hanna over him. He himself greatly upon his fellow-citizens as a man of sincerity and force of character. Quite I naturally. General Harrison has little respect for McKinley, for whose administration the ex-President scarcely attempts to conceal his contempt. The other day, talking to an Interviewer, Gen. Harrison said that he “did not think that the Republican party had I pursued the rightful course with regard to the trust question, and thought the ! administration was playing fast and i loose with the people on the matter. He regards the administration, how- ' ever, as having been a wise one for the i most part, but admits that several grievous mistakes have been made in j handling the reins of government." When not talking for publication he I lias damned the present administration • with much fainter praise. He is known

to take no stock in the Philippine and Porto Rico business. Thomas B. Reed, the brilliant exSpeaker, whose equal in mental equipment the McKinley outfit cannot produce, is notoriously out of sympathy with McKinleyism, and left public life rather than be compelled to defend the weak administration for .which he feels so hearty a contempt. Senator Hoar, the “old man eloquent,” is constrained, by affection for the party whose cradle be rocked, to stand by the ticket; but everybody knows that neither Ids heart nor his brain is in the cause. How can McKinleyism, distrusted if not despised by the best minds in the Republican party, expect the support of the people, or -most ridiculous of all appeal for Democratic support on '■patriotic" grounds?—Albany Argus. Intelligence of Democracy. Somebody has brought together a lot of census figures designed to show that the Bryan Democracy is of "a lower order of intelligence, education and law-abiding disposition” than Mr. McKinley’s party. This is not helpful argument for the latter party, nor is It harmless argument for the country. It is calculated to Increase class feeling and provoke party resentment. It did not avail tvhen employed against the Jefferson party in 1800, which then carried the country and held the government continuously for forty years. The rank and tile of the Democracy Is largely tlie same now as In Cleveland’s day, and yet it was then deemed a safe investment for orderly government by very conservative men.—Springfield, Mass., Republican. McKinley’s Vulnerable Record. The confident declaration of administration adherents that the record of William McKinley as President is tha one great absorbing issue of the campaign Is not as frightening In Its effect as it was expected to be. Altogether, the record of President McKinley Is one that the Republicans—or so many of them as stand by the President -will have to defend. The Democrats, under the'lbodershlp of William J. Bryan, are on the aggressive.—Cincinnati Enquirer.