Show The Cincinnati Enquirer grows I facetious of late in dilating upon the worthiness of the respective Republican Republi-can candidates for the office of president presi-dent of the United States Of Ohios favorite son in a fine vein of satire it recently said I We have always told our Republican friends that they cannot do better than to take our comely little Napoleon I whose name is the adjective which describes des-cribes the highest tariff bill ever framed If they want protection where is the man who dares to favor higher duties than McKinley If they want a gold standard man the Republicans Republi-cans of that persuasion know that Governor McKinley would as soon be caught playing poker on Sunday in a corner saloon in Cincinnati with the I windows open as to do anything antagonistic an-tagonistic to toe associated banks the chamber of commerce or the stock exchange I change of New York City If the silver sil-ver coinage Republicans want a candidate I candi-date of their way of thinking we point I with pride to the McKinley straddle in the recent state conventiona straddle which outstraddles the Minneapolis national convention straddle of 1892 or the straddle of the Democratic national na-tional convention of the same year Of course the bimetalllsts are fully aware I that the Republican party cannot favor silver coinage without losing indispensable in-dispensable eastern states besides having the cold shoulder from Wall street when asking for campaign subscriptions sub-scriptions But while the Grand Old Party is obliged to stand by the gold faction McKinley if given control of the national convention will give them the handsomest silverplated goldbug resolution that has ever been framed Those of the Republican politicians in the far west who are only for silver to please ther Constituents can pretend pre-tend to really believe that the McKinley I Mc-Kinley straddle means free silver coinage coin-age So take it for all in all our own McKinley can probably do the financial twohorse act with the horses going in opposite directions with less damage I to himself than any other politician ol his time I |