San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-19
NOT so GREEN.

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already been challenged, and Hon.
VIM. Green announces himself as an
independent candidate therefor. This
district comprises the counties of Aus
tin, Atascosa, Bee, Colorado, Cald-
we'll, Karnes, Fayette and Guada-
lupe, Gonzales, Hayes, Lee, Live Oak
and Lavaca. Tits as Farmer Alliance
candidate invoking the aid of Repub-
Leans, Union labor people, WOOL
growers and members of all labor Or
CARNATIONS that Mr.. Green announces
himself. This announcement is on a
squarely protective tariff platform,
and throws down the gauntlet to the
Free-trade supporters of the present
candidate fearlessly and intelligently.
There is no mistaking the meaning of
the utterances of this document put
forth by Mr.. Green and as a sample
of It's utterauces these are given:
II am in favor of hiyh tariff on all
imported goods that we can raise or
manufacture in this country
at tariff reform legislation propos-
ed by democrats) would destroy our
own manufacturing interests and our
own market for cotton, wool, hides,
sugar, molasses and other articles
eff Mr.. Mills could do as he would
like we would soon be in the same
fix that Germany is in-we would
have to establish soup houses and
distribute bread to hungry poor chill
dren. If he could accomplish that he
would be i'll his glory. If Mr.. Mills
was agent and attorney for European
boards of trade with instructions to
do all he could in opening a market
for their goods, he could not do any
more than he is doing now"
The wool growers OF this state
held a convention last year. They
passed resolutions requesting Hon
J. Randall, of Pennsylvania
and Hon. VIM. Mckinley, of Ohio, to
represent their interests in congress.
| read NJ. Randalps reply. 1t was
good, | suppose that Maj. Mckinley's
reply was about the same. You see
that when the wool growers o. the
great state of Texas have TO get con-
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sent their interests that they are in a
bad fix, and that they ought to quit
electing free trade tariff reform men
to con gress, for they don't represent
anything but foreign boards of
trade
These extracts will serve as a sam
pie of the views that are set forth by
Mr.. Green who proposes to make a
lively race for congress IN the Eighth
Texas district. Mr.. Green is not
He is Farmers Alliance
man pure and simple, but he is the
enemy of free trade, the protector of
American industry, American labor
and enterprise, American capital and
products, and so in line with the re-
publican party on these issues. He is
in favor Of the Alliance Sub-treasury
bill, which is not republican meas
ure, and opposed to reciprocity with
Mexico and the South American
states as inimical to the American
farmers interests, which will GER
tainly receive republican support as
measure of national policy. The plat
form of Mr.. Green is notably in two
things: 1t declares the brOadest and
most uncompromising hostility to free
trade and is more exclusively pro-
tective of American products than
the republican platform itself also,
it shows that the Farmers Alliance
as a body is not tee trade body,
and that the democratic cry of
cheaper goods for farmers under free
trade policies has not Overridden its
judgment, or blinded it's understand
ing so that the ultimate distinctions
of free trade are lost sight of.
The LIGHT does not assume in
any way to speak for the re-
publicans of the Eighth district,
but it might be we'll for them to con-
slider very carefully the invitation of
Mr.. Green to unite with the Alliance
and labor men in that district and
try and rescue it from the pernicious
free trade democracy. Moore, the
democratic candidate in this district,
vi as returned in 1888 by about $1,000
majority over i. c. Cooke, and Green
has work cut out for him. If he sue
ceeds, he has done good work in
breaking the solid ranks of the demo-
cratic congressional delegation; if he
fails, he has done good work in chaI-
longing the right of the democracy to