Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
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larger Foreign Market.
The dispatch from washington 70 the
New York Herald in regard t0some ut
eprances OF Blaine on. the Mckinley
hill has attracted much attention The
rromarks were said to have been made
I'm the Senate Appropriation Commit
tee. Blaine was so outspokcn against
McKinley's tariff job that many people
were not disposed to believe that the
Herald's report was true. 1t was not
believed that Blaine would make such
sweeping statements in opposition to .
measure which his party had rushed
through the House and Is now trying to
put through the Senate.
The report printed in the New York
,paper Is in part as follows:
1.-THE Democratic member OF the COM
mittee, Mr.. Blackburn, was delighted
with the tone Of Mr.. Blaine's view, and
ut an opportune moment he Is reported
to have said:
~ wish you were not Mr.. Secretary
and were in this Senate to raise your
voice against this Mckinley bill"
.Mr. Blaine-I wish so too. 1t is the
most dangerous, II not the most ina,
NOUS, measure that was ever concocteo
by any party. The men who vote Tor
this bill will wreck the Republican
party. II were in the Senate, ! would
rather have my right arm torn out OF
Ats socket than vote for this bill.
..Senator Allison with some feeling)
You are Yinking at Senator Black
burn across the table, and are just say
ing this to please him.
I.Air. Blaine-I was winking at Sena-
tor Blackburn because he was winking
at me; but I say solemnly that this
Mckinley bill is an outrage and ought
vto be killed by the Senate"
There is one touch in this story which
cave It a color Of truth-that part about
blaine and Blackburn winking at each
other, and Blaine's rcmark when ALI
non called attention to it. For this rea-
SON newspaper men were disposed to
think the story genuine.
But now the whole thing has been
substantially confirmed. William Z.
Curtis, who attracted considerable at
Nention last winter through his connec-
ton with the Pan-American Congress,
and who now has q position under
Blaine in the State Department. has
riyen out an authorized explanation"
which has been printed in the New
York Tribune.
Curtis says: There is no reason why
the actual facts about the incident in
the Appropriation Committee room
the other day should not be related. l
happened to be witness and the cir
cumstauces were theses"
He then goes on to tell how Blaine
tr ed to impress the committee with his
idea that we should use the sugar duty
.as a means to secure reciprocity with
our Southe neighbors; but Curtis takes
GOOD care not to deny the strong
language which Blaine was represented
as using.
He even gOes so far as to say that
Blaine declared that if he were in the
Senate he would fight the sugar sched-
ule to the best of his ability-from
which it may be guessed that Blaine
may have used the vigorous language
above quoted
And as for that part OF the report
which refers to the ''winking" between
Blaine and Blackburn. 1t Is almost sub
.stantiated by Curtis. ''Mr. Blackburn"
he says, INDUCED in little chatting in
n ocular way" What this chatting was
and what Blaine's answer was he does
not venture to tell us; and as this ''au-
khorized explanation" does not deny
Blaine's sharp words Of condemnation
Tor the Mckinley bill, it may be safely
assumed that those words are genuine.
But Senator Blackburn himself has
been heard from and he veri6es the
published report. He says: II never
heard a more earnest or emphatic de-
nunciation of q measure than that Of
Mr.. Blaine on the Mckinley bill. He
tore 10 to tatters and warned the Re-
Oublican members Of the committee
chat IL they passed the bill in its pres
-ent shape the Democrats would sweep
the country in 1892. So earnest and
vigorous was Mr.. Blaine that he brought
MS silk hat down on the table with
crushing force, to considerable damage
TO the hat"
Maine, then, is in open rebellion
against some parts of the Mckinley bill
The question now is which represents
the Republican party-Blaine or Nc
Kinley?
One thing at least is clear. Blaine
recognizes the fact that our farmers
-aust have wider market for their
products in order to get good prices.
The Home Market Club, Of Boston, has
Cor years been trying to drill into the
heads of the farmers that the American
mzrlDet is the only one that we need to
concern ourselves about
blaine knows better than that and
-. L., Ia tho Anrifnn Of