Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-26

He Tells ON What Issues the Fight I'm Mis-
souri Was Made.

souri Was Made.
Representative Dockery of Missouri reached
Washington today. Speaking with a STAR re-
porter on the subject of the election he said
that the fight in Missouri was made on three
main issues, which he named in the order Of their
Importance in the canvass. They were the
tariff, the silver question and the fed
eral election bill. ''of course" he said.
the methods Of Speaker Reed and
the republican party in the House
entered generally into the campaign discussion.
but these three things were what the speakers
were talking about and what the people were
thinking about
TARIFF INFLUENCE GENERAL.
The influence of the tariff discussion was
general. 1t was felt everywhere throughout
the country, having an effect among republicans
as well as democrats. 1t WAS the main issue
The SILVER question had a strong influence in
bringing about the result in the west, and the
passage of the force bill through the House
prevented US from losing n democratic vote.
democrats who were dissatisfied and might
have joined in a third party movement felt
that they must stand by the old party 10 pro-
test against force. and as democrats thew came
up and voted the democratic ticket"
THAT FARMERS ALLIANCE
Speaking of the Farmers Alliance. Mr..
I.
growing out of the disspproval of class legisla-
ton which has been going on for the past
thirty years. With wise and fair treatment by
the democrats, such as they are sure to receive.
the alliance movement is goirg TO prove greatly
to the advantage of the democratic party in -.
There are three things the farmers
want and they may expect TO get them through
the efforts of the democratic party. They want
greater volume of money; they want to get
their farm implements and those necessarics
which they have To buy at prices cheaper than
they now have TO pay, and they want an en-
larged market Tor farm products.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO.
"The democrats are endeavoring to give them
all this by the wiscst and surest means possible
They will enlarge the volume of money by the
passage of act for the free coinage
OF silver, and by reform of the
tariff they will reduce the prices their cloth
Ing, their binding Irvine, their piows and all
the necessaries they have buy and will at the
same time enlarge the market for their pro-
ducts. We propose to give them reciprocity
that means something: reciprocity which will
be benefit to the farmers. Ii is not reciproc-
lty In homeopathic doses that they want.
They want a good old-time allopathic pre-
scription. They want fair exchange between
what they buy and what they sell. I'm 1860 the
farmers on the eastern coast. with less than
half the population they now have. exported
s256. 0O0, 900 of surplus farm products.
I'm thirty years, with the IRENE ndous increase
OF population and the easy means of transpor-
tation from all over the country, there il a sur
plus sale of but 1881 100000. 1t ought easily To
be double this"
THE sUBTREAsURY PLAN.
Speaking of the subtreasury plan Mr.. Dock
cry thought that the great mass of farmers
would not press that if they got the relief they
ought to have. That plan looked 20 the Dor
rowing of money; the efforts of the democrats
would be directed toward lifting the farmers
out of the borrowing class.
He said that every yeoman in the country
was thinking for himself and that there was an
almost universal conviction in the west that
nothing but the most extraordinary blunder-
ing could defeat the democrats in 80. He had
nothing to say about the speakership and no
candidate to name for 3d.