The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
A M.KINLEY INTERVIEW.
the Ohio Statesman Explains why the
Election Was Lost.

"The Republicans will have no alter.
native" he said, but to submit
Speaker Reeds rulings were, / think,
perfectly sound. The people elect a
majority to transact business, not to sit
around and let the minority obstruct
| legislation. The Republicans have
plainly stated their position in the mat
/ ter and will have no desire to go back on
1t. They will not, think, allow them
selves to be counted as present but not
voting, but will vote on all questions
whether in hopeless minority or not.
They will prefer that the Democrats,
being in power, take the full response
bility for all legislation, and so will
Dffer no obstruction further than de-
nand for reasonable amount of time
! Tor consideration and argument
''The position of a party with big
majority is always extremely delicate,
and only the greatest care and conse-ya-
tism will prevent serious mistakes
Their very strength regard as one ele-
ment of weakness in the Democratic par
| ty. Then, again, they have had some Sc
we're losses. Randall and Carlisle will be
| sorely missed. Carlisle is man OF
great force and intellectually and Is re-
markably common sense and conserva-
| tive. We missed him in this last ses-
sion. Randall was born leader. With
out making many long set speeches Mr..
Randall exercised the greatest influence
on the House. His fve-minute speeches
were simply masterfuL OF course he
was a little out of sympathy with his
party leaders the last few years on &C
| count of his position on the tariff. But
his loss will be keenly felt by the Demo
Gratis next year. Mr.. Mills will doubt
| less be the Democratic leader, and is
fairly entitled to the position both for
ability and period of service. Then, of
course, some new talent may be deyel-
oped."
ITO what do you Rscribe the Repub-
lican defeat and what influence had the
tariff law on the election?"
There was a variety of causes" was
the reply. at was an off year and the
first general election after the Presi'
Dental election of 1883 There was a
! large stay-at-home vote OF Republic
ans. This is made more manifest as
the official returns are announced and
| is not at all unusual at the first Con-
gressional election following great
! National contest like that Of 1888
Patronage, always an element Of weak
ness of the party in power, doubtless
had something to do with the indiffer-
ence of Republicans. 1t will no doubt
/ I har ~ "
candidates for Congress were defeated
because of the dissatisfaction of the Re-
| publicans with the distribution of the
| post office and other Federal Offices. II
wo uld be a marvel if this did not &C,
count for some of our loss. How much,
of course, do not know.
Then we lost heavily in the South
In the present Congress we have TWEEN
ty-three Republican Representative:
| from that section. In the next House
we will not have, as the returns show
to exceed half-dozen. This loss viii
not. / assume, be chargeable to the
tariff. Ohio was gerrymandered mos
unjustly. While the Republicans car
ried that State this year by 10000 ma
jority and upward the Democrats hav,
fourteen Representatives in the mex
Congress out of twenty-one. The minor
ity party, you see, will have two-third!
of the Representatives in the populal
branch of Congress. this being cleal
loss to the Republicans of eight Repre-
sentatives by larceny under the form o
law. Maryland was also gerrymanderet
So that the Republican party, which ha:
three Representatives in the present
House, will have none in the next
The Farmers Alliance in some o.
the Western and Northwestern States
whatever. else may have helped it
seems to have contributed to the deiea
Of the Republican party in these States
while in Wisconsin, as judge from the
press reports, purely local question il
nowise connected with the National is
sues carried down the Republican ma
jority. In Pennsylvania a Democratic
Governor was elected, not upon any Ma
tional or purely party question, but
from causes altogether local and o.
course in no way related to the tariff.
81 do not know to what extent the
new tariff law Influenced the election:
this year. 1t is said in some quarter:
that it had much to do with the Repub
lIcan losses. This may be true, but i
true it is not because of the law itself
but because of the misunderstanding o.
its provisions among the people and o.
the studied effort Of the free traders al
home and abroad to misrepresent it
Every enemy of protection seemed
to be engaged in deluding the people
concerning both the text and effect o.
the law. The alleged marking up o.
prices was most telling agency of de
ception and excited much prejudice
against the law. 1t must be remem
bered that the law was less than &
month old when the elections occurred
Its effect could not be felt or shown b.
actual experience. The free-trade par
tisan, moved by selfish considerations
had his opportunity and improved it
Falsebood took the place Of fact and
imposed upon the credulous people
Goods were said to have gone up il
prices which had been placed on the free
list in the new law. And many article:
where duties had been reduced were
said to have gone up, all because of the
new law. Now that the elections arr
over the law will be better understood
and must tell its own story in aetna.
operation. Time alone will vindlcate
or condemn it. Misrepresentation ant
deception will no longer avail. They
who care to know its exact provision!
can do so by the examination of the Law
itself, removed from partisan contest Of
prejudice.
THE loss Of the House OF Represent
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