The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-12
HARRISON KICKING HARD.
Did Not Want Carter TO Run Things,
Having No Confidence
in Him.
Quay, Cameron and Dudley Gave
Lukewarm Support or Ac-
tive Opposition.
The Mckinley Law Caused n, However
and They We're Beaten Before
Starting the Race.


talked freely to-day about the recent de-
feat Of his party and tho causcs which
brought it about, Gays n dispatch from
WASHINGTON to the Herald. "I'he over
whelming defeat Of the republican patty"
the president said. ''is due mainly TO the
position of the party on the tariff question.
The republicans forced the issue TO an ex
treme which did not meet with the approval
Of the people," Another important ele-
ment the president said, which had much
to 60 with the defeat of the republicans
last Tuesday, was the force bill. and it was
felt at the north rs we'll as the south.
1t is the popular belief that the
force bill was sure to have kept the solid
south within old lines, but in the ptesi-
dent'a estimation it did more than that,
for it brought to the support of the demo-
Gratis many votes in the north. The vel-
dict of last Tuesday, the president con-
tinued, could be construed in but one way.
1t meant the condemnation of the extreme
high tariff policy of the republicans. The
inevitable result. if the party is to hope fot
renewal of power was the modification of
this position, but not remuneration alto
gether of the protective tariff policy which
had been the keynote of every republican
campaign for many years past.
President Harrison has very decided
views as to the conduct of the campaign.
He does not think very much of Chairman
Carter. of the republican national commit
tee. He consented to Mr.. Carter's ap-
pointment only when it became evident
that no one more acceptable could be se-
cured. He said the campaign had been
n.ismanaged and that better results would
have been secured but for the rainbow
chasing schemes to which Mr.. Garter gave
countenance and assistance. The president
is particularly chagrined at the result in
his native state and believ it largely due
to lack of good generalship. What he
wanted them to do, he said, and what he
endeavored to impress upon them, was the
absolute necessity of keeping the republi-
can states i'll line and CARVING New York.
The president said he had realized for
some time past that the drift of public
sentiment was against his party, and it
was tlhls that led him to force this advice
npol..3ae party leaders. Disregard of this
advice had much to do with the resnlt last
Iuesiay.
The president realized before any cleo
tion returns came in Tuesday that he was a
defeated man. He hoped for success until
the last hour but admitted that he had not
expected it, One of the reasona
of the presidents doubts as to the
election was the wellkrown dissffection of
a number of the prominent leaders of his
party. This was evidenced by statement
with regatd d to Dudley, Quay and Cameron.
AS to Cameron the president believes he not
only failed to support the ticket, but actu-
ally did all III his power to defeat it. Cam
eron's influence, like Quay's. extends
FAR beyond the confines of ennsylvania,
and the president evidently realized that
both these gentlemen were in position to do
much injury to the ticket in the heretofore
doubtful states. New York and Indiana
AS to Cnl Dudley, the president said he did
not believe Col. Dudley had done anything
to iniure the the ticket, but his influence
hau rather been of negative character.
Practically the president admitted that
Col. Dudley's influence in Indiana had been
used. if not to knife the ticket, to keep his
friends from working for it.
In closing the interview the president
said that while some mistakes might have
been made. it WAS quite evident to any man
that nothing could have wltbstood the
popular uprising of the people against the
high protective policy to which the republic
can party stood pledged by the Mckinley
law.