The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-12

NEW YORK, Nov. IA special from
talked freely yesterday about the defeat
of his party. He discussed not only the
recent election but the gravity of the sit
uation which now confronts the Republi-
can party. The overwhelming defeat OF
the Republican party, the President said,
was due mainly to the position of the
party on the tariff question.
The Republicans had forced this issue to
an extreme which evidently did not meet
with the approval of the people.
This expression OF opinion on the part
of the President verifes the rumor cur
rent here sometime ago that it was the
party and not the President who took
such an extreme position on the two
leading issues upon which the Republican
campaign was to be made. There was a
popular belief that
the Force Bill Issue
kept the solid South within the old lines,
but in the Presidents estimation it also
brought to the support of the Democratic
ticket many votes in the North.
The verdict of last Tuesday, the Presi-
dent said, could be construed in but one
way. 1t meant a condemnation OF the
extreme high tariff policy of the Republi-
cans. The inevitable result, il the party
was to hope for a renewal Of power, was a
modification OF this petition, but not a
remuneration altogether Of the protective
tariff policy.
President Harrison does not think much
OF Chairman Carter of the Republican ma
tionaf committee. He consented TO Mr.
Carter's appointment only when il be-
came evident that no more acceptable
man could be secured. He said the cam
paign
Had Been Mismanaged.
Better results would have been secured
but for the "rainbow chasing" schemes to
which Mr.. Carter gave countenance and
assistance. The President is particularly
chagrined at the result In his native state
and believes that II was largely due to
lack of good generalship.
He said he had endeavored to impress
on the Republican managers the absolute
necessity OF keeping the Republican states
in line and carrying New York.
The President said that he had realized
for some time past that the drift of public
sentiment was against him and his party
and 1t was this that led him to force this
advice upon the party leaders. The dis
had much to do with the result of last
Tuesday.
The President said he realized before
any returns came in Tuesday that he was
defeated. He hoped for success until the
last hour, but admitted he had not expect
ed 1t.
One of the Reasons
for the Presidents doubt as to his election
was the disaffection of number of prom
inent leaders OF his party. This is evil
denced by his statement with regard to
Dudley, Quay and Cameron.
The President believes Cameron did all
in his power to defeat the ticket. Practi-
cally the President admitted that Col
Dudley's influence in Indiana had been
used, il not TO knife the ticket, to keep
his friends from working il.
The President also intimated that Quay's
influence had injured the ticket i'm New
York and Indiana.
The President further said that while
some mistakes might have been made,
nothing could have withstood the popu-
lar uprising OF the people against the high
protective policy 10 which the Republics
party stood pledged by the Mckinley law.