The record-union., 1892-11-11
FOSTERS VERSION.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. = Secretary
Charles Foster said this afternoon there
were three classesFof people who voted
the Democratic ticket-one a set Of manu-
facturers who were tired of labor troubles
and came to the conclusion that free trade
was better for them because it would re-
duce wages and thus compensate for the
reduction of the tariff.
Another class concluded that the Nc
klnley bill was too high. I don't know
what effect those people had, but it was an
excuse tor such people as Mac Neagh and
Gresham to turn front.
The third class was cheap labor That
class thought the profits made by manu-
facturers not fairly distributed. The
school questions affected Illinois and
Wisconsin. In fact the Lutheran Church
made itself felt in the West. When | got
10 ONO L discovered trouble among the
Iaboring men. They were talking about
the Homestead affair, and about Carne-
gle being too rich, while they were poor.
i his Is strange result in view of pros
porous condition of the country. Every
interest Is in perhaps the most prosper
Gus condition ever known. Labor was
never 50 much in demand; the cost of
living never so cheap; failures never so
few. Yet in view of this prosperity the
people voted for change, apparently not
knowing when they were well off"
A PEOPLES Party OPINION.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10.-Chairman Taube-
neck of the National Campaign Com
mittee of the Peoples party, asked re-
garding the election said: THE result was
produced, above all, bya spirit of unrest,
discomfort and dissatisfaction among the
people of the nation. Then the old party
ties were loosened, if not broken. 1t has
taken the American people long years to
discover that the tariff is a tax, and the
foreign manufacturer does not pay it. and
it will take them years to learn that a
tariff for revenue will not remove the bur-
dens of which they complain. The peo-
pie have simply jumped from one fire
into another. The Peoples party will
not, under any consideration, give up
the fight on the lines mapped out, but
will Immediately reorganiZe and prepare
for the next contest"
CALCULATIONS KNOCKED OUT.
New YORK, Nov. 10.-Republican Com
mitteeman Joseph H. Manley, in an
interview to-day, said the returns showed
that the workingmen in the manufactur-
ing centers of the whole country had
gone against the Republican party, while
the agricultural interests. as represented
by the farmer vote, stood by it.
j. 5. Clarkson of Iowa said all the best
calculations in respect to every State ex-
cept his own had been set at naught by
the results of the election. He was es-
pecially sorry for the defeat of Senator
SpOoner as Republican candidate for
Governor of Wisconsin.
DEPEw's VIEWS.
New YoRK,..Nov. u.-Chauncey NJ.
Depew expressed his views on the result
of the election in speech at the Union
League Club tonight. In the course of
his remarks he said he talked to-day
with a pearl-buttOn manufacturer, who
paid So a week to his hands before the
passage of the Mckinley bill, but was
paying $50 to $26 now. Yet he said they
all voted the Democratic ticket. because
they were led to believe they were not
getting share of the profits. Thus the
Democrats got laboring vote. This ver-
dict demands repeal of the Mckinley
bill, and the cutting OFT of the tariff
where it protects either mill-owners or
mill-hands.
Said Mr.. Depew: when 1 asked a
Democratic Congressman to-day if the
Democrats would repeal the tariff law
and 10 per cent. tax on State banks he re-
piled: Brother Depew. the platform is
made to get in on, not to stand on
II hope" said Mr.. Depew, ''the Demo-
Gratis will have control of the Senate.
Then they cannot say we have prevented
their fulfilling their Chicago promises,
and we can say to them, You are phe-
nomenal frauds and got control by lying
We will make them confess they did not
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