Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-28
TOM REED FOR PRESIDENT.
STARTLING STATEMENTS FROM A
CLOSE POLITICAL FRIEND.
Colonel conger Says Mckinley f. Re-
sponsibic for the silver Plank I'm
the Ohio PIatform.--Mcf<in-
feyism Denounced.


his attitude OF opposition to the can
didacy OF Governor Mckinley for the
presidency and his reasons therefor.
Colonel A. l.. conger prepared the fol-
lowing typewriter statement. Though
the colonel did not say so. the state
ment Is understood 10 be the first
authentic announcement of the plan Of
campaign which il 10 be inaugurated
against the Ohio man by Thomas B.
Reed OF Maine. as Conger IL believed
10 be speaking with the consent Of his
friends.
Il do not quite understand what all
this political hubbub IL about" said
Colonel Conger, but the people who
are kicking II up are killing on their
candidate and making votes for Tom
Reed every day
"Garheld. In the fepubllcan national
convention OF 1880 and II has been the
law Of the party ever since, said that
every Republican should have the right
TO crlticise the action " our party
leaders, and went so far as to say
that he should not be ostracised or
run out OF his party, n. for good rea.
sons, he would not vote for his party
candidate.
II have been educated for a high
protectlonist. but have been engaged
OF manufacture OF this country for a
number of years, and during that time
have learned some things by experience
which have changed my views upon the
tariff question,
Governor Mckinley is the leader Of
our party in Ohio. The correspondents
sending out the news OF our recent
state convention said that every plank
In the platform was first submitted to
the governor for his approval. They
seek to commit the party to the in
dorsement Of the Mckinley bill for
1896.
straddIcd the silver Question.
They also put another plank in the
platform, straddling the silver question
OF course we can fairly and Justly hold
the governor responsible for these two
propositions as the platform upon
which he would stand in 1896.
80 far as the Mckinley bill Is con-
cerned, we lost the campaign in 1892
upon that Issue. The Republican party
10 for protection. The country has
prospered under IL, but as we have
grown older we have needed less pro-
lection.
we meant in our national platform
In lss0-or, at least, II was the inter-
probation put on 1t by the party-that
we had now reached n point In our
history when we could AFFORD to make
reductions in the tariff This was 80
stated by our speakers on the stump
and by the Republican press, but when
we put forth the Mckinley bill we vlo-
lated the pledges OF the party, in
creased duties. then went forth to bat
Tie upon the proposition and were
beaten. Now It would simply be polltl-
cal suicide to start out upon that prop
osition In 1896
we win take for instance. the sub
ject Of binder Irvine. There are three
hundred millions OF capital Invested In
the manufacture OF agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS and farm machinery In this
country giving employment directly
or Indirectly to more than 100000 Of
Americas laborlng men.
Whatever Is good for the American
farmer and WIFI advance his interest
IL good FOR the interests OF the manu-
tacturers Of agricultural machinery
and their employees, Their prosperity
must 20 hand In hand Many OF the
leading manufacturers OF Agricultural
implements We're opposed to n duty
ON binder twine
binder Irvine Trust.
by request. 1 went before Major
| Kckinley, when he was framing his
bill, and asked that no duty be put
upon binder Irvine, and explained 10
him the reason why It would be against
tue. interests of the Republican par
| and the rslple TO put a duty upon ID.
but the duty went on. The binder
trust was manufacturing aisal twine.
! which cost cents pound mann
iactured, and i was being sold TO the
farmer at II. u and 1G cents. or 800 or
| 400 per cent above It's cost.
"The trust, which perhaps had six or
seven millions invested, had been nav
! lng dividends on "A capital OF $40 600 900
/ NOW, there Is not n farmer in The
| United states. II he understands his
mseiresN VINO VIII vote for any bill
Mhieh ptrpetrates such an Injustice
! upon him There IL not a merchant
business man or manufacturer outside
| OF the trust IN the United States who
| II interested IN perpetrating such an
| injustice Our friends the enetnv-
turned this matter against us in the
Again. | am Interested in manu-
| featuring In different lines. In LOOK.
/ ing over the pay rolls we find Inc
wares paid In the Agricultural business
I Ewing employment 20 grent army Of
people average s2,25 for skilled labor
/ industry, and find in that line the Mo.
/ klnley bill has raised the duty until
/ 1t stands at $50 per cent. '"
d. The wages for skilled labor nm
thht pay roll average ilvr timos wbat
they arc In the other Now. | know
l OF instances where skilled labor nVer
ages from 80 TO Sl5 and $40 pel. dnv
rms rs un-Americ|n. u tho laborinr
| man In the agricultural businsss wnnis
10 bnili a house he niutt pay for tbe
! material that comes from the other ia
Dor upon LASTS lse or six times rlrh-
! or than what he is getting Tor his ia
1 Dor ana ann opposed to .he kind on
| protection ihat liscrlminateq IN this
why, and that is what the MCKINLEY
! bill does
There are scores OF wrongs ana in
constituencies In the bill and ii II ali
wrong for Governor Mckinley and Ms
friends to undertake to sommit tie ~.
publican party 10 proposition that
| VIII lead TO sure defeat In isaS, II Il
[ not crime for republicans 10 diner
I upon those propositions. and s9me on.
republican party,
Tnrin Qucstions.
Personally. ] stand upon the tarlef
| question whore the Republican nation-
~ convention LEFT Il In lSSs. FOR revision
downward We have population 81
d5,Opo.OOn and we shall soon have !,
population Of 100000, 900. The people Of
this country do not propose 10 see Az
yer knocked out, and We want tarirr
| reductions as fast as the snfety ~ the
business interests viii warrant.
we want that Kind OF protection
that will deal justly and fairly win
MI classes OF American lshor. We do