Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-27

the public eye and they are going about the
state encouraged by Chairman Tanner 20 d.
vert attention from the leadership and the
candidacy OF Senator Cullorn These gentle
men are mere travelling evasions-
There Is suspicion In explanation Of this
ottttude OF my opponent This suspicion may
not be Just, 1t may be very unjust. but it Is
growing II Is spreading all over this state
among the intelligent people. The susf5icion
Is that the reason Mr. Cullom did not nominate
himself In his own convention. and the reason
enat he Is keeping as uuiet and shady as he can
during this campaign is that he has certain an
tagonfsms In his own party that he does not
want TO irrttote. There IL no doubt that Mr..
Cullom IL man OF generosity and good fellow
ehip. Out there are certain portions OF HIS
party that think he has made the mistake Of
conhLing them to his own friends; that he has
not given himself the enjoyment Of a. large
circle as he might have gotten out OF his party
ana there are certain OF those excluded gentle
men. II Is said. whom the senator il not anxious
70 notify OF HIS leadership
But there is another reason included In this
Suspicion. which Is that Mr.. Cullom Mr.. Tan
ner and the Cullom people realize as every
pablo man must have. that the senator has .
record. an they do not want that record
brought as an issue into this campaign: that
they DO not want too much said about the fact
that the senator has been Q proscctionist all
this time, voting taxes and burdens upon this
agricultural people for the benefit of my old
friends and neighbors down In Pennsylvania.
IL Is suspected that they do not want much
SAID about the senator's attitude on the in
como tax, Tor the income tax is popular prop
os'tton In Illinois. and the senator. for some
reason or other, was violently opposed to 1t.
Ihere are also whisperings about the senator
when he was governor that promise not to be
popular record among the workingmen Of this
state. do not know much about that. How
ever, that will probably come out. and We shall
know IT'S merits II is one OF the mrrmurings
OF the campaign that may grow larger rs the
campaign goes on
And then there is still another thing. The
senator YVES the author of the interstate COM
merce law. Some OF the people arc saying that
before this campaign is over that part OF the
senator record may become interesting. since
the interstate commerce law was part Of the
argument that was used in the fight against
the strikes at Chicago and throughout the
country.
Republicans Afraid to Re Frank.
Whether these suspicious OF the reasons for
the nodesty Of our senator are correct or not,
leo not pretend to say: that as long as IL is
the truth that Senator Cullom is the leader of
the republican party in Illinois this year, he
ought to let the people know what his views
! are on the tariff question lie orght to let
the people know that in q way that would
make 1t perfectly clear to them. not simply
because it would be the views Of Senator
Cuilom, although that IS most fmpor-
tant with the voters Of the state, but IL
Is also important because his views as the real
leader OF the republican party wouls be the
riows OF his party. and we have the right to
know In this campaign what our Opponents
really stand for, but up TO this moment we do
not know. There Is not man or woman in
this audience who can tell where Senator Gull
lom or the republican party OF Illinois stands
on the question OF the tariff or what they
would do with the Mckinley bill II they were
restored to power That is. they do not know
from anything these people say. / say that
the people have o right to know and the DEM
ocrats in this campaign, the representatives
OF the people, should do whatever they can
do to smoke Mr.. Cullom out and to get his
views.
Now, have been asking with this rerv mr.
pose In view (for am a servant of the people in
this canpaign) some questions OF Mr.. Cullom
He says-I notice within the last two or three
days-that he has answered all the questions
have put to him He evidently has not seen all
the questions have asked him. They were in
the press. too, but he evidently has not seen
them Some OF these questions do not care
TO press, because he cannot answer them. And
knew be could not answer them when put
them to him. He had gotten himself into log
fcal difficulties that he could not get out Of
and my purpose was accomplished IN putting
the questions. I did not expect any answer
and win drop them
But one question as 70 what he will do With
the Mckinley bill l want to press. l asked
him whether. II he were elected and the repub-
lican party put into power again, they would
reenact the Mckinley bill His answer was
after thinking over IL for week. that he would
not rcenact the Mckinley bill in its entirety"
and there he stopped. That was as far as he
went There never was Q Delphic oracle that
confused m answer more than he. It could
only be surpassed by the sphinx Then put
this question to him, and it is Q question he
has not answered:
In what material respect would you change
the Mckinley bin in reenacting it."
That is precisely what he did not want to
say. and our republican friends altogether do
not want to say and will not say in this cam
paign II they can help 1t; but anything less
than that would be no explanation and would
be Of no account to the people.
More Questions for Mr.. Cullcvu.
But as he says he has not seen this question
want to repeat It. and in order to be specifIc
and enable him to make his answer specific I
VIII ask him questions to some specific
items He ought to be grateful for that be-
cause he has been complaining in his speeches
that 1t is awfully ttresome TO repeat the same
old speech all the time. He seems to crave
something new. But the trouble is as fore
saw IL would be, he has got himself entaucled
in the tariff history of the last century. He
cannot get out OF the tangle for any length Of
time, and he is still back in the eighteenth
century pretty much all the while and cannot
get down to his own time to any useful pur-
pose. 1t will he interesting to his audience
and reviving to himself TO pay attention to nv
question.
Now, should like to know and am sure
you will all like 20 know whether IN reeuact-
ing the Mckinley bifl he would reimposc the
duty on lumber for instance. Lumber enters
not only into the whole life Of the farmers not
only is 1t the raw material Of his house ana
barns, his farm wagons. pillow and fences but il
is the raw material Of the houses of all the peo-
pie, and enters by one channel or another into
the life OF all the people Now we have made
l2mber free in our bill. Does he propose in
reenacting the Mckinley bill, to put the tariff
on lumber and again raise the price OF the wood
Of the homes and the barns Of Illinois.
Will he raise the price Of salt? II has gone
down and is going down more under this free
trade. for there is absolute free trade in lun-
Der and salt Will he again raise the price of
salt to the dairymen and the people for the
sake OF the Onondaga company ut Syracuse?
Will Cullom Help the CordsSe Trust?
Docs he propose to put the tariff back on
binding Irvine and raise that again for the
farmers? Does he propose to stand in the way
Of the benefcence to the farmers which we
have brought: We have free trade in binding
twine We will never get more free trade in
regard to this article than VIC have now But
what will be the result II you enable the re-