Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-19
Ex-pRESlDENT HARRISON.
TALKS TO a NEW YORK NEWS
PAPER REPORTER.
Carefully Guards III. uterance. ana
Positively Refuses to say Anything
About President CsevcIand's Adj
nistration-indiRna Campaign.

New York, Aug ls.--The CONNER
cinl Advertiser today prints the follow
Ing interview With ex-President Har-
rison at the house Of Captain Bargnolt
at Spring Lake. n. j.. Thursday; MY
position Is peculiar one. II is hard
for people 10 understand how am
situated My lips are necessarily seal
cd 50 far as criticism Of this admin
istrntion goes. 1T would be In very
bad taste or form to draw comparl-
sons between my own and Mr.. Cleve-
land's administration. It would be high
~ discourteous FOR me 10 state wherein
I believe this administration errs.
Therefore I nave uniformly refused to
express any opinion to draw any con-
eluslon or to crltielse. and shall
continue that policy"
shall you have something TO say
about the new tariffT'
That IS different matter. That
matter was not fathered by the admin
lstratlon and l say It is legitimate for
discussion. but / am not yet ready. 1
do not wish 10 speak hastily OF
matter that 50 intimately concerns the
welfare OF nay party ana country and
goes to the very root OF our prosperity
AS a nation. Later shall prepare
careful analysis Of the situation and
shan speak to the people during the
Indiana campaign. | shall speak two
or three timos and viii lot tine people
know my views on the tarin question.
Some things that I may say may be
worth printing"
when VIII the campaign open In
1ndiauaT
Locally It opens very soon now,
but the great battle wib not begin
until the fan is well advanced
DO you confidently expect Repub-
llcan successor
1T wiz be premature to predict"
"What do You think OF the situation
In New York staten
81 think that the situation in Now
York state demands that every man
outside the state keep his hands on
That " what / think Let outsiders
keep their hands on and attend to
their own buslneaa, ] don't see any
thing that ] or any outs der should
say In the way Of argument that will
re tore harmony. An / know OF the
situation I read in the papers and I
l know that tho harmony Of which ]
] speak has not yet been secured, but
| the two wings OF the party SIN mnin-
| thin separate organizations and are as
| far apart as ever. Suggestions, advice
or talk OF any kind from outsiders
/ would b. impairment and ill advised.
/ or course the result In New York
! this fan Will have 4 mighty influence
upon national affairs"
"sincc the conclusion of the Hawai-
! ian Incident removes that question
/ from the field Of politics, possibly you
would not mind stating whether you
] a Flf,a of
settled for all time" was suggested
TO Mr. Harrison.
ITO answer that question would be
I an assumption OF superior knowledge
and not to presclence," was the re-
ply. Hawaii Is now nm independent
republic What the future may be no
] man can predict. i Will say this,
though, had the Hawaiian crisis come
slx months earlier than It did the re-
suit would probably have been dimor-
emit However" added Mr. Harrison,
~ do not wish TO pass structures upon
this Administratlau do not wish to
impuEn motives"
After the Indiana campaign closes,
shall you return TO California to re-
sumo your lectures In Sanford uni
vorsltyg"
He answered. speaking slowly; u
DO not know that 1 shall return 60
California this winter when l left
thcre It was with the understanding 1
might resume the lectures this win
ter and then again that I might not
II rests entirely with myself whether
j shah continue present relations with
the university and ! have not made
IN my mind. do not know how
many students may be enrolled this
year. ] have not the sllghteat Idea
how the Stanford estate may effect the
finances OF the college. The instiiu-
ton was very prosperous last year"
Tho general said he had not been
able to gauge the future and he could
say more about prosperity next year.