The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-20
REPUBLICAN HYPOeRITEs.

The Sentinel considers the action Of
the senate on the sugar schedule, ard
all the incidents connected with it, as
clearly disgraceful. and it has no word
of apology to offer for any part of it..
At the same time we do not see where
republican newspapers have any room to
talk about it. for precisely the same scan
dalous performance was gone through
with at the time Of the passage of the
Mckinley bill. And we know of no bet
ter testimony to this than the statement
of Mr. Mckinley himself when he was
trying to explain the advance in sugar
trust certificates caused by the sugar
schedule in his bill. He said:
The refners should have whatever duty
will protect them against their foreign
rivals in the difference of labor cost. But
my friend from Tennessee tells Us that
because we have reduced the differential
duties below the Mills bill we have semi
up the trust certificates. Now. since that
statement was made, have received and
hold in my hand a letter from the presi-
dent of the Havemeyer sugar refinery,
in which he says:
NEW YORK, May u, 1896.
Dear Sir-Referring to the use made
in the house of the fact that sugar GER
tificates have advanced since the publica-
ton of the committees $ schedule, 1 desire
to say that it is mot true as charged
that the advance has been caused by
such schedule The simple fact is that
the advance is a reaction from the very
low prices, and due to. the manipulation
of Wall-st. operators, who put the stock
down from lis to 80, at time when the
old tariff was undistufbed and the bust
ness more prosperous than now. Now
they are on the other side. 1t is not just
that the sugar schedule in the bill be-
fore the house should be held accountable
for the action of a speculative clique
who are not connected with nor con-
trolled by the sugar refining companies.
Yours, very respectfully
JOHN f. SEARLES, Jr
Hon VIM. Mckinley, Jr., Washing
ton, ID. c.
Mr. McMillin-'How is it that he is
writing you this letter if you are ruin
ing him?'' (Applause and laughter on the
Mr.. McKinley-'I win tell you. This
gentleman. Mr.. John T. Searles, who is
well known TO many members of the
house, on both sides of the house, four
or five days ago came to my room and
insisted that the 4 cents that we give
the sugar refiners ii. e. 4 cents a pound
was not sufficient to make up the differ
ence between the labor cost here and the
labor cost on the other side: and in the
course of the conversation L asked him
what was the fact as to what had pro-
duced the rise in the trust certificates
since the introduction of the bill referred
to by the gentleman from Tennessee, and
in answer he wrote me this letter which
will appear in the Record" applause
on the republican side)
Mr.. McMillin-"And the letter explains
/
''Voter' ''voter on the republican side)
Congressional Record, May 20, 1890, p.
| 5,O15
Here is the same old sugar scandal
in nutshell Here is the public recog-
milton of the existence of the trust at the
time, which Senators Aldrich and Sher-
man denied few days ago In the senate.
Here is the public recognition of the
rise in the trust certificates" Here is
the public admission that the president
of the Havemeyer company visited Nc
Kinley in his room to consult with him
| about the sugar schedule. Here is the
old claim made by the refiners that the
| duties of the Mckinley bill were mo.
sufficient to make up the difference be-
tween the labor cost here and the labor
cost on the other side and yet the
trust made over SIS, 900. 900 per year out OF
Mckinley protection. Here is the full
and conclusive evidence that the trust
representatives tried to help the major
ity" by certifying that the rise in trust
certificates was not due to the favorable
rates of the Mckinley bill, but to wicked
Wall-st spectators. Here is your dupli-
cate sugar scandal exposed without
the aid of an investigating com
mittee-openly, defantly, proudly con-
fessed. and thrown into the face of the
people with a claim that the robbery
was perpetrated ION principle"
And therein lies all the difference there
is between the democratic traitors in the
senate and the republican senator's. The
former are abandoning their professed
principles and adopting the professed
principles Of the latter. The action is