The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
SUBSCRIBED TO POLITICS.
DIsGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
PAST FEW DAYS.
Furnishes the Resolutions for the
Industrial Associations.

The hand Of the republican state cen
trail committee has been at work during
the meetings Of the Indiana industrial
associations in this city during this
week Enthusiastically the trade mark Of
the committee is discernible on the
packages containing the swash that has
been swallowed by a number Of the con-
ventions At several of the meetings
resolutions have been adopted condemn
ing the Wilson tariff bill now pending
in congress. In every case these resolu-
tions have been introduced by some
slick-tongued member and almost before
the convention understood the situation
they We're adopted. The man who in
troduced the resolutions was invariably
cooked and primed for a long protec-
ton speech, and he went off with a
loud hurrah and was Immediately fol-
lowed by others who were likewise load
ed by the republican state central COM
mittee for a stampede Of the convention.
In this way the persons who were op-
posed to The resolutions were simply
bluffed out and they were carried by de-
fault, there never being a vote by over
half or one-third Of those present on the
resolutions.
1t is gratifying, under such a state of
affairs, 20 note that in one. case at least
firm upon their convictions. AS a rule,
there are few among the farmers who
are orators and few who would under
take TO fight a measure of this kind
after the very best available timber
from the ranks of the protectionists of
their respective associations had been
upon the floor indorsing the resolutions.
But when the resolutions, wOrded diff
ferently TO suit the association, were
presented to the tile, brick and drain
age association by J. w. WOOley Of An
derSon they were soon set down upon
with a vigorous negative vote. Mr..
WOOley is not a tile or briclxmaker and
was not a member Of the association
until yesterday when he paid his men,
bership fee presumably to be able to
secure the floor TO make this anti-Wil-
son-taritf-biu speech. But after he and
his friends had had their say and posi-
bly, the resolutions would have gone by
default as In the other conventions,
man rose in the rear Of the room, and
to the surprise of the convention said he
opposed the resolutions. This was a
decided departure from the custom and
his effrontery completely staggered Mr..
WoOley and his co-schemers. But Mr..
Casts reasons for opposing the resOlu-
lions completely knocked them out and
they never recovered. In the first place
Mr.. Cast was in favor of allowing con-
gress to pass the Wilson bill because a
vast majority of the voters of the
United States had chosen the congress
for the purpose of passing some such a
bill, AMI by doing so congress was SIM
ply carrying out the will of the people.
That, he thought, was sufficient reason,
but another was that the proposed
changes in the tariff would not have
any effect upon the brick and tile in
dustry, and that IL would be foolish
and unwarranted for such an associa-
ton to take official action for or against
the bill.
This declaration OF where he was
at" from Mr.. Cast brought others to
their feet, and in few moments there
was but three persons out of the sixty
five members present who were willing
to vote for the adoption of the resolu-
ton. This would probably have been
the fate Of similar resolutions in other
associations had there been some one
present to champion the cause of the
tariff bill, which seems to be such a
thorn to the republican state committee.