The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-16
TOM REED WANTS IT
The Maine Statesman a
Candidate for the
Presidency
COL. CoNGER's ANNOUNCEMENT
Denounces Mckinley and His Tar
iff-yioIasNn of Party
Pledges.
COL. CoNGER's ANNOUNCEMENT

AKRON, Ohio, June 16, 1894.-After re-
peated refusals to be interviewed on bis atti-
tude of opposition to the candidacy of Gov
ernor Mckinley for the Presidency, and his
reasons therefor, Colonel A. L. Couger pre-
pared the following typewriter state
ment to the correspondent of the United
Press. Thou gh the Colonel did not say so
the statement is understood to be the
first authentic announcement of the plan of
campaign, which is to be inaugurated
against the Ohio man by Tom Reed OF
Maine, as Conger is believed to be speaking
with the consent of his friends
II do not quite understand what all this
political hubbub is about" said Col. Conger,
'sbut the people who are kicking it up are
killing off their candidates and making
votes, for Tom Reed every day.
"Garfield said in the Republican National
convention in 1888, and it has been the law
OF the party ever since, that every republ-
can should have the right to criticize the ac-
| tion of our party leaders, and went SO lar as
to say that he should not be ostracized or
read out of his party if, for good reasons, he
could not vote for his party candidate.
NOT A HIGH PRoTECTIoNIST.
81 have been educated for high protec-
ZIONIST but have been engaged In buSl-
| ness in some of the leading lines
of manufacture of this country for a
number of wears, and during that time have
| learned some things by experience which
| have changed my views upon the tariff cues
| ton. 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 plat
| form was first submitted to the Governor for
Lii cpalr r.
10 the endorsement of the Mckinley bill for
| 1896 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 PROPOSE
| tions as the platform upon which he would
stand in 1896.
$50 far as the Mckinley bill is concerned,
| we lost the campaign in 1892 upon that issue.
| The Republican party is for protection. The
country has proSpered under it. but as we have
| grown older we have needed less protection.
| We meant in our National platform in 1880,
| or at least it was the interpretations put
| upon it by the party, that we had now
| reached a point in our history when we
| could afford to make reductions in the tariff.
| VIOLATION OF PARTY PLEDGES.
| ssThis was so 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; increased
| duties then went forth to battle upon the
| proposition, and was beaten. Now, it woulc
simply be political suicide to start out upon
| that proposition in 1896.
| eve viii take, for instance, the subject
| of binder twine. There are three hundred
! millions of capital invested in the nlanufac-
| ture of agricultural implements and farm
machinery in this country, giving employ
| ment, directly or indirectly, to
more than 100000 of Americas la
| boring men. Whatever is good
| for the American farmer and will advance
| his interests, is good for the interests OF the
manufacturers of agricultural machinery
| and their employees Their prosperity must
go hand in hand. Many of the leading
manufacturers of agricultural implements
| were opposed to duty on binder twine."