The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
THEY ARE ALL 1T.

Some of the champions of Reed and
Harrison are cackling cheerfully over
| Col. Conger's assault on Mckinley, but
we ina CINE that careful study of the
coloners letter will have a tendency to
make them change their tunes. The
dates are as thoroughly committed to
McKinleyism as Mckinley himself. and
all as clearly identified with the bill.
1t was put through the house by the
unprecedented tyranny of Reed, and It
was signed by Harrison. True. it bears
McKinley's name. but every one knows
that the senate made very material
changes in IL after it left McKinley's
hands. And when 1t was finally passed
it received the most enthusiastic indorse-
ment from all republicans. Republican
ism is McKinleyism. so far as the tariff
is concerned, and Conger is against the
principle. This would be made more
clear by noting some OF his objections.
He says:
BY request / went before Maj McKin-
ley, when he framing his bill, and
asked that no duty be put upon binder
Irvine. and explained TO him the reasons
why il would be against the interests
OF the republican party and the people
to put a duty upon IL. but the duty went
on. The binder trust was manufacture
ing sisal Irvine, which cost cents a
pound manufactured, and IL was being
sold to the farmer at IL. Is and Is cents,
300 or 400 per cent. above it's cost. The
trust. with perhaps $6,0OO,O0O or N,OOOOO0
invested, has been paying dividends on
a capital of over $3000000O. Now, there
is not a farmer in the United states,
IL he understands his interests, who will
vote for any bill which perpetrates such
an injustice upon him. There is not
merchant, business man or manufact-
urer outside Of the trust in the United
States who is interested in perpetrating
such an injustice. Our friends 0he en-
envy turned this matter against us In
the last campaign.
There is no McKinleyism in that, but
equally there Is no republicanism. Ev-
cry republican speaker and every repub-
lican paper defended the tax on binding
Irvine with its bounty TO the trust. No
republican can be selected for the presl-
Dental nomination who could take Con-
gers position without the most glaring
inconsistency. But this is a small mat
ter as compared with the summary of
his argument in these words:
There are scores of wrongs and incon-
sstencies in the bill and il is all wrong
for Governor Mckinley and his friends
to undertake TO commit the republican
party to a proposition that will lead to
sure defeat in 1896. IT is not a crime
for republicans to differ upon these prop
ositions, and some one in our state
should speak out for the republican
party. Personally, / stand upon the
tariff question where the republican ma
tional convention left it in 1888, for re-
vision downward" We have now a
population of 100000, and we shall
soon have a population of 10000 600. The
people of this country do not propose
to see silver knocked out and we want
tariff reductions as fast as the safety
of the business interests will warrant.
What republican candidate can lead
his party on such a platform as that?
And yet that is exactly what is meant
by throwing Mckinley overheard. The
leyism or it must go back on its record
of the last four years. 1t cannot blot
out the speeches or expunge the articles
printed in behalf of the doctrine, but it
can say to the people. 1--WE were mis-
taken. We thought we understood the
tariff question, but we were wrong. Put
us In again and we will do what the
democrats promised 10 do" That is
what Col. Conger invites his party to
say, and his party will probably reflect
some time before accepting his advice.