The San Francisco call., 1896-03-16

that stood for fifteen or twenty years with
the most splendid men of California and
of every other Western State cherishing
the one ambition to see Mr.. Blaine Presi-
dent. We finally succeeded in nominating
him, but he failed because of factional diff
feTences and enmities in his own party of
carrying enough votes to carry the doubt
ful State, and so the party failed and
Blaine with it, to the sorrow of the whole
Nation and to the great grief of all of US
who followed his flag. The strong candidate
is the one who has the least enmities. In
this campaign every protectlonlst will vote
for the Republican candidate, whoever he
is. For it is the party itself that is the
champion OF protectlon-not any one man.
II Mckinley had not been in the Congress
that enacted the Mckinley bill the bill
would have been just as strong for pro-
lection. We are all for tariff. 1t is the
settled American policy. We are all for
high tariff, we may say, but for my part
1 want to see it as high in the West as 1t
is in the East, and the next tariff will be
one, in my judgment, which will care as
much for Western and Southern interests
as for Eastern. The fault of the late
tariff was that it cared more for Eastern
schedules, made too high tariff for the
East and too low for the West. The new
tariff will not be one letting the Western
farmers wool go into the Eastern manu-
facturers machine free-trade wool but come
out protected cloth. 1t will be a tariff
which will protect the farm and mine of the
West and the plantation of the South
as much as the factories of the East.
The American farmer, far more than the
American manufacturer, must be the one
most to be benefited by the new tariff when
the Republican party comes into power.
The greatest craftsmanship now de-
manded is not to provide a tariff, for that
is an easy and clear thing to do but we do
want state smanship that will put more
American shipping on the seas and find
larger markets for the surplus products OF
American farms and factories. We also
want a craftsmanship that will make of
this whole continent home market, and
through reciprocity establish such rela-
tions with the South American States
that we shall handle and control their
commerce instead of England. Reciproc-
ity, by the way, the greatest part of the
Mckinley bill, was the work of Blaine, and
not of Mckinley. | was in Washington
in that year, when the great Blaine was
carrying reciprocity around like found
ling in his arms, trying to get somebody
in Congress to adopt it. Mckinley was
unwilling to accept it as part of his bill.
/ was present at many interviews between
Blaine and Allison. Allison favored it
from the first, and finally he and Aldrich
took it up and led to the end of having it
"What has been Mr.. Allison's attitude
on the funding bill for Pacific railroads?
What are his opinions on it?"
'I do not know his views on the funding
bill. / have never discussed it with him.
/ know that Iowa, the State which Allison
has controlled in Its politics for nearly
forty years, was pioneer in the control Of
railways, and has to-day the most radical
and systematic railway law of any State
in a A bn Hr1in xvn1
by the State Railway Commissioners. who
are elected by the people, and Allison has
always followed out by such evidence as
the interstate commerce act and all Others
SO far as / remember, the Iowa policy OF
rigid public control of railway and all cor
porations."
There is no question in your mind but
that Republican will be elected?"
"Well, l am confident of that"
And In your opinion. while you are not
advocating the nomination of MI Allison
more than you are anybody else, you be-
lieve he would be the better man to
choose 2"
"My belief is that the st. Louis conven-
ton will make platform so wise and
practical and choose a candidate so worthy
that our success will be certain. My pref
erence is for Allison as the more available
man, but believe we can elect any of the
men who are discussed or any man likely
To be chosen. We have more than the
strength of the Republican party to insure
this. We have the tremendous power of
the great National desire to get back to
good times; and that peculiar feeling that
has always existed in the American re-
public-a feeling which demands change
to bring good times-will this time operate
to the advantage of the Republican party,
as it has at times heretofore operated
against it. We shall poll our full strength
as party, and have the Democratic re-
enforcement or help of many Democrats
in the hope that a change from the present
condition will bring good times"
s'In the event of Allison getting the
nomination, what do you think would be
the chances of the coast as to Cabinet and
otner positions?"
II should say to that that Allison would
do what Harrison ought to have done in 1889
given the coast, this great region that
has SO many interests over which the Gov
ernment has control, and which has such
large population in the several States,
representation in the Cabinet. OF course.
have no right to speak for anybody, but
have my own record TO say that l have
advocated for many years that the coast
should always have representative in the