The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-03-10
HE WANTS NO ISMS
FRANK VINCENT TALKS OUT IN
OPEN MEETING.

Repsblicanism Pure and Simple is What
the Slogan Must be-Cranks and Patrons
Hoisted Overheard Protection and Its
Needs--How it Affects the Salt Industry
of Kansas--He Believes 1t Should Pro-
tect the Dinner-PaiI Iaborer as Wei as
the BIoated Capitalist
5Ir. Frank Vincent, mayor of Hutch
inson, president of the salt works COM
pany, one of the sound men of central
Kansas and above all gentleman with
a good true heart. when asked 10 give
his views on the political situation last
night, said:
81 believe Il is the duty Of every good
Republican to stand ND squarely for
Kansas this year; throw aside personal
preference and prejudices and stand
and work only for the good of the state
at large
y have been in ten different states in
the past five months and 1 want to say
that no western state is so much talked
about or more prominent politically or
otherwise than is Kansas.
The thing most hurtful to the pros
perity of Kansas has been the multitude
Of .'isrls" that has been hatched in our
state the past few years. There can be
no question but what Populism has done
more harm to the general welfare or
Kansas than all the cyclones and
drouths that we have had or ever will
have to go through, and 1 am glad to
know that Kansas at last is now ready
70 throttle every wild ism" that springs
Up.
"At our last convention / was a mem
her of the committee on resolutions.
remember that two large delegations
waited on the committee and assured
us in the strongest terms that if we did
not insert their pet ideals in our state
platform that it meant certain defeat to
the party al the polls. The committee
believed the people of the state were
tired of such ''isms" and refused to
recognize either delegation. The report
of the committee was unanimously
adopted by the convention and again
adopted at the polls, notwithstanding
the threats of the 1smites.'
Il am opposed to electing any man
10 any office who has not the moral sta
bility to stand up for the whole people
and declare himself against fanaticism,
cliques and bosses.
Il want to see the Republicans of
Kansas lay aside all 'isms' that tend
10 disrupt the party and do harm to
the state at large and work in harmony
for the good of the party and the whole
state by dealing with new and live
issues.
Il am sure that the farmers and the
producers throughout the state of Kan
sas are tenfOld more desirous of having
the men whom they elect to office use
their earnest endeavors to secure cheap
er transportation for their products, ex-
tending their markets and thereby en-
abling them to receive at least a reason
able compensation for their labor.
Il am in favor of tariff for protection;
protection that protects the manufac-
tuTer, also protects the man who car
gies his dinner bucket to and from his
daily labor, and protects the farmer
who raises the necessities of life which
the manufacturer, the mechanic and
the daily laborer must buy.
II find in my business, that of salt
manufacturer in Kansas, that from my
own personal knowledge that since the
Wilson tariff bill has been in effect,
which placed salt on the free list,
the amount of Kansas salt which has
been displaced by the English salt in
the territory tributary to the Kansas
industry has robbed the laboring men
who carry their dinner buckets to and
from the salt plants Of Kansas of twen-
ty-five thousand dollars in wages that
they would have received only for the
English banqueted Wilson bill.
About one year ago the Kansas and
Texas salt manufacturers sent a repre-
sentative to Liverpool to investigate the
method by which the British Salt Union
manufacture salt. While he found the
process of manufacture in England
about the same as ours, he further as
Certained that for the same labor tha.
we paid $50 to $500 per day, the Eng
lish manufacturer paid so cents to 50
cents per day. This difference in wages
paid for labor and free transportation
of English salt on our shores at pauper
labor prices, is the reason that the Kan
saS salt manufacturers are driven out
of the salt market of the southern
states.
with William Mckinley In the white
house and a Republican congress, we
need not fear the English production.
The inauguration of a Republican as
president will be hailed with great de-
light by the farmer, laboring man. me-
chanic and manufacturer alike through
out lhis great land"
SPEAKS ON LIVE ISSUES
Er. W. u. Morgan. uf Hutchinson, Makes a
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