The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
M,K1NLEY AND MURDOCH.

Touching a number or prominent
Kansas editors and politicians the now
is as good time To settle certain mat
tiers as may ever come.
The editor of the Eagle was not the
only man chosen TO represent Kansas
as a delegate-at4arge ia the national
Republican convention at st Louis.
There were FIVE other gentlemen Sc
Iected at the same time, all Republicans
Of equal reRowIf. influence and ability.
From reading the papers one would be
led TO believe that only one man had
been ia the fight Or had wen.
In or about the year Of our LORD
1894 the editor Of the Eagle wrote an
editorial deHoHRcing ia as foreible
language as we could command. the
tariff bill which had just been reported
nv the ways and means committee OF
the house. known as the Mckinley DIE
The language employed or the dedae-
tons made were such as 10 induce the
New York World 10 reproduce the edi-
heJ.ia, in double leads. The bill as re-
pertea from the committee did not IL
ree+ly protect a single product Of the
agricultural west, hay and hens eggs
alone excepted
Following the reproduction of the
Eagles protest in the Democratic and
Free Trade papers of Boston and New
York Senator Plumb wrote us letter
agreeing in the main with our position.
but adding that a large number 81
amendments were being prepared by
senator's which would be offered when
the bin had reached the senate, at the
same tine asking suggestions. We re-
rIiad that the west had one interest
which oveTshadowed every other IN
inheritance: that from the Lakes TO the
Gulf. from the Missouri river to the
Pacific ocean, on every prairie, in every
canyon, along every mountain side ahG
valley, of Kansas, Texas ard Nebraska,
and in all the Pacific states and noun
tain territories We're cattle, and that
an amendment to the tariff bill placing
a 81 duty on all imported dry hides
would add millions Of dollars TO. the
pockets Of the farmers of the west in
which event we would withdraw all
personal objections to the schedule.
AS is a matter of record the senator
offered the amendment as he subse-
Quently voted twenty-Odd times against
different features OF the measure, and
only finally supported it when the Rec
iprocity feature had been added, which
addition "mollified'' the Eagle. AS an
illustration of the One-sidedness Of that
bill Senator Plumb afterwards inform
cd us that the proposition to protect
the farmers Of the west against the dry
hides of Central and South America,
brought the boot and shoe manufactur-
ers of all New England down, who
poured into Washington, protesting
that duty on hides would close their
factories, throw thousands upon thou
sands OF men and women out OF en-
ployment and ruin all concerned,
lue Ld-fc 1S lDI Il HtSA DAVttCANC
tariff, Is as extreme an advocate of pro-
lection as Mr., Mckinley, believing pro-
lection to be the Republican doctrine
preeminent, and that it will be the lead
ing issue Of the next campaign, but we
are against all sectional and all class
protection, demanding universal pro-
lection. to every American interest and
for every American product including
western cOw-hides and silver no less
than for eastern factories and middle
and southern state industries,
In short whatever disappointed party
politicians may declare TO the contrary,
or whatever discontentment contem-
porary papers may express over the
action of the late convention, still 1.-The
Eagle Is a Republican paper, If indie
pendent, yet Republican, Republican
to the core, standing for It's city and
state first, for the west second, for the
whole country third, but for the nation
al Republican party everywhere and all
the time,