The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-19
HE LIKES HARRISON
CONGER OF OHIO Is NOT 4 FRIEND
TO N'KINLBY,

TO E'KlkbbY.
Talks About the Mistakes McKinley's Man
asers are Making and, After Beating
About the Bush, Confesses by Inference
That He Thinks Harrison Would Make
the Better President-Points Out the
Fact That a Dark Horse has Always
Resulted From an A Aggressive Campaign
His Talk
washington, April 1s.-ColoneL A L.
Conger of Akron, Ohio, left his native
heath a week ago under the impression
that nobody but Governor Mckinley
was running for president. That is
common impression in Ohio and might
be called the last development Of the
t'Oh5o idea" But Colonel Conger stop
bed in Pittsburg and even there, in the
! home of Chris Magee, discovered that
Senator Quay was a candidate. Then
he came to Washington, where he dis
covered that there We're several other
candidates. He has been studying the
situation in Washington for a week,
talking with members of congress and
other men from nearly every state in
the union, until he has come to the
conclusion that the st. Louis conven-
ton will not, after all, be entirely de-
void Of interest and without some rath-
or serious contention.
The colonel is from Ohio and there
fore is for Mckinley. He has heavy
manufacturing interests in the Indiana
GAS belt, and has done what he could
to capture Indiana and bottle it up for
Mckinley. He has written letters TO
other manufacturers in New York and
Pennsylvania and Illionis, urging them
10 be fer Mckinley. But, after ali this
Individual effort, he still finds that
there are other candidates and that
Quay, in Pennsylvania, Cullom in I'LL
nOis, Reed in New England, Morton in
New York, and Allison in Iowa, have as
good friends as has Mckinley in Ohio,
with no more evidence Of factions in the
party than are shown in Ohio, where
the Mckinley and Foraker men are
quarreling over the organization of the
state committee.
While in Washington, Colonel Conger
has become convinced that the agrees
sive Mckinley campaign in other states
some very serious and determined OPP
position to the Ohio candidate, and he
Is somewhat doubtful of the result.
''Of course, I am for Mckinley" said
Conger tonight, as he was taking the
boat for Old Port Comfort, ''but this
aggressive campaign of our managers
Seems 10 have raised up a very deter
mined opposition. Looking at this in
the light Of experience in all the nation
al conventions since 1876, shall not
jbe surprised at anything. When such
conditions have been created in the
past a dark horse has carried off the
prize. I would not be surprised to see
an old favorite called upon at ST. Louis
II the present aggressive campaign con-
tinues.''
DO you mean General Harrison, Col
onel?'
Certainly. Re is not a candidate
seeking the nomination. We all know
that. He took himself out of any pos
sfble misunderstanding by that letter.
He is not the favorite son of Indiana,
and that state will not present his
name 10 the convention, because he
asked his friends there not to do such
thing. But in my associations with
business men and workmen in our fac
tories am convinced that GeneralHar-
rison is the favorite son of the whole
country. I do not say this in any dis
paragement of other men who are cam
didates, but conditions have made him
such. He was president al a time
when we had the greatest prosperity
ever known in this country, and his
administration was followed by anoth-
er that will ever be associated with the
greatest depression and the worst suf-
fering ever known in the country. That,
in itself, is enough to cause more men
TO look to him as the representative Of
prosperity than any other man.
But there are other reasons. Cen
eral Harrison was one Of the greatest
presidents we ever had. When he went
out of Office men of all political parties
conceded that, as they still concede his
ability, wisdom and patriotism His
name is closer associated with all ele-
mentS of success than any other. He
was as ardent a protectionist as McKin-
ley, as wise a financier as Allison, as
conservative and safe an executive as
any man who ever occupied the presi-
Dental chair, as firm as Reed, as d.
plomatic as Cul1om, as shrewd a poll
Jcian as Quay. and as pure of life as
Morton His name is associated with
every element Of success that touches
the various candidates who are in the
field, and is in closer touch with that
most desired principal of reciprocity
than any of them"
But Blaine was the author of reci-
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