The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-01
TELLS US A-FUNNY TALE
Gen. GrOsvenOr Says the Tariff
Will Be the Issue,
Which Will DO to Raise a Good
Horse Laugh
Out Here in Kansas-On the Money
Question He Presumes to Say
the Party Stands Where
It Always Stood.

Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor of Ath-
ems, Ohio, came to Topeka today. He
brought with him the Importance he
gained in the Mckinley campaign and
a desire to smooth things over in Kan
sas.
Gen. GrosvenOr is very cautious. He
is proud of his reputation and he does
not want to have anything printed
that would tarnish it, and so he in
sists on reading all the interviews
which he condescends to grant news
paper men. He is so cautious that he
refuses to make q, guess on the states
in the coming election, though he has
found that Kansas will elect McKin-
ley electors.
The Ohio congressman and prophet
wears a beard. It is the silky kind,
but it does not reach to his waist
band He has kindly eyes and a pleas
ant voice, which he used in Congress
for a great many years. He is not as
large as his pictures make him out nor
as pompOus as eastern correspondents
would have US believe.
While the General was talking to
friends this morning he said that he
does not expect a place in the cabinet.
That Mckinley would need him in
Congress and he would waive all per-
sOnal ambition and remain a plain
Ohio congressman.
To a Journal reporter who asked him
to estimate how the country would go
in the coming election Gen. Grosvenor
said
1T is too early to make any figures
but I am satisfied that Mckinley will
be elected. Until we hear from the
Chicago convention it is useless to
talk about what states will or will not
be carried for Mckinley"
viii the financial question be the
principal issue?"
I do not believe that the financial
| question will be the principal issue;
| it will be the tariff. If the issue was
| to be on the question of gold Morton
would have been the man to nominate,
| but he could not carry his own state
| against Mckinley. If the convention
had desired to lean toward silver Ali
| son would have been the man to nOmi-
! nate Then why did they select Nc
| KinIey? 1t was because of a princi-
| pie The American people do not wOr-
| ship men-they follow principle and
| this year they found it in Mckinley
| and protection. Our industries had
| been destroyed and our people were
out of employment and the people
! looked to Mckinley to bring order out
| of chaos.
kansas is largely responsible for
| McKinley'S nomination. It was one OF
| the first states to declare for him
| There was no checking the tide. Ii
| was an uprising of the people and IN
! the a4OSt remote counties OF IeXas
| they rose up and announced them
| selves. That is why 1 say the issue
| will be the protective tariff
ION the money question the party
stands where it has always stood
| Some people seem to think that the
| party has declared for something new
| but it is not true. The party gave the
| people the resumption act of 1873
| when all payments were made in gold
| and gold has been paid ever since
! The platform is palmer this year, bu1
our Interpretation of it has always
| been the same
I believe we will carry all the state!
east of the Missouri river, and I have
no doubt at all that we will carry
Kansas and Nebraska Fusion ha'
| never worked in Nebraska, and d.
not believe it will work this year"