Arizona republican., 1899-07-02
So Alger is Not Worrying About
 the Senatorial Fight.
NO NOTION OF ASSIGNING
Preparing Though for His Candid. aCY by Hedging on Currency Re- form and Engaging tn a General DcnunCiafion Of TruSfS-He Is Not tn inc Diamond r1afch Com btnafi0n.

Washington, July Tn an author iZed statement issued last night Secre- tary Alge,r said: ''I am not worrying about the sensational campaign. It does not open until next year, and in the meantime I am devoting myself entirely to the business of the war de- pertinent. have no intention of re- signing from the cabinet.
 'SWhy should I? The president did not know of my candidacy for the sen ate until after I returned several weeks ago from Detroit, where I an nounced at the banquet of the Sons Of the American Revolution my inten- tfon to run for the senate. The pres3- dent and then chatted over the mat ter. and that is all there is to it. So far as my views are concerned they are personal and do not concern the president or any other member of the administration Neither do my views stand as those of the administration.
 Secretary Gage advocated in the cabinet and in his annual report a scheme of currency reform, which was not endorsed by the president or any other member of the cabinet. I. my self, was opposed to it. But his advo- cacy of certain plan for currency re form and the fact that it was not in dorsed by other members of the ad. ministration shows that what I may have to say does not by any means mean that l am talking for anybody else.
 T suppose the story that I am con nected with the Diamond Match com pany originated from my interest in the Richardson company. never ed q dollar of stock In the Dia mond Match company or had anything to do with it,
 ''The Diamond Match company is an excellent illustration of the evils of trusts. While I was in Europe some years ago I met, i'll Paris. MT. Barber. the president of the Diamond Match company. lie told me that the profits of the company were made to q large extent by saving on the salaries of em- ployes. The company had closed up a number of factories, paying exOrbitams prices for some operated by compstl- tors and using only a few, supplied with modern machinery, one in the east to supply the eastern market, one in Chicago for the middle states, and so on; and by this means removed the necessity Of shipping matches from one section TO another. Warehouses were closed up, throwing clerks and laborers out of employment, and as an additional stroke of economy mer- chants were informed that orders for matches at the central warehouse would be promptly filed, thus doing away with the necessity of travelfng men.
 Trusts crush small industries and cause the grass to grow in village streets They are injurious to labor in the widest sense, enabling few men to control vast interests at the mini- mum cost for labor and material"
 During his absence from the city Secretary Alger was kept fully in- formed of all dispatches which have been received from General Otis re gardirg the situation in the Philip pines. He was Tot prepared to say anything for publication respecting what. if any. increase is to be made to the troops under General Otis com mand; thae matter will be talked over with the president as soon as he re turns to Washington from his New England visit. The secretary. in con clusiOn. said he had no knowledge of q dispatch, alleged to have been re celved from General Otis, in which that officer fntimated his Inability to the F1Npinos with the force rnder his command, and that he would be obliged to abandon the ground al- ready taken unless endorsements were sent.