New-York tribune., 1900-08-11
VIEWS FROM THE WEST.
BUSINESS MEN CONFIDENT THAT MKIN
LEY WILL BE ELECTED.

hllleE II 10 ne ledItu'
and reared RED in Alabama. and his family has been
Democratic since Thomas Jeffersons time. AT the
thus: Il know Mr.. Bryan very well. I've hunted
and hshed with him, and he is good fellow but he
may Sc wrong. | don't like free silver anyhow !
don't Ike nigh tariff, either. What can | do?
tions and vote the Republican ticket If l think Nc
Kinley is right. or Mckinley will be elect
% sd change OF Administration at this time wouiu
PARK Moore of Waco. Tex engaged in the cotton
crat. and Texas has thousands such If cotton is
10 cents a pound and wheat 90 cents a bushel,
Bryan cannot go down South and preach poverty
pound @ Bryan said that II silver went down cot
ton and wheat would down. Well, they haven't.
and that's one of the reasons am not Bryan
Hamilton Cook of Dallas. also prominent Texas
business man. said: IF the people of Texas wonld
come out and vote their business Judgment
would carry the State. A lot of them Will do so
quietly. but It's race proposition. They don't be
citizens are pemocrats Yet McKniey is going to
get an awfuiy big vote in Texas. We're for ex-
panston and sound money As our Congressman
question now is what going TO do about it
John NJ Fuller. of the wall paper firm of Warren
Fuller Co.. OF st. Louis. said at the Gilsey House:
I think we have The best prospect ever seen for
electing Republican ticket in Missouri this fall.
The trouble with Missouri Is the great number Of
mossbacks who don't know yet that Andrew Jack
Is only about 10000 and growing less. The Missouri
Populists have always voted the Democratic ticket,
of-the Road Popuiist ticket this year. travel the
entire Western country from the Mississippi River
among business men is: Let well enough alone
In Missouri l find Democrats everywhere who say:
I'm going to vote for Forey for Governor and Bin
Mckinle yfor President But Republicans can't de-
pend on Democratic States like Missouri. They
have got to wake up in the Middle West. There is
danger of overconfdence in Indiana. Michigan.
what defeated Harrison in 1892"
c. f. Brown of Cincinnati, Ohio. has been en-
gagged in the manufacture of hot water heating
apparatus for years At the Grand Hotel he talked
about the prospects of business He said:
I seldom talk about politics and I can't say
am party I don't theorize much on pros
perity. I only know that my business is better
hear some peope saw but have onlT the cr 4s
cumstantial evidence to guide me, and that is
strongly in favor IF the Republican party at pres
my business If the Change Comes De men of eapia al
will not invest in houses and therefore the better
70 houses to heat. The times are good enough for
BRYAN and the doctrines of the Kansas City plat
form that great confidence in the election of Nc
business men everywhere should be wide awake to
their own interests in the matter of continuing the
present Administration.
John c. Hanley of St. Paul. MINI, at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday about the pres
ent status of the Western and Southern farmers
and the plans Of their organizations Mr.. Hanley
is president Of the National Cotton Growers As
sociatiOn secretary of the National Grain Growers
Association and president of the international
Congress of Agricultural Associations of the World
recently held in Paris. He said
l have just returned from Paris. where at
a permanent International association was organ
Tn ne a. TINS G0ngfes T I0I me puTP0st & or ssGITg
world IN proposing and effecting measures that
10 erect this prosperity two propositions were sub
mtted 10 the congress and discussed by men from
propositions First, reduce the acreage of the
world - per cent thereby increasing demand by
he
eating nations Of the world customers for farm
the world is 2oo006050 bushels or CO. bush
els year; this is consumed by about one-third Of
million people The idea was TO divert the trade Of
wheat producing nations into the Asiatic country
the surplus crops OF the world and establish an
words tS consres dcsd % al ba @ H IA PAN PAN
an Oriental This nropoon oI we ds mus.
unanimously by the congress. 1t was the salient
We in America have decided that the price Of
wheat shall be 81 bushel at Liverpool, and it is
product slowly and sell at 81 bushel. When the
market drops to 80 cents they will get the signal
Among the things NECESSARY to create these CON
pr92Pofed for The United nj ed States 1ais
Second-The building of American ships and sub
sidizng the same in such manner as will increase
the number Of freight carrying ships Of American
build and carrying the American flag. We desire
farmer-Who furnishes 10 per of the entire
Is dependent on foreign vessels to carry his prod
ucts, to such markets ne desires to enter, his
goods being often in competition with the nation
that carries his goods abroad! This can only be
pPPP pa@ ] 'hp m dregA g Tasse
for carrying our product abroad. while only per
toms thus give 90 per cent Of our entire export
to foreign nations at the expense of the American
farmer. workingmnn anad capitalist
members, four of whom shall be representative
agricuturists; this board to investigate conditions
and nd hat Will
bic to secure an opening for the Oriental trade
Fourth-Aboiish the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. which has been found Ineffective to pre-
shippers, which destroy local competition and
Fifth-We propose 10 abolish forecast crop reports
issued by the National Department. which gen
ant reading while really having the effect Of low
erlng the value OF grain on hand and growing
sixth-Abolish bucket shops as the most serious
Scventh-Pacc the terminal elevators of the
country in charge of Government inspectors to
Of commercial value In the markets of the world.
Our association is absolutely non-partisan, but we
propose to take an active part In the coming cam
Paign and Of all parties VIII be
mediate answer as to attitude on the above meas
ures, and parties will be registered in accordance
with such answers as friends or enemies OF the
farmer
great agricultural associations of the country
the National Grain Growers Association the
Alliance and Industrial Union and the National
Farmers Federation of the Mississippi Valley.
Mr Hanley was asked If he favored policy by
which this country shall assert It's rights the
Oriental market by force of arms II necessary. He
smiled and said: MIR. Bryan favors the Oriental
market but ne wants It entirely through peaceful
measures. But he added with intense earnest
ness, peace war, must have that market,
and We will get II IL all the world is against US"
DID NOT KNOW 1T WAS JEFFRIES.