The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-13
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TO for the presidency
He outbid the widest protectonist.
When congress was organized after Har-
risons election aud Mckinley was appoint
ed by Reed, who beat him for speaker, to
be the head OF the great committee on
taxes and tariff. the clerk OF that COM
mlttee came down to his newspaper OF
hce and said: Mckinley lets the manu-
facturers write their own schedules, what
rates OF protection they want; the gov
eminent 10 not III It,"
little while after congress met his
Dill was pushed. and in two months passed
the mouse by ~ majority II not voting.
John Sherman was the instrument in the
senate to pass 1t. II tariffs are holy have
they no comradeships7
A vICARIoUs TARIFF EXPERT.
Reed, not being born In an iron district,
was not obsequious enough to let mill men
use him for schedule post. was blotted
out by Mckinley, who held the purse
strings OF congress while Reed was hard
ly his moderator.
1t is believed that Senator Aldrlch made
the bill and that McKinley's head gave out
on the general proportioning and adjust
ment, IL there was any.
But every Jobber and spendthrift rushed
In with wastefui legislation, to prove him.
self Mckinley French spoliations di-
'NSt taA itluHulH6b, HcnslVnSs IL NoJh NV
naIle OF the Bnion Dollar congress and
Mckinley dragged Harrison and his party
to doom. Cleveland was revived BY $780,
600 plurality, nearly carrying Ohio, and
getting III electoral votes to Harrison's
l46. Cleveland brought in congress
which laid the so-caled Mckinley tariff
low and devastated labor and manufac-
lures for five years. The treasury was
empty; we had TO Issue more bonds
But no republican was remembered but
Mckinley.
Revenue bills should seldom be SUBJECTS
of party Issue The year Mckinley moved
TO Canton. 1867, the war tariffs were at
tackled by Sect and Garfield nearly lost
his seat by Joining the Golden club and
opposing imitation, Cole being close by
Canton. and the influence of PittsbuIs
Cleveland and the lake trade projecting
manufactures there the congressman had
special support during his seven terms.
He did, however. once, In Arthur's term,
favor revision OF the tariff. that presl-
dent demanding relief from unnecessary
taxation. reductions in the customs rev.
enue equali2ing the public burden, en-
larged free list. reduction OF duties and
simplihcation OF schedules upon cotton
! goods silks and woolens. iron, stool and
,, sugar"
WHEN TARIFF BECAME POLITICS.
! This was the era of the republican party
!. in McKinleys third congressional term.
The tariff commission however, man
ipulated the schedules so that the Ohio
] reaper makers had to pay heavier tribute
to the steel makers than before and such
republicans as Conger of Akron raised
loud outcries. On this commission wero
Harry Oliver and Robert p. Porter. Tho
i measure was abortlve, and after playing
presidential politics against Blaine with
heifer OF Ohio speaker congress was
turned out Mckinley with 1t, the people
returning 20l democrats to 119 rcpublicaus.
> The Morrison and Mills tariff bills followed
= and tariff became politics. Cleveland un-
wisely denounced all protection near the
a close Of his first term and limited at the
a coming trusts combinations to maintain
the prices OF any commodity to the tariff
i, point"
;, When Harrison had been elected and
Q the republicans had nineteen majority In
q congress and ten majority in the senate
. Mckinley developed his tariff and Endorsed
. It in the National platform, with the adj
= dition of "bimetallism.-both gold and sill
yer as standard money"
= The democratic platform denounced the
a Mckinley tariff as the eliminating
atrocity of class legislation and trusts
S and combinations the consequence of pro-
IF hibitive taxes
: ming dry. and against 1t Cleveland's whole
= term had to contend.
ii The defeat of the republican party was
10 condign; 1t lost Illinois, Indiana Connect
IS cut, Kansas, New Jersey. New York, West
Y. Virginia and Wisconsin. Ohio went fol
Harrison by only 1912 plurality, with Al,
r, 600 scattering votes Harrison lost his
own State by 1000
y However, Mr. Mckinley had got his
l. name to the top though the party was
a gone,
n Prior to the catastrophe he had beer
n defeated for congress in way to MAXI
" him National party martyr
l. HOW HE BECAME GOVERNOR.
d As the democrats carried Ohio in 1889
= the republican nomination for governor
ID was not much solicited, and Mckinley
l. still declining in advance, went to Column.
bus and was unanimously put up, Foraker
and sherman participating.
," His election made him the central ant
., foremost governor, but, as has been
" shown, Ohio the next year cast 40 0p(
- more votes for the opposition xsIididatt
., than for Harrison.
-, Harrison was thus disposed Of, and NJ
>. other Western candidates appeared excep
parcel OF senator's
80 Tom Reed Was reduced 10 the floor. ant
- the democrats, with majority OF 145, TO,
-
=, themselves, supplied a dark background
IN TOT Mckinley, as the young David, L
~ tighten up against.
e, Cleveland continued TO Sllly congress
- ana borrowed money, ana the speaker
crisp, helped put on income taxes, an(
me numerous tariff bills, high or low, ha(
of discouraged enterprise.
I'D PROBABLY the tarlG commission OF Ar.
n thur lad it been accepted in nonparti.
- san spirit, and carried out by other thar
20 laekiNs, would have placed the manufac
IL, turers upon healthy ard steady and no
as exaggerated life
Moh lniey now constituted himself Ma.
uonal orator. There was not much to d,
~ at Columbus, and thai little he paid scan
lis attention TO, He was received at the open
Id ing OF the Worlds Fair in Chicago viii
ry curiosity and cheers While the democra
nc tarih did not go into operation IN
nd CieVeland's term was half over McKin
as icy had been reelected by great plurall
ly y in 1888, though less plurality thar
or Bushnell, his successor, received, and Ii
1894 he had the rev Cleveland tariff L
or poke A and made 81 speeches. and de
all liYered one in New Orleans