New-York tribune., 1900-11-03

man of your National Committee is the
head Of the most complete monopoly in the
United States, the Round Cotton Bale Trust,
while Mr.. Croker and other leading Democratic
managers who supplying your party
with funds organized the most oppressive trust
known the people, the Tammany Ice Trust
You sneer at the full dinner pail and say
that the Republican party thinks the working
man Is all stomach. yet you know that under
the low tariff law which you helped 10 enact
the Workingmen of the country were reduced
TO greater suffering and want and reliance
upon charity than at any other time in the
remembrance Of this generation, and that in a
short three years under Republican protection,
they have been given more general employment
and at higher wages than ever before, as shown
by the official figures of the Department of
labor
At Kansas City you said: To-day the Gov
ernment can take the from his mother
the husband from his wife and stand them up
before gum While in time OF danger 1t cannot
lay its hand upon wealth and make it bear its
share OF the expenses You know that every
man who enters the military service of the
Government does voluntarily, and that in
the late war with Spain and that in the Philip
pines the volunteers vastly more than were
required while if you examine the receipts of
the Government under the war tax you will see
that the largest items of the tax collected are
from the business classes.
At Indianapolis and Minneapolis you said that
the Republican party wants a standing army of
one hundred thousand men for the purpose of
establishing fort near every large city and
suppressing by force the discomfort that ought
to be cured by legislation. Yet you know that
the act increasing the Army to one hundred
thousand men, which was passed by a Repub-
lican Congress and signed by a Republican
President, provides that the Army shall drop
back 10 less than thirty thousand men on July
l of next year. while you also know that Re-
publican legislation in behalf Of labor since the
election of President Mckinley has ended the
discomfort which existed al a result of the tariff
legislation Of your own party, and in which you
actively participated.
PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED
You had good deal to say to the people of
Indiana and TO the farmers everywhere about
no AfTa NoH
Trust and the Standard Oil Trust and the
Copper Trust and the Tin Plate Trust, and as
serted that they We're controlling prices Of the
artlcles Whch the farmer must have. Yet how
is 1t that If they all powerful there has
been a drop in the last year of from 10 to 80
per cent In the prices Of iron and steel and
wire nails and lumber and leather and tin
plates and glass and many other articles manu-
Of October 13?
AT Mansfield, Ohio you said that when the
Republican House passed the bill increasing
the Army to one hundred thousand there was
not an arm raised against the United States.
You know perfectly well from published off,
cial reports that active preparations for hosti-
Ties against our soldiers in the Philippines had
been in progress for months when the bill was
passed, and that the few American troops there
We're known 10 be in imminent danger, and at
that very moment you were yourself urging the
ratification Of the treaty with Spain which
would necessarily require 3 temporary force in
the Philippines largely in excess of the Regular
Army. which. under the provisions Of the for
mer act. was restored to It's original size of
the with Spain
You meet every reference to the Tammany Ice
Trust with the evasive and inaccurate statement
that the Republican Governor of New-York and
candidate of his party for the Vice-P Presidency
has neglected and is neglecting to prosecute
that trust, when you know from his own state
ment, and must know from the public records
that an action for its dissolution is now in prog
ress and being fought at every step by the
Democratic stockholders Of that organization,
who meantime furnishing funds for the sun
port of your campaign in New-York and else
where.
These are few Of the Inconsistencies eva
sions and misleading statements which you are
every day repeating to the thousands OF voters
whom you address. The conclusion is irresist.
ible that they are deceptive in fact whatever
may be their intent AS who would not
see the high honor Of a Presidential candidacy
reduced to the level OF demagoguery and decen.
tion respectfully urge that you exchange
your present methods for the consistent and
honorable course which characterized your dis
cussions in Congress and in 1896, and which
gave you the respect of all men, no matter how
much they might disagree with you in the
principles you presented.