The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-14
NIonnett Turned Down.

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NTOnnett Turned Down.
Mr.. Lentz-I note that the gentleman
now says Mr.. Monnett did not say that
he was turned down, but 1 will give
the gentleman from Ohio little his
tory from the convention of last sum-
mer. You know and everybody in Ohio
knows that Mr.. Monnetts name was
mentioned throughout the state by the
Republicans who are honestly opposed
to trusts as candidate for governor,
and out of the S13 delegates that went
to the state convention not a single
delegate dared to lift his voice for
Frank s. Monnett for governor, al
though he was the champion of tin
people against the trusts.
You know another thing, sir, that
the trusts went with their corruption
funds into Mr.. Monnett's own county
and prevented him from securing even
the few delegates Of his own county
for denomination for attorney general.
You know that no man in the United
States has made as loyal, as intelligent,
as honest as persistent a fight against
the trusts as Frank Monnett, and not
withstanding the fact that he has dem
onstrated to the people of the state of
Ohio and of the United States that he
is the best qualified man in the coun-
try to fight the trusts, yet your party
repudlated him and turned him out
of Office before he could finish his liti-
CATION against the Standard Oil trust.
You talk about two terms. The peo-
pie Of Ohio did not apply the two term
rule to you. The people of Ohio did
not apply the two term rule to McKin-
ley, nor to Garfield, nor to Hayes, nor
to many others in state and national
service. Mr.. Monnett had carried into
execution your promises to the people
in your platform of 1895, and yet you
repudiated him, and when he did come
before the state convention for renom-
ination, not as attorney general alone,
but as the lawyer to prosecute the
trusts in that state, he got only %
votes for attorney general and not one
for governor
Now, you have the reputation Of be-
ing "Old Figgers." l should like to
have you figure for us. If Mr.. Mon
nett, after fighting the trusts faithfully
and honestly-aye, after fighting only
one trust-could not get one vote for
governor, how many would he have
got had he fought all the trusts?
Or solve this problem by the simple
rule of three: If he got only % votes
for attorney general out of S13 votes,
how many votes would he have got
for denomination as attorney general
if he had been fighting all of the
trusts? Solve those problems, if you
please.
Could Not Get One Delegate.
If Mr.. Monnett, after fighting the
trusts for four years as Republican.
could not get one delegate out of S13
for governor, how many years will he
have to fight all of the trusts before
you nominate him for that position?
After you have answered those ques-
lions, and your pencil and your figures
are worn out, answer these questions:
If Mr.. Monnett is to he repudiated
because he has honestly fought the
trusts; If Mr.. Monnett is to be re-
pudated in Ohio for fighting the great
est monster that is before the people
today; if Mr.. Monnett was the cham
pion of the cause Of the people, cause
which you hypocrtically come in here
now and say requires an amendment
to the constitution of the United
States, why did you not keep Mr.. Mon
nett in the public service, helping you
fight these trusts, if you were honest
about it? You need such a man as
Monnett.
All. my friends, if you thought this
constitutional amendment was men
ace to the trusts 1t would have gone to
the wastebasket, just as Mr.. Monnett
has gone to the political wastebasket!
oh, do not undertake to fool the peo-
pie! Mr.. Lincoln told you that you
could fool all of them part of the
time and part of them all Of the time,
but that you cannot fool all of them all
the time. invite you into my district
and challenge you to discuss your
amendment to the constitution.
Now, we have the sugar trust. Tt
was discovered when you passed the
Dingley bill that you called the extra
session for the sole purpose of passing
that bill, and you adjourned us from
day to day and week to week, holding
us here for four and a half months for
no other purpose, and we all remember
that when Havemeyer went on the Wit
ness stand some months ago he stated
that the Dingley tariff is 1.-The mother
OF trusts" But when the gentleman
from Tennessee [Alr. Richardson
brings In an amendment simply ask
ing to strike off one article-that Of pa.
per-and putting it on the free list you
stand by the trust mother" the Ding
ley tariff law, and continue to protect
the trusts
If we were to offer to put nails on
the free list, you would stand by the
mother of trusts" If we were to ask
you to put wire on the free list or glass
or pottery or any Of the hundred COM
modities that go into the food. clothing
and shelter of the community, you
would resist step by step every prac-
&fool RI limit tho OWLS