The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-11
HARRISON WILL
NOTTAKE STUMP
Ex-President Scores Repub-
lican Porto Rican Policy.
TAKES STAND LIKE
GOVERNOR PINGREE'S
Holding His Nose, He Will Vote
For Mckinley.

New York, Oct. 1O.-General Benja-
min Harrison gave out an interview
and statement tonight
He was asked: "Is it true that you
have consented to make some speeches
in the campaign"
mo, that statement has not been
authorized by me-" was his answer. Il
have said to every one who has spoken
or written me on the subject that 1
could not do any more campaign work.
I began to make Republican speeches
the year 1 began to vote, and have had
a laborious, if unimportant, part in
every campaign, state and national,
since. until 1898. In 1896 1 submitted
myself to very hard usage and then
made up my mind, and so said to my
friends, that I would do no more cam
paigning. Following this conclusion,
declined to take a speaking part in the
campaign OF 1898. My retirement dated
from that year, not from this. Few
men have made more speeches for their
party than L have, and no ex-president,
1 am sure, has made more Since L
left Washington my retirement from
all participation in party management
has been complete. All that have LETT
to others, and 1 think they have very
generally and kindly accepted my sense
of the proprietieS of the caSe-at least
between campaigns. In a word, have
vacated the choir loft and taken a seat
in the pews-with a deep sense OF graf
itude to my forbeaTing fellow country
men,"
but. general. it is said that you are
not altogether in accord with your
party"
.sWeII, I have heard that my silence
was imputed by some to that cause
Now the only public utterance L have
made in criticism of the policies of the
party was contained in the interview,
consisting of one rather short SEN
.tence, that L gave to the newspapers
while the Porto Rico bill was pending:
It was, in substance, that regarded
the bill as a grave departure from
right principles
Il still think sc.
II don't believe that the legislative
power of congress in the territories
is absolute-and 1 do believe that the
revenue clause relating to duties and
imposts applies to Porto Rico.
These views know are not held by
many able lawyers. 1t is a legal ques-
ton; one that the political departments
Of the government cannot fully ad-
Judge. The final and controlling word
upon this question is with the supreme
court of the United States Cases IN
voIving the question are, understand.
pending, and decision in which we
all must acquiesce cannot be much de-
ferred 1 think, therefore, that voters
ought to vote with a view to the rlShC
decision OF those Qu6SLAOAS lAioSb 1iC IL
rectly and finally in the control OF the
president and congress.
1.-The general reasons I gave IN my
Carnegie hall speech in 1896 why Mr..
Bryan should not be elected VIII holo
good with me. His election Would, L
think throw governmental and business
affairs in confusion. We should not AID
the election of a president who would,
admittedly, if he could, destroy the gold
standard and other things that we
the dRCRDtlVe
suggestion that he has been bound and
that the Republican party Will, after
defeat, still have strength enough 70
save the temple 1t will be much peter
not to allow the man with destructive
tendencies so much as to lean against
Perhaps it will save you much
trouble if 1 give you, and underwr1t1
as of this date, this extract from my
Carnegie hall speech:
- When we have a. president who be-
IieVes that IL is neither his right mol
his duty to see that the mail trains are
not INSTRUCTED and that interstate com
MERGE has it's free way, irrespective o.
state lines and courts that fear to use
their ancient and familiar writs TO sus-
tain and punish law breakers 1ret
trade and free silver viii &c appropriate
accon1paniments of such an ddInlalStTa'
+fon and cannot add aDpreCiably to the
rational distress or the national dis
honor
saThe economic policies of the Repub
lican party have been indicated by
the remarkable and general prosperlr1
that has developed during Mr.. Mchln
ley's administration. succeeding
period of great depression. A chanS'
of administration this fall would Amos
certainly renew conditions from whlcl
we have so happily escaped. The tul
dinner bucket is not a SOrdid emblem
IT has a spiritual significance for tn
soirftuaIIy minded. 1t means that com
fort for the wife and family, NOR
schooling and less work for the chill
dren and a margin of saving for sick
ness and old age"
General Harrison will leave New
York for his home Friday.