The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-14

cdGlphia, but actions count much more
| than words in this world, and here is
the acrion up 10 datc:
There has never been but I Repub-
lican in the United States who lifted
his finger against the trusts. mat
| man was The Ion. Frank $. Monnett,
late Republican attorney general OF
Ohio, who. taking the party at its word
proceeded to make war on the STAND
ard Oil trust, Whcr2upon the hepubllc-
an party at the first opportunity re-
tired him to tie shades OF private lie
md have been heaping abuse upon his
head ever since. Tie Hon. John }.
Lentz of Ohio is Il Of the aDlest ana
most promising members OF congress.
He is a fiery orator. q spleIIeri rouSn
| and tumble, catch as catch can QeGat-
er. He has his full Quantum OF cour-
age. strikes from the shoulder, IS al
ways ready to speak for the people ana
IS q dangerous customer to tackle on
the floor of the house, as General
| Charles Henry GrOsvenOr, m~Outhplece
of the administration, found out. to his
SOTTCA, Il jlC > ooc
General Gr0svenor made some hypo-
critical remarks which LentZ DID not
| relish on the bogus trust constitutional
amendment then before the mousse.
While General G%rosvenor is, like Joe
Ragstock. tough, devilish tough,
Ientz tanned his hide in a most ap-
proved fashion that day. LentZ entire
| speech should be circulated as a cam
noiqn document. Whether or not It
will be do not know. | here quote as
much of it as l have room for. and 1t is
decidedly good campaign stuff.
A Good Democrat.
If Lent gets what be deserves, he
VIII lie returned to congress from the
canital district OF Ohio by at least
10000 majority. 1t would be a Wen
deserved compliment and tribute 70
this splendid young Democrat, VINO IS
as faithful to the people as the needie
TO the pole. In skinning General eros
yenor Mr.. Lentz spoke in part as fol
lows:
'.Mr. Speaker, it was exceedingly
pleasant to near the gentleman from
Ohio [Mr. Grosvenorl apologize for the
third time for the treatment that the
Republican party has given Attorney
General MOnnett. Mr.. MOnnett prose
cuted one trust vigorously, honestly
beyOnd the temptation of a BRIDE OF
S4OG.O 900, beyond the b~rowbeating OF
the press of the state, beyond the colo
shoulder of every leader in the Repub-
lican party. He stood incorruptble, he
stood unyielding, on the Republican
state platform of 1895 against trusts
q platform more radical than that
adoDted in the state of Ohio a few
weeks ago by the Republicans and
more radical against trusts than the
platform viii be which they will adop'
at Philadelphia in two weeks.
Put / to let Mr.. Monnet'
speak for himself as to how he has
been treated in the state of Ohio. ]
send to the clerk. to be read from tho
desk, an interview given on h l9tf
of May by Mr.. Monnett, as reported II
the Columbus Citizen and reproduced
in the Lancaster Democrat, telling
what he thinks of the Republican party
and it's course in that state. not only
with reference to himself, but particu
larry With reference to the trusts
The clerk read as follows:
PUNISHMENT FOR REPUBLICAN, PARTl
SEEMS CERTAIN, SAYS MONNETT, WIG
THINKS IT IS LIKELY TO BE GIVEN 81
THE PEOPLE THIS FALL.
Ex-Attorney General Frank S. Monnett has re
turned from Toledo and says that he was no
present at the conference of Silver Republican
and antitrust leaders. Mr.. Monnett, however
saws that he met Mr.. Charles Towne and had
very pleasant chat with him. and also with other
who were there attending the conference.
Answering the question regarding his positio
on the trust question during the coming cam
paign, Mr.. Monnett said that he was the Obi
member of the National Antitrust association an
as such would do his duty 70 the organization.
''There will be no compromise with the trusts
They are a social, commercial and political eN-
with which there can be no compromise. l fame
that there will be a great effort to win vote
from our party on this question the coming can
paign. | do not see how We can escape punisl
ment either. When a party breaks its pledges.
is usually punished by the people. At the nf
tional convention at St. Louis when Presider
Mckinley was nominated, Senator Thurston, VIII
presided as chairman of that meeting, declare
that the American people will return the Repus
lican party to power because they know that i
administration will mean the protection of tt
public from all unlawful combinations and III
Just e~xactions of aggregated capital
"He went further and declared that the part
must do this to retain the confidence of II
American people.
THE platform Of the Republican party in Oh
strongly condemned the trusts and their unlawfl
methods. l was elected as the attorney general
Ohio on such a platform, and as the officer Of Il
state and the representative of the party / carrie
out, as best l could, the platform of the part.
Yet / was not supported in this by many of II
leaders, and the party organs criticised me f
doing just what the platform of my party pledge
me to do. Newspapers of the state, about 10
them, printed paid articles criticising my action
and they, too, party newspapers.
This is not all. The legislature which hi
just adjourned killed the Russell bill and Il
maximum freight bill, and that, too. by almo
a strict party vote. VIII not the people puni:
the party for such actions upon the part OF i
servants? The party as such is not in sympatl
with such methods. Although the Russell bi
was bill No. 10, it was side tracked by the tru
lobbyists and held back until near the adjour
rnent, and then, over the protest of some Of II
best men of the party and almost all of the Dem
l cratic members it was defeated. This was a r
pudiation of the party platform and the sentimel
!, of the party.
: Il cannot believe that we will escape punis
l ment, and l believe it will come this fall. WI
) should the party not be punished when the mt
who control its actions disregard the will of II
people? Why should the people, who believe
, the enforcement of law and believe that par
; platforms and principles are more than men, n
punish the party. and do it this fall2 know