The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-11
LONG SILENCE IS broken
EX-PREsIDENT HARRISON STATES
HIS POSITION IN THIS
CAMPAIGN
OPPOSED TO PORTO RIeAN LAW
He Will Make No Speeches Inter
view Given Out in Which He
Paints Probable Results
of Free Coinage.

NEW YORK, Oct 1o.-Gen. Benjamin
Harrison gave out an interview and state
ment tonight. He was asked:
''Is it true, general, that you have con-
sented to make some speeches in the
campaign?
mo. that statement has not been au-
thoriZed by me.
ST have said to every one who has
spoken or written to me on the subject
that l could not do any more campaign
work began TO make Republican
speeches this year. began to vote and
have had a laborious. if unimportant,
part in every eampalgns sos state ana ma
myself to very hard usage, and then
made up my mind and said to my friends
that I would do no more campaigning.
Following this conclusion l declined to
take a speaking part in the campaign Of
1898. My retirement dates from that year,
not from this. /"
but, general, it is said that you are
not altogether in accord with your
''Well, 1 have head that my silence
was imputed by some to that cause.
Now the only public utterance | have
made in condemnatio of the policy of
the administration was contained in
very short interview, in single sem
tence, which gave to the newspapers
while the Porto Rican bill was pending.
1t was in substance that 1 regarded the
bill as a grave departure from right
principles. I still think so. do not be-
lieve that the legislative power of con-
gress in the territories is absolute-and
1 do believe that the revenue clause re-
lating to duties and imports applies to
Porto Rico. These views know are not
held by many able lawyers. 1t is a legal
question, one that the present depart
ments Of the government cannot full Y
adjudge. The final and controlling word
upon this question is with the supreme
volving the question are still pending,
and the decision in which we all must
concur cannot be long deferred. 1 think,
therefore, that voters ought to vote with
questions that are directly and finally
in the control of the president and con-
gress.
BRYANIsM OPPOSED.
"The- general reasons gave in my
Carnegie hall speech in 1886 why Mr.
Bryan should not be elected still hold
good with me. His election would l
think, throw governmental and business
affairs into confusion. We should not aid
the election of a president who would, ad-
standard and other things that we value
even more upon the deceptive suggestion
that he has been bound, and the Repub-
lican party will, If defeated, still have
would be much better not to allow the
man with destructive tendencies so much
as to lear, against its pillars
Perhaps 1T will save YOU much trouble
date, this extract from my Carnegie hall
speech: When we have a president who
believes that 1t Is neither his right nor
his duty to see that the mail trains are
not obstructed, and that interstate COM
merce. has its free way irrespective of
state lines, and courts that fear to use
their ancient and familiar writs to re-
strain and punish la wbreakers, free trade
and free silver will be appropriate ac.
compartments of such an administration
and cannot add appreciably to the ma
ttonal distress or the national dishonor.'
The economic policies Of the Repub-
licap party have been vindicated by the
remarkable and general prosperity that
has developed during Mr.. MeKinley's adj
stration-suceeeding period of great
depression. a. change of administration
this fan would almost certain
ly renew conditions from which
we have go happily escaped The full
dinner bucket is not a sordid emblem. It
has a spiritual significance for the
spiritually minded. It means more COM
fort for the wife and family, more school,
ing and less work for the children, and
margin OF saving for sickness and old
age
!. Gen. Harrison will leave New York: for
his home on Friday.