The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-11
THE INSURGENTS"
Congressman who Adhere' to the Nc
KinIey school of RepuDiIcanism.


Congressman who Adheres to the Nc
Kinley School of RepuDiIcanism.
Congressman Taylor of Ohio the
representative Of the district which
discovered and developed William Nc
Kinley, is conspicuous among the stall
warts who are banded together in de-
Tense OF genuine Republicanism against
the assaults of its avowed enemies and
its mistaken friends. insurgents
they are called, these devoted defend
ers of the citadel of Protection, be-
cause they resist the covert approaches
OF those who under the mask of sentl-
ment or sympathy for aliens are trying
to knock holes in the wall. "lnsur-
gents!" Curious term 10 apply to men
who demand that the doctrines OF the
Republican party be lived up to, who
insist that the structure of Protection
shall stand or fall as whole and not
be destroyed piecemeal, who believe
that you cannot withdraw Protection
from a selected group of domestic in
dustries and yet retain it for the gen
eral body of American industry and Ia
Dor. To be recognized as the leader OF
such body of insurgents" is an
honor and a distinction. Mr.. Taylor is
well equipped for the post. To begin
with he halls from Protection head
quarters; he represents the Mckinley
constituency No man was closer than
he to the late President in confidence
and esteem. No man has better right
to speak for Mckinley.
In his speech of fifteen minutes be-
fore the recent conference of House
Republicans on the subject of the pro-
posed sympathetic concessions to Cuba
Congressman Taylor spoke for McKin-
ley. He took radical ground against
any tariff reductions whatsoever on
Cuban products, and in so doing quoted
the views expressed to him personally
by President Mckinley on the 6tA of
June, 1901-namely:
Against any plan of reciprocity
which takes from single American
WOThlHSlldH HIS JOU.
1t was in reference to this declara-
ton by President Mckinley that the
American Economist said in it's issue
of July 5, 1901:
The President believes in and favors
the plan of reciprocity as defined by
the Republican platform of 1900, lin
articles which we do not ourselves pro-
duce." He does not favor anything
beyond that. He is distinctly and I'M
equlvocally opposed to that form of So
called reciprocity which diminishes
home production and displaces Ameri-
can labor and wages through the larger
admission of competitive foreign prod
ucts. He does not want the reciprocity
that takes from single American
workingman his job. The President
has recently said so in unmistakable
terms. The American Economist is
prepared to vouch for the accuracy and
authority of this statement of
President McKinley's attitude on the
subject of reciprocity.
Congressman Taylor was our au-
thority for this statement. We did not
then feel at liberty to use his name in
that connection, but the seal of conf
dence has been broken by his state
ment before the House conference that
on the day of his appearance before the
Industrial Commission as a witness
representing The American Protective
Tariff League he waited upon President
Mckinley and took counsel with him
concerning the testimony he was to
give before the commission, and that
the President then and there expressed
in the most explicit and candid manner
his view that reciprocity should be
limited ito those things which we
do not produce" That was the Nc
Kinley platform in June, and it was
what Mckinley meant and said, in ex-
press terms several times reiterated, in
his speech at Buffalo three months
later.
The Mckinley platform of June and
September of last year is the platform
to-day of the men who stand with Rob-
ert w. Taylor in solid array against
any sacrifice of the principle and the
application Of Protection, whether in
behalf of Cuba or any other foreign
country. On that platform the Repub-
lican party has won its victories in
the past, and it looks very much as
though the insurgents" were going
to win ON 1t in their splendid fight
against Free-Trade in spots.