Show HARRISON HARBSON Witt NOlT WE A E STUMP STU MP 1 4 i Ex Scores Republican i lican Porto Rican Bican Policy 1 I TAKES TAS STAND STAD LIKE LI GOVERNOR t ii Holding His us Nose He Will V Vote For McKinley I New York York Oct Oct 10 Geneal ent al Benja Benjamin Benja BenjamIn min nun Harrison Harr on gave out an a interview J and statement tonight tonIght iI He was asked aked Is it true tre that you have consented to make malc some speeches 1 in the campaign ig I No that statement has ha not been ben authorized d by me me was wa his answer I have said to every ever one who has ha spoken or written me inc on the te subject that thal I could not Qt do any Wy ny more campaign work I began to make Republican speeches the year I began beg to vote and ad have had hada a laborious if unimportant part in every ever campaign state and and since until 1898 In 1896 I submitted myself to very ver hard usage and ad then made mae up my mind and so said sad to my friends that I would do no more cam campaigning campaigning pagIng Following this conclusion I declined declied to o take te a speaking part vart in the te campaign of 1898 My y retirement dated from that year yea not from this Few men have he made matte more mor speeches for their party part than tan I have and ad no I am sure has ha made mae more mor Since I Ilef left lef Washington Wahington my retirement from fromal all al participation in party management has ha been complete All Al that I have left to others and ad I think they have very ver generally and kindy kindly accepted my sense of the proprieties of the case at least between campaigns In a word I have vacated the te choir loft and taken a a seat in the pews with a deep sense of grat gratitude gat gratitude to my m forbearing fellow country countrymen count men But general genera it Is said sad that you are ae ae not altogether In accord accor with wih your party pat Well VeI I have heard that tat my silence was wa imputed by some to that cause cuse Now the only public utterance I have made in IlL in criticism of the policies of the party was wa contained in the interview consisting of one rather short hort sen sentence sentence sentence tence that I gave to the newspapers while the th Porto Poro Rico bill b l was pending It was wa in substance that I regarded I the te bill bil as a a a grave gave departure from right principles I still think tink so soI soI HI I sti dont believe bel ve that the legislative power of congress In the territories is absolute and Ido I do believe that the t revenue clause relating to 1 duties dutes and ad imposts applies apples to Porto Rico impost These hese views I know kow are jre not held by many able bl lawyers lawer It I is 19 a legal lega ques question queston question tion one on that the political departments department of ton the government cannot fully ad adJudge a adjudge Judge The final and ad controlling word upon this question queston is with wit the supreme court of the United UnIt States Cases Caes in hv involving the te question queston are a I understand pendIng and ad a decision in which we weal all must acquiesce cannot canot be much de deferred defered deferred al I think therefore that voters thIn ought to vote with a view to the right decision of those tose questions that are ar di dl directly directly recty and ad and finally congress in the control of of the The general reasons r I gave my Carnegie hall hail hal speech in 1896 why Mr Bryan should not be elected will wi bold hoU good with wih me His election eliton would I think throw governmental and ad business bUsine affairs in confusion We should not aid the election of a president who would admittedly electon if i he could destroy destry the te gold standard and other things that we value alue even more mor upon the deceptive suggestion that he has ha been bound ant and that the th Republican party will after ater te defeat still have strength enough to tose save the temple It I will wil be much better not se to allow alow the man with wih destructive lean against tendencies so much as a to Its Us pillars pia Perhaps it i will wil save you much trouble truble if I give you and underwrite as of this date this extract from my a Carnegie hall ball hal speech When Wh n we have a a a president who vho ho be believes believes t that it is neither his right nor his duty to see that the mall mail mal trains are dut not hs obstructed and that interstate com commerce commerce commerce merce has ha its It free tree way irrespective of tate state lines and aud nd courts that fear to use cour their ancient and familiar writs ls to sue BUS sustain tain tam and punish law breakers breaker free trade and ad free fre silver sUver will wl bs be 1 appropriate accompaniments tre of ot such sch an administration and cannot add appreciably to the tion ad canot te rational distress or the te national dis die dishonor dishonor honor The economic policies of the Republican Republican lican party have hae been ben vindicated by bythe bythe bythe the remarkable pry and general generl prosperity y that has ha developed during Mr r McKIn tat administration succeeding a leys s period of great depression A change of administration this fall fal would almost certainly renew new conditions from which The full tuU happily escaped we have hae so s dinner bucket Is not a sordid emblem has a spiritual significance for the It ha te I spiritually minded d It means that com comfort comfort comfort fort for the wife and ad family more schooling scho te and ad less work for the chil children chi children dren and ad a a margin magn of saving for sick sickness sickness ness ne and old age ae General Generl Harrison Haison will wil leave New NewYork NewYork York for his home Friday |