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Show THE REASON WHY. beaator Alllsan rnaeaToriuf to Ac- tonnt for IhentpnliHcsa ItcTcrtt. SUPPOSED PROSPECTOF REPUBLICAN REPUB-LICAN VICTORY. A Jamp Tor Lire. LooVIns fur "Green Coodi." Brkr Ttlcsranu. By Tslcf raph to the 2-sws I TITX BCrCBLICAX DErEAT Allison Tmlks or me Cavnaee Tbt Led to It. Washigtox, Nov. 10 Senator Joe Blackburn's bretiy account or the Blaine protest against the Wc-KlnU-y tatirl blU Is the talk of the day. A local paper prints today tn in-tcnrlet in-tcnrlet had with Senator Allison on the subject. Mr. Allison said that a private conversation was hew in the committee room aud wjs participated par-ticipated In by Messrs. Blaine, Hale, Blackburn and himself. Mr. W. L. Curtis of the falato Departrntnt was the only person present other than those named. The com creation was wholly private, and to declared and understood by all the parties at the time. He further stateU that Mr. Blaine did not ue the language Imputed on him in the dl-ptcu. As to the causes that led to the renubllcan defeat, he said: Ite- verses are to be expected In the middle mid-dle of an administration, especially when all the officers, or nearly all, are to bo changed by the expiration of terms. This was supplemented this year by local causes in many States. The McKInley bill, so-called, was a political factor. Many of our best republicans believed many of its provlsloni unwise and imjiolitic. They were lukewarm. The democrats demo-crats seized upon the defects in the bill to mis represent it In many ways and our newspapers and speakers had not time between the passage of the bill and the election to counteract counter-act these falsehoods and mlirepre-senUtiuus. mlirepre-senUtiuus. Tlltfo are some of the causes In operation. In the Xast it u as declared to be a LIU to Increase the cost of food and wlthoutadvanc ing wages, and taxing raw material, so as to place manufacturers at a dh-advantage. In tho West it was declared to be a bill for tbe Kast alone, so theso arguments weru placed aud both sections alike seem to have been more or less influenced in their vote?. |