In fact, I had been told that he was a
candidate for the senate and had been
selected to make this speech in Atlanta for
that specific purpose.
Mr. Turner discussed mainly four prepo
sitions.
1. Silver.
2. Repeal of state bank tax.
3. Tariff.
4. The senate.
I am led to believe from his
speech that he agrees with what
has been done on the first three important
subjects and endorses the senate, sugar
and all, when it has put two of the prin
cipal products in his congressional district
on the free list, lumber and wool, and given
40 per cent protection to a few sugar plan
ters in Louisiana because the sugar trust
demanded it. Every manufacturer that
uses wool gets some protection and the
wool grower gets none, Every trust is
protected by the senate bill; not one
escaped, and there is not a sensible man
that does not know that the senate bill,
which Mr. Turner says will bq a law in a
few days, is nothing but a modified Mc-
Kinley bill
Now I am sorry to hear so tame an
excuse as Mr. Turner gives for the loss of
the direct pledge to our people to repeal
the tax of 10 per cent on state issues. I
will just quote what he says, after he
shows that the committee api>ointed by the
speaker was opposed to the repeal of the
tax.
“Why did the measure fail?” asks Mr.
Turner. “It was because certain demo
crats (He might have said mugwumps)
were not true to the pledges which they
assumed and failed to carry out.” If Mr.
