The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-24
THE OHIO CAMPAIGK.
Democratic Opening at Columbus-Pendleton
Puts Rag Money in its Best Light.

COLUMBUS, Aug %.
The democratic campaign opened to-
night. A large audience was addressed In
Capitol square by Geo. H Pendleton and
T. Ewing. Pendleton said it is computed
that three millions In the country are idle,
and the wages of all labor has been greatly
reduced. We ought to search for the
cause and If the government is wrong ap.
ply remedy. Ohio has u fertile soil,
healthful climate, rich mines, an enterpris-
ing, intelligent population, and yet her
highways are filed with tramps, deeds of
violence everywhere occur, station HOUSES
and workhouseS are filled with the poor
and miserable as we'll as with criminals
labor discontented and threatening, men,
women and children suffering, in
dustries deranged, business stagnant.
Why is this? The laws Of taxation, the
laws of tariff, the commercial system, the
financial system, these touch the very life
and being of the whole social and industrial
fabric.
The republican party established and ad-
ministered these laws aud these sys'ems.
The tariff produces little revenue, is oper-
ous and saps the foundation of industry.
Scarcely a ship navigaes the &C. an under
the ULiJed States alg. AS 10 the financial
system the speaker said the immen.e public
Indebtedness payable in paper has by two
laws been made payable in gold only, and
thereby been increased thirty per cent
The silver has been demonetiz ID snd'gold,
the only IT naming legal tender for bends
has enhanced. Accordingly the resump-
ton of specie pay ments has heen ordained
| for 70. The first measure largely in
creased our indebtedness, the second
diminished the currency in which the
indebtedness can be paid, the third
destroys the Industries by which tho
means Of pay can be earned. The Olio
campaign of rs was fought, on these laws.
Their effects was predicted and the proph-
ecy has bec,me history. Riots, strikes,
pauperism and crime indict The republican
| policy.
Pendleton then criticised the republican
state platform, which ,ntains no condem
nation Of the resumption policy no de-
mand for the reconciliation OF silver
nothing In approval of the president
adoption of the democratic plan for pacif
cation of states, nothing In approval of thu
measures for civil service reform. Th
main portion of his speech was devoted Il
the republican labor plank. favoring a ma
tional bureau of industry to adjust the re
ls,ions OF labor and capaal On railroads
This protect he denounced as uncons,itu
tional and preposterous. If congress Cal
interfere with railroads 1t can interfer
with machine shops and foundres. Judg
Vests ideas on the labor question wer
attacked. PeDdleton insis ed that labc
should be untrsmmeled, and deprecated
parental government, deplored the recer
acts Of violence, which were nevertheless
the protests of suffering people, an
dwelt on the conflict between the none
power and the industries of the country.
VI tuC pOilS
II 10 that its whole history marks one lor
prolonged, painful sacrifice of the interes
J, of every industry in the land to the gree
J. of this money power. In proof OF this
mentioned the Ieptal Of the law autho
izing the conversion of greenbacks I'M
bonds, the law making bonds payable
coin instead Of greenbacks, the contiactit
of currency a 4 the demonetiza'ion of o.
yer. TShermans S recent speech drawn {
q ! for corroborr ting facis In conclusion
SAID ,st the democracy, tracing pauperis
ard discomfort and the prC stration of {
prosperity to the republican party, d
! mands tho repeal of the resumption ac
a the restoration of the old silver dollar, 4
2 restoration of greenbacks, a cessation
8 contraction and the issue of all the ciicul
I. ting medium by the government, maki
it legal tender and paper and coin interco
vertible at par. This he asserts would I
viye the nations industries.