Daily Republican., 1883-07-23
uONDAY, July 23. 1858.
Keynotes OF the Conflict.

uncertain sound. Judge FORAKER re-
allied that the campaign reached farther
than the mere election of a Governor OF
Ohio. That election was but the open
ing skirmish of the great Presidential
lAattle and it was for the people to say
whether it should be a Bull Run or a
yicksburg to commence with. If the
Airst, success will be the more difficult to
he attained; if the latter, victory will be
easier, though in either case the result
could scarcely be doubted. The Judge
fully realized that the tariff question
yzs to be the issue and he met it b idly
and s4uarely. The incoming of the
next Congress, he said, was attended
with the threat that there is to be are
vision of the tariff laws in the interests
of free trade. 1t required not the eio-
guent tongue of Judge Foraker to tell
the people of Ohio of the effect that this
threat had already produced upon the
country. Capital is sensitive and shrinks
from the very appearance of danger. 1t
is shrinking to-day and has been shrink
ing from the moment the present 20
liGical situation was made manifest be-
fore the country. Capital will continue
to shrink until we are relieved from the
cause of its shrinkage by the govern
aHent Of the country being placed in the
hands of those who would foster Ameri-
can interests in preference to the inter-
.ests of Great Britain anu other European
free trade nations Upon this question,
Judge Foraker said, the Republican
party needed no defence. The declara
tions of its platform from the first mo-
nent of its existence were all consist
ent, clear, plain and explicit. Every
man who reads them can understand
what they mean. In answering the
arguments Of Judge Hoadley, the Demo.
cratic candidate for Governor, that the
tariff lead to the esta blishmen, of mono
poles, Judge Foraker did not claim
That tariff Laws were perfect in every
respect, but so far as the principle OF
protection was concerned they were
based upon opposition to monopolies,
especially those monopolies on the other
side of the water, and which, by reason
of their large accumulation Of capital,
could and would crush out all competi'
tiOn in this country if allowed the OPP
portUEity to lo so, as they have done il
the past when they had an opportunity.
The Republican candidate has evi-
IDENTIFY been looking up the record Of he
Democratic party, for he says the claim
it makes that the duty is a tax on the
consumer is untenable. By means OF
protection, he says, we have built up
the industries Of the country, multi
piled their number and brought about
home competition to the extent OF
cheapening these products below what
they could be bought for from other
natiOns-and all this has been done
without cheapening labor, and with in,
creased prosperity to the whole country
Judge Foraker, then referred 10 til,
iumbl Of ignorance and Inconsistencies
contained in the Ohio Democratic plat
form which reads thds: Second-We
favor tariff for revenue, limited to the
necessities of the Government. ecOnom.
irally administered and SO adjusted in
its application as to prevent unequal
burdens, encourage productive iudus
tries at home and afford Just rotlpensa
tion to labor, but not create or tostel
inonopolies."
Judge Foraker, in reviewing 1hi.
nonsensical resolution, tore of the..tbil
disguise which was intended TO cover il
and bring it forth before the people in
all its ugly detormity and cronke(,u4,"
He very sensihly said;
"If we
the ...d No oHfside information, ir
,.tph' III ~hnh We can interpret II,
>sTon't think II would be- possible for any
Intelligence TO comprehend such Jar
s,pu Of word, and declarations. 1Nl1
every man who knows the history OF III
Democratic party i'll regard 10 'hl'
question, every man who knows thtll
position in 1880, every man who Know
their utter disregard for consistency
rvery man who knows how hopeless.
,hey are divided among themselves
every man who knows how Unhesital
iugly that party SubOrlinates every
thing to the one great idea of res'orf
tiOn to power, will understand this rcsc
IntiOn whel. he reads il, for to ever
such man il means not an honest ltci9
ration of principle, but an attempt
,lodge, and mystify, and evade an issue,
Outside of the tariff the SEQ ltqut
license law is the subject next in in
yprtance in Ohio. This license law
something like the license law OF Del
ware, which is in high favor with Il
democracy, but the Democracy
ohio, having for 50 many years beeu a
custoned to free whisky, tind it tncIl
bent on them to oppose any measu
which would, in any way, interfe
with free whisky, and plenty Of
pom this question Judge Foraker rs
emphatic in his declarations as on t
tariff. Speaking for the EePnhIici
party, Of which he Is the candidate.
says:
"hs to the Scott law The H,pphIir'
pariy enacted il, aud We are ,fandiI
.1marnIy upOu it. For dong 50 ,
Hhva ~, apologies, explanations Or o.
ru,.s 10 offer. We do not claim mat
il perfect legislation seldom 8, y