Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-19

Mr.. Neal was greeted most enthusiastically.
He acknowledged the applause in the following
graceful manner:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Con-
vESTIoS appreciate most highly, and thank
you most heartily for this enthusiastic reception
Such an expression of your good will and friend
ship awaken within me feelings of the liveliest
emotion and deepest gratitude. GApplause.l
The Office of Governor of Ohio is one worthy
of the ambition of any man, and ye my friends
can say to you in all candor and sincerity that
l have no heartfelt regrets that did not receive
the nomination for that Office at your hands
to-day. have full knowledge of the RESPONSE
bilities and duties which such nomination
would have implied, and corresponding dis
trust of my ability to assume such responsible
ties and thoroughly discharge them.
am here to say to you this afternoon that my
friend, for he is my friend, whom you have just
nominated, will do no more for himself in this
campaign than will do for him, 1 rejoice my
friends, that your platform has declared in such
clear and straight forward unequivocal language,
the position of our party upon the great ques-
tions at issue between us and the Republican
party, and that it presents as the leading issue in
this campaign the question of reform and reduc-
tion of the tariff.
The Republican system of protection is
masterpiece of injustice inequality and oppres-
sion and it will be to me labor of love to aid in
securing its overthrow. The maintenance of
such a system will enslave the majority of the
people of this great country; it will destroy indi
yidual and private enterprise and by fostering
Trusts and monopolies, thereby concentrating in
the hands of the few the wealth of the country,
creating plutocracy and aristocracy of wealth
and there if it is not eliminated impe1il our
very institutions.
What can be more reasonable and Just than
the doctrine that Unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation? What more odious and hateful than
the doctrine for protection's sake2
do not believe my friends that majority
of the people of this State or this country will
uphold and maintain the latter as against the
former The Republican policy of protection
has already, in fact, been repudiated by the peo-
pie of this country. [Applause.l
If our Presidents were elected by the popular
vote instead of under the Electoral system, Gro
yer Cleveland [great applausel, whose name will
live in history as one of the greatest American
statesmen, would to-day be President of the
United States, tremendous applausel, receiving,
as he did, nearly 100000 votes more than the
Republican candidate, the present occupant Of
the Wnlbe I1OuSe-
The aggregate majorities for the Democratic
candidates for Congress in the different districts
of the different States in the last Presidential
election exceeded by more than 100000 the votes
cast for the Republican candidates for Congress,
and this emphasizes most distinctly that the
Republican cry of protection to American labor
has ceased to be formidable engine for politi-
cal mischief
Need refer to that part of your platform relat
ing to home rule and selfgovernment2 These
are fundamental principles of Democracy. By
steadfast and unceasing opposition to Federal
interference in State affairs the Democratic party
rescued ten States of this Union after the close OF
the war, and thus preserved them from oppres
sion and misgovernment and secured to the
people of those States peace, happiness and pros
perity, and our only hope now for the repeal of
the odious laws enacted by Republican Legis-
latures at the dictation of the Republican Cover
nor, depriving the people of the cities in our
State of the right to regulate and control their
own municipal affairs in their own way, is in the
election of the ticket this day nominated, and