Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-22
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
Governor Hill Speaks in the
Buckeye State.
The Issues of the Campaign
Clearly Outlined.
The Record of the Republican Party
Laid tare.
If Logic Cuts Figure in Ohio Politics
Major McKinley's Defeat Is
Assured.
Associated Press Dispatches. l


CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 21--Governor
Hill was greeted on his arrival here TO-
day by a large throng. Tonight, after a
large torchlight procession OF Demo
cratic clubs, he spoke to g crewd Of three
thousand people at the rink. Many
were unable to obtain admission.
Governor Hill said in part: An i'm
portant political campaign is that upon
which the country has entered. The
question presented to our voters is not
whether the next house of representa-
tives shall be Republican or Democratic,
but whether the nature of our govern
ment is to be radically modified, and the
integrity of our institutions successfully
threatened. The great issue is the rec
ord of the Republican party in its brief
control of congress. No party has more
recklessly defied precedents, more
boastfully overturned traditions,
more seriously invaded private rights,
more arbitrarily encroached i, upon
the prerogatives of states or more tyran-
nically used the power of partisan
majority. The animating motive of its
acts seems to have been only the per-
petuation of it's own power. The party
has increased it's majority in the house
of representatives by arbitrarily eject
ing Democrats from seats; stolen the
representation of one state in the sem
ate; admitted to the union states whose
only claim to admission was that they
will swell the Republican majorities;
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territories much better qualified for
statehood in point of population and re-
sources ignored the rights of minority by
the tyrannical methods and ruling OF
the speaker of the house; squandered
the treasury surplus by extravagant ap-
preparations to conciliate particular in
terests: enacted tariff bill which will
supply corruption funds for elections
conducted census denounced every
where as worthless, and manipulated
for counting Republican populations up
and Democratic populations down, and
has threatened the enactment of force
bill which will put an end to state
authority in the certifcation of federal
elections, and make congress not the
representative of the people, but the
creature of whatever men the federal
officials may choose to count in. This is
the record that confronts the people.
Long practice in hypocrisy has failed
the Republican leaders to disguise par
tisanship in patriotic language, but their
appeal after all is one to cupidity and
selfshness. Frightened by the disap-
proval which their headstrong and revo-
lutionary course has aroused in their
own party, they are endeavoring to
bolster up their shaky position by ap-
peals to sectionalism and party pride. If
our institutions are to be preserved pure
and intact, every patriotic citizen must
do his duty in rebuking this grasping
and tyrannical political oligarchy.
After discussing the tariff, SO far as it
relates to the interests of the farmers,
the governor continued But not only
has the Republican congress stopped to
sharper trick to hoodwink the Ameri-
can farmer in the matter of tariff on
his products, but it has made his living
even more expensive than it hitherto
has been. His woolens pay thirty per
cent more duty, while the rich mans
broadcloth pays duty of ten per cent
more. The duty on sealskin sacques is
reduced ten per cent, while that on silk
plush sacques, which the poor
woman wears, has increa sed sixty
per3Scent. The duty on worsted
shawls which the farmers wife
wears, is raised from 81 to so Ger cent;
on woolen shawls the increase varies
from 16 per cent. to 80. On women's
and children's cheap dress goods the in
crease is not much less. For his fan
nels the consumer must pay an increase
of at least 80 per cent. On ready-made
clothing the increase of taxation is from
54 to 81 percent.
The governor mentioned several other
articles, and added: On milk pans, tin
pals, tin cans, coffee pots, kettles, cups
and other articles of tinware, the people
are to be taxed $60,0O0,O0 for three
years, in order that few manufacturers
may experiment with the tin plate in
dustry. M
II you think this is partisan state
ment,' read what member of Harri-
sons cabinet says about it in a recent
advertisement: "Tinware is advancing
in cost and very soon the manufacturers
will have their way, and you and l
will have to pay much more. In view
of this state of things we made some
time since a large purchase of kitchen
tinware, at what was a low price then
and would be far lower now, in the face
of two advances in the makers price
list.
[Signed] JOHN WANAMAKER."
All over the country the effect of such
legislation has been to increase the
prices of dry goods and other household
necessities. Not all OF this increase is
perhaps justifable, but sharp mer-
chants lave been quick to take
advantage of the opportunity which the
Mckinley bill offered them, and the
poor consumer is the victim, whether
justly or not.
The Mckinley bill has defined sharply
the issue upon which the two parties
are divided. In it's enactment the Re-
publican party has demonstrated more
clearly. than ever that the sympathies of
its leaders are not with the great mass
OF the people, but with certain favored
class. The economic doctrine which that
party now supports is oneit would have
repudiated ten years ago, and which
some of it's great men ike Blaine are
evidently desiring to repudiate now. At
a time when our Industries are languish-
ing from over production, and CIR agfi-
cultural products are finding con petition
in foreign markets, we shrinl within
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