Sharp County record., 1891-07-16
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN
A Campaign That Will lie of Great Ben
eft to National Democracy.

eft to National Democracy.
Having decided in advance to make
the putative author of the Mckinley
bill and its acknowledged champion
their candidate for governor, the ONO
republicans put as bold face as posi-
Bile on their action. The audacity with
which they commended many OF the
outrages which their party has commit,
ted against justice and Liberty VIII
make some impression possibly upon
those who admire that quality even
when it is displayed in a bad cause
Still one can scarcely help suspectlng
that their sanguine professions are
more than huff insincere, and we may
set it down as certain that whatever
confidence they really feel is based
upon a want of harmony which may
exist among the democrats OF the
state.
1t was, of course out of the question
to attempt to separate Mr.. Mckinley
from the bill that bears his name. we
call him the putative author OF the bill
because numerous representatives OF
monopolies, or wouldbe monopolles,
have boasted that they themselves
drew the clauses of the bill that pro-
posed to tax the American people for
their benefit. 1t is not easy, therefore,
to determine how large part OF the
bill was -actnally drafted by Mr.. Nc
Kinley. However, the bill as it passed
the house had his approval, or at least
his assent, and he is entitled to the bad
.eminence of being its father.
We regret to note, however, that Mr..
Mckinley, in his speech to the Lincoln
club, talked good deal about reciproc-
ity, and did not tef1 his audience that
the tariff bill, as he drew it, and as it
passed the house, had no reciprocity in
it. We regret that he did not say that
this was no oversight; that the secre-
tary of state had been before the ways
and means committee months before
the bill passed the house, pleading for
reciprocity in a different form from
that in which it afterward got into the
bill, and that his counsel was rejected
and despised. The platform adopted
commends reciprocity, also, but with
out any hint of the coldness which Mr..
Mckinley displayed toward it until the
senate forced it upon him.
The platform commends the McKin-
ley bill as the ablest expression of the
principle Of protection. Such an i'll
dorsement could hardly be withheld
after the nomination of Mr.. Mckinley
to head the ticket, but it is well"
known that it does not express the
views of many republicans in and out
of Ohio. 1t was reported that a part of
the committee on resolutions thought
it safer plan simply to indorse the
general doctrine Of protection. This
view was overruled, but it will be OBJ
served that it was deemed best to put
in saving clause looking to such
notifications of the measure "as
changed conditions or experience may
require" A little while ago republic.
ans were declaring that tariff tinker
ing" was in the nature of misdemcan-
pr at least, if not of a graver crime,
but now they tacltly admit that some
modification even of the ablest express
sion of the doctrine of protection is like
ly soon to be needed.
The Ohio republicans are not yet con-
vinced that the tariff on wool has out
lived its usefulness as resource for
fooling the farmer. They menace the
advocates of free wool among the man
ufacturers by declaring in favor of
protection to the wool industry equal
to that accorded to the most favored
manufacture of wool. Now the tariff
on some manufactures of wool exceeds
175 per cent. If Mr.. Mckinley is in
favor of SO much protection to wool,
why did he not put it into his bill?
While the. committee on resolutions
were putting this wool clause into
shape, other republicans were reading
in the issue of the Chicago Tribune
which appeared on the day the Ohio
convention assembled, an article on
"Mr McKinley's Oppression of the
Eastern Wool-Growcrs," in which the
decline of Ohio wool is noted and n
which occurs this passage:
"Instead Of the foreign WOO, producers pay.
Ing the increased duties, as Mckinley fanclcl
they would, they are being paid by the wool.
raisers OF his own and neighboring states. The
sheep farmers between the Aleghanies and
the Mississippi are getting less for their
Geeces than the prices which they grumbled
about last November Thus they are handing
over out Of their own pockets the increased du.
ties which the manufacturer pays on the i'm.
ported mixing woods he must have, and they
will continue to do so until congress leglslates
for their benefit
When the wool.growers Of Ohio note
The indisputable decline of wool, and
when good republican authority such
as that above given can be quoted to
show that Mr., Mckinley is the cause of
it, it is just possible that they will not
be greatly impressed with the sop given
them in the republican platform,
The canvass in Ohio this year must
necessarily be one of education upon
the tariff, and TO that extent will be
beneficial to the democratic party ut
rge.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
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RANK CORRUPTION.