Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-02
GOV. OAMPBELL's CAMPAIGN.

| Major MCKINLEY is exciting far less In
terest among therpeople Of Ohio than
Governor CAMPBELL. MCKINLEY relies
upon clap-trap to catch his hearers.
CAMPBELL uses no clap-trap but talks
plain common sense in way that takes
a deep hold on his audiences. He in
sists, too, on talking on that great and
vital issue of the day, the tariff, IN
which the people Of Ohio generally and
the particularly, are interested
and are growing more so as the
long obscured truth Of that question
dawns clearer and stronger upon them.
The people flock to the Governors
meetings, not to hear brass bands and
see gorgeous parades In the light OF
red fire, but to hear an honest and Wig
orous Democrat talk upon the grave is
sues of the day, and they stay until ne
has finished. An instance OF the way
Governor CAMPBELL holds his crowds,
with no other aid than the eloquence OF
spoken truth, is given in the special
correspondence of the Republican Pitts
burg Dispatch in an account of the riv-
al meetings Of CAMPBELL and HoRR, OF
Michigan, at the Garfield Fair.
MCKINLEY wisely remained away
and sent HoRR as substitute.
The Republican managers on the
ground tried In every way TO break up
the immense crowd about Gov. CAMP
BELLS stand, even resorting to the
brutal expedient Of starting up brass
band while the Governor was speaking.
But all to no purpose. He waited till
the band had finished and his immense
audience waited with him. There were
ZOO people on the grounds and Mr..
HoRR started to speak from his stand
but Gov. CAMPBELL's great audience
did not bulge, but heard him through,
deeply interested to the last word,
while Mr.. HoRR's audience was COM
paratively small and was entertained,
in the language of the Dispatch CORE
Spondent, by "jokes, ancient and mod
ern." Mr.. CAMPBELL looked out over
a sea of faces. They were mostly those
of farmers and he spoke for their benefit,
chiefly. We quote from 1.-THE DiSpatcRS
synopsis of his speech:
Your bountiful crops this year are not
due to the protective tariff They are due
10 natural causes and hard work. The
Republicans are throwing out the inslqua-
ton that their policy is responsible for the
result. AS three-fourths of the State are
Democratic, we might as well claim some
of the credit ourselves. They say you are
going to have good prices this year and
you will. What is the cause? Voice
Crops have failed in Russia and France
l am afraid my friend you haven't heard
Republican speech. Laughter
OF the home market absurdity, Gov.
CAMPBELL said:
The opposition claims the good prices
will be from the home market created by
the policy of protection. The Europeans
will buy their wheat from Siberia and
India first, but as their surplus is rot suf-
ficient to supply the demand, the foreigners
must come to US this year. Why, bless
you, we always have that home market
with u.s. The surplus must go to Europe.
What you need here is to put yourself on
basis where you can trade successfully
with foreign people.
Where do you sell your product! Where
is the price of your wheat fixed! In Liver
pool, of course. You sell it at Youngs-
town, but the buyer gives you price less
than the New York rate, a reduction SUI
fcient to pay the transportation to the
metropolis. All the charges in handling
and carrying the wheat from Garfield to
Liverpool are taken off the price you are
paid. In Liverpool it is sold in free
trade market. Now Mckinley has put two
cents on wheat to keep out the pauper
wheat of Europe. Why, none ever came
in. Your wheat comes in competition
with the wheat of the world in Liverpool.
Up to that point the Canadian and Ameri-
can farmer is on the same plane. They both
get their money out Of the same bank in
England when they take cargo there.
You don't have ships to carry money
back.
Continuing, to show that the tariff
can do nothing but harm to the farmer,
the Governor added:
The Canadian returns with a shipload of
manufactured goods. At New York, he
tells the collector they are going to Canada
and nobody interferes with him. His stuff
is taken across the country free of duty.
The American farmer arrives in port, but
he must paw heavy tax TO get his goods
through. He must go home and sell a
number of bushels more of wheat to get
his goods out of pawn. Yet they say that
protection benefits the Americans. think
! the system was adopted for the good Of
| Canadians.
Governor CAMPBELL then showed the
indisputable and practical effect OF
| high protection in the decrease in the
value of farm land in the very county
| in which he spoke. Instead Of increas-
ing in value with time and increased
! population, as, under natural conditions
would have been the case, its value
has decreased from S9,673, 900 in 1850 tC
Sc, 541, 900 in 1890, So, 1872, 900 OF a loss in
the decrease of land values alone to the
farmers Of Mahoning county, nice
little tribute to the millionaire tariff
barons! No wonder the latter are CRATE
full to MCKINLEY and are willing to buy
the election for him outright if money
can do it.
STRONG, clean, absolutely safe con
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