Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-19
A BIG "FLOPPER. !"
ANOHIO NAN COULDN'T STAND MKINLEY'S
TARIFF TALK.
An Kx-RsPublican Msmbsr Of the Basi Liverpool
Council Has Bis Eyes Opened to High Tariff
Folly and Joins the Demo
cratic Ranks
sSscioI Correspondence OftAs REGISTER.

6pSctdb Correspondence or ne ReQtstsr.
EAST LIVERPOOL, August 16.-Dan-
iel Crawford one of the most prominent
citizens of Eastern Ohio, and ex-Repub-
lican member Of city council, refuses to
stomach Mckinley rot" this year. He
has heretofore been prominent high
tariff man and his ''aop" has produced
a genuine sensation. Mr.. Crowford
shortly after Mckinley delivered his
opening speech here, sent the Crisis
the following letter:
Major Mckinley gave us, Thursday
night, the immense damage the people
Of this country would sustain by the
CARRYING ont of the Democratic doc
trine in relation to the free coinage Of
silver, and we confess we were disap-
pointed in the Major, as we always
looked on him as one of the politicians
who would tell the truth at all times;
but in his speech Thursday night he
stamps himself as a low demagogue TO
every fair-minded man who is &C
Quainted with the history OF our coun-
try. He says: 1.-THE silver dollar will
never be worth more than eighty cents.
Now he knows well enough why such
is the case; that because the English
bond holder, whose bonds were TO be
paid in coin, feared that they might be
paid in silver, demanded that silver be
demOnetized, in 1873, which was done
In the dead of night, and without the
knowledge of members of Congress, as
IL was struggled through at the instance
Of John sherman. What was this dol
lar worth then, Major? 1t was just
worth S1.O4, while gold was worth only
81, and it's fall commenced from the
passage Of that law making gold the
only standard Of exchange, and which
deprecated all kinds Of property ex-
ceDt bonds and cash 10 the extent OF
millions OF dollars.
The farmer previous to this got from
81 so 20 - for four peckS of wheat; now
he gets for the same four pecks so cents.
TIE former dollars would pay his tax;
would pay his debts; would buy any
thing in the market nearly as cheap as
today. The labor of the country was
fully employed; no strikes; no labor
troubles, aad all cOntented and happy.
Now with this 100 cent dollar we have
strikes. lOckOutS, low wages, half-time,
many times starvation, and money fam
ine sll The time: and oh the poor sol
dice. -ha idea that he should take an so
cent dolsr for his pension; but he does
nos say word about him when he was
in the field suffering all the pr!vations
incident to war. Tor SIG per month and
then paying him in 4 IS and 40
cent dollar which the bOndhOlder
was taken care of by paying his
claims in gold. For the soldiers SIC he
got about SG4O, and if the Major was
honest he would at least have made an
effort 10 right this wrong and make
this difference up TO him long before
this; but soldiers have votes now that
make them worth taffying some. Then
he goes on to say that 1--WE have to-day
more money per capita than since the
of our Government We
man that Is Old 'sn06gnn khO%saFh isyEfH
their own recollectiOns this Is not so,
and the records show the falsity OF the
assertion. From the Treasurer's re-
port Ct September /, 1865, we had the
following:
~ g -. Z 400 OOO OOO