Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-15
A BATTLE ROYAL.
Campbell and Mckinley in Joint
Debate in Ohio.
The Two Candidates for the Governorship
of the Buckeye State Discuss the Issues
Between Their Respective PARTIES
The Gentlemen Warmly Received.

of the Buckeye State Discuss the Issues
Between Their Respective PARTIES
The Gentlemen Warmly Received.
ADA, O., Oct 9-The Napoleon OF
protection and the young Goliath OF
Ohio's democratic hosts crossed swords
yesterday afternoon. Ten thousand peo-
pie, representing four commemorative,
watched and listened to the oratorical
duel with quickening pulses. The peo-
pie of this pretty little town had left
nothing undone to make the days event
one to be remembered in it's history.
Strangers began to come in at an early
hour Daylight saw the common covered
with wagons and buggies in which
the sturdy yeoman of the agricultural
districts for miles around had brought
in their families, and as the morning
wore on the regular and special trains
brought in large contingents not only
from nearby points, but from Toledo,
Cincinnati and Cleveland, Colum bus
and Findlay, while even the cities Of
the Keystone state sent a small repre-
sentation of republican adherents.
Probably couple of hundred Hoosiers
also crossed the line for the purpose of
setting eyes on the two political lead
ers.
Ample provisions had been made so
that the crowd should not go hungry
The ladies of the Presbyterian and
Baptist churches turned the prayer
meeting rooms of these edifces into
restaurants, the Lutheran ladies took
possession of the engine-room of the
city hall, while the Disciples of Christ
set tables for a thousand on the park
lot The believers in cheap American
tin turned out IN force. They
wore tin badges, carried tin
while even their flag poles were
of the same material But just as
noticeable was a neat little white
silk badge that was proudly displayed
by nine-tenths If the women and a
good many of the men. Over the pic
ture of Gov. Campbell was the inscrip-
ton: Our Candidate" and below this
significant text: american wool
twentyfour cents on account of Nc
Kinley bill" The major arrived on
the Pennsylvania limited express
at 11:15 from his home in Canton.
With him were Col. Il. NJ. McDougall
the noted Cincinnati lawyer and half
a dozen of his Canton neighbors He
was heartily greeted by republicans
and democrats alike. He was hurried
away to the residence of Prof. Lehr.
Gov. Campbell, who came in on a spe-
cial from Columbus half an hour
later, received welcome not one
whit less hearty than accorded
his opponent. With good-natured alac-
rity Gov. Campbell accepted the invita-
ton to lunch at the professors, and
very soon the rivals were seated at the
same table breaking bread together
with as much geniality as though the
same mother had given them birth.
A better day could not have been
made to order, the sun shining brightly.
On the grand stand at the northern
end of the Enclosure a division of
space had been made by the debaters
and their adherents, Gov. Campbell be-
ing placed to the right and Maj. Nc
Kinley to the left. J. NJ. Van Fleet,
chairman of the Hardin county demo-
cratic committee, introduced Gov.
Campbell, who began the debate.
In the course OF his opening speech
Gov. Campbell said: 1.-The moments
at my disposal are much too few
to properly present an indictment
against that overgrown monster mas
querading in the garb of protection and
subsisting upon the wage-worker and
the farmer. In the days of the French
revolution Nine. Rollins protested
against the crimes committed in the
name of liberty. protest against the
crimes committed in the name of pro-
lection, protection which increases the
living necessities of the poor and
produces reduction of the
wages of worlSingmen and wom-
en-. Our once-proud shipping has
been swept from the seas and our
once-great commerce has been aban-
doned, and in their stead we have the
splendid palaces of the protected men
which crowds our hills, while down in
the valleys the Italian and the Bohe-
milan are usurping the rights and priv
ileges of the American workingman
whose family crouch in the corner of
their howell crying for bread. The
wife of the miner starves, that protec-
ton may be promoted while the coal
barons are rolling in wealth. There
are women in our great cities trying to
maintain life on thirteen cents day
that our infant industries may be pro-
tected.''
The governor quoted from the Amer
lean Economist to show that the num-
Der of people in the United States who
owned their own homes had fallen
f,n iuh hS To Jrrhf
twenty-five years. Continuing the gov
this country owned 371s per cent. of
our wealth. To-day they own more
than one-half, and they live closer. Do
they deserve better at the hands of
providence than the farmer. the wage
worker or the preacher, the doctor and
the lawyer? Whenever a democrat
points to these facts, and they are sta
tistical and undisputed, the only au-
swer we get is sneering allusion to
the calamity croaker. 1 will read you
an extract from Bradstreet, which is ac-
copied in this country as a fair finan-
cial journal. He says the failures and
liza bilities in this country have largely
increased. The total number of fail
ures in the United States for the first
nine months of 1891 were $500 as
compared with 1856 during a like
period of 1890, an increase of seventeen
per cent. Now Maj. Mckinley said
when he accepted the nomination for
congress in 1890 that if his bill passed
the senate lit had then passed the
house, this country would witness a
greater boom than ever known.
pause to ask him where is that boom .