Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-09
CAM M'KINLEY.
Seven Thousand People Listened to the
Joint Debate at Ada. Ohio, Yester-
day-A Battle of Giants.

ADA, OHIO Oct. S.-The meeting of the
governors will be long remembered event
in the history of Ada and Hardin county.
For weeks the joint debate between Gov
ernor Campbell and Mai. Mckinley has
been referred TO as the impending battle of
giants. and the discussion to-day fully demon
strated that Mckinley ana Campbell are in
deed peerless as the opponents of the high
and low tariff principles which they re-
spectively eSpouse. Special trains brought
Mai Mckinley and Governor Campbell
here this morning, and both were driven
to the residence of Professor Lehr,
where they met and took lunch with
Professor Lehr and personal friends. For
half an hour politics and the great struggle
which is being waged for partisan su-
premacy in the Buckeye state We're forgot
ten. and these two gentlemen, each ac-
knowledged by his opponent to be the
prince of good fellows met in social
friendship in the fulfilment Of theiN
mutual pledge at the opening of the
contests that this should be campaign of
measure and not Of men, of principle, and
not of personality. The debate held in the
vast ampitheater in the fair grounds was
listened to by 1000 people.
Governor Campbell spoke first. 81 re-
greet said he, in opening, that
have not time to prop
erly present the Indictment of the
ONSEpTONH WHICH.
in the garb of protection, subsists on the
wage worker and the agricultlTist.
[ApplauseI. Yearly farming is growing
more Improbable. Our commerce is swept
from the seas and that industry abandoned.
Under protection the splendid palaces of
the protected manufacturers are
browning the hills, while i'm
ported Huns, Italians and Bohemians
are displacing American citizens. Those
who are sometimes called the rotten
rich are defying the people, ard seeking
through the venal press to destroy the rep
utation, honor and estate of whoever may
wage war vigorously in the cause of the
people
'.,rhe American Economist says that the
NUMBER of people in the United States
who own their own homes has, in
twenty-five years. fallen from five
eighths to three-eighths. How many
years will it take for them to fall 10
one-eighth9 The Progress of Boston says
that when Egypt went down per cent of
her people owned 81 per cent of her wealth.
The people were starved to Death; that
when Persia went down l per cent of her
people owned all the land; that when
Rome went down, 1900 men owned all the
known world In 1850, in this country,
capitalists owned BIZ per cent of her
wealth. To-day they own more than twleU
that amount of her wealth. Yet he who goes
before the people and without comment,
without temper, points to these facts that
are statistical and undisputed is sneered at
as a calamity croalscr. Laughter.
Bradstreet. authority within this country,
says the total number of mercantile fail
ures IN the United States for nine months
of 1891 are SS66, as compared with
1888 in like period of 1890,
a gain of Il per cent. This is under the
Mckinley bill TApplause.l Yet in 1890
Mai. Mckinley accepted the nomination to
CONGRESS. He said if his bill passed the
matte this country would witness more
marvellous prosperity than it had ever
known" Laughter
Where is that booml" Democratic ap-.
plabse-I uae1zlse.