The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27


NILES, o., Aug. %, 9 D. .m.-[Special.l-
The Republican campaign was foI mall,
opened here today. 7 he day was pic san
ana everything was ready for the big cele
bratlon. The crowd was suite small. Nile.
people thought that there would be at leas
5V,OOO here. They expected 5000 from
canton. The absence of farmers is We =
noticeable, and they are scarce. The city
mas put on holiday attire, and decorations
are everywhere. The much talked of arch
is very common affair.
DELEGATIONS COMING IN.
Delegations Of uniformed and mounted
vcters came in from all neiRhboring
towns and cities. These include Cleve-
land, youngstown, Canton, Alliance. New
Lisbon, Ashtabula. Akron, MassIlloD,
Girard, Aurora. Warren, Columbiana,
Mineral Ridge and others. Among the
special features of the great parade was
100 ladies from Columbiana carrying
red, white and blue flags. The Warren
fellows could not get campaign costumes
IN time for the event, 10 to ne original and
make an impression, they carried BAN
,nor 375 feet long with a nun.
ber OF appropriate notices on it.
NileG has been selected as the place for
opening the campaign because it is Nc
Kiuley's birthplace. In little two-stoTy
frame house on Min street, partially
covered with a clinging vine, the Major
word welcome Is Conspicuously placed
over every bridge and roadway lee ding
into the city.
Major Mckinley was inh oduced by ex-
Senator n. B. Perkins, of Warren.
Great applause greeted tho chaniDion o '
protection. When il had subsiued the
Major commenced his speech. The full
text is given below:
MAJOR M'KINLEY's SPEECH.
MI
today on the part OF the Republican party,
will be unusually interesting because OF
tbeimportance } the State and the coun-
try of Its results in November. tits foI su-
nate that the issues are of that chlr2 cter
which will excite no bitterness, but are
well calculated to invite calm and dis
passionate judgment. It's foI tunate, too,
treat the issues are so well defined and
clearly marked that no misunderstanding
or evasion can arise,
The platform OF the two parties, which
constitute their official declarations, are
singularly free from ambiguity and con-
fusion. Both declare in bold and fear
less terms their parry faith, and both
must tie considered as the lines upon
which the political contest is to be waged.
l would not change or avoid them If |
could, and my competitor cannot change
OF avoid them il he would.
Nor are the issues limited to local quer
ional. Both platforms speak for their
respective parties in the State upon those
public questions which are the exclusive
subjects OF Federal jurisdiction and Fed.
erai legislation.
THE SILVER ISSUE.
The Democratic platform declares for
the free and unlimited coinage of the
silver of the world, to be coined, as freely
as gold is now, upon the same terms and
under existing ratio. The platform of
the Republican party stands in oppc ST.
ton 10 any thing shoIt of full and COM
plete dollar, and approves the legislation
OF the last Congress. touching silver,
which legislation enjoins the monthly
purchase of silver up TO A 100000 ouncec- :
an amount fully equal IL not in excess of
the entire silver product of the United
States.
That legislation is mighty bulwark for
the protection of silver. 1t has preserved
and enlarged its monetary uses upon a
ssfe basis, and has provided that the
silver dollar shall be kept as good as the
best dollar of our coinage, Always equal
in legaltender quality and debt paying
power.
WORK OF THE LAST CONGRESS-.
The legislation of the last Congress is
the strongest evidence which can be
furnished of the purpose of the Republi-
can party to maintain silver as money,
and of its resolution TO keep il, and the
whole OF II in use as part of our circula-
ting medium equal with gold. The law
which the Republican party put upon the
statute book declares the settled policy
Of the Government ITO maintain the two
metals upon a parity with each other
upon the present legal ratio. or such ratio
as may he provided by law.n Under the
law prior to that of last year only 100000
silver dollars were coined monthly and
put into circulation, which sum absorbed
less than one half of the silver product of
the United States. Although four mill
lions of dollars of silver coinage was au-
thorized by the laws OF Congress, neither
the Republican nor Democratic adminis.
trations exceeded two millions OF coinage
monthly. The new law will increase the
use OF silver as a money circulating me-
diun more than two millions monthly.
thus giving to the people an increased
currency with which to do their business,
which increased currency will always be |
as good as the best money in circulation.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM MEANS.
The free and unlimited coinage of silver |
by the Democratic convention
held in Cleveland, amounts 10
this: That all the silver of the world, /
and from every quarter OF the world, can /
he brought 10 the mints OF the United /
States, and coined at the expense of the /
that is, that the mints Of the /