The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-21
Mai. Mckinley Badly
Defeated.
Complete Knock Out in the Joint
Discussion at Ada.
The Republican Candidate Fear
fully Demoralized.
He Is Now On the Defensive-Let Every
Democrat and Independent Voter
i Take Heart and the Peoples
/ Cause Will be Tri-
umphant.

Inc JOINT de pate az Aoa reSuAIeo, DIS
everybody familiar with the methods
of Gov. Campbell and Maj. Mckinley
knew it would result. Never was a
more scientific drubbing given to an
antagonist than was received by the
doughty major. He was not only thor
oughly whipped, but he was SO badly
disfgured and discomfitted that he is
not in proper condition to finish up the
campaign. Democrats everywhere are
proud of their standard-bearer and the
magnificent showing he made. He
came upon the scene with new ideas,
with original thought and with fine
conceptions which he gave to the audi
ence in terse and simple English. Maj.
Mckinley, on the other hand, made
not only the same speech that he open
ed with at Niles at the beginning
of his campaign, but the same old, prosy
and platitudinous effort that he has
been delivering in Ohio for the last fif-
teen years. He did not debate at all
He did not attempt to answer the tell
ing points of Gov. Campbell. He sim
ply had an essay committed to memory
an essay that he had practiced on for
80, these many years" " and he infiict-
ed it upon his Ada audience under the
guise of debating with Gov. Campbell
To the strong points made by the gov
ernor, that the Mckinley bill was pass
ed under the pretense that it would
raise the wages of the workingmen.
and, that instead of increasing theii
wages there had been reductions in S5t
factories in America, all that tho
major could reply was that thii
was the grandest and wealthiest country
on the face of the globe. To this Gov
Campbell replied, in a burst of superb
oratory that he fully concurred with
Maj Mckinley that it was grand, glor
ious and wealthy country, but what he
objected to, and what the people of Ohio
objected to, was the distribution of thi
wealth. Gov. Campbell wanted the farm
er, the artisan, the laboring man, tn.
common and the middle classes to ge
their proportionate share of this bound
less wealth of which Maj. Mckinley
boasted. He wanted it distributed like
the dews of Heaven are distributed
ssupon the just and the unjust"
In comparison with points like this,
Maj. McKinley's stale arguments be
came weak and frivolous and fell o.
their own weight.
AL over this broad land waiting
thousands were eagerly looking for thu
report of the Ada debate. From Sar
Francisco to New York, from Chicago
to Galveston, the people were upon
the tip-toe of expectancy, and from all
these points have gone forth the edict
that the great champion of protection
was knocked out in the first round BY
the governor of Ohio. Henceforth Maj
Mckinley is on the defensive. He car
not cope with Campbell. All that he il
able to do is to repeat over and over
again his sophomore address and hi
imprudent and untrue assertions as te
the result of protective tariff.
The people of Ohio, democrat:
and republicans alike, are prout
to know that they have lead
er who has the intelligence
the courage, and the live intellectual
ity of Gov. Campbell He is lead
ing the winning fight He is able to d'
it. Now are democrats, working men
farmers. those everywhere interested
in the peoples cause rallying to hi
standard AS surely as they do. a
surely as every democrat and tariff re
former votes, on the Sd of November
just as surely viii Gov. Campbell
be reelected This is the people,
fight Let them do their duty.