The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-10-15
CAMPBELL's REJOINDER.
He Scores Mckinley In q Fearful
Manner.
He Exposes His Double Dealing on Bind
or Twtre--.Hs Punotures tho Tin Plate
Fra.s--Ms Teaches up Free wool---A
Brilliant speech.

In his reply 70 Major Mckinley, Gov,
srnor Campbell said:
l I concur most heartily with Major Nc
| Kinley that this Is the greatest and the
best and the proudest nation on earth,
but, unlike him, would distribute thet
greatness and that wealth, ~ God dtsttib
| uted the devs OF heaven, upon the just ae
well as the unjust. lCrios OF "Give 1t to
| him.nl
| AsIsaid at the outset, when 1 depicted
from statistics the condition OF the farm
| ers, and spoke of the reduction of wages
| OF workmen, the answer 10 not in the words
| that am calamity striker, but by quo
tation from somebody who says: you
| mustn't grumbie.n Applause. A voice
| "Hit him another one."l
You men, the Findlay RlasswoTkers,
| who have had your meager wages reduced; {;
| you steelworkers OF Cleveland, who have
| had your little pittance cut down, you
| mustn't grumble because your poverty
| adds to some other mon g wealth. APP
| plause. Cries of "give IL to himn and
"shoot him in the neck."l
| will take care Of him now IL you will
let me alone. This is q good natured
fight, for we are both good men and there
| is only one of us can be Governor, and
as am there already, why, perhaps l had
better stay there. Laughter and ap-
| plause.l
| NOTHING TO SAY ON WAGES.
| The Major has spoken an hour and a
| half, but he has not said to me nor to this
| audience, why, with his bill raising the
| tariff from az to 60 per cent. for the pur.
| pose of raising wages, he has not pointed
ont the waPeworker in all this broad land
| who has had bis wages raised. He has
| had some sweet things to say, about sugar,
| for instance. Never mind about tin and
wool, we will get on to them very soon.
| You know the Republican song this
| year is: "With sugar and tin we are sure
| to win,n They took the tariff of sugar to
make II cheap, and they put the tariff on
tin 30 make 1t cheap [applausel, but no
acrobat, however skilled, was ever yet
| able to ride two horses going in opposite
| directions without falling TO the ground.
| lApplause.l II free sugar is good thing,
| l will ask the Major. and let him answer
| it out Of my time, whether sugar was not
| reduced by the Mills bill, and whether,
when in the Ways and Means Committee
| tho subject was under discussion, he did
not oppose any reduction of sugar. Loud
and continued applause.l Come, boy,
| let us have a square deal now.
Major Mckinley said in reply 10 this
question::
M'KINLEY's ANSWER.
want to say, gentlemen, in answer to
| the very courteous inquiry, and the OPP
portunity which the Governor has given
me, that the Mills bill did reduce and pro-
posed TO reduce the tariff on sugar lcries
| OF good, Goodl about 20 per cent. 1t was
between 18 and 20 per cent. as now re-
| member. In the Ways and Means Com
mittee room of the House of Represent
atives In the last Congress that revised
the tariff, was in favor of reducing the
tariff on sugar, raw and refined, 30 per
cent. and give no bounty to the sugar pro-
ducers. That was my position in the
House and in the Ways and Means Com
mittee. When the COMMITTEES fixed il
fros took II into the House, advocated il
and voted for It, Loud applause.l
Continuing Governor Campbell said:
/ just wanted to know whether the peo.
pie owed all of that freq sugar or not to
she Major, and found out that they did
not. Now, / would call attention to an
other good thing that was done by the last
which the Major has dilated on to some
extent, and that is the article of binding
twine, which we are told is cheaper now
than ii was before the Mckinley bill
paused; and so it is, and the tariff on
binding twine was reduced, Loud ap-
plause.l
WHO REDUCED BINDING TwINE.
Now cheer a little bit louder, and will
tell you who reduced IL. Binding twine of
this country is made by trust, and when
Major McKinley's bill went to the Senate
the Senate struck out all of the duty on
binding twine, but when it came back
from the Senate Major Mckinley made
fight for retention of the duty upon that
article, and as late as September II, after
the conference committee was in, and
part otthe duty had been put back, in
spite Of the Senate he said:
u wish to say further that the duty (up.
on binding twine) in this report Is wholly
inadequate in my judgment; the duty
ought not to have beenso low as seven
tenth per cent" (Applause.) And then
the Mai jor entirely forgot what l had left
TO him, because he is a workingman in that
industry himself, and that is the manu-
facturo OF tin plate. loud applause.)
wITTIcIsMs ON TIN PLATE.
After the election, if the Major should
happen to want something to do, he can go
to work in that industry; but l have got
the tin here. Look here (sbowing some
small plates). You know that we are pay
ing about SIC, 100000 of duty upon tin. We
always did pay S7,0o0,00o, and to create
900 more. l am giving the round figures.
(Applause) Now that industry has been
established, so i have been told, in the
state of Ohio. (Avoice, "Where?0
Ihave had no end of trouble 70 find that
very thing out. "a voice: How about sill
ver.) My dear friends, Major Mckinley
said in Congres, that the Republican party
had done all the financial legislation of
this country for 80 years. If there is any
SO cont dollar in this country, il If Re
publican dollar. loud and continued ap.
plause)
Governor Campbell here exhibited
dozen sheets of alleged tin plate made at
the Piqus mills. He threw the plates
down on the reporters table and asked she
newspaper men to examine them. He
then gave an analysis of this bogus stuff,
made by the most eminent chemist OF
Ohio, Prof. Norton of the Ohio State Uni
versity, showing that this plate is not tin
plate at all, but sheets OF corrugated iron
dipped into solution of lead, tin and
zinc. He said Prof. Norton reported that
il this tin should be made into cans and
used for canning meats and vegetables,
that Is would cause lead poisoning and
paralysis. tremendous and long con-
tinued applause.)
The Governor ral1ed Mckinley fore and
aft because he bad lodged the discussion
of his own bill, and had lodged the discus
sion of the only living issue OF the cam
paign, which the Major made himself.