The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-10-01
ADvIoE TO GOV. CAMPBELL.

chance to put some vital questions to
Major Mckinley, when the great free
for-all debate comes of at sweet little
Ada.
For instance, Major Mckinley made
an excellent speech in front of the Hur.
ford House in Canton, just after his
nomination for Governor, in which he
said there was but one issue in the
campaign and that was between pro-
lection and free trade. And the Major
said he welcomed this issue. Let Gov.
Campbell ask the Major bow he came
to discover that the tariff Is not the
only issue; and ask him why he is now
apologizing for his tariff, and making
an assault on free silver, when he, Nc
Kinley, was so anxious for free silver
that he voted to susper the rules in
Congress in order to pa afree coinage
law over Republican Presidents veto.
Let Gov. Campbell call Mckinley 8
attention to a speech he (McKinley)
made at Kalamazoo, Mich, in 1890, In
which he despised cheap things, that
cheap clothes make cheap men, and
cheap and nasty go together Now
Nc Kinley claims that clothes are
cheaper than ever. Ask him when he
changed his mind, from extolling dear
clothes to extolling cheap clothes and
cheap men.
Mckinley now prates about cheap
sugar. Let. Gov. Campbell ask him
why he voted in the Commi ttee OF the
Whole, in the House, against any reduc-
tion of the sugar tariff, when the sugar
clause of the Mills bill was under dis
cussion.
Gov. Campbell should ask Major
Mckinley to explain why his
prophecy, made at Massillon in 1890
for Congress), that his wool tariff
would insure 40 cents for WOOL
has failed to materialize, and how it is
that wool is lower than last year, and
in less demand I, even at the lower prices :?
Mckinley said In his Massilion
speech accepting the nomination for
Congress in 1890, that IL his bill was
passed by the Senate as IL passed the
House, (without any reciprocity feat
ures), that this country would witness
business boom more marvellous than
it had ever before known. Let Gov.
Campbell secure copy of this marvel
GUS prophecy of Mckinley, and ask
him what became Of that business
boom.
Ask him, also, if be has seen anything
of it lately.
Gov. Campbell should ask the Major
why he pays the good, hard earned tax
money of the people out Of the United
States Treasury, in spot cash, to the su-
gar planters, for producing sugar, while
not a dollar is paid to Northern farm
ers for producing wheat and COTE and
the actual bread of lifep
lGov. Campbell sheuld ask Mckinley
why it is that not labor organization
In the United States has endorsed his
tariff bill, when he claims IL was
framed almost exclusively to benefit la
Dor and raise wages?
Let Gov. Campbell ask Major Nc
kinley to explain how 375 manufactur-
ing establishments, all protected by his
tariff, have cut wages, since the Mckin-
ley bill passed, from 10 to 80 per cent.
Mckinley claims his bill was framed
after consultation with farmers and
that 1t benefits farmers.
Let Gov. Campbell ask him why 1t is
that every Farmers Alliance in the
United States is opposed to this bill.
Are the farmers all fools, or do they re-
fuse to be considered fools.
Let Gov. Campbell ask Major McKin-
ley why he now endorses the reciproc-
ity clause of the Mckinley bill, when
he Mckinley made speech against 1t
when it was pending. Has he been
converted to free trade, or does he dem
agogue this question to save his own
bacon.
Mckinley claims the Republican Con-
gress has passed an antitrust law. Let
him answer why 1t is that some 80 new
trusts have been organized and are now
in successful operation, under the Nc
Kinley bill, since the antitrust law was
| passed.
Let Mckinley also answer why 1t Is
that every trust shark in the United
States is a Republican protectionist
and is putting up money to elect him
At the recent Republican meeting in
Piqua, Ohio, Major Mckinley enacted @
little spectacular show by pretending
to make American tin, by dipping some
plates of sheet steel, so called, into 9
vat of melted lead. Suppose this tin
plate thus made, by highly protected
American labor, should be made intc
quart cans, and these cans should bt
filled with boiled tomatoes, how much
poison would the acid of the tomatoes
absorb by the time the poor man with
a large family, placed the canned to
matoes on the family table, and how
many children would an ordinary quar-
can of these tomatoes poison, to Kill?
The Major claims the great principles
of the Republican party are the same
everywhere, east, west. north and south
We observe that the Iowa State plat
form of 1891 makes prohibition Of the
liquor traffic one of the vital issues oi
the campaign. viii the Major please
answer, why he refused TO speak for thu
prohibition plank in the Iowa Repub-
lican platform, when he was requested
to do so, at Ottumwa, Iowa, on Sept
80, 1891, by the Republican leaders OF
Iowa?
The Major excused himself on thu
ground that Prohibition Is a local ques
ton, whereas the Republican plat
form of Iowa, in the last plank says:
1--WE declare against compromise will
the saloon and stand by the people Of thi
State in their hostility to its existence
spread and power. We favor such legis
lation on the part of Congress, az shall
protect the police power OF the States II
their efforts to prohibit the public bar"
Did not the Major insult the intelli'
gence of the Republicans of Iowa, wheI
he said the plan to control or prohibi
the liquor traffic by Congress was a loca
issue, upon which he declined to speak
Let Gov. Campbell ask the Major 1
his declination to endorse the Republic
can platform of Iowa on the hquo
traffic was owing to a want of convic
tion, or the want of courage.
The Republican platform of Iowa de
clares in It's second plank In favor O
the expansion Of the currency to NEE
the growing demands Of population
and trade and demands the unlimite,
coinage of the 80 cent silver dollar, tina
Mckinley voted for In Congress, bu
now denounces as q dishonest dollar OF