Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
BANKS. ON CAMPBELL.
General Warner Says the Governor
Will Beat Major Mckinley.
FREE SILVER WILL CATCH VOTES,
He Says Sherman Is Not Financier, and
Won't Be Reelected.
BLAINE AND GORMAN WILL LEAD IN 92

Ex-Congressman A. J. Warner, of Mari
eta, was at the Union station last evening
going to Washington. The big General
rides his free silver hobby with as much
skill as ever, and he verify believes that the
future of the country depends on the solu-
tion of the problem.
Naturally he is bitter against Grover
Cleveland, and he remarked with unction
that at all times while Grover was Presi-
dent he was ready with his veto ak to kill
any measure looking toward the free coin
age of silver. He added that Cleveland
would have stopped the coinage of silver
altogether if it had been in his power.
Talking about the Ohio contest, he said:
Speaking now as non-partisan, think
at the present time that Campbell is ahead,
and his chances of victory are good. I
know he has redhot fight on his hands,
but think he will win. This fight started
on the tariff, but it will end with the silver
question. Mckinley will lose more votes
on the silver issue than he will on the
tariff"
IN LINE WITH HIS PARTY.
'eBut Campbell has straddled the silver
question:
'rNot exactly. He is in line with his
party. The Democrats have a good plat
form, and the farmers are with them on the
silver issue. The people are tired of
standard which is constantly being made
higher. 1t is about the same as making the
yardstick longer with no corresponding in
crease in price. The farmers are levelheaded,
and they are better posted on this question
than the people in the cities. 1 welcome
the grangers into politics. Their votes will
counteract some baleful influences that
should have been stopped long ago. AS for
Campbell's future, if he is elected, that is
further along. The situation is such in
Ohio that he may be elected. 1t won't
mean, however, that Campbell has great
strength.
whichever party gets the Legislature,
John Sherman will not be returned to the
Senate He is held responsible more than
any other man for the passage of the odious
bill in 1873 demonetizing silver. People
speak of John Sherman as a great inancier.
The newspapers gave him this reputation.
They can do a great deal for a man. Sher-
man is not a student of economics. There
are plenty of men in the House and Senate
who know more about finance than he does.
THE FARMERS MAY BE IN IT.
knows it. Nobody can tell anything about
the Legislature. 1t may be so constituted
that Foraker will get the plum, but doubt
it. believe the situation will be similar
to that in Illinois when Palmer was elected.
The farmers will hold the balance of power,
and they will select man to represent
them
"What do you think of the Republican
situation?"
"Well," replied the General with wink,
''it was good thing for Harrison that Dud-
lev, at least, retired from the National Com
mittee He couldn't help the President,
and Quay for that matter, would not have
been of much service to him. l think the
next candidates will be Blaine and German.
Cleveland is not in it, and hasn't been
nominate man who is opposed to free silver.
The objection has been urged against Cor
man that he is from a Southern State. That
may be true, but he and his people
were Union men. 1 remember German when
he was postmaster of the Senate under
President johnson. Gorman's father took
a bold stand against the position of the
South, and he urged Lincoln to suppress
the Rebellion. When these facts are known
no objection on this score can be raised to
German. I tell you, my boy, the next
Presidential fight is going to be a hot one,
and the Republicans will not have things
their own way"
The General claimed that harmony now
prevailed among Ohio Democrats, and they
were working hard to elect Campbell.