The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-24
In an Able Speech Sounds the
Key Note
-
Which Will Result in a Big DEM
ocratic Victory.
He Handles Major Mckinley With
cut Gloves
GOV. cAmPBELI's SPEECH.
An Able and Eloquent Address on state
and National Tssues.


OF the pending campaign 10 the universal
apprehension exhibited by the Republi-
can leaders with respect 70 the tariff.
Their concerted efforts to ignore that
issue, or to treat 1t as secondary and un-
important, are exceedingly suggestive.
LEES than a year ago, when the author of
the most oppressive tariff in our history
was defeated for reelection, the Republi-
cans with an almost unanimous voice de-
mandsd his nomination for Governor.
Before the convention met IL was whis.
pered that. the election might be jeopar-
dized by the nomination of one who was
the incarnation of protection in its most
aggravated form, lt was not only too late
at that time Tor a reconsideration, but,
undoubtedly, large majority of the del.
egate5 did not favor IL. They did not then
realize the deep seated hatred Of the pco-
pie tor excessive aud unjust taxation.
While they were somewhat staggered by
the depression In wool, the slump in iron
and the semi-paniCky condition which had
prevailed in the money market since the
passage Of the tariff bill, they yet har-
bored the hope that the enormous crops
here,and the failure abroad would result in
a temporary squirt of prosperity for which
as usual they could credit the tariff. So
the nomination, being in other respects
unobJCctlOnabie, was duly made.
Imagine the CONSERVATION of the pro-
tectionlsts and the amazement of sincere
his birth, their candidate for governor,
whom they had intrIsted with the gor-
geous banner OF high taxation, deliber-
ately sent it to the rear with the baggage
wagons and the camp followers, while he
opened the battle upon the subiect of sill
yer coinage-an Issues of which neither
party has yet spoken through its national
platform, and in regard TO which Senator
sherman truthfully said at PauldinR that
both the Republican and Democratic
parties are somewhat divided" After the
candidate had thrown this bone Of Repub.
mean contention to the people and sole mn
~ declared IL to be the vital issue of the
campaign, he proceeded to apologize for
his unpopular tariff. The entire press of
the country broke into a chorus of I'M
friendly comment upon the unexpected
Sinking of the conceded issue by the Re-
publican leader. The Democratic papers
Jeered, while the Republican papers
lamely attempted to conceal their chagrin.
Soon after this our senior Senator, wise
and sagacious in his day and generation,
opened his end of the campaign in a
speech lasting several hours, but his ref
erence to the tariH-the dominating issue
OF the campaign-did not occupy ten Sec
onds.
SENATOR SHERMAN FALSE PROPHET.
Mr.: Sherman's speech was largely de-
voted to prophesies of the various evils
that would result from free and unlimited
coinage OF silver. The senator has always
been prophet Of evil in regard to silver.
For many years, whenever silver has been
mentioned, he has played the role Of
Cassandra with unvarying regularity. II
is true that none of his evil prophesies
have ever come to pass, but he continues
10 indulge in them with undaunted spirit.
He aided to demonetiZe silver when twas
more valuable (iu it's ratio) than gold. As
Secretary OF the Treasury he appeared
before the committee having in charge the
coinage act of 1878 and predicted dire dis
aster, should il pass. II did pass, how
ever, and after thirteen years Of coutinu-
GUS silver coinage under its provisions,
amounting 10 over S4O0 0O0,C COO, none OF
those evil results have occurred; and Sem
ator Sherman himself voted last year for
an act to take the place OF the law of 1878
whereby the issue of currency based on
silver bullion is more than double. In 1885
when an unsuccessful attempt was
made to discontinue the coinage
of silver dollars, Senator Sherman again
unloaded a stock of lugubrious predictions
which turned out to be false.
Mr.. MKINLEY VOTES FOR FREE SILVER.
In his opening speech Major Mckinley
plays number Variations, in high key,
upon the "dishonest dollar,n the ''shoddy
dollar,n the "short dollar" and the
''eighty cent dollar" He then touches a
minor key and proceeds TO bewail the sad
condition of the poor old soldier whose lit
tie stipend OF Sl2 per month will, he pre-
diets, shrink to $500, should we enter on
free coinage of silver. Now is the time,
and this is the place, to respectfully in,
quire of the Major why he was not equally
as solicitous about the dear Old soldier
upon the fifth day OF November in the year
OF our Lord eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven; for, upon that day, as page
24l OF the Congressional Record discloses,
Fpr
limited coinage of silver, but SO eager was
he TO pay off the old soldier in "eighty-
cent dollars" that he actually voted to sus.
pend the rules in order that not one
moment might be lost in the infliction of
this great outrage las he now terms it)
upon helpless pensioners.
SECRETARY FOSTER FOR FREE SILVER.
Perhaps this would be as good time as
any to call attention to the former attitude
and official record of the present secretary
OF the treasury, a gentleman whose face
now blanches with apprehension when he
contemplates the danters of free silver
coinage. A brief search through the Con-
Rressional Record discloses the fact that
he not only voted with Major Mckinley to
suspend the rules and pass the free coin
age bill No 1903, before referred to, and
that he also voted with him to override
Mr. Hayes veto Of the Bland bill, but that
he has even better record than the major
as friend of silver, for he voted in favor
OF another bill providing for the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver on the 18th day
OF December, 1876. II is but Just to the
major to say that he did not have the ops
portunity to vote for this latter bill, as he
was not then member of Congress-.
FREE SILVER MEN CLAIM M'KINnEY,
Returning, however, to Mr.. Mckinley it \
need not surprise you 10 learn that, in(
spite OF his vehement attack on free sly
yer, the friends OF unlimited coinage are |
claiming him as their own. About ,fhe |
time the silver certificate act Of 169Qbwas
paesed, Mr.. Francis G. Newland5 vice |
president OF the national SILVER executive |
committee, printed an interview in the |
Washington Post, O Republican paper,
wherein he said OF the Major:
HE is bi-metalliat and Jhinks free |
coinage can be safely entered upon, but |
will not make fight for his yisws.D
As MIR. Mckinley was then voting against |
free silver, we would be inclined to doubt |
Mr. NeWlands' statement were il not that, |
on the second day Of thismonth, the Gin |
cinnad Commercials Gazette published |
double-headeu intGrGieW with this same I
Newlands (who ira Republican from Ne |
vada) wherein he says:
"McKipJey stands upon heRepublican |
platfogHn, which approves thepresent sill |
VeRdct as a progressive step toward bi. |
Rnetaliism. would rather see Mckinley
elected than Campbell. Mckinley is a
bi-metallist"
Apparently Mr.. Newlands Ia being used
to hold IN line that portion OF the Repub-
ncan party IN ONO which faYors free
silver.
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM oN SILVER.
We most emphatically do not believe in |
the doctrine enunciated by the Ohio Re- |
publican platform which reads as follows: |
"Thoroughly believing that gold and |
silver should form the basis ofail circulat. |
iDg medium, we endorse the amended |
eOiua0Q act of the last Renuhlioau ron-