The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-26
OHIO REPUBLICANS
A-FULL STATE TICKET NOMINATED
AMID MUCH MISREPRESENTATION
MCKINLEY, HEADS THE TICKET
THE TARIFF MADE, THE ISSUE OF
THE CAMPAIGN,
McK,n,,y.. Nom,n,,ion Un.nImous.

McKfnley's Nomination Unanimous
The Ohio republican state convention
was held in Columbus on the 18th and
18th instants to nominate state ticket
for the fall election and to. select the
battle cry OF the campaign.
The standard bearer unanimously
chosen is the Hon. William Mckinley,
Jr., and the war CRY Is ssProtection and
ReciprOcity,"'
The convention brought together the
largest number Of republicans that ever
assembled in any one state for such an
/ event Every village and hamlet seem
to have its representatives, and the
largest auditorium in the country would
have lacked facilities for the accomOda-
ton of the visitors, to say nothing OF
the townspeople who were anxious to
vent their enthusiasm upon the nomi-
nation of the great tariff leader.
Gen. Asa Bushnell, of Clark county,
was selected for permanent chairman,
and Z. j.. Kessinger, Of Athens, for sec
rotary.
Ex-Governor Foraker presented the
name of William Mckinley. jr., for
| governor in q stirring speech. The
| speaker was enthusiastically applauded
! when he arose, and at the mention of
Mai, lckinley's name the convention
went wild, and when Blaine was re-
ferred to as that brilliant magnetic
statesman who has taught law to
Europe with respect to America the
applause was loud and prolonged.
Closing Gov. Foraker said:
ssT ,,,nxrn Wa, Mr. ffh Amman that the
rules of this convention be suspended,
and that by reclamation we nominate
to be, our candidate for governor that
brilliant statesman and soldier and
orator, William Mckinley"
Colonel Robert Harlan. the colored
orator of Cincinnati, seconded Maj Or
McKinley's nomination ION behalf of
the 80, 600 colored voters of Ohio"
With one wild hilarious cheer of af-
firmatlon. the convention declared
Major Mckinley nominated for gov
ernor by reclamation, and la committee
was appointed to apprise him OF his
nomination and escort him to the hall
His appearance was the signal OF an
other outburst of enthusiasm.
The hero OF the day received his
honor5 modsstly. Simply bowling his
acknowledg he spoke as fol-
lows:
1 accept the nomination you have rendered
me sensible of the honor and responsibility IL
implies. The election this year is Of unusual
Importance. involving the administration OF the
state for the next two years ant~the eleetlcn OF
a legislature. which will elect a United States
senator. and have the power to redistrict the
state for representatives in congress under the
new census. Happily we present party with
out a division in its ranks The platform you
have adopted meets my approval 1t annOuuceS
with clearuess and courage the cardinal doc
trines of the republican party Ii approves the
administration of President Harrison. which
has been clean. able. conservative and patriotic.
1t has been wise in domestic policy and thor
Oughly American in its foreign. The party Is in
favor of regulated immigrOti9u: OF Ebe-al pen
siOuS to our soldiers and sailors; of a sound
currency; of gold and silvhr and paper money
based on coin. The public credit and sound IL
nanceS must be preserved and eyery scheme to
destroy it must be repolled. The platform en-
dorSes protective tariff AS long as foreign
products can be found to. tax which compete
with ours in our market we propose to tax them
rather than our own, Democrats prefer TO tax
domestic rather than the imported prQductS,
Their tariff legislation. would benefit every
country but our own. We follow in our tariff
policy the teachings Of Washington. Lincoln.
Hamfin- Clay. Webst9r and Garfield. Th4y
pursue the fallacies of Golden. Bright, Cal
houn and the statesman Of the late southern
confedersey, They are pledged now to impede.
if they can, the prosperity Of the country Esth
business distress and reverses are the ladder
ries. silent mines unemployed wOrkmen, gen
eral distress are the sure harbtngerS OF demo-
cratic victory, They sneer at every atteuapt to
establish new faGtories and would gladly troSn
them down. 1t is the same Sneer and frovn
which haSbeen exhibited toward our Industrial
enterprises since 1851 But in spite of them we
now lead the world in manufactures, agriculture
and mining and We will prosper under the new
law in spite of their false OnenS and discOurag
ing prophssies. They insist that ~ cannot
make tin plate so they said about steel rails. so
said st7p mia ola nd
terry. and when you take them to the factory
and show them tin plates they assert with in
tense pleasure that we are only making a
be making? That we are making any is the
surprise, for the protective duty on lin has not
yet gone into effect ard will not Uatil the first Of
July. Reflect for moment there Is no sectioa
OF the country which Is not seeking by every
manner Of inducemeut to get manufactures es-
tabhShed in their midst. They are giving dO1a-
tiOas IN some communities, hey are taxing
themselves and burdening their property for
the sake Of securing industries which will en-
ploy labor and enlarge their seighbOrhoOd mar
kets In the south. the great center Of free
trade, they are Offering freedom from taxation
for ten and twenty years to those VINO viii bring
their capital and invest IA productive enter
priseS and this by authority of state lax, and
while all this is going on the leaders Of the dem
Ocratic party are proposing to tear down the
protective tariff and inundate this country with
foreign competing products to displace those
which these manufactures propose to make
and which the people are taxing themselves to
establish. In regard to the complaint OF free
traders about the increased duties under the
new law. thirty-three and a third per cent D.
them are for the better protection OF the Amer
lean farmer: twentr-eight are upon wine and
spirits which will hardly burdep the farmers:
five are upon tobacco and agricultural pro-
ducts
No like recognition Of the agricultural inter
est can be found IN any previous tariff legisla
ton. While securing to the farmers the home
market by increased protection, the reciprocity
clause is intended to extend his foreign market
and upon terms more favorable than those &C
corded to competing agricultural countries. L
Is q significant fact that the articles which the
farmer most frequently buys bears less tariff
than under the law Of lcs3. and che products
which he sells bear higher duty Than ever be-
fore. The balance OF Major Mckinley's speech
was devoted to state issues
Andrew L. Harris, Preble county
farmer. was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor upon the first ballot.
The ticket was then completed as
follows:
For Auditor of State-E. W. Poe, re-
nominated.
For State Treasurer-W. T. Cope of
Cleveland.
For Attorney General. X. Rich
ards of Lawrence comfy.
For Supreme Judge-Marshall J.
Williams of Fayette county.
For Member Board of Public Works
George E. Grace OF Pickaway.
For State School CommissiOner-O.
T. Carson of Guernsey county.
For State Dairy and Food Commits
siOner-F. NJ. Mcneil of Miami.
In compliance with the recently en-
acted ballot reform law, the convention
adopted device to be printed a: the
head of the republican ticket, this de-
vice to be the American eagle.
The convention then adjourned sine
die.
The Platform.