The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-08-16

The. Democrats of Ohio are to be congratu-
ted upon the work of the Cincinnati convention.
stronger ticket could not have been named,
or a better platform adopted. Aside from be-
ing the logical candidate by reason of his well
known authorship of the tariff plank at the
Chicago convention, Mr.. Neal is a man of
splendid ability and thorough acquaintance
with the great questions involved in the coming
campaign. Moreover, he is a man of aggressive
qualities, and will keep Mckinley and his
horde of assistants busy defending their cam
paign fallacies. His heart is with the people,
and he never makes any mistakes with his head.
His very name will not only arouse every DEM
ocrat in the State to active work for the ticket,
but attract multitude of independent voters
who believe in the principles he represents, and
who have confidence in the man himself.
Even the most partisan Republican papers
admit that he is honest, and has the courage of
his convictions-iacts, however, that they need
not have troubled themselves to reiterate to the
people. The people know Larry Neal, and
admire him for his consummate ability and dis
tinguished services in promoting their interests.
They recognize in him their champion and de-
fender. nd.will support him as against McKin-
ley. who has changed and modified his positions
50 many times of late years and given utterance
to SO many contradictory statements, that he
has lost all character with voters of consistent
thought.
Larry Neal has always said that any kind of
tariff was tax. and never belittled himself by
employing the arts of the caviler, or attempting
to dodge the legitimate conclusions of his own
premises. He is more than peer to Mckinley,
and will make his captious opponent abandon
his wonted duplicity, and drive him from his
illogical and superficial subterfuges. Whatever
eloquence the people may hear from him land
he is master of language) they will at the
same"time listen to facts and sound reason and
profit by a complete understanding of the issues
involved. He is the choice of the people as
well as his party, and exactly the candidate de-
manded for the times.
The platform is fit accompaniment to the
choice of such standard bearer. The Repub-
ican leaders are as determined as ever that the
people shall pay tribute to the wealthy benef-
ciaries of their Tariff tax system, and the duty
of the Democratic party was to meet them face
to face on this issue. This its representatives
did in the platform adopted. There can be no
running away from an honest discussion of the
great question. and the campaign must of ne
cessity be one of continued education on this
point. But while this is true, it does not con-
stitute all the battle, by any means.
AS legacy of the corrupt and extravagant
Harrison administration, the country is now
md fha ,f
business disaster. The enormous Federal rev.
enues dissipated with criminal prodgality
surplus of over 100000, ,ooo scattered to the
winds the finances of the country, inflated be-
yond the danger point by the passage of the
Sherman silver purchase act, and the declared
policy to further increase the evils of overpro-
duction by nearer approach to prohibitory
tariff thereby striking another terrible blow a
our export trade-all records and purposes of
the Republican party-will be compelled by ant
outraged people to bear the blame for the evils
they precipitated upon the country.
Another feature of the platform that will meet
with popular approval as measure of immedi-
ate relief, is in the clause recommending that
National Banks be permitted to issue their cur
rency TO an amount equal TO the par value of
their bonds deposited with the U. S. Treasurer
Every true patriot and lover of justice will
warmly endorse the declarations of the platform
on the Pension subject. "a Roll of Honor
is what the people and the true soldier demand
and are entitled to.
The clause that condemns the unconstitution-
al legislation that added almost 100000 to
the local bonded indebtednesslot the State, is
timely and wise. II should be legally impossi-
BILE for any municipality to bond itself for other
than legitimate and regular purposes, and such
laws should be enacted that by no possibility
could any town or city surreptitiously violate