Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-02
Desperate Campaign T ,ctics.

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The Democratic managers in Ohio,
like the Democratic managers in Iowa,
show the desperation of their cause by
their manner of conducting the cam
paign. Two months ago, when Hon.
Lawrence I. Neal was nominated for
Governor, he claimed that it was be-
cause he represented the cause of tariff
reform, and he boldly asserted that
Ohio was this year to be the battle
ground between protection and free
trade.
But Meals associate on the State ticket
has disgraced that ticket by failing to
recognize that the nominee for Lieu
tenant Governor should be a man with
some consideration for the truth. Mr..
W. A. Taylor was for years the worst
example of a reckless newspaper CORE
spondent to be found in this country.
He had no regard whatever for the
truth. and was in the Pendleton-Pa Payne
Senatorial contest accused by his own
party associates Of being blackmailer
and a briber of public officials. As a
newspaper correspondent he was be-
lieved by nobody, and the initials "W.
A. T." signed to a sensational article in
the Cincinnati Enquirer caused the
reader to ask, "What is Taylor lying
about now"
He did no harm as newspaper cor
respondent, because everyone knew his
weakness, but many people fail to rec
ognize in the Democratic candidate for
Lieutenanr-G Governor of Ohio the same
W. A. Taylor they had known as the
Mulhatton of Ohio, because they had
too much respect for the party to be-
lieve that it would nominate such
man for Office.
Mr.. Taylor has not reformed. He
employs the same methods in campaign
ing as he did in newspaper work. And
he is just as ridiculous in his lying.
While factories all over the country are
shut down-and Senator Blackburn is
authority for the statement in the
United States Senate that 5000. 600 men
are idle in the streets of our cities-the
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio is going about that
State exposing great conspiracy be-
tween Governor Mckinley and the
manufacturers of Ohio to close the fac
tories there only to defeat Mr.. Neal.
Such ridiculous assertion called for
no contradiction from the Republicans,
but Chairman Dick, of the Republican
committee. has branded it as lie. and
offered to forfeit $500 if Mr.. Taylor will
show one scrap of the evidence he claims
to have in his possession.
1t is simply another example of the
Democratic party's starting an issue
and then trying to unload when it finds
the people against it. In Ohio, as in
Iowa. it is trying to dodge principles
and bring up scandals and personalities.
1t will fail, because the people are dis
cussing the causes of the depression
that has touched every mans pocket
book. If the Democrats can convince
the voters of Ohio and Iowa that the
Republican laws are responsible for
this depression they may win, but that
is the issue in this campaign, and just
low the indications are that the voters
in these two States place the RESPONSE
bility with the party that pledges itself
to repeal these laws and change the en-
Il1 o OCOuOiAiO poiiSy VI Oic OONOI Hu1Cub.
Mr.. Meals friends should muzzle his
running mate and continue the cam
paign as Mr.. Neal began it, on the
souare-toed fight for free trsda
..o threat of Free " ooI.
Under the tariff law of 1857 the num-
Der of sheep in the United States In
creased from about 40, 600, 900 in 1887 to
over 50,O0o,O00 in 1885, when President
Cleveland's administration first ap-
preached the subject of free wool This
was during a period covered by the
tariff law of 1867. Cleveland's free
wool ideas caused the whole number of
sheep in the United States to decline
from over SO, 900, 900 in 1885 to AZ, coo, zoo
in 1889. The tariff law of 1857 was re-
pealed in 1888, but its effect was not
felt until President Cleveland's admin
istration began to agitate the subject OF
free wool. The duties upon wool in
1867 to the time of Clevelands election
were nearly 10 cents per pound, but
when the tariff law of 1888 was repealed
and the duty was reduced to 10 cents
per pound the number of sheep in the
United States decreased, and the cause
of that decrease was inadequate pro-
lection. The increase from 10000, 600
in 1867 to 10000, 900 in 1884, when the
duties were IS cents per pound, shows
that adequate protection increased the