Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-09-16

AhIoll, w Sept, toy MCKINNEY D
opened the republican campaign here
today with a big meeting Delegations
were present from Cleveland, Canton,
Youngstown, MasSillDn and other cities
i'm Eastern Ohio, and a large nImber
of republicans came also from Pitts
burg. There was a street parade. Gov
Mckinley began speaking at 3 o'clock,
After a few Introductory remarks he
said:
I'VE meet i'm political discussion for
the first time since the overwhelming
defeat Of 1892. We meet with deep
concern and jan hanged conditions
from those happily existing when we
last assembled. The business condition
of the country has created Just alarm
among u people, ana is 50 grave that
the president of the United States has
convened congress, in extraordinary
session with q view Of securing prompt
relief"
Ho then quoted from President
Cleveland'S last message TO congress
showing that the chief executives
charges the present condition Of affairs
to the operation Of the sherman silver
law. GOV. Mckinley said that Senator
sherman had introduced i'm the last
congress a bill to repeal the silver law
and he believed a great miority Of the
republicans in the senate would now
vote for its repeal, as a great majority
Of the republicans in the house had
voted for the Wilson bill. He took it
that the law would have to go. If it'
was not repealed the democrats would
have to bear the blame.
I'VE do not want to strike down
either gold or silver he said; 1--WE want
to use both metals, but insist that one
shall go at parity with the other ana
that both shall be equal intrinsically
as wei as in legal tender and debt.
paying power
The governor declared that when the
business disturbance began the out
standing cprrency was the largest I'm
the country's history, being 81 100000.
600 or $2445 per capita. The trouble
was not, therefore, due to a want Of
currency. But the money had gone out
Of circulation and had been boarded
by the people.
With confidence in the future once
restored, yet with an abandonment of
the declared purpose to Introduce a
revenue tariff policy in the country,
confidence would come back, the money
boarded would one more find its way
into the banks ana channels Of trade.
The governor then turned To the tar
if question and proceeded to call at
tentiOn to portions Of the report Of
.th" committee on resolutions which
were strictly outlined in the Chicago
convention ON motion Of Mr.. Neal, now
the democratic candidate for governor
in Ohio. This action, he said, showed
that the difference between wages
here and abroad is not 10 be rccog-
nized by the democrats i'm revising the
tariff; that no heed is TO be given to
injuries that may res dit to domestic
industries. The democrats propose
to abandon the raising of revenues
from customs and resort to direct taxa
ton; no regard win be had for the Ia
Dor ana capital involved in domestic
industries; and the new tariff bill is not
to be framed on principles Of justice.
No quarter is to he given but an our
vast industries must surrender without
terms to the demand Of the tariff re-
former.
GOV. Mckinley then quoted from
William l.. Wilson'S article in the
North American Review of September,
1892, endorsing the Chicago tariff
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If the new chairman Of the ways and
means committee and would prepare
the people to some extent for what
may be expected from the present adj
ministratioG.
He quoted further from Mr.. Wilson's
article to the effect that the republican
senate had stood in the way Of tariff
reform by the last congress, though
the bills passed by the house ana pig
eon-hOled by the senate finance COM
mittee were a great and substantial
contribution to tariff reform and show
cd the fidelity Of a democratic house to
it's pledges although powerless to carry
its measures into laws because of a re-
pp6lican senate and executive. Gov.
Mckinley said:
THAT embarrassment, unfortunately
for the country, win no longer stand in
the way Of the democratic party and
its chairman Of the committee on ways
and means. Both the senate and the
executive as well as the house are in
the hands Of the democratic party;
every restraint is removed, and we
Iufy y, therefore, be sure, I'm the language
Of the chairman Of the committee, that
a general revision win take place in
the line Of these six bills TO which he
has referred; and as he puts it, more
bills Of like character viii now not only
be proposed in the house but viii pass
their fate and be approved by the
executive. With this record and these
declared purposes before IT. the bust
ness world would be singularly blind If
it had not felt and shown its alarm
The governor ~contended that the
Mckinley duty on tin plate had built
up an industry which is now giving en-.