The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-05

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The fight II sn in Ohis. The bstt1e
has opened in earnest between tie
champions Of American ideas, Amsrf-
can progress and American indepsnd-
ence and the advocates Of the starvation
wages platform that menaces every
toiler in the land with poverty and
degradation. Governor McKinley's
opening speech at Akron was worthy Of
the cause il which it was uttered, the
man who delivered it and the immense
multitude who listened to it's ringing
sentences. 1t was broad and master
ly declaration of Republican faith, ae-
cepting the asue presented by the nomi-
nation of | zee Trader Lawrence Neal
rs the Den ,ocratic candidate, and en-
forcing with the power Of trenchant
logic and irresistible truth the grand
Republican principles under which the
American people have prospered SO
magnificently for the past 80 years.
The tariff issue is the dominant ques-
tion in Ohio this year. A victory for
Neal will be hailed with exultation by
every American and British free trader.
1t will encourage the Southern Bc:ar-
bons to removed assaults upon the pro-
tective tari.'. 1t will be received with
enthusiasm by every foreign manufae-
turer who looks with greedy eyes
toward the rich markets of America.
No expenditure of labor and money
will be deemed too great by the free
trade forces if they can bring about
the defeat of the man who represents
American industrial independence be-
fore the world. Governor Mckinley
fully appreciates the importance of the
contest he has just entered. Seldom
has the case for protection been summed
up with greater clearness and force
than in his address yesterday. With
out the slightest attempt to arouse par
tisan prejudice or passion, appealing to
his hearers on the high ground of patri-
otism alone, he portrayed the prosperity
that protection has achieved, and con-
trasted it in few terse and telling
phrases with the stagnation and ruin
that the mere prospect of free trade has
wrought. There is no burden" he de-
clared, $50 great as unemployed men;
no tax so grievous as poverty. The
craftsmanship that can supply work to
willing hands is the craftsmanship of
6Oou DuolbOSo anu SdNluS
sense. We want our work done by our
own citizens. They must be preferred
above all others.'
Governor Mckinley met the enemy
at every point. He declared for the
protection of the American silver in
dustry and the bimetallism demanded
by the Republican national platform.
''The silver product of the country" q
asserted, SHOULD not be Disseminated
against, but some plan should be de-
vlsed for its utilization as money which
will insure not the displacement of gold,
but the safe and free use of both as ex-
changes among the people," He advo-
Gated the cause of the Union veteran in
a passage of impassioned sincerity that
should be read by every old soldier in
the United States. II protest" he said,
"against the presumption of fraud
being put upon the men who preserved
this country by member of an Ad-
ministration who had no part in the
great work of it's preservation. l pro-
test against this cruel stigma being put
upon them. | protest against this dis
| grace being put upon their wives ann
their children, who have esteemed the
honorable record of their protector as
the dearest heirloom of the generations
| to come"
Governor McKinley's address worthi-
ly inaugurates campaign whose prog
ress will be watched with Keen interest
on both sides of the Atlantic. The
Press has faith in the people of Ohio;
faith in their patriotism, in their intel
ligence, in their loyalty to the great
constructive politics that have made
their State ono OF the foremost of
American commonwealths. William
Mckinley will do his part; no fear as to
that. America does not hold more
dauntless and determined political
fighter than the sterling statesman and
patriot whose voice wilk.bs heard in
every county Of the Buckeye State be-
fore election day. Let every Republi-
can voter in Ohio do all in his power to
carry on the work of organization and
education! The result will be mem
orable triumph foi protection and
Americanism.
Over 100 years ago the United States
became independent politically of Great