Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-28
DEMOCRATIC ZINES.

DEMOCRATIC TIMES.
! There's silence in the factories,
| The spindles work no more;
"SuspendeGp' is the legend seen
On many bankers door,
The workmen sit in idleness
And listens TO the chimes:
The farmers wheat is fifty cents
These Democratic times.
The miner throws aside his pick,
The mines no longer pay;
He knows the wolf is at his door
And can't be pushed away.
The farmers sigh for prices which
They have in other climes,
And tramps are seen on every road
These Democratic times
The roosters that we heard last fall
No longer for us crow;
The last one pined away and died
OF shame some time ago.
They begged no poet would make for
them
His mortuary rhymes;
Though they were fought, they couldn't
stand
These Democratic times.
The Great Contest Begins.
New York Press
The fight is on in Ohio. The battle
has opened in earnest between the
champions of American ideas. Ameri-
can progress and American nndepend-
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 its ringing
sentences. 1t was broad and master
ly declaration of Republican faith. ac-
cepting the issue presented by the nomi-
nation of Free Trader Lawrence Neal
as the Democratic 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
magnifcently for the past 80 years.
The tariff issue is the dominant ques-
ton in Ohio this year. A victory for
Neal will be hailed with exultation by
every American and British free trader.
Ii will encourage the Southern Bour-
bons to renewed assaults upon the pro-
tective tariff. 1t will be received with
enthusiasm by every foreign manufac-
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
good business and saving common
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" he
asserted, ''should not be Disseminated
against, but some plan should be de-
vised 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. Il protest" he said,
against the presumption of fraud
being put upon the men who preserved
this country by a member cf an Ad-
mln1strat1on who had no part IN the
great work of its preservation. l pro-
test against this cruel stigma being put
upon them. l protest against this dis
grace being put upon their wives and
their children, who have esteemed &
honorable record of their protector as
the dearest heirloom of the generations
to come"
Governor McKinley's address WORTH
ly inaugurates a campaign whose prog
ress will be watched with keen intere t
on both sides of the Atlantic. The
Press has faith in the people of Ohio;
faith in their patriotism, in their intel
igence, in their loyalty to the great
constructive politics that have made
their State one Of the foremost of
American cOmmonwealths. William
Mckinley will do his part; no fear as to
that. America does not hold a more
dauntless and determined political
fighter than the sterling statesman and
patriot whose voice will be 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
educationl The result Will be a mem
orable triumph for protection and
Americanism.
Governor Mckinley was burned in
effigy at Sheffield, England, two years
ago because be advocated the protection
of American interests. That will never
happen to Larry Neal. None but |
thoroughbred Americans incur British
hostility. and Neal is only West Vir-
ginia copperhead.
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