Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-20
"A GRAND MEETING.
Gov. Mckinley Opens the Campaign
in Ohio.
Brief Synopsis Of his Speech..The Is.
sue Stated.

tne city on that day, aside from the
legitimate residents of the place, and
such blaze of glory and buntings, such
as has not been seen since the Blaine
pageant of 1884. The local committee
were assisted by the Republican State
Committee, the chairman of which lives
here and expenses has not been spared
to give Mckinley the greatest meeting
OF his life. To give him all the glory
ne alone is allowed the honor of max
ing speech and every feature of the
day celebration is subordinated to the
honor of Mckinley.
He arrived here at eleven clock and
the first number of the program was
an escort by military companies and
crowds of enthusiastic people went to
hotel where Mckinley held public
reception. The after dinner ceremonies
began with parade which, though
purely political, was stupendous affair
in numbers. The procession en- led at
Grace Park where the Governor ad-
dressed the multitude.
After few compliments to Akron
the Governor said: 1--WE meet in polit-
ical discussion for the first time since
the overwhelming defeat of 1892. We
meet with concern and in changed
conditions from those happily existing
when we last assembled. The business
condition of the country has created
just alarm among our people and is SO
grave that the President of the United
States has convened Congress in extra
ordinary session with view to secur-
ing prompt relief. This business con.
dition calls for sober reflection and de-
mands of all of us the most careful judg-
ment, as well as the exercise of the
highestpatriotism. Whatever comes or
goes, we are all for our country"
Having settled that much, we can
dispassionately discuss what will best
return it to the magnificent prosperity
which it has SO recently lost. If, as a
party or individuals any have been
wrong on public questions, they should
want to get right. Now is the time to
do it. If they have committed them
selves to policy which experience or
observation has demonstrated is un wise
and unfriendly to the highest prosperity
OF the country, they should abandon it
at once. This is no time for theorizing.
Practical state craft is the supreme
duty to the hour. ........
The purchase by the Government of
4,5OO, 900 ounces of silver every month,
under the Sherman law, 80 called, and
the issuance in payment therefore of
treasury notes in the sum of the value
of the silver thus bought, is believed in
the great financial centres to be the
cause, which if not wholly responsible
for the present situation has C contributed
thereto. The President shares in this
general belief most fully. Senator
Sherman, who was member of the
conference committee in the Fifty First
Congress, which agreed to the act of
July IA, 1890, 1.-THE silver purchase law
has announced his belief that the pur-
chasing clause of that law should be
repealed, and last year, before the in
auguration of President Cleveland, in.
troduced in the Senate bill to repeal
1t. 1t is fair to assume, therefore, that
whatever the 30 called Sherman law
has to do with the present condition of
our finances, it must now go, unless
Mr. Cleveland's party in the Senate
prevent it. The greater majority of
Republicans in Congress are openly
committed to its repeal. On the sub
ject of money the Republican party
stands where it has always stood. In
the language of the Ohio platform this
year: I'VE favor honest money, COM
posed Of gold, silver and paper. main
tanned at equal value and under ma
tional and not State regulation. The
suggestion for State bank money, COM
ing from any quarter, should be prompt.
ly rejected, and the party proposing it
should be deprived of the power to pro-
mote such scheme. d. 4t....
The President in his recent message
makes significant and for him some
what surprising statement. He says:
"ltmay be true that the embarrassment
from which the business of the country
is suffering arises as much from evils
apprehend as from those actually ex-
isting." l believe that in this sentence
the President uttered the moral truth,
one which will find in the mind of
every thoughtful man quick and APP
proving response. Whatever other
things may have contributed to our
present condition, every man knows, as
the President puts it, that the great un-
derlying cause is from evils apprehend-
ed; evils which are yet to come, evils
which are threatened, evils which it
has believed will follow the executed
DEGREES of the last Democratic National
platform.
Mckinley quoted the declaration of
Mr.. Neal, Democratic candidate for
Governor, that tariff reform must be the
Democratic battle cry. He said he ac-
cepted the issue thus rendered and
challenged Neal for particulars as to