The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-22
TIE OHIO CAMPAIGN.


Gov. Mckinley Fires the First Gun 1t
Akron-The Chief Political Issues Dis
ousscd.
AKRON, O., Sept. 1s.-The republican
campaign in Ohio was opened with
monster meeting. Republicans from
all parts of Ohio turned out by thou
sands to give Gov. Mckinley send of.
Two special trains brought the march
ing clubs from Cleveland while hum
dreds of other republicans from that
city arrived on the regular trains Big
delegations were present from all the
manufacturing cities within fifty miles
of Akron, many republicans coming
even from Columbus and Pittsburgh.
A conservative estimate places the
number of visitors at 10000.
After the street parade at 1880
o'clock, Gov. Mckinley spoke at Grace
park to one of the largest political
Gov. Mckinley, after few introduce
DRY remarks, said: 1--WE meet in po-
litical discussion for the first time since
the defeat of 1892. We meet with deep
concern, and in changed conditions
from those happily existing when we
last assembled. The business condi-
ton of the country has created just
alarm among our people, and is SO
grave the president of the United
States has convened congress in extra
ordinary session, with view to secur-
ing prompt rel
He then quoted from President Cleve-
lands last message to congress- show
ing the chief executive charges the
present condition of affairs to the
operation of the Sherman silver law.
Gov. Mckinley said that Senator
Sherman had introduced in the last
congress a bill to repeal the silver law,
and he believed the great majority of
the republicans in the senate would
now vote for its repeal, as a great
m ajority 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 If it was not repealed the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. The governor continued by
saying that the republicans of Ohio
favored honest money, composed of gold,
silver and paper maintained at equal
value and international, not state, con-
troll.
1--WE do not want to strike down
either gold or silver" he said. "We
want to use both metals, but insist one
shall go at parity with the other, and
that both shall be equal intrinsically
as legal tender and debt-paying power. 3"
IL eo;1 xxbap Tho b,,e.pacc d;cf,rb
ance began the outstanding currency
was the largest in the country's his
tory, being $1,000, 600, 600, or s24. As per
capita. The trouble was not, there
fore, due to want of currency. But
the money had gone out of circulation
and had been boarded by the people.
With confidence in the future once re-
stored, with an abandonment of the
declared purpose to introduce reve-
nue. tariff policy in the country, conf
dence would come back, the money
boarded would once more find its way
into the banks and the channels of
trade.
The governor turned to the tariff
question and called attention to
portions OF the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions, which were
strictly outlined in the Chicago conven-
ton on motion of Mr.. Neal, now the
candidate for democratic governor of
Ohio. He said the difference between
wages here and abroad is not to be
recognized by the democrats in revis-
ing the tariff: that no heed is to be
given to injuries that may result to do
nestle industries; that the democrats
propose to abandon the raising of reve-
nues from customs and resort to direct
taxation; that no regard will be had
for the labor and capital involved in
domestic industries, and that the new
tariff bill is not to be framed on prin-
ciples of justice.
No quarter is to be given, but all our
vast industries must surrender without
terms to the demand of the tariff re-
former.
He said that having stricken out these
portions of the report of the committee
on resolutions, adopted, on motion of
Mr.. Neal, the plank denouncing pro-
lection as fraud and declaring that
the government has no constitutional
power to impose tariff duties except for
revenue only.
This, then" he said, sis the voice
of the democratic candidate for gov
ernor. Is it the voice of Ohio? VIII it
be the approved utterance of the voters
of Ohio? This is the principle upon
which the revision is to be made, and
it is the tariff reform referred TO by the
president in his recent message to
which he declared that every effort of
his administration shall be dedicated.
''As casting further light upon dem
ocratic purposes we have only to OBJ
serve how the committee on ways and
means in the present house of repre-
sentatives has been organized. A ma
jority of the democratic members con-
shutting it are from the south, and
from districts of comparatively little
manufacturing and commercial i'm
portance."
FIGURES OF SILVER.