The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-04
CALLED TO DUTY.
Opening Speech by Governor
Mckinley
At Findlay, Ohio, Thursday,
September 27.
A Mastery Exposure Of Free
Trade Fallacies.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARRAIGNED

porary Democratic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
the Democracy Fail to Heed the Signs
of a Change in Public Sentiment and
Still Seek to Enact Their Disapproved
Theories Into Law-After Months OF
Agitation They Can Present Nothing
but q Tariff Law Denounced by the
President and Other Party Leaders.
MIR. PRESIDENT AND My FELLOW CITIZENS:
In November, 1892, Republican Ma
tional adm. .listration, able, efficient and
patriotic, which had conducted the Gov
ernment with marked ability and fidelity
for nearly four years, at the head OF which
was one of our greatest Presidents, Cen
eral Benjamin Harrison, was voted out of
power Both those who assisted and those
who opposed this deere Nof the people, for
the most part, have been unhappy and re-
gretful ever since. In obedience to this de-
cree the Democratic party has been in SUI
preme control of the Government Tor near
'ly 10 months, and for the greater part of
that time it has been engaged in trying to
revise the tariff.
This period has given to the American
people an opportunity for sober reflection,
steadied by the discipline of adversely. 1t
has been their chief occupation, for little
employment in their former fields of labor
has waited upon them. The people have
been thinking, and those who have not
been thinking have been feeling the stress
of the times wrought by the great change.
1t has been a season of universal educa-
ton-compulsory education, it is true
but its lessons are practical, profitable, and,
believe, permanent.
After all, the form of instruction which
is most effective and enduring is expert
ence. We have had that in abundance,
but have not been blessed with much else.
We know more than we did two years ago
and we are better prepared than ever be-
fore for the intelligent exercise of the high
est rights and privileges of American citi-
zenship. Even the eyes of the blindest
partisans have been opened, and men who
have heretofore never been able to see any
good in the Republican party and who
voted its policy "a fraud and robbery"
are now eager for a reconsideration and
change.
The Democratic Tariff Revision.
The party in power availing itself of the
opportunity given it in 1892 has at length
succeeded in revising the tariff, but it must
have been apparent, even to Congress, that
the people had already revised their opin-
ions and were filled with anxiety to pass
judgment on their work. 1t did not take
the people as long to revise their views as
it did Congress to revise the tariff. They
have neglected no opportunity to speak,
and they could not have spoken in tones
more emphatic nor less likely to be mis-
understood. l doubt if we fully realize
the remarkable. reversal in public opinion.
1t is unexampled in history, and well
worth the attention of every thoughtful
observer, and especially should it be in
structive to those who have remnant to
serve in the present Congress. Let me
hastily review this revolution in senti-
ment since the last National election.
You will remember that in 1892 the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts was elected by plurality
of 2,534 but in 1893 the Democratic eandi-
date for the same Office was defeated by a
Republican plurality of 35,697 votes. This
was Republican gain of more than 3s,-
900 votes in a single year, while Governor
Greenhalge had a greater plurality by
nearly 10000 votes than was cast for the
Republican ticket at the natioral election
of the preceding year.
In the Empire State of New York in 1899
President Cleveland received a plurality
of As, 5l6 votes, but this was changed in
1893 into Republican plurality of "a, ,4S4
for Hon. John Palmer for Secretary Of
State. Here was the significant Repub-
lican gain of more than 10000 votes in
''the pivotal State" which usually decides
our National elections.
Republican Pluralities Doubled.
In reliable old Pennsylvania the Repub-
ican banner state in 1892, the plurality
for our national ticket was 63,747. This
was more than doubled in 1893, when Mr..
jackson, the Republican candidate for
state treasurer, received the splendid plu-
rality of 1875, l46 votes.
In Iowa. too, the Republicans have made
most gratifying gains. In 1892 the Repub-
lican plurality for the national ticket was
q, 1865, although the Democratic candidate
for governor bad carried the state the pre-
vious year by s,2l6 plurality. In 1893,
Hon. F..D. Jackson, the Republican can
didate for governor, defeated Governor
Boies for reelection by plurality of 3d.
S56, Republican gain over the preceding
gubernatorial election of 0,582 votes.
In the state of Ohio the Republican plu-
rality in 1892 was LORI This was changed
in 1899 into Republican plurality of So
pos. Here was Republican gain of 70, ,923
In a single year, or of more than SO 900 as
compared with the result of the guberna-
torial election of 1891.
Nor has this Republican tidal wave re-
ceived any check since. The present year
began with remarkable Republican victo-
ries, and they have continued uninter-
ruptedly ever since. You will recollect
that on Jan. 80 two congressman were
elected in the Fourteenth andFifteenth dis
trcts of NewYork city, at special elections
The first of these was carried by Hon. l..
E. Quigg, the Republican candidate, by q
plurality of 9Si votes, although the same
district gave Democratic plurality in
1892 Of 8.s25. In the other district the Re
publicans were not successful, but they
reduced the Democratic plurality of II $3.50
to 1857. Here was a Republican gain Of
nearly 1900 in the very strongholds Of
Tammany.
Almost Landslide.
This was followed in few weeks by q
similar astonishing gain in the Republican
Gibraltar Of Pennsylvania. A congress
man-at-large was elected in that state In
February, and Hon. Galusha A. Grow, the
veteran Republican, who was the candi-