Iron County register., 1895-10-10
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
k-Gov. Campbell Opens the
State Campaign.
xAs WILSON BIN Reeeives His warmes
Praise, and He Predicts Defeat for
the Mckinley Tariff
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Praise, and He Predicts Defeat Tor
the Mckinley Tarin
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The Ohio democratic campaign was
1pened with great enthusiasm at CO.
lumbus on the evening of Saturday.
September 2S. A parade of democratic
adherents seven miles in length was
one of the features OF the event Ex-
Gov. Campbell made the opening
speech and among other things he said:
Il congratulate you, citizens of Columbus,
upon the remarkable growth. prosperity and
thrift Of your city Never has labor been
50 fully employed or at more remuneratfve
chases 25 per cent more OF the necessartes OF
life than ever before. Never have so many
manufacturing establishments been pressed
beyond their capacity with lucrative contracts
But not alone is Columbus to be congratu-
lated The whole state OF Ohio Is sharing in
this even distribution OF prosperity, happiness
and wealth.
mot only is the city of Columbus to be con-
graduated, not only Is the state OF OHIO to De
congratulated. but the whole country rises up
and calls the Wilson bill blessed American
carpets are selling In Administer. hold In my
hand piece Of cloth sent to me by the Amer
lean consul at Bradford, with the words:
II inclose you a small sample Of the Amer
lean goods sold here at nfty cents yard, ana
of which have ordered q suit
"Bradstreet's saysthat the recent advance in
the production and price In iron and steel is
the greatest boom in the Iron and steel trade
In our history and, as early as July 6, printed
the following regarding the increase in wages
up 70 that date:
1.-The extent of the full voluntary advance
in wages reported within a month or two has
outgrown the resources of voluntary statis-
tical bureaus which have endeavored to keep
track of them. latest advices being that more
than 1000. 900 Industrial workers have received
an advance averaging about 10 per cent
1.-THE Iron Age recently contained glowing
account OF the steel works Of the states Of the
central west. and says: The tremendous pres
sure to get orders filed at the mills has never
been equaled and the demand far exceeds any
thing heretofore known. and 1t is utterly out
of the question to meet the demand
"Dun's Review reports general and rapid
improvement In markets and prices in all di-
rections, and says that it has come now to be
the only question In what branches, If any, the
rise IN prices and the increase In business may
go too far.
Another high authority notes almost phe-
nomenal improvement In the sales OF dry
goods, clothing, boots ahd shoes and other
staples which the country buys freely when
prosperous, but scantily when reverse condi-
tions prevail
The iron dealers and manufacturers OF iron
structural work at Pittsburgh are complain
Ing of car famine. The iron industry has SO
revived that cars cannot be secured to remove
the goods The Carnegie company has been
forced to begin the erection of an immense
car factory in which to build and repair its
own cars.
The voluntary increase of wages to the en-
ployes in the copper mines OF single county
in Michigan amounts to S60o,00o year. Even
some of the republican newspapers In Ohio
have discovered that the country Is prosper
Gus and happy under the Wilson tariff, and
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Of Sep
tember has the following:
The voluntary inc rease of wages still goes
on in many of the manufacturing centerS, and
this Is an excellent indication of a tendency
that cannot be accounted merely temporary.
The indications displayed for several months
are being confirmed by these voluntary in
creases, and the news of the enlargement and
Strengthening OF lines of business
"In the face Of all this the republican nomi-
nee for senator said In his Springfield speech:
To begin with. the whole subject Of the tariff
Will have to be revised on protection lines
We are moved to ask who are the tariff tink-
ersi' Who would tear down and destroy the
prosperity of the country Who. for the pur-
pose of temporary partisan advantage, would
again unsettle business as they unsettled 1t by
the tariff act Of 1890 and throw the country
again into an industrial panic? 1t is not the
republican party of the union which threatens
existing prosperity, because the great leaders
outside of the state OF Ohio have forever repu-
dated a return TO the Mckinley bill or to any
legislation akin to It It Is not the voice OF the
entire republican party OF Ohio which ella norS
for industrial destruction. for the Sandusky
Register, an ably-edited and leading journal
of this state, In a recent issue blurted OUT this
truth:
1--WE have reached a point in our career
when the great majority OF republicans and
business men generally. whether republicans
or democrats. will oppose any sweeping
changes In the tariff And further says: We
may as well face the music and the facts first
as last
Another republican newspaper in Ohio re-
Dukes the attempt to divert attention from
.Coxism' and legislative corruption by saying
that the people will listen to no demAgogic
vaporings about great national issues, and
they will turn with impatience from all ap-
peals to mere parttsanseip
The few men, candidates for ofdce In Ohio,
who have declared for q return to the Mchin-
ley law for q tinkering OF the tarin and an
ebbing of the tide OF prosperity. will go down
to defeat at this years election in this state.
and their hobby will be relegated to the rear
in the neat national republican convention
They are the 'kalamity kroakers' now. How
pttiful and how ridiculous they look as they
sit croaking in the sunshine, their feeble
voices drowned by the joyous whistles OF re-
viving industries!
what a farce it all was-that pretense at
the Springfield opening Of the republican
campaign that the country was suffering
under the Wilson tariff! But the sore aiming
part OF the farce, WHICH cOuSuiSco euo SAlh .
people Of Ohio with mirth, was the pretended
reconciliation between the two gentlemen
whom the GAINESVILLE convention had nomi-
mated respectively for United states senator
and president of the United States So far as
the nomination of United States senator was
concerned, 1t is possible that the convention
may not have exceeded its jurisdiction.
but the nomination for president OF the
United States by the character OF men VINO
dominated the convention may not neces-
sGrily be binding upon the next national con-
veation. nor upon the state and district con-
ventions which win select the Ohio deieSa-
ton
There is one question upon which Bushnell
and Arid Asa Jones seem to be q little reluc :
tant to express themselves That is the sub
jecG OF coinage The national democratic plat
form Of 1892 was the last enuncfation upon
this somewhat vexed subject by the democ-
racy of the nation in council assembled. and
until they again assemble, as they will In a
few months to lay down the principles which
shall guide them in the next national CAM
paign. 1t is the duty OF every democrat who
loves his party and believes in 1t. its earnest
ness, its sincerity and Its intention to do right
By the people, to stand upon that platform. II
there be any who differ from the declaration
of the platform of 1899 it is their right and
privilege democrats TO appeal TO the na-
tional representatives in 1896 for recognition
of their views, and then. like true democrats,
acQuiesce in the verdict, whatever it may be
N myself shall do.
1T behooves as patriots, looking to the
future welfare of our country, aside from what
may be purely partisan questions, to take
speedy and decided action upon a subject now
confronting US as nation. More than sew
enfy years ago President James Monroe
issued a message which officiaily committed