The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-11-20
Hon..L. e. Holden.
Sounds the Key Note for tho Campaign
OF 1000.-5ilver and Labor.

At the Hanna banquet last night
l.. Il. Holdt n, owner of the Plain
Dealer, newspaper, and the Hollen-
den Hotel, one of the oldest Demo
Gratis here, having left Maine while
1t was still Democratic state, and
also one Of the delegates at large to
the Democratic National Conven-
tion, used this language: Il am
opposed to any and all combina-
tions or efforts to obstruct the legis-
latinn which may tend to carry out
the policy proposed by the party
now in power"
Just rs Mr.. Holden sent this let
ter to the Hanna banquet, / was in
his Office, and siad: "rhere IL a
run or about the city that you are
either coming out for Mckinley or
u protective tariff"
"Nothing in that" said Mr.. Hol-
den, "but just this. The rest OF
them will lie, and | will not.
know perfectly well that revenue
has to be raised, and also that you
cannot raise revenue by q duty on
imports without assisting protec-
ton. Every % per centum put on
u foreign import is also % per cen
tum of protection. SO protection
is inevitable, and why think you
get around 1t by giving it some
other name. That was McKinley's
war cry, protection, and it is very
little to concede when we are al!
in favor of more revenue, 10 be
levied upon imports. l also be-
lieve Mckinley is going to do his
conscientious best to restore bimet-
allism. He told me that he favored
the wider use of silver. / have
never mentioned it to any one till
now. Never used it in my paper
in the campaign, and believe Nc
KiDley to be an honest man, and /
am confident he will try to promote
the wider use OF silver"
"Will he succeed by an interna-
tional concordat?"
81 don't believe he will. If we
are not bold enough to try it by
ourselves, / doubt if we can per-
suade other scared nations to go
with us in the dark part of the
way. 1 supported Bryan because
he offered to lead the way to inde-
pendent bimetallism, and we could
have elected him but for the addi-
tion of the wilder planks to the
platform, which, toward the close
of the fight, replaced silver, tariff
and everything else, and made
Bryan appear as the candidate of
revolution. Three weeks before
the election he would have beaten
Mckinley"
"W.ll Bryan be likely to get the
nomination another time?"
"That is mere speculation now.
Saying so will not make it so. In
finite contingencies willintervene.
l do not think Bryan's last tour in
Ohio added votes to him; rather
lost him some already secured.
The people were tagged out by his
delays"
"Thcy tell me you are silver
miner"
"That is not so. l was, but l sold
my mine before this period, and
have nothing more to do with
mines"
Do you predict a revival in
American mining? 2"
mo; not till Mexican ores are
prohibited from entering this coun-
try. The raw material should as
well be kept out as the ultimate
production. Mexican lead ores,
carrying silver and gold, and bare
ly taxed on the metal result of the
ore, close up American mines.
McKINLEY's MISTAKE.
"Mr. McKinley's idea that he can
coin only American silver-not the
foreign product-by duty against
foreign silver, is one of the evil
dences of his want of proficiency in
trade and political economy"
lis not labor more probable
Issue four years hence?"
"Labor is the portentious issue In
this country. Ifrich men will con-
tinue to combine in trusts, laboring
men will rersevcre in their trades
union resistance. We have In
Cleveland white lead factory and
a nail factory, both closed by the
respective trusts, and the men idle,
while the owners of the idle mills
get their dividends all the same
from the white lead and the nail
trust. Can you blame laborers who
are thus made the sport OF combi-
nations Of capital from making
trusts Of their labor also and clos
| ing I'D a mill if they can2 The