The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-08
HARRISON IN OHIO.
He Speaks to a Large Audience in
Cincinnati

Cincinnati, o.. Oct. s.-The sky was
clear but the weather cold and raw last
night, when ex-Presidept Harrison,
with his wife by his side. set out for the
hall where he was to speak.
Along the line Of march there were
crowds of people. At Z o'clock the doors
were thrown open and in less than ten
minutes the hall, including the great
stage, was filled
When ex-President Harrison arrived
the applause was unbounded. It seem
ed as if it would never stop. Mrs. Har-
rison was with him She occupied a
seat on the stand
Tremendous applause followed when
Gen Harrison was introduced. After
waiting some minutes for the noise to
subside. the ex-president began his ad-
dress by declaring that it was impossi-
BILE to keep the presidency very long
out Of Ohio. He then eulogized Major
Mckinley as a man of irreproachable
personal Character a heroic soldier. an
able statesman and a brilliant orator
MIR. Hobart he referred to as q man OF
the highest character who had con-
Quoted successfully large and import
ant business and who is held in high
esteem by his neighbors and friends.
He then said:
"It is a historical fact that when the
Republican administration went out we
were in a time Of great prosperity; the
country was prosperous to an extent
that never before had been attained
1t is historically true that since the
Democratic policy has been brought to
legislation, the country has gone step
by step from the pinnacle of prosper
ity to the very depth Of business de-
preston and distress. AS Republicans
the remedy we propose is that a har-
monious, well adjusted revenue pro-
ducing and protective tariff shall be
had We propose that the necessity
for bond sales to replenish diminish
ed treasury and to restore a wasting
gold reserve shall be remedied by fiji
ing the treasury of the United States
with adequate revenue. We propose
that the money of the country. which
whether in it's various forms, Of silver
and gold, shall, every dollar of it be
kept at a parity with every other dol
lar. We propose that there shall be no
distrust accompanying the dollars, pa
per or coin, that this government emits
or authorizes We believe that these
things viii restore the prosperity we
have lost. We propose to maintain
against assault the duty of the presi-
dent of the United States to enforce all
laws.
Now, Bryan's proposition is that we
shall have bimetaIlism of both gold and
silver at the ratio of Is to l. In other
words that we shall have by law a
proclamation that a. man shall give a
dollars worth of something for so cents
worth of something else. It is abso-
lutely impossible. 1t is worse than base;
it is not creditabl it is not speaking
in high estimation Of the intelligence
of our people when It is said to them
that because we achieved our political
independence We can make two things
equal to each other. (Applause.) A
congress might make a law that a buff
falo skin should be equal to a coon
skin (Laughter) But if you want to
know the ratio between these two skins
you would have to go to the fur mer-
chant not to the statute book; and so
it is precisely with this matter of ratio
between one dollar and another. The
law cannot take the commercial ratio
OF approximately hold and maintain
the double standard but it can not dis
regard the quotations in the market
for the metals.