The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-24
Chapman Talks Free Sixteen
to One on the Stump
in Ohio.

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 23.-AboUt
5000 people attended the opening meet
ing of the Democratic campaign at the
Auditorium tonight. Several thousand
personal invitations had been sent out
by the local committee. Hon. A. w.
Thurman presided The chief speech
was that of Horace L. Chapman, can
didate for governor Other speakers
were Gen-~A. J. Warner, of Marietta;
Maj James A. Rice, of Canton, and
Congressman John j. Lentz. Mr..
Chapman read his speech and consider
able of the effect was thus lost upon
the audience. He said in part:
Our committee very properly selected the
I'D day of September as the tine to open our
campaign, in commemoration of the patrio-
tism and virtue of the three New York
Misunderstanding, Vanwert and Williams
in honor of whom three counties in Ohio are
named-who refused to be Dribed and to sell
their country III years ago today for 10, 600
guineas or $4,000 worth of British gold,
offered by Maj. Andre, the spy, officer of
the British army, who had arranged with
that traitor, Benedict Arnold, to betray his
country and deliver Gen. Washington into
the hands of Sir Henry Clinton. When the
bribes were offered and the amount increased
from time to time, the firm reply came from
the three plain miltiamen: "We are Ameri-
cans. They could not be bought with
British gold.
By reason of the position taken by the two
great parties of Ohio. in their platforms this
year, the same questions are again to be d.s-
cussed and passed upon by the voters of our
commonwealth as were at issue at the cleo
ton in November, together with other ques-
tions of importance-taxation and the purity
of the ballot-affecting our state government,
municipalities, counties, even down to town
ships and school districts.
The contest last year was the most re-
markable in our history, by reason of the
fact that the money power-trusts and corpor-
atoms of every kind-was largely arrayed on
one side and the common people on the
other Under these circumstances six and
a half million votes were cast for Mr. Bryan
in the face of the most powerful corruption
fund ever raised in the history of any coun-
try. 1t is now nearly eleven months cince the
election and what has taken place? Nothing
but broken promises and unredeemed pledges
on the part of the Republican party.
We are told that prosperity exists through
out the country; that labor is employed at
good wages and business booming-caused by
the advance in price of cereals, from the
foreign demand and the advance in some
other articles from the effect of the Dingley
bill In my opinion the tariff question is one
that can be rightfully and honestly adjusted
in the interests of the whole people. There
are only two ways of raising revenue under
cur laws: One by internal revenue and the
other by duties on imports. After ascertain
ing the amount that can be raised from the
Internal revenue the balance should be levied
in the form of duties, imports with
view to revenue only and ought to be levied
on luxuries mot prohibitoryl with the view
OF raising the largest amount of revenue and
causing the burdens to fall chiefly upon the
wealth Of the country.
Money whether metallic or paper is the
creature, Of law, and its measuring power of
every other species of p'-.nerty is determined
by the amount in circul- ton aGi the demand
for 1t. On this question my position is well
known. l am in favor Of the restoration of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without wait
0r nf
other country, believing that we are able to
maintain our own financial policy, and l an
in favor of only three kinds of money-gol1,
silver and legal tender treasury notes. good
for all debts, public and private, and in
support of my views l quote from prominent
Republican staesmen who expressed their c5n-
victions upon this subject in language strong
er and more impressive than can use.
Hon. William Mckinley said on the hoor
of the house of representatives June a. 1890:
81 am for the largest use of silver in the
currency of the country sSecretary Sher-
man said, as published in his speeches and
reports of Finance and Taxation,'' April II,
1876, page SIS: ''The metals have kept to-
gether with remarkable nearness and it is
said with great force, it seems to me, that
to adopt the god standard alone and demone-
tie silver would be to deprive the poor peo-
pie of the world of the money which alone
measures the value of their production and
of their labor
In the speech delivered by Senator J. B.
Foraker at Jackson O., March 6, 1895, he
said: we believe in bimetallism in the
sense that silver shall be more than credit
money 1t must again be made money of
ultimate redemption, and as such take it's
place along side of gold.''
In conclusion, let the free men of Ohio,
no matter of what party, rise in their might
at the polls and crush that monster-bribery
which threatens to tear down our form of
government and with it the teachings of hon
or, virtue and patriotism, which we have so
long revered. With an honest ballot at the
coming election we will win a great and
glorious victory and emulate the virtues ef
Paulding Vanwert and Williams.