The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-09-16
MLEAN ORDERS A CHANGE
Free Silver Abandoned, Famine In
India Holds First Place.
oHAprAss WONDERFUL WORDS.
Anti-Trust Laws-COrn Crop
In Ohio.
Columbus. Ohio. September Il.

The political news centers IN this
city have not been rather lively dur
ing the past week, owing, no doubt. to
the exertions on both sides to make
the opening meetings success. The
plan to open the Republican campaign
IN three places turned out to be wise
one. The enemy was stormed all along
the line and the heavy artillery was
Get in motion early in the conflict.
The Democrats have houndered
good deal in their efforts to line them
selves up in some sort of battle array
and under some sort Of banner. When
their convention met In this city two
months ago, the tariff bill had not
passed, wheat had not gone to a dol
lar, and wool and corn and tobacco
were all lower than they are now.
Now that prosperity is actually pres
spt with the people of Ohio, there has
been shift, and John R. Mclean has
abandoned the free silver war whoop.
Hostilities are to be prosecuted under
q plan of villifcation and vituperation
with the famine In India as rallying
cry. How ticlled the Democratic ora
tors will be when they begin to talk
of that famine in India. Without that
famine in India. where, oh. where
would the McLeanite orators and news.
papers be? Probably the famine in In,
dia Ii responsible for the American
people each eating bushel more OF
wheat this year than last, under the
reign Of Grover Cleveland. Perhaps
the famine in India has caused wool to
double In price so that the Ohio wool
grower can get fair price for his pro-
duct. Perhaps the famine in India has
caused the tobacco grower to receive
more for his product, and, Of course.
the famine in India has caused corn to
increase its figure!
Free silver will not be the rallying
cry for the McLeanites from now on,
unless another shift Is ordered from
Washington or Narragansett Pier. Ca
lamity bowling will be the order Of the
day. The famine in India will be the
watchword, and all the time the Ohio
farmer will be told that he Is not pros.
porous even when he knows he Is, and
the worlxingman In the cities will be
told that he is not prosperous when he
Is working steadily for the first time
In months, and, in some instances, In
three or four years.
And all to elect John r. Mclean to
the United States senate!
The attempt to make H. L. Chapman
out the true friend of the workingman
In general and the miner in particular
is one, Of the funniest things that has
happened thus far. The Mclean news
paper, published in Cincinnati, came
the nearest to supporting Chapman for
governor, when 1t interviewed him the
other day on the miners strike. The
interview had internal evidences OF
careful preparation, for the questions
were stilted and formal, such as no
newspaper man used to the business of
interviewing would employ. Chapman
said he was always in favor OF giving
the miners more pay; that he was In
favor of 1t when the strike was begun;
that he offered to pay his men more
10 continue at work than they received
under the 65-cent settlement. The trou-
ble with all this is that the only evil
dence that this is so is from Mr.. Chap
man himself; no such evidence comes
from the Jackson miners themselves.
Perhaps while they are paying 81 for
the privilege of living month In one
OF Chapman's $36 shanties, they do not
feel called upon to enter into the con-
froversy.
In. Chapman's prepared interview
nothing was said about Chapman being
at the head of the coal trust In his sec
tion of the state, nor did he say any
thing about his lobbying against the
miners screen biN which was present.
Z ed to the legislature few years ago.
He didn't once mehtion his national
bank that he has denounced in his plat
form and which makes money whether
his mines do or not.
And speaking Of the platform upon
which Mr.. Chapman Is running, want
to call attention to one very funny
sentence IN It. It II as follows:
I'VE demand more rigorous en-
forcement of all antitrust laws and
such additional legislation as may be
necessary for their Immediate and hnal
suppression..''
In other words, the Democratic party
Of Ohio demands additional legislation
70 suppress Immediately and dnally oil
antitrust laws. This sentence ID found
IN next to the last plank Of the Demo
cratic platform. No other interpreta'
tion of the meaning Of this sentence II
possible.
Perhaps. after all, 1t expresses th'
2 true belief Of Chapman. who 10 at tht
head Of coal trust. and of Mclean
Who h arm believer In trusts. from
sasar 70 sas.
ne tvnniest psople II the stAte ~,