Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-10-05
ROOSEVELT IN OHIO.
The Governor of New York at Re-
publican Campaign Opening.
a Regular San Juan Charge Upon
Democrats, State and National
-RepubIican Principles
Vigorously Upheld.

The republican campaign was in
augurated in Ohio at Akron, Saturday,
September %, amidst general outpour-
ing of the state forces. Gov. Roosevelt
of New York was the principal speaker,
and he spoke in part as follows
"I come to speak to you because we
recognize throughout the nation that the
contest this year in Ohio Is not and can
not be anything but national contest.
1t is idle to say it is local-yes, and worse
than idle--it is dishonest to make such an
assertion where the democratic PLATFORM
lays its especial stress upon national is
sues. If a party raises an issue which II
knows is a false issue, merely for the hope
of carrying election, then that party
shows in the most striking way that 1t is
the enemy of the country and unit TO be
intrusted with its government If the
spokesmen of party do not and cannot be
lieve what they say, whether in the way
of denunciation or promise, and especially
If they promise what they know they can
not perform. and what is palpably intend
ed not to result in performance, but in
yote-gettng at the moment, then they in
suit the conscience and the intelligence
of every freeman fit to exercise a freeman's
privilege.
This is just what the democrat tic party in
Ohio has done at this time, and just what
it's leaders. national and local from the
top down, are doing when they speak on
expansion, on trusts and on free silver
1t is the sincere belief of all right-mnded
men who have the welfare of the nation
close at heart that the position taken by
the Ohio democracy, speaking in reality
for the national democracy in this cam
pagn, is one destructive of national pros
perity at home and of national honor
abroad. Moreover it Is impossible to avoid
the conviction that their leaders know that
this Is true, but are willing to plunge the
country in to any disaster, provided only they
can persuade sufficient number of dupes
TO put them where they can crafty their
greed for Office their thirst for power. |
should not such language in an or
binary political contest. | use it now as |
should have used 1t had I been alive dur
ing the years Of the civil war. The men
whom we are now fighting champion
cause which in It's essentials is the same
as that championed by the doughface and
the copperhead 81 years ago. They vote
the war failure now they voted 1t
failure then. They mouth with hypocrit-
ical anxiety about free press now as
they did then. They attack the nations
credit and financial honesty now they
did then: and exactly as in those days
when they struck al an evil they struck al
1t insincerely, so they strike insincerely at
any real abuse of the present time, Offering
no remedy, standing ready to hamper those
who would really offer one; and when they
propose a remedy il is a measure which
will aggravate ten times whatever of evil
actually exists.
"They wish to discuss the question of
trusts an economic question, and of eX
MANSION, which is really the question of up
i,5Wng abroad the honor of the flag and the
~ lists of the nation, and of making US
ntso kvel to our duties as a world power.
~ Nhope to avoid much discussion of the
- nuestion-much discussion of their
advocacy Of "A dishonest dollar; trusting
that thereby they shall be enabled to say to
the believers in free silver that they are
heartily in favor of it, and yet to fool the
men who stand for sound finance by eX-
planning to them that that question is
really relegated to the rear and is not
live issue They cannot be both for and
against free silver, and as long as they are
for it. il makes no difference whether they
shout whisper their allegiance. In either
case they would have to turn their words
into acts should they come into power, and
in both cases, therefore, the menace to
the prosperity of the country and the wei
fare of its citizens is equally great. The
salvation of this country lies to no small
extent in the fact that while the bulk of
our people fully appreciate the Importance
of party, and the usefulness of party gov
eminent, yet that they put country above
party. SO it in the civil war, when
the war democrats honored themselves by
standing by their country: and so it will
be now for we have a right to call upon
all sincere lovers of the flag, upon all be-
levers in national honesty and civil up
rightneSs, upon all men who wish to
the mass of the people, to stand with US
until the hereses for which our opponents
now fight have been relegated to the un-
clean dust where they belong.
''Our opponents denounce trusts. But
they propose not one remedy that would
not make the situation ten times worse
than at its worst it now Is. l read through
carefully the speeches of Mr.. Bryan and of
his fellows to find out what they proposed
to do. | have found plenty of vague de-
|
an attempt to formulate national policy
of relief. In the democratic platform in
Ohio, just two measures of relief are pro-
posed the first, that you should change
the tariff, because it favors trusts; and
the second, that you should coin silver in
the ratio of sixteen to one without regard
to the action of any other nation. They
pretend that the tariff favors trusts. They
know that the greatest trusts in this coun-
try, the Standard Oil and the sugar trusts,
are utterly unaffected by the tariff. They
know well that the trust with which there
is the most widespread and deepest dssat-
isfaction, the beef trust, is utterly unaf-
fected by the tariff; and in my own state,
one of the largest trusts, the ice trust
(Which is said to have as its most promi-
nent member and promoter that ardent
antitrust champion and advocate of Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Richard Croker, is also wholly
unaffected by the tariff. Six years ago you
were under the kind of tariff to which
they now ask you to return. And you were
suffering from the threat of free coinage
the threat which they now revive. Are the
people of this country SO Short-sighted that
they forget the miseries of six years ago?
Do they forget the bread riots, the pow
erty, the squalid want, even of those able
and anxious to work? Surely the country
has had enough of tariff tinkering by the
opponents of a protective tariff. The sec
ond remedy they propose for trusts is the
free coinage of silver at sixteen to one
the coinage of u Ascent dollar They
DrODOSe
trusts deprive certain men of part of their
earnings, or throw a certain body of men
out of employment, this shall be remedied
by decreeirg that the men who still have
employment shall be paid 4S cents on the
dollar for the work they do
'The utter unsettlement of values con-
sequent upon complete upsetting of our
financial system would give a great oppor-
tunity for gain to every INSCRIPTIONS spec
ulator in the country, and probably the peo-