The age-herald., 1899-09-13
HAY SEES SUCCESS
Secretary of State Thinks Republicans
 Will be Victorious in Ohio

Columbus, O., September 12-chairman Dick of the republican state executive committee has received letter from Hon. John Hay, secretary of state, expressing regret al his inability to accept an invita- ton to attend the republican campaign opening and, incidentally, touching upon topics of the Ohio campaign. Secretary Hay expresses confidence of republican success, and continues:
 "1ne democratic money hobby has co., lapsed under them. Their orators still shout 16 to 1 from time to time, from the force of habit, ibut they are like wisdom crying on the streets, in one respect ar least, because no one regardeth them With our vaults full of gold with a suffi- ciency of money to meet the demands or volume of business unprecedentedly vast and profitable; with labor generally em- Ployed at fair wages; with our commerce overspreading the world; with every dollar the government issues as good as any other dollar; with our finances as firm as a rock, and our credit the best ever known, Il Is no time for financial mountebanks to cry their nostrums In the market place with any chance of being heard.
 Tt Is equally hopeless to try to resusti- cate the corpse of free trade. The Ding ley tariff, the legitimate successor of the Mckinley law-that name of good augary-- has justified itself by works. It Is not only true that our domestic trade has reached proportions never before attain ed, but the American policy of protection the policy of all our most illustrious states men. of Washington and Hamilton, Lin coin, Grant and McKiney-has been tri- umphantly Vindicated by the proof that 1t is as efficacious in extending our foreign commerce as In fos tering and stimulating our home industries.
 What is left in the way then of plat form? The regulation of trusts, which the republicans themselves manage, hav- dng all the requisite experience both of leg dslation and business; and finally the war which it seems, was too efficiently carried on. and has been too beneficial to the na- tives to suit the democratic leaders. We 'have been able in our time to give some ideas to the rest of the world and none more novel than this, that a great party should complain that the results of war were too advantageous. It will be hard, however. to convince the bulk of our people that we are worse off because our flag has gained a greater honor, our possessions have been extended, our position in the world increased and our opportunity for work and usefulness enormously wldened through the fortunes of war and the valor of our soldiers and sailors.
 Being in this desperate need of argu- ment, it is not strange that they should have recourse to fiction. An attempt is made in the Ohio democratic platform to excite prejudice of certain classes of voters against the present administration by ac- cusing 1t of an alliance with England. The people who make this charge know it to be untrue, their making it is an insult to the intelligence of those whose votes they seek by their gross misrepresentation. But as one of their favorite methods of campaign is to invent fiction too fantastic to con- tradict and then to assume 1t to be the truth because 1t has not been contradicted, you may permit me to take one moment to dispose of this ghost story, as 1t refers to the department with which am connected.
 .'There is no alliance with England nor with any power under heaven except those known and published to the world. treaties of ordinary international friendship for purposes of business and commerce. No treaty other than these exists; none has been suggested on either side. and none IS in contemplation. It has never entered in- to the mind of the president nor of any member of the government to forsake un- der any inducement the wise precept and example of the fathers which forbade en- tangling alliances with European powers.
 ''I need not dwell upon this fact. Even fhe men who wrote the Ohio platform know there is no alliance. But they seek to make capital in this campaign out or inc undeniable fact that our relations with England are more friendly and satisfactory than they have ever been."