The record-union., 1899-09-24

idW III Oruer TO prevent evils winch may
arise
Undoubtedly careful and wise legis-
iatlon will be required both on the part
OF Congress and the State Legislatures
TO regulate and prevent evils which
may emanate from the large corpora
tlons. Such legislation we can safely
entrust to the men of the Republican
party"
At the conclusion of Judge Nash S
speech, Governor Roosevelt was intro
duced- 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 cannot be anything but a 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 questions. If a
party raises an issue which it knows is
false issue, merely for the hope oe
carrying an election, then that party
shows in the most striking way that
it is the enemy of the country. and un :
fit to be entrusted with it's govern
ment. If the spokeSmen of a party
do not and cannot believe what they
say, whether in the way Of denuncia-
tion or promise, and especially if they
promise what they know they cannot
perform, and what is palpably intended
not to result in performance, but in
vote getting at the moment, then they
insult the conscience and the intelli-
gence of every freeman fit to exercise
a freeman's privilege
This is just what the Democratic
party in Ohio has done at this time,
and just what its leaders, national and
local, from the top down. are doing
when they speak of expansion, on trusts
and on free silver.
1T is the sincere belief of all right
minded men who have the welfare of
! the nation close at heart, that the posi-
ton taken by the Ohio Democracy.
speaking in reality for the national
Democracy in this campaign, is one
| destructive of national prosperity 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 into any disaster, provided
! only they can persuade a sufficient
number of dupes to put them where
| they can crafty their greed for Office
| their thirst for power. I should not
use such language in an ordinary poll
| tical contest 1 use it now as I should
have used it had 1 been alive during
/ 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 dough
race and copperhead thirty-seven years
ago They vote the war a failure now,
as they voted it a failure then. They
mouth with hypocritical anxiety about
a free press now as they did then. They
attack the nations credit and financial
! honesty now as they did then; and ex-
actly as in those days, when they
1 struck at an evil, they struck at it in
sincerely, so they strike insincerely at
| any real abuse of the present time, Of
I fering no remedy, and standing ready
/ TO hamper those who would really Of
fer one; and when they propose a REM
/ edy, it is a measure which would ag-
+ gravate ten times whatever of evil
actually exists.
/ They wish to discuss the question
of trusts, an economic question, and
! of expansion which is really the
question of upholdlng abroad the honor
/ of the flag and the interests of
the nation, and of making us rise
! level to our duties as a world
power. They hope to avoid much
! discussion of the silver question-much
/ discussion of their advocacy of a dis
| honest 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 explaining to them that that ques
I tion is really relegated to the rear and
! is not a live issue. They cannot be
/ both for and against free silver, and
as long as they are for it, it makes no
difference whether they shout or whis-
! per 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 men
ace to the prosperity of the country
/ and the welfare of its citizens, are
equally great. The salvation of this
country lies to no small extent in the
fact that while the bulk of our peo-
pie fully appreciate the Importance Oh
party and the usefulness of party gov
vernment, yet that they put country
| above party. So it was in the Civil
/ War, when the Democrats honored
themselves by standing by the country
and so it will be now for we have
a right to call upon all sincere lovers
of the flag, upon all believers in ma
tional honesty and civic unrighteous-
ness, upon all men who wish to bring
about the betterment and uplifting OF
the mass of the people, to stand with
us until the heresies for which our op-
ponents now fight have been relegated
to the unclean dust where they be-
| long.
"Our opponents denounce trusts. But
would make the situation ten times
worse than at its worst it now is.
have read through carefully the
speeches of Mr.. Bryan and of his fell
lows to find out what they propose to
do. I have found plenty of vague de-
nunciation. l have not found so much
as an atempt to formulate a 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 is to / with
out regard totthe action of any other
! nation. They pretend that the tariff
favors trusts. They know we'll that
I the greatest trusts in this country tho