The Lamar register., 1899-09-27
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN
OPENED BY GOVERNOR RoosE-
WELT.
He says the Battle In Ohio VIII Be Ma
tionni Affair Democrats Compared to
Copperheads.

ed the campaign in Ohio by delivering
an address nt Akron ON the 23rd. He
was greeted by tremendous crowd.
Roosevelt said he had come to Ak
ron to speak because the contest in
Ohio this year was national contest,
laade SO by the stress laid upon nation
al questions by the Democratic plat
form.
Governor Roosevelt spoke in part as
follows:
at Is impossible 10 avoid the convic-
tion that their leaders know that this
is true, but are willing TO plunge the
country into any disaster, provided
only they can persuade n sufficient
number of dupes to put them where
they can crafty their greed for Olive
their thirst for power. l should not
use such language in an ordinary polit-
ical contest. | use ii now as | should
have used II had | been alive during
the yenrs of the civil war. The men
whom we are now fighting champion
a cause which. in its essentials, is the
same as that championed by the Dough
Face and the Copperhead thirty-seSen
years ago. They vote the war a fail
ure now as they voted ii failure then.
They u:outh 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 exactly as in those days, when
they struck at an evil, they struck at Ii
inslncerely. so they strike insincerely
Mt any real abuse Of the present time,
offering no remedy. and standing ready
TO hamper those who would really Of
fer one; and when they propose "A rem
edy II IS n measure which would ag-
gravate ten times whatever of evil act.
ually exists.
They pretend that the tariff favors
trusts. They know well that the great
est trusts in this country. the Stand
ard oil and, the Sugar trusts, are ut
terly unaffected by the tariff. They
know well thar the trust with which
there is the most widespread and deep
est dissatisfaction. the Beef trust, is
utterly unaffected by the tariff! and in
my own state. one of the largest trusts,
the Ice trust (which Is said TO have as
its most prominent member and pro-
moter that ardent antitrust champion
and advocate Of Mr.. Bryan. Richard
Croker is also wholly unaffected by
the tariff. Six years ago you were un-
Ter the kind OF tariff TO which they now
ask you TO return. And you were suf-
fering 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 poverty, the squalid
want. even of those able and anxious
TO work. Surely the country has had
enough of tariff tinkering by the OPP
ponents of protective tariff. The sec
ond great remedy they propose for
trusts Is the free coinage OF silver at
10 TO 1.-The coinage of a 4o-cent dol
lar They actually propose to the peo-
-. .Ia 1r-.a arf.af in
men OF part of their earnings. or
throw certain body of men out OF
employment. this shall be remedied
by declaring that the men who still
have employment shall be paid As cents
on the dollar for the work they do.
I'm the Philippines we are at open
war with an enemy who must be put
down. 1t Is absolutely impossible TO
save our honor except through victory,
and il is equally impossible to win
peace. 10 restore order in the islands,
or 10 prepare the way for self-govern-
ment there. save through victory. Peo-
pie tell you that the Filipinos are fight
ing for Independence. This is exactly
what the Copperheads of 1861 said of
the Confederatcs. Here in Ohio Val
landingham ran on the issue that the
war was n failure. and that the In
dependence OF the southern states
should be acknowledged The feeble
vallandinghams of to-day take the
same position, and IL Ohio is true to
the great memories of her past, she will
give the same answer now that she
gave then. No man can hesitate in
this struggle and ever afterwards call
himself true American and true pa
triot He must stand by the flag. He
must uphold the honor and the interest
of the nation, and the only way in
which lie can stand by the one, and
uphold the other, is to overwhelm the
party that :issails both.
1.-TWO facts must be emphasized
First, that out Of the present situation
the only honorable and humane way Is
TO put down armed resistance In the
Philippines and to establish govern
ment of orderly justice: and. in the
second place, that this situation inev-
itably arose out of the war; and could
not have been avoided save by shame
full conduct on our part You will
meet shcrt-sighted people who say that
Dewey, after sinking the Spanish fleet,
should have sailed away from Manila
bay. OF course, such conduct was i'm
possible. 1t is not too much to say that
such conduct would have been in
famous, Either the islands would have
been left to their own fate had such a
course been followed, in which case n
series of bloody massacres would have
taken place, and the war between the