The Elbert County tribune., 1899-09-28
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN
OPENED BY GOVERNOR RoosE
WELT.
lie says the Battle In Ohio VIII De Sa'
tionaI Arair Democrats con'p"reu
Copperhtad-.

GOV. Roosevelt of New York open
ed the campaign in Ohio by deiisering
mn address at Akron ON the 23rd- Hs
vas greeted by tremendous crowd
| Roosevelt said he had come TO Ak
ron 10 sneak because the contest III
| ohio this wear WAS national contest.
| made so by the stress laid upon nation
al questions by the Democratic pint
form.
The Democrats OF Ohio, he said. had
rcsoited TO political trickery in raising
| false issues and making false promises
merely to get votes. These issues, ne
said. were expansion. trusts ana Tree
silver in the state platform. The posi-
hon taken by the Ohio Democracy, he
said. standing in reality for national
Democracy, was one destructive or ma
tional prosperity at home and national
/ honor abroad.
Governor Roosevelt spoke in part as
follows:
-It Is impossible to avoid the conyic-
| tjon that their leaders know that this
is true. bur are willing 10 plunge the
country into any disaster, PROVIDED
| only they can persuade sifhcieht
| number of dupes to put them where
they can crafty their greed for ofhve-
| their thirst for power. | should not
/
ical contest. 1 use IL now as | should
hnye used II had | been alive during
the yenrs of the civil war. The men
| whom we are now fighting champion
| n cause which. in Its essentials, Is the
same as that championed by the Dough
Face and the Copperhead thirty-seven
years ago. They vote the war fail-
ure now as they voted 1t n failure then.
They mouth with hypocritical anxiety
about n free press now as they diu
then. They attack the nations credit
| and financial honesty now as they uld
then: and exactly as in those days. when
they struck at an evil. they struck at it
| insincerely, SO they strike insincer.iy
| at 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 rem
| edy IL is a measure which would ag-
| gravate ten times whatever of evil act
ually exists.
"Our opponents denounce trusts. But
they propose not one remedy that
would not make The situation ten times
worse than nt its worst IL now is. |
have read through carefully the
speeches of Mr.. Bryan and of his fel-
lows to find out what they propose TO
do. have found plenty of vague de-
nunciation. have not found so
much as an attempt TO formulate
n national policy of relief. In the Dem
ocratic platform In Ohio just two meas
ures of relief are proposed The trst.
| that you would change the tariH be-
cause 1t favors trusts, and the second.
that you should coin silver In the ratio
of 16 TO l without regard to the action
of any other nation.
.They pretend that the tariff favors
| l. N.a1I that flI.s Urpnt-
est trusts In this country. the Stand
ard Oil and the Sugar trusts. are ut
terly unaffected by the tariff. They
| know well that 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 lee trust (which is said to have rs
Its most prominent member ana pro-
moter that ardent antitrust champion
and advocate of Mr. Bryan. Richard
Croker is also wholly unaffected by
the tariff. Six years ago you We're un-
der 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 miscrles
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 n protective tariff. The sec
ond great remedy they propose for
trusts Is the free coinage of silver at
16 to 1.-The coinage of Il 40-cent dol
lar. They actually propose to the peo-
pie that, If the trust deprive certain
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 4S cents
on the dollar for the work they do.
''In the Philippines we are at open
war with an enemy who must he put
down. 1t is absolutely impossible TO
save our honor except through victory,
and it Is equally impossible to win
peace, to restore order In the islands.
Or to 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 failure. and that the in
dependence of the southern states
should be acknowledged. The feeble
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF tO-uny take the
same position. and If 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 n 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 he can stand by the one, and
uphold the other is to overwheln the
rarty that assals both.
Two facts must he 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
fui conduct on our part You will
meet short-sighted people who saw that
Dewey. after sinking the Spanish fleet.
should have sailed away from AIaniln
pay- Of course. such conduct was i'm
possible. IL 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 n
course been followed in which case n
series of bloody massacres would have
taken place, and the war between the
Spahinrds and the Fllipinos would
nave dragged along its wretched length
untii some outside Interference took
piace' or else what Is far more prob
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