Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-19

will have direct steamship lines be-
tween the eastern coast of the Un' ted
States and South American ports" He
pointed out that zone of the needs of
the hour is that we have direct COM
mercial lines from our vast fields of
production to the fields of consump-
ton that we have barely touched" He
shrewdly declared: Next in advan-
tage to having the thing to sell is to
have the conveyance to carry it to the
buyer. We must encourage our mer-
chant marine. We must have more
ships. They must be under the Amer
lean flag, built and manned and owned
by Americans" He asserted that I'VE
must build the Isthmian canal, which
straight line Of water communication
with the western coasts of Central and
South America and Mexico"
If an evil blow is to be struck at this
benevolent policy and the party which
conceived and protects and promotes
it, Ohio should be the last state in the
Union to strike that blow. If the Dem
ocratic party should succeed in this
state, such blow will have been Civ
en-. If the Republican state ticket
should be defeated, it will be heralded
abroad that Ohio has become distrust-
full of the policy of Presidents McKin-
ley and Roosevelt and the Republican
party. If a Democratic legislature
should be elected, it means that Sen
ator Foraker, a brilliant and efficient
supporter of these Presidents and of
this party. has been stricken down and
his power for usefulness taken away.
Defeat will result in gerrymander of
the state for congressional purposes
by the Democratic party. 1t means
that next year six or seven Republican
members of the House or Representa-
tives in Congress will be deprived of
their seats. 1t means in all probabil-
ity, that President Roosevelt, IN his at
tempt to continue absolutely unbrok-
will be confronted, during the last two
years of his term, with a House bit
terly opposed to the fulfillment of the
solemn pledge which he has given to
the American people. l cannot believe
that the people of Ohio will be thus
false to the memory of William Nc
Kinley. do not believe that they will
be thus untrue to President Roosevelt,
do not for a moment imagine that
they will be a party to the bringing
of this great disaster upon our coun-
try.
What is there in the recent history
of the Democratic party to recommend
it to the people of Ohio? In 1894, by
the passage of tariff bill "for reve-
nue. only" it brought untold misfortune
upon all our business interests and
upon all our people.
From this calamity they were res
cued by the repeal of that law, and
by the enactment in its place of an
other law which produced sufficient
revenue for the needs of the govern
ment, protected all our industries, and
gave profitable employment to all our
people. Against this outrage by the
Democratic party, Ohio, in 1894, regis
tered her protest by plurality of 137,-
600. Now in this year 1901, comes the
Democratic state convention, declaring
in favor of the abolition of the so
called protective system and the sub
stitution in its place Of the traditional
Democratic policy of tariff for reve-
nue."
In 1896, and again in the year 1900,
the national Democratic party declar-
ed itself to be in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver" This
unwise and harmful financial theory
was twice repudiated in the most en-
phatic manner by the people of Ohio,
as well as by the people of the nation.
These repeated defeats have taught
the Democracy of Ohio a lesson, which
has resulted in caution in this case
equivalent to cowardice. Upon this
all-important question the Democrats
are now as silent as the grave. Such
silence cannot command the respect of
the people of Ohio, whether they are
in favor of the theories advocated by
the Democratic party for five years,
or whether they are in favor of the
policy upheld by the Republican party.
Not having any theories in regard
to the conduct of the national govern
ment which have not been thoroughly
repudiated by the people. the Demo
cratic party seeks to confne the issues
of this campaign to state affairs. In
my acceptance of the nomination for
Governor in June Of this year point
ed out at some length that the admin
istration of the affairs of the state of
| Ohio by Republican officials during the
last ten years has been wise, econom-
ical and beneficial to the public. 1t is
not necessary for me to review this