The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-03
NO CUSTOM HOUSE.
Abolish All of Them Is Now
the Cry.
WIPE OUT ALL PROTECTION,
That Is the Democratic Doctrine In
Present Campaign, as Declared by
Its Great aud Only 'Me," Tom
johnson.

Tnat Is the Democratic Doctrtne In
Present Campaign, as Declared by
Its Great aud Only "Me," Tom
johnson.
In no state in the Union. and at NO
other election ever held. has the fair.
square. naked question of no custom
houses ever come up before the people
as In Ohio in this campaign.
The Democracy of this state are alb
solutely overshadowed and dominated
at this time by one whose underlying
| complete free trade as an inseparable
part of those principles. The Demo-
cratic party permitted this man to
pick out for them as a candidate p
political preacher that not one in b
thousand Of them ever heard of, until
Tom Johnson told them that Herbert
s. Bigelow was the man that they
state ticket Mr.. Johnson decided not
only the candidate but the platform,
and compelled the party to go back
upon its political declaration Of only
one short year ago. Then the Ohio
Democrats began to get into line with
the movement to close up the broken
ranks of their party. and as a step to
secure such harmony repudiated the
Bryan free silver idea This year they
have repudiated last years repudia-
ton by direct command of Tom John
son, who himself personally repudi-
ates the doctrine that he compels the
party to swallow.
| Further than that, he is making his
campaign not upon any platform that
the party ever observed in the sast
although he compelled them to take
the Kansas City platform because 9
state convention could not change 9
national platform And yet he IL do.
ing that very thing every day in hi,
hippodrome campaign with an issue
that the party never knew OF until b,
lugged II in. In the course of his cam
paign he has more and more, in hi!
own speeches and by his deputy. thu
political parson. pushed to the from
the Socialistic ideas of his Henr!
George theory of the single land tax
That theory includes in II as an in
separable part absolute. unconditional
irreducible free trade. Mr.. johnson
himself said at Lima the other nigh
that "the doctrines of Henry Georg
are the moving spirit of whatever
do" and that he believed In MI
Georges proposition to abolish Gus
tom houses"
These things bring the whole ques
ton of protection itself right squar
up to every voter in Ohio at this tim
. | as never before. 1t Is not a questio
, OF schedules. nor of this duty. nor @
that duty. upon any trade combins
ton. or corporation. or trust. or what
ever you please to call it, but a ques
tion of protection to any interest how
. ever feeble, or weak, or struggling I
: exist.
g Every man working for wages in
g shop that depends in the most n
mote degree upon the protective sy.
I TEN. imperils his own job by votin
y a Democratic ticket in Ohio this yea
I Every merchant whose business pro-
| perity depends upon the thrift and a,
p tivity of the industries of his tow
4 incurs like danger by supporting Il
1 Tom Johnson caravan. Every farme
s who shares in the benefits of Il
e closer markets and the increased col
= sumers because railroads and shil
q and merchants are all busy. vot
J. squarely against himself In these ma
: ters. IL he votes any kind of a To
II Johnson ticket.