The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-27
DEMOCRATS IN OHIO
STATE CAMPAIGN IS FORMALLY
 LAUNCHED.
Vice Presidential Candidate Kern Was Among the Speakers At Mans field, and Was Given Quite
 An Ovation.

Mansfield, O., Sept. 26-The Ohio State campaign was launched here to- day at a monster mass meeting attend ed by Democrats from all over the State.
 Issues of the campaign were dis cussed at length by various candi- dates for State offices, including Jud- son Harmon, candidate for Governor; John H. Newman. candidate for Secre- tary of State; Timothy $. Hogan, ean- didate for Attorney General: Villain M. Burbank, candidate for Auditor. and David s. Creamer, candidate Tor State Treasurer. The speaking was from a platform erected in the center of Central Park in tho heart Of the city Thousands of women were In the crowd that gathsrsd long before the meeting began an1 gave gala cay aspect to the assemblage.
 MT. Kern ~s given ar ovation as ne was escorted 10 the platform by MT. Harmon. and when later introduced by Chairman Shadpit, 1t was many min utes before he could make himselI heard. Although not on the program for a speech. the crowd insisted upon hearing from Mir. Kern and he spoke briefly, begging to be excused rom a discussion of the live topics of the campaign as he has an address to make tonight.
 Chairman shadpit then introduced Mr. Harmon.
 MT. Harmon, who made an extended address. said in opening his remarks:
 After eleven years of glorifyins the tariff laws as the unfailing breeder of prosperity too sacred and delicate for the. slightest touch it is now con- fessed that it must be changed. Not by the hands of the profane who know it only as a law which taxes the people in part by public officials for the ex- pense of the government putin greater part by private people for their own profit by collecting higher prices for their goods. No. the changes must be entrusted only to those who made tn he tariff in the first place and they are the very men who profit by 1t.
 But what hold would Mir. Taft's Administration have on them which MT. Roosevelt does not have. MT. Taft with the President behind him, could not get relief he asked for the Filipinos How does he expect to force a general reduction?
 T make this proposition and am confident MT. Bryan and every demo- crat will stand by 1t. Let MT. Taft and the republican leaders who con- trol congress promise to secure verifi- ed statements of the differences paid American and foreign workmen in every protected" industry and to re duce the tariff tax in each instance to exactly that difference. The democrats will agree to such a revision, the tax to be increased or lowered from time to time to meet changes in wages. But, says Mir. Taft, a reasonable profit besides must be provided by the tariff At last the cat is out of the bag. The pretense has always been that our higher wages prevented competition with foreign goods and that, with the difference in wages made up by law the people would get the benefit of such competition.
 Foreign goods would still have the disadvantage of long transportation and if they could carry that load and still be brought over and sold at profit surely there must be a still greater profit on American goods. Why then tax the people still further to swell this profit? Simply because every con- cern which gets the benefit of the tariff has capitalized the special favor thus granted 1t by law and will never consent to a reduction of dividends"
 Mir. Harmon then entered upon a splendid comparison of the provisions of the democratic and republican plat forms declaring that the advantage was all with the former.
 He then proceeded to discuss the campaign situation fin Ohio. lie charg- ed financial mismanagement of the