Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — GOV. CAMPBELL LEADS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOV. CAMPBELL LEADS.

■RENOMINATED BY THE DEMOCRATS OF OHIO. ‘‘Chairman Norton’s Scath'ng Arraignment of the McKinley Iniquity—Allen W. Thurman, the “Old Roman’*” Son. Outlines the Issue— Cor. Campbells Bing- ' Ting Speech. Tor Governor Jambs E. Campbell Tor Lieutenant Governor W. V. Marquis For Auditor.. T. E. Peckingbaugb Tor State Treasurer C. F. Ackerman Tor Attorney General John P. Bailey Tor Supreme Court Judge G. H. Wald Tor School Commissioner O. C. Miller Tor Food and Dairy Conrr H. 8. Trumbo Tor Com’r Public Works J. McNamara

The beautiful music hall of Cleveland (the Forest City) looked like a veritable fairy grotto. Bed, white and blue bunting in fantastic design* enveloped the pillars and-the-railing of tthe balconies until not an inch of the corridors '■was visible; tbe plat;orm was banked with tiers •of majestic palms and noble chrysanthemums, •over which the months of big brass cannon drowned ominously, and huge baskets of Mareschal Niel roses shed their fragrance from the tables allotted to the press. From the glass dome of tbe hall depended a magnificent floral •design with the inscription in white violets: “Democrats of Ohio, Welcome to Cleveland." A monster American flag, and a profusion of • -holes exotics made an appropriate background » the stage, while from tbe roof and supports •countless hundreds of star spangled banners .puttered in the breeze created by electric fans. fTubs of lemonade to a total of five hundred gallons were ranged about the hall at points most •Convenient to the respective delegations. • When the doors were thrown open it seerred strut a few minutes before every one of the five ’thousand or more seats had its occupant. From the rear of the stage a large number of ladies viewed the proceedings with interest. As a prelude to the formal proceedings, the combined 'bands in the balcony rendered a medley of national airs, and afterward—prompt to the minute—State Chairman John S. Norton called •the gathering to order. The blessing and protection of the Creator was invoked by Rev. Dr. T. W. Campbell, pastor of the Cleveland First Methodist Episcopal •Church. After the prayer the convention was entertained with a song of welcome by the "Thurman Quartette of Columbus. State Chairman Norton then welcomed the delegates in a •rousing speech, in which he congratulated the •convention on the encouraging outlook for

the Democratic party, and predicted its triumph in the coming election. He then took up the McKinley bill, and devoted the greater part of his remarks to that measure, saying: “To-day yon meet to demand that the wrongs that the people have suffered for more than a quarter of a century shall be righted and not perpetuated; *that the clutch of the protectionist freebooter shall be loosened from the throat of the nation; that the foot of the oppressor shall be removed from the necks of the laboring millions, and that in a free country under a free flag the people shall be free from the despoliation of their homes and the Impoverishment of their children by the law that is no more to be honored than the levy of the bandit and buccaneer. They (the Republicans) met, as they say, to ’emphasize and courageously defend the principle of protection,’ that principle that for twenty-five years and more has been undermining the life foundations of onr Government; a principle, as applied by men, that has almost nullified the Dlesßings vouchsafed to the people by an all-wise and beneficent Creator; a principle that has made the rich and fertile acres of our husbandmen almost as worthless to them as the sand desert of Sahara; a principle that has closed the markets of the world to the most productive and busy country of the earth; a principle that has centralized the wealth of the nation until it rests in the vaults of the arrogant monopolists who to-day fix the price of all •our necessities ; a principle that is am agonistic to the interests of the millions, beneficial only to the few; a principle opposed to reason, justice. intelligence, education and Christian ■decency. “They say that the author of this law that Is the acme of this principle is a good man, kind, generous and gentle. I believe that it is so. More than that, he is my friend. I would to God that his law was so good and harmless and gentle and kind as he. But alas, it is not so. McKinley may be as the dove or eveu the bird of paradise, but his law is as the hawk, the vulture and the coyote. They say McKinley is an honest man; 1 grant that he is, and all honor to him for being so. but his measure is a burglar, without heart and without mercy, who robs alike the helpless child, tbe strong man and the dtfenseless woman. McKinley law, monument of wrong whose every stone is from the quarry of oppression, whose dwarfing shadows fall athwart every threshold In the land—how long, oh, how long must your blighting curse be endured? How long can you stand upon your false foundations against the fierce blasts of reason and the rocking storms of indignant justice? May this convention be potent in hurling you into the deep sea of the dead past and hide your hideousness in eternal oblivion.” As Chairman Norton concluded with his touching eulogy of Allen G. Thurman the delegates and spectators broke into enthusiastic applause, and when Allen W. Thurman was introduced as the temporary presiding officer and the tall majestic form of the sou of Ohio's “Old Roman" appeared before the footlights, the enthusiasm was intensified tenfold. Not until they were exhausted did the thousands cease their plaudits, and then in clear, ringing tones, the temporary chairman began his address. As lie proceeded every telling point was punctuated with cheerß and shouts of approval. It was -a most succesßiul entree to that political stage to which his venerated parent bade farewell a lew months since. Mr. Thurman said: "In his speech nominating Major McKinley, Governor 1 oraker said that even the wiles of the devil seemed unable to kill the Democratic _party, which undoubtedly meant that it will never be destroyed by the Republican party. Evidently the fact must have occurred to him that this grand old Democratic party has seen the birth, growth, and death of every political ■ organization that has ever arisen in this country. Now. an organization that cannot be killed, even by the evil spirit, must be immortal ; that is, it can never die, an i in the end it will certainly pat all of its enemies under its Meet, including Major McKinley and the Republican party. “In a few weeks the Democracy of Ohio will •by its ballots most emphatically condemn an industrial policy that is a continual barrier to commercial prosperity; they will demonstrate that they no longer believe that the only way by which a country can be made rich is by buying from itself and telling io itself; they will • Also show that they do not believe a country can •be made rich by excessively taxing itself; they will, in thunder tones, denounce vhe wanton extravagance and wastefulness of a party which, in two short years, by profligate expenditure completely wiped out the tremendous surplus of *140,000,OX) which had accumulated "under the honest, economical, Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland." The speaker criticised the policy of the Republican party in raising the average rate of ■duties from 47 to 57 per cent.; in clothing the Presidentof the United States with unconstitutional powers- in his pernicious class legislation, driving the American marine off the high •ce&s; in assisting England in her attempt to establish monometalißm; in adding in a short time 2,000 names to the list of officeholders; in blocking all legislation for months, in an endeavor to enact an infamous, villainous and partisan force bill. Speaking upon reciprocity, Mr. Thurman said: “The time is near when the people will express their belief in complete and not restricted reciprocity; if reciprocity—which has Always been a Democratic, not a Republican, - doctrine—is a good thing with South America, ■why would It not be a better thing with Canada and Europe, countries with which onr trade is a hundredfold greater than with South America? The time has also come when the people will say to the powers that be, the honest workingman shall no longer be compelled by law to contribute a part of his hard-earned savings to help maintain those who, under tbe forms of law, have robbed him for over a quarter of a century; when they will no longer sustain any party which levies and collects one •dollar of taxes over and above that which is

■ —• • v ~v . ...... j —v, . ... , , , required to wisely afcd economically administer the affairs of the Government; when they will give due notice tnat infant industries that have been nursed for a hundred years have arrived at the age when they must take care of themselves ; when they will brand a protective tariff as stealing, its advocates as beggars, and demand that we mußt have a tariff for revenue only. “The greatest curse that can be inflicted upon a country is that of excessive taxation, and when collected indirectly by a tariff, levied only fer tbe sake of protection, it steals and saps away the very life-blood of a country’s prosperity. And it doss this by such insidious ways thnt the true causes of commercial depression, when it comes, are lost sight of. and in seeking remedies the people are led off into false trails, made to scatter instead of concentrating their forces and thus their power is wasted; therefore, no matter how important they may appear, let all side issues alone nutil this one of taxation is settled upon an honest and just basis. “I most earnestly beseech the farmers, whose interests a r e identically the same as my own, to follow this course. The wild schemes of Government loaning money upon warehouse certificates, or upon lands, the taking possession of the railways and telegraphs by the Government, the internal. improvements that are demanded and a dozen other miner issues that all lead, not only to greater taxation, but the rankest kind of socialism, I say to them, pat to one side and stick to the tariff issue until you get what is due you. “I Bay to the farmers, do not, like protectionists, be beggars, but rely upon your own strength, resources and manhood. Advocate nothing that has tbe hast semblance of stealing Dy law, and ‘by the eternal’ make these tariff beggars quit stealing in this way faun ,yon. “On this issue the right is absolutely on onr side, and the challenge having been fairly given by the nomination of the h’gb chief of protection— Ma 1 . McKinley—let us meet it, and make every hilltop and every valley in the whole State ring with the battle cry, ‘industrial freedom fqr the many.’ Can you doubt the result? Do you believe the people of this State will say by their votes that they are still willing to pay tribute for lmsginary and fraudulent blessings ? That they can any longer be deceived by tbe old, worn-out cry of a home market ? That the people of this State can be gulled by telling them wbat a good thing it is for the people of the United States to be permitted by their Government, when they pretend to be ireemen, to sell a very small portion of their surplus products to one patt of the globs and what a ruinous thing it would be for them to be allowed to" Sell all of them to another portion of it? “From time immemorial commerce and trade, which are only tbe exchanging of commodities, have been sought after by all people and considered beneficial by all nations. In all exchanges in the long run there must be a profit; why then limit these exchanges? [f the people of this country can make *1jO,1’0),090 toon year by exchanging iheir products ior those of some other country wouldn't they be fools to indorse a policy which permits them to exchange only enough to make *50,000,000? 1 say let the people tnemselves decide where and with whom it would be beneficial to trade and not let the Government decide this for them." The speaker continued at length to discuss the tariff law in its relation to the farmer and the industrial classes and dwelt in stirring language upon the tin-plate iniquity, and concluded by saying that last fall tne protected classes poured out money like water, intimidated workmen and strained every nerve to carry tbe McKinley district. In conclusion he said: “Thanks to our Democratic Legislature, they cannot again duplicate this iniquity in Ohio, for that Legislature passed an election law under which traud and intimidation can no longer be used to corrupt and destroy the freedom of the ballot. Democrats, see that this law is enforced in every voting precinct in the Slate. %ee, too, that it is preserved in the future, for upon its maintenance not only does tbe success of your party depend but the integrity of your institutions.

“Intrenched monopoly will not surrender without making a desperate struggle; therefore, I impure every man in this convention to work alter he leaves here with his whole soul for our success. Let no personal differences or feelings of disappointment in any way deter you, but be diligent, be active, te alert; organize in every school district, and above all be courageous ; let there be no dodging upon the issue; this is no time for the faint-heat ted, but a time when honest, true and brave men should be willing to fight with their whole power ior what they know to be right." Mr. Thurman’s closing remarks, in which he urged the party 1 to be united and harmonious, were almost drowntd in applause. From the Committee on Permanent Organization came a report submitting the name of ex-Congress-man Frank Le Blend, of Mercer, as permanent presiding officer. It was adopted with a hurrah. Mr. Le Blond spoke briefly, but to the point. He told the delegates that they were the representatives of the intelligence of the State, and that Thomas Jefferson, hal he lived to this day, would have been proud of them and of the Democratic i>arty as it now exists. This and the usual thanks was all. Under the new State election law it Is necessary that each party shall select a device to be placed upon its printing, and Major W. W. Armstrong propo ed that the Democracy should adopt a barnyard rooster. Home of the delegates preferred the American flag, but it was explained that this was prohibited by the statute, and Armstrong’s resolution was adopted with a chorus of “crows." i The delegates then settled back in their seats 1 to listen to the report of tho Committee on Resolutions, which was presented by Gen. G. B. Finley, who pathetically lamented the fact that although the majority had labored with the minority in and out of season, they had not been able to get a unanimity of sentiment on the Bilver question. The majority report read as follows :

"The Democracy of Ohio, in convention assembled, hereby resolve that we most heartily indorse the honesty and economy of the administration of Gov. James E. Campbell, and commend the Sixty-ninth General Assembly for its business qualifications, economy aud reform, and ospecial'y for having provided for a secret ballot by which every voter can cast his ballot in secret as he desires and have his vote counted as east; aud we invite attention to the fact that the Republican party, though hypocritically professing to favor -a free ballot and fair count,’ yet opposed and voted against the bill for providing for a free and secret ballot, thus demonstrating its professions to be insincere and for political effect only; and we cordially indorse and approve the act of the Legislature regulating the compensation of county officers by providing for a firod salary. “We are opposed to all class legislation and believe in a tariff levied for the sole purpose of producing a revenue sufficient to defray the legitimate expenses of the Government, economically administered. We accept the issues tendered to us by the Republican party on the subject of tho tariff, aa represented by the so-called McKinley tariff act, confident that the verdict of the people of Ohio will be recorded against the iniquitous policy of so-called protection championed by the Republican party in the interest of favored classes against the masses.

“We favor a graded income tax. Wo denounce the demonetization of silver in 1873 by tbe party then in power as an iniquitous alteration of the money standard in favor of the creditors and against debtors, taxpayers, producers, and which, by shutting off one of the sources of supply of primary money, operates continually t-o increase the value of gold, depress prices, hamper industry, and disparage enterprise; and we demand the reinstatement of the constitutional standard of .both gold and silver with the equal right of each to free and unlimited coinage. “ We denounce the Republ'can billion dollar Congress, which by its extravagant expenditures exhausted a surplus in the National Treasury left there by a Democratic administration and created a deficit; which substituted despotic rule for free discussion in the House of Representatives, and we congratulate the people on the defeat of the odious force bill demanded by a Republican President aud championed by tho Republican party for the purpose of perpetuating its rule by perverting the constitutional powers of the government, destroying free elections and placing the ballot box in the hands of unscrupulous partisans, in order, as declared by Speaker Reed, ‘to register the voters, supervise the elections, count the ballots and declare the result.’

“We are opposed to the enactment of all laws which unnecessarily interfere with the habits and customs of our people which are not offensive to the moral sentiments of the civilized world, and we believe tnat the personal rights of the individual should be curtailed only wben It is essential to the maintenance of the peace, gcod order, and welfare of the community. “ A e favor the passage of such laws by the General Assembly as will give ns a system for the government of our mnnitipalities uniform throughout the State, as the Constitution requires, in which the executive and legislative power shall be separated, the former to be lodged in a mayor and the latter ir. a council, both to be elected by the people, thereby realizing the principle of home rale, safe from the dangers and evils of sperial legislation. “We favor closer commercial relations with onr Canadian neighbors and the removal of tbe embarrassing and annoying restrictions which only vex our people without yielding any substantial revenue to the Government. “ v\ e favor liberal and just pensions to deserving and disabled soldiers and sailors who fought for the maintenance of the Government and nke pensions to their widows and orphan children. “.lhe persecution of the Jewish people by tbe Russian Government jnstly deserves and receives onr unqualified censure. We extend to them our sincere sympathy, Mid believe that th's Government, In connection with the enlightened Governments of Europe dispr sad to unite with ns, should take proper steps to alle-

Mate the wrong* thus inflicted aa this long* suffering and oppressed people.* All the planks were greeted with applause, especially that referring to the administration of Governor Campbell. A minority report opposed the graduated Income tax. and favored the coinage of gold aud silver on a parity, but this report was rejected by a vote of 393 to 390. Tbe name of Lawrenco T. Neal for Governor was then presented by ex-Congressman Follett; he was followed by 8. D. Dodge, of Cleveland, who named Virgil P. Kline; but when General Ryan proposed the name of Gov. James E. Campbell for renomination the convention broke forth in wild cheers of approbation. The first ballot was taken at once, with the following result: Campbell.... 508 7-16 Nea 124 9-1* Kline 50 Congressman Tom L. Johnson 1 Gov. Campbell was conducted to the platform amid a perfect storm of applause. When quiet had been restored he said: “ While gratefully accepting a second nomination from the Democratic party of Ohio, my thoughts naturally revdrt to the record and achievements of that party since the memorable Dayton conven.Uqn, Victorious in the ensuing election, the Ohio Democracy has legislated for the State and administered its affairs for eighteen months. In that shert period it has destroyed every vestige of the dangerous centralization which has made tbe office of Governor a menace to the liberties of the people. It has restored to seventeen cities the control of elections. It has provided new aud better forms of government in conformity to popular desire for several of the larger cities. It has devoted time and care to the perfection of a law securing secrecy of the ballot, thereby assuring an unbiased ana unbought verdict of the people at the polls. This essential reform was frustrated at the first session of the General Assembly by the unanimous, vote of the Senators belonging to a political party which recently gathered in convention at Columbus and prated with hollow mockery of a free ballot and a fair count. “The Democratic party has done more to advance the cause of higher education by its legislation for the Ohio State University and appropriations for the other universities than had been accomplished in all the long history of the State; and it has also been mindful of general education by enacting a salutary law for the cheapening of schoolbooks to the children of the poor. It had the courage to attack the excess fee system whereby public officials were excessively compensated, and has substituted a system of just aud reasonable salaries. It has especially looked after the welfare of agriculture, which has been continuously imposed upon by Republican Congresses. Sixty thousand dollars was appropriated in one item to provide farmers with the results of agricultural experiments; and laws were passed in their interest with respect to oleomargarine and other products. The great laboring class, which hopelessly appealed to the Republican party, has not been forgotten either, as the institution of Labor Day, important laws for the protection of railroad employes and the establishment of free employment agencies will show. “The Democratic party has done what lay in its power to rectify our inequitable tax laws and to provide for their improvement by an amendment to the Constitution. It has decreased taxation more than $609,000 a year by the repeal of the sinking fund levy. It found a deficiency in the Treasury of more than $600,000, which was subsequently slightly decreased by us. The timely receipt from the Federal Government of the direct lax fund was all that prevented the startling spectacle of an empty treasury—a direct legacy from former administrations.

“It has been charged that our appropriations have exceeded those of oui; predecessors. Without stopping for detailed explanation, merely stating that we have not exceeded our income, let us inquire which of the new appropriations our enemies would curtail. I have already named the expenditure in behalf of agriculture and education. Do they nttaok these? The largest new item of our appropriations was the sum of 82C0,OuO for the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. Do they deny the propriety of this ? When we came into power the helpless orphans of men who had given all for their country were dying at a rate which shocked and alarmed the publio. The administration of that institution had been one of the most personal and partisan in tbe State. High-minded trustees had been stricken by the chief executive beoause they did not prefer his interests to those of their dead comrades’ children. To restore the health and save the lives of those orphans we were glad to make unprecedented appropriations, and if there be one spot where a citizen of the State will feel a mingled joy and pride it is there in the midst of the Two happy and healthy children for whom a Demooratie administration has freely expended its money. We have built somenew ana roomy cottages at the .soldiers and Sailors’ Home. Do our Republican brethren begrudge the old veterans this additional comfort? We have made large appropriations for completing the new reformatory in tho hope of reclaiming young convicts before age and bad associations ■ have hardened them beyond redemption. Does the Republican party criticlse the expenditure of money for tho prevention of crime? We have provided for an epileptic asylum, and have added to the capacity of the insane asylums and to other benevolent aud penal institutions. We are proud of them all. Tneir management is economical, firm, and efficient. We Invite from the taxpayer ana the humanitarian searching investigation and thoughtful comparison. “The electors of Ohio have other reasons for voting with us this year besides suefi as solely affect thiß State. The battle before ns is essentially a national one. Not only Is this true because the result must seriously affect next year’s Federal elections, but also because the Republicans of Ohio have unreservedly identified themselves with every phase of the iniquitous legislation accomplished or attempted by the Fifty-first Congress. In their platform they have reaffirmed their adherence to tbe infamous force bill—the Republican lost cause-a measure so obviously designed to destroy free elections that Republican Senators, unwilling to violate their consciences aud itbeir oaths, refused to inflict it upon the country. The Republican party of Ohio appears as the defender of the arbitrary disregard of minority rights which disgraced the last House of Representatives. It upholdß the fraudulent unseating of lawfully elected members, the steal <:f Montana by the Senate, and all tha other high-handed outrages by which that party has sought to perpetuate its power against the wishes of the people. It represents the reckless extravagance and asfounding profligacy which have dissipated the splendid Democratic surplus ; forced the extension of national bonds and compelled an Ohio Secretary of the Treasury to resort to tricks of bookkeeping and subterfuges unworthy of his office in order to conceal a deficit and deceive the people. “Pre-eminently also does the Republican leader in Ohio (whose high character and conspicuous career but emphasize his advocacy of bad legislation) stand for that pernicious tariff measure which was rejected at the polls last year by the people of the entire country; s measure identified by his name, saturated with his ideas and wrought by his hands, and a measure designated, as has been well said, in tbe interest of ‘monopoly for monoroly,’ a measure which is bringing about the worst of all centralizations—the centralization of wealth, with its debasing and destructive results; a measure which has already in many cases made le3 j work and lower wages for productive labor; a measure which has forced the farmer of Ohio to sell his wool in some instances as low as 20 cents a pound, and that, too, in a market where he pays more dearly for hundreds of necessary articles which are but insufficiently sweetened With the humbug of bounty produced sugar; a measure which forces from the labor of the country $14,C 09,000 each year for tbe benefit of prospective tin mines owned by capitalists who live in England and prospective :Ia plate works to be operated by labor imported from Wales; a measure which, as it came from tbe bands of its author, did not, in the opinion of an eminent Republican, ‘open a market for another pound of pork or another barrel of flour;’ a measure which could not be forced down the throat of a reluctant Senate until sugar-coated with the old Democratic doctrine of reciprocity—a doctrine finally though feebly embodied in tbe bill in spite of opposition from the great Ohio protectionist. “In his recent speech of acceptance this same champion of higher protection said: ‘We follow the tariff teachings of Washington and Hamilton, of Clay and Webster, of Lincoln and and Garfield.’ Let us see bow wide of tbe mark this statement is. The tariff of to-day is at the rate of 571$ per cent.; the tariff of Washington was 7>s per cent.; the protection sought by Clay was for the benefit of 'infant' industries; the tariff to-day increases protection upon industries which have been coddled for more than ninety years; the protection of Garfield was, to quote his own worts, 'that kind of protection which leads to ultimate free trade.' ‘Let tbe Republicans of Ohio who have not gone mad on protection oomo over this year and start with ns on the backward march toward the tariff of Washtpgton, or, better yet, enroll themselves under a banner inscribed with those bnmlng words of Garfield. Let the well-meaning men who train under the names of the Farmers' Alliance or People’s party, and who seek to remedy real grievances brought about by Republican legislation, remember that no third party can succeed; bat with ns and as a part of us they can help to swell the joyous hosanna that will peal to heaven from the tax-burdened people of the entire country when the glad tidings go forth next November that we are yet in possession of the old Republican citadel, now the Democratic Buckeye State." Ex-Congressman Yoder, cf Lima, then renominated W. V. Marquis for Lieutenant Governor and he was renominated by acclamation.

GOV. CAMPBELL.