People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — McKinley’s Mouthings. [ARTICLE]

McKinley’s Mouthings.

For downright demagoguery, for dirty quibbling, mixing, and attempted mystifying McKinley’s speech before the Ohio Republican state convention takes the cake. Does he really think the common voters of this country have no sense at all? In this speech McKinley attacks the administration because it has done nothing “to restore confidence.” When, how, where, and’ by whom was confidence lost? The Democrats have been in power three months, no laws have been made, for, as all know, congress has not been in session. Be the administration ever so anxious to do something for our relief, it can do but little without the aid of congress. McKinley knows and the people know that so far as financial matters are concerned, the whaels of government the past three months, been running along in the same old Republican ruts they have been in for the past twenty years. When the Democratic congress gets to work, when the Democratic party has had time to act then will it be held responsible. Things are unnecessarily in very bad shape; the people know it and they know too that Democratic management of the executive branch of the government three months has not brought the trouble. In this great speech (?) the Major says, “to have any relief from the present unfortunate situation he (Cleveland) must look to the Republican party. That party has never failed in any emergencv and it will be ready to co-o?> in every good work for thu n ation of confidence and D. - return of good times.” W is under more* obligations "io labor for the restoration of confidence” than this Republican party that has destroyed confidence? Fellow Republicans, rare and rant, vilify and mystify, accuse and abuse all you possibly can, but you will never make the American people believe that the other fellow did it all. While we do not hold the Democratic party, as a party, responsible for the present depression yet we have no faith in that party’s ability or willingness to do anything in a financial way for the people.