Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — NEAL VS. M’KINLEY. [ARTICLE]

NEAL VS. M’KINLEY .

Hon. Lawrence T. Neal, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, opened the campaign at Newark, Thursday. All the Democratic candidates on the State ticket were present. Large delegation* from Columbus, Mansfield and other central Ohio towns were in attendance. Mr. Neal answered the stat meats of McKinley at Akron in detail. He held that under our present protective system the whole burden of taxation rested on the consumption of the people. The rich and the poor are not placed on an equality under such a system. The taxes paid are not levied in proportion to their ability to pay. Protection, he said, was an injustice and a crime against the great mass of the people. In conciusipn, Mr. Neal said: “The defeat of the Republican party in this State next November, will, by common consent, be everywhere received as the full and final decision of tho American people upon the question of protective taxation. The overthrow of McKinley and McKinleyism in Ohio will affirm the judgment of the people of the entire country, entered in the Presidential election of last year, in favor of a tariff for revenue alone. I appeal to you then to vote the Democratic ticket. Shall I appeal in vain? It is for you to answer. But in answering I beg of you to remember that the Democratic party is the party or the peoplfi; that it has always been the party of the people; that It has at all times, and in all places, aud under all circumstances, in sunshine and in storm, in prosperity and fn adversity, in peace and in.war. watched aa a guardian angel over the rights, Interests and liberties of the people.”