| Show THE OHIO CAMPAIGN Governor Hoadly has opened the Ohio campaign in a speech Hamilton on Saturday The tone of moderation which marks it throughout is in pleasant contrast con-trast with John Shermans Mt Gilead speech That speech was a bid for popularity pop-ularity through passion but the popularity popular-ity will not come and the passion is almost dead John Sherman and his speech belong to time that is past a time when demagogues traded in sorrow and the love for the departed advance their own selfish ends Yes there is sorrow at the North for loved ones who died in the South that their country might live but the North recognizes that the South also has its sorrow and that while they deem the Southern cause wrong they respect re-spect the Southern man and do not wish to probe his wounds and it was owing to this feeling that the speech of John Sherman Sher-man fell upon the ears of the nation with a harsh and grating sound In late antebellum ante-bellum days it was declared on the stump that no man who wrote the word negro with two gs would ever be President of the United States and so it proved but now it may bo said that no man who in there days flaunts the bloody shirt or says that the rebel soldier has two votes while the Union soldier has but one will ever be President of the United States Governor Hoadly asked the voters to endorse the Administration and it is to be hoped that they will Governor Hoadlys administration as Governor of Ohio has been commendable on the I whole and he is worthy of the endorsement endorse-ment of the voters of Ohio But we are unable to quite agree with Governor badly when he attributes the slow revival re-vival of business to tho advent to power of the Democratic part believing that such things arc dependent on laws over I which governments have no control I The Democratic party will have it in its I I power to aid business very much if it will but pursue an enlightened policy as to trade and commerce and reduce the tariff to something less than absolute prohibition I The Democratic party can likewise do much to aid American commerce upon I the high seas if it will but repeal the absurd ab-surd legislation which forbids foreign I bottoms to fly the American flag The carrying trade is the important thing while the building of the ships with which to carry it on is but a matter of secondary importance It is the freight that a vessel ora railway car carries that is the thing of first importance and not where or by whom such vessel or car I shall be built If protection is a good thing for the nation it should also be a I good thing for the States individually I I I but still the framers of the Constitution I introduced a clause into that instrument giving to Congress the power to regulate I I I interState commerce realizing no doubt that each State would protect itself against the competition of all the other States thus practically closing the avenues aven-ues of trade and commerce the same as Congress has closed the avenues of foreign for-eign trada and commerce Seclusion in trade is as unwise as seclusion in everyday every-day life for that which keeps the world alive and advances civilization is commerce com-merce and commingling among men I j I i |
