Abstract

The Ohio Campaign

It is informed that the campaign in Ohio, which promised at the outset to be a square fight on the tariff question between two able men, has been deprived of its representative character by the injection into it of the silver question. The step by which this change was brought about was taken by the Democrats with deliberation. A majority of their Convention voted for the free coinage of silver, with all which that implies. Considering all the embarrassments that the silver issue put, in governor James Campbell's way, his speech at Sidney was a very able one. He showed that governor candidate William McKinley had been blowing both hot and cold on the silver question from the beginning, and that he had voted in Congress on the 5th of November, 1877, for the free and unlimited coinage of silver.