The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-10-03
For the DEMOCRAT.
M'KINLEY AND THE BUILDING
ASSOCIATION.

N@o"-Ihe ExtOrIlOn NILS drind Fine,
The Mckinley tools are going about
getting Republican members of the ex-
tortion mills, called building associations,
to sign paper containing general de-
NAL of the article published in the DEM
ocrat 1t will, no doubt, be an easy mat.
ter to procure the signatures of the inhu-
man sharks who joined Mckinley in
robbing Canton's poor, and shared the
plunder Such men will not hesitate al
the infinitely less crime of lying. Such
men know no law, no conscience, and
are deaf to the voice of duty. 1t NAV
even be that some honestly disposed
persons may, under the party lash, be
driven to sign such paper. But people
will not be deceived by mere general
denial. Nothing less than specific de.
NAL and reputation cfdte specific facts stated
in the Democrats article, can satisfy an
honest man. To do this we boldly throw
Mckinley the challenge. Disprove one
solitary statement if you CAP The
statements made, If untrue, can easily be
disproVed. The court records, the rec.
ords IN the Recorders Office are at his
disposal. The building association rec.
ords, their constitution and bylaws, are
in his custody in his Office. Nothing.
then, is easier than for him to take up
and refute each statement in detail. Re.
fute them if you Canl
The Building Association members
numbered about 400, shyloCks and VIC
Tins included. McKinley's henchmen
and hirelings are industrious and inde-
fatigable, but we shall see how few of
these 400 will append their signatures to
this denial, and we will find that they
will be bitter partisans who are ever
ready to sacrifice truth and justice for
party. Nor will the cry that the Demo.
crat article is intended for political effect
avail Mckinley. OF course it is intend.
ed for political effect. 1t is the highest
duty of the journalist, and justice TO the
people requires him to inform the people
of the true character of candidates for
office. Truth is still truth, though in
tended for political effect, and this cry is
but the confession of the truth of the
facts stated in that article, and of the
of their refutation.
This thing Of Conniving at and cover
ng up the crimes of the rich and high
,oned has gone tar enough. We have
ately had enough of this wretChed busi-
less. Too many high.toned aristocrats,
IN account of their wealth or position
n society, have already escaped the Just
for their high crimes. This
,rying evil loudly demands change.
The insolence of these high-toned Grim
nails is astounding. 'If poor man but
lares to whisper of their we'll known
rimes, he is denounced in unmeasured
erms, and treated as an outcast without
he pale of law. This must cease, for
earance here is a crime.
Mckinley opened this campaign with
flourish as the special champion of the
7orkingmen; a subsidized press and tel
graph wires took up the cry; and his
Boswells and henchmen have
CODED the community with articles
yer the signature of "workingman."
Justice required that the mask be torn
'om his lordly brow and that he be ex-
osed in his true character as a cold
earted oppressor of the poor, have
one g. Every statement concerning
is extortion mill is truth, unColOred, un.
arnished and unexaggerated. The un-
tale is sufficient; it needs no
The record of this Vam-
ire is the blackest chapter in the his
'ry of cold blooded inhumanity. 1t
ands alone in infamy, unequalled, un-
and without a precedent in
lie annals of oppression and extortion.
! its inception it was monstrous
beme of iniqulty, hideous speculation
poverty misery and wretchedness, a
ell.born plan to wiring from the poor in
e name of charity and under the cloak
benevolenCe a profit of 27 to SO per
mt per annum for the Shylock, and
oney enough in addition to pay the
xes and expenses of the corporation
i'd the salaries of its officers and attor.
,ys.
When this internal machine devel-
Ded itself and its results became mani.
st, the better classes of its members,
'palled at the distress produced, sold
cir stock or abandoned the concern;
1t the workingman's friend, Mckinley,
lCk to it.
when the hardships and
ferings of the victims became unbear.
lie, they held public meetings in the
'era House to discuss measures of re-
f, and the ears of Mckinley and his
-plunderers were deaf to all appeals for
ercy and justice
wave of righteous indignation rolled
er the city and all good citizens united
depreCating and denouncing the YAM.
'e, but brazen Mckinley defed public
inion and stuck to his 81 per cent. and
J salary
Men in their despair became insane
d were sent to the asylum; but the
ss stuck to his mill One man in
peless desperation and forvengeanCe
empted to murder an official aud was
1t to expiate his crime in the peniten-
ry, but yet the pirate deserted not his
p.
den saw their savings of lifetime
ltched away, widows and children
re robbed of their homes aDd turned
o the street, but Mckinley faltered
aud clung to his27 per cent
of old classified crimes ac-
ding to their magnitude and for ev-
class had an appropriate name.
ere was one class of crimes so black
It they were called:
Sins crying to heaven for veng nee"
ese we're "willful murder" "OJ ,ress.
the poor" "defrauding the laborer,"
| one nameless crime. Mckinley has
pressed the poor, heartlessly, inhu-
My and persistently, during years.
yes, his sins are crying to heaven for
lgeanCe, waited there by the curses of
.wart men, the shrieks of broken
.rted women, the tears of the widow
the wall oftbe orphan. The curse
hatteied homes, of desolate hearths,
he widows suffering, of sorrowing
y hairs, of men made lunatics, of men