The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-14

our agricultural implements ought to be SC
changed and lightened as to enable the
manufacturers to sell these necessary arti-
cles to the farmers at great reduction over
present prices.
[ have looked in vain to find any measure
| introduced in Congress by Mr.. Mckinley
during his long service there which would
inure to the benefit of the farmers. He
SAYS the 1857 tariff on wool, which Repub-
lican Congress removed, should be replaced,
| but it has not yet been done. If we are to
i have this tariff system | also say the wool
tariff should be restored, though it has GER
tainly failed to increase the price of wool
in the past, the price Auctuating very much
in different years regardless of the tariff.
also fail to find in all of Mr.. McKin--
ley's record single measure introduced by
him in congress to better the condition or
protect the laboring man.
1t also occurs to me, that for gentleman
protesting to represent the soldier element
of society,-the men who fought our battles
| in the late terrible war that he has been
very derelict of duty in looking after their
rights,
For wears Mr.. Mckinley and other Re-
publican orators told the people that the
election of a Democratic President would
mean ruin and disaster to business idleness
in the workshops and mines, and bankrupt
cy to the nation. 1t is not unlikely that
similar ridiculous statemenst, on a lesser
| scale, will be urged against the Democratic
nominee for congress in this campaign.
The falsity of such charges is best attested
by the grand success of the present Demo
cratic administration.
Upon the Inauguration Of Grover Cleve-
land as President there were no doubt many
worthy people who had been misled by po-
litical tricksters into believing that dire ca
lamity was to follow, but how different the
result Never before in the history of the
country have we had President who gave
that close personal attention to the business
of the government, and seldom one who has
evinced that great sincerity in behalf of re-
form and an honest purpose to serve the
people as has characterized the official life
of President Cleveland. Not for many
years before has so much work been execu-
ted in the several departments. The ser:
wants of the people, instead of being assess
ed for funds to run political machine are
required to give their sole attention to the
proper performance of their duties. The
good men of all parties can not do other
wise than endorse the honest and patriotic
administration of Grover Cleveland.
The great frauds and abuses so prevalent
under Republican misrule are unknown un-
der the new order of things. The great
pension department of government is no
longer prostituted for political advantage.
The immense tracts of lands SO lavishly CIV
en- away to great corporations are being re-
deemed under the acts of Democratic con-
gress, some five million acres or more of
these valuable lands being restored to the
people under the forfeiture clauses Of the
contracts by which they were secured,
and this in spite of almost united Repub-
lican opposition. The country is no longer
disgraced with indian rings, whiskey rings,
navy rings, and many other grave abuses
well known to every reader of the public
press,
Not only is official purity, devotion to
duty aud reform the rule, but we find the
country entering upon healthy business
activity which bids fair to become permanent
as the true Democratic policy becomes es-
tablished, the unnecessary burdens of tax
alton removed and wider market for our
products secured.
An increased revenue is being collected,
the expeditures reduced and the national
debt being paid off more rapidly, thus re-
turning to the people the money which has
been too long locked up in the treasury. A
convenient and stable currency has been
secured to the people by Democratic Con-
gress and every indication points to an era
of happiness and prosperity in the future.
Seldom have eastern business houses been
more thronged with orders than at this time,
and the shops that were to have been idle
are running to their fullest capacity.
May we not hope that a majority of the
patriotic voters of this district will view
these matters in an impartial manner, with
the sole purpose of sustaining truth and
Justice, and cast their votes on the second
day of November against bossism and mo-
nopoly, and IN favor of "equal and exact
justice to all men," Respectfully yours,
WALLACE II. PHELPS.