The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-30
ONE CANTON CANDIDATE TALKS.

We are in receipt of the very able
and adroit speech of j. ]. Ashenhurst
of Canton, Prohibition Candidate for
Governor, which he delivered at Lake
side The speech covers the whole
range Of political discussion and is
worthy of a careful reading. He is a
radical tariff reformer, and he strikes
some sledge hammer blows on the in
EQUITIES and atrocities of the Mckinley
tariff. Mr.. Ashenhurst is exceedingly
pert and happy in his description of
the great swell drunk banquet, given
in New York by the Protective Tariff
League, where Mckinley put his legs
under the mahogouy table and made
an oral defense of his new tariff. In
speaking Of this banquet, MIR. Ashen-
hurst says.
"What these five hundred pampered
disciples of protection to American in
dustries, American workingmen and
American homes want with 1900 wine
glasses? These vaunted disciples Of
80 much protection to the pillars of
our strength and glory would hardly
be gully of the Inconsistency of encour-
aging habit of dissipation that is our
worst enemy and which means ruin to
all that is grand and noble In Ameri-
can citizenship. But as we read on In
the report we find that these 5000 wine
glasses were for purpose-Dot merely
ornaments. We are told that the cheese
came from Orange county, the snipe
from Long Island and the Jersey coast;
the strawberries were from Georgia;
the wines were strictly American. The
reisling and sherry, zinfandel, eclipse
and burgundy came from California
the great western from Rheims, n. Y.
the gold seal brut from Urbana, N. Y,
and the Cooks imperial from New Or
leans. In addition there was brandy
from California, whiskey from Ken
lucky and Maryland, and American
cordials. This is probably the origin
and kind of cordial sympathy with the
temperance cause" which the Republi-
can party expressed in 1888. But we
have in the foregoing list of wines the
reason why 5000 Ohio pressed wine
glasses had to be made expressly for
this Bacchanalan feast of the lords of
protection to American industries"
what hollow me cSery and delus-
i've humbug is all this prating of the
feas.ed and fattened lords in favor of
protecting the industries and the hu-
mapity of this land of oursl Their
dszzling banquets, the lavish expendi-
lures to elothe their bodies in raiment
of finest texture and fill their capacious
stomachs with the daintiest and most
costly luxuries, and make their brains
giddy with strong drink ought to be
the clearest evidence to intelligent
citizens that these spoils fat
tened, tariff-pampered and purse-proud
lords have no more use for or interest
in the welfare of the common people
than if they were only slaves. And in
effect that is what the masses are to
toiling and sweating to
produce wealth which these cormo-
rants, by process of law, wrest from
their hands and spend in luxurious liv-
ing and Bocchanalean revelry.
"On the contrary, the conditions
which confronted millions of our
wealth producers made it difficult for
them to keep down the choking sob.
Hundreds of thousands of laboring
men were looking for work which they
could not find; other thousands were
their backs with hardest toll,
living in uncomfortable homes, eking
out mere existence, while the farmers
and home-makers of America were
to keep on their feet under
the burden of system of triple taxa
tion in addition to the Shylock interest
of the mortgage shark. What a miser-
able mockery and an outrage upon hu-
manity are the claims of this So
called Protective tariff systemw
1t will be seen by the above that
Ashenhurst is both orator, humanitari-
an and scholar, and that he jumps on
Mckinley and his whiskey and cham
compatriots with both
feet.