The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-12-08


monopolists. so that the monopo-
lists might take care of the peo-
pie.
Another iniquitous measure they
pressed through the House, the Da-
venport election bill. Its pnrpose
was to take from the people the
coutrol of their own elections and
place them in the hands of minions
of the party bosses. Its object was
to securely fasten the party upon its
seat af power and hold the people
within its grasp whether they ap-
proved Its policy or not. A Con
gressional election followed this
session of Republicanism. Every
district that had been robbed of its
representation in the Fifty first
Congress returned, with an increas-
ed majority, Democratic men,
ber.
In 1890 the cylone of the peoples
indignation swept away a considera-
BILE portion of the Republican edlfce.
This year it has come back for part
of the foundation. Once more and a
hole in the ground will be all that
will be found. But these reckless po-
litical leapers did not heed the warn
ing of 1890. They assembled in Ma
tional Convention at Minneapolis
and instead of confessing their man.
fold sins and wickedncss and re-
penting of their evil ways and hum
bling themselves before the people,
they reafiirmed their adherence to
their mischevous policy and all that
it signified or embraced. On that
platform they we've going to carry
every Northern State but Nevada.
They came nearer losing every
Northern State but Vermont. In
half dozen States 1t has required
the official count to determine which
candidate has won the electoral
vote.
And there is my own Ohio. On
Thursday, November 10, news fash
ed across the county that Ohio had
gone Democratic, that her electoral
vote would 60 to Grover Cleveland.
Amazement, another morn risen up
on mid-noon. Well, the Official
count will give us one electoral vote
out of twenty three, and that is
| something to be proud of from a
State that has cast its solid electoral
vote for every Republican Presid-
ent. Next time the Democratic
Committee in Ohio will not rest sup
inely on the verge of victory.
But besides carrying all the North
ern States, the Republican managers
were going to carry several Southern
States, Arkansas, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Georgia. Alabama and
Virginia all were theirs until the
people answered then boastful .laims
at the polls with enormous Demo
cratic majorities in the aggre-
gate some hundreds of thou
sands.
When the people were complain
ing of the evils of McKinleylsm,
Republican leaders of the House
sald:-"Well, what are you going
to do about it? The law has come
to stay, the Senate stands between
you and its repeal" Now even that
LAST BULwARK OF MONOPOLY HAS
BEEN SWEPT AWAY. The people
have committed to the Democracy
all the power necessary to readopt
the principles of our party in nation
al legislation. A wise and patriotic
use of that power will insure Dem
ocratic ascendency for many years
to come. A deficiency in the income
from which we must pay the ex-
penses of the nation already threat
ems us, yet We must reduce the bur-
dens of an unequal and unjust tariff
without shaking the foundations of
our industrial system. We must
so legislate upon this vital subject
as to leave manufacture uncrippled,
remove unwise restriction from com
merce and relieve agriculture from
uufavorable determinations. Above
all we must emphasize the principal
that no American citizen shall be
made to pay tribute as the slave Of
another to the amount of his earn
ing for day or an hour"