The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-09-22
A CAMPAIGN OF FRAUD AND HUMeue.

tar failure, but the lines are still kept
up. Since Maine voted another bogus
tin plate factory has been opened with
great eclat, in Indiana, with all the dis
play and paraphernalia, that surround
ed the opening of the bogus tin plate
factory at Piqua, Ohio, last year, with
the same leading statesman (McKinley)
present; with the same identical ora
tion. The only difference was, McKin-
ley did not dip any tin plate at Elwood,
Ind. The fraudulent character of the
alleged tin plate works at Elwood, Ind,
is concealed by a strong board fence
fifteen feet high and admission to it
can be obtained only by presenting the
proper certificate from the projectors.
In this way news of character OBJ
jectionable to the proprietors, it was
thought, would not be allowed to
escape.
The Illinois State Register thus
speaks of the new mill at Elwood,
where Mckinley stood at the baptismal.
"rhe alleged workmen number ten
eight men and two boys.
The workmen are imported Welshmen.
The black plates are imported.
The acid Is imported.
The peculiar oil is imported.
The bright tin for coating the plates Is
only used for EXHIBITION, and it is import
ed.
The mill outfit is suited not for making
tin plate at all, but for rolling iron, and
will be used for that purpose after No.
vember.
The tin.plate mill was started and for
mally opened TO advertise a lot Of land
and other properties which one A. L,
ConPer, an OHIO CxSConRressman, has
roped lot OF capitalists into buying with
himself, and for which he never paid a
cent.
This is the new tin plate mill. 1t is for
such swindles as this that the American
people are taxed double and treble for
all the tin they use, II is such r. seals as the
projectors OF this scheme that are reapiug
the benz fits from protection. There 10
| not spot on the map Of the u uited States
where tin Is mined IN commercial guam.
titles. There is not mill where the black
plates are made that to feathers
weight on the market for that productn
The Chicago Herald has fully inves.
tigated the so-called tin plate mill at
| Elwood, Ind, and after q full report
from a reliable reporter, who investi-
| gated the works, makes the following
editorial observations:
"How like pair of clowns Mckinley
| and Chase must have appeared at FL
wood, Ind, Tuesday! Each the COVER
nor of proud, respectable and wealthy
state, lending himself and his office and
whatever of dignity his manhood has
won, to the most barefaced fake that
ever was projected. Never a shell
worker on circus day, greeting the
granger with the level eye of simulated
| honesty, never thimble-rigger with
his pretense of fair dealing and his
| practice of theft, more faithfully played
confidence game than was played in
the raw Indiana town by the leading
| Republicans Of this nation. Not feat
| ure in the whole business from beginn-
ing to end but shames the decent men
who lent themselves TO the patent
swiHdle. There is no truth nor honesty
| nor solidity in the ElWood mills, and
| the greeue3t granger who waded in the
| yellow mud, or singed his whiskers in
the natural gas torch, or loafed uncon-
scious in the dripping rain, but knows
it in his heart"
This is tough language for leading
metropolitan journal to apply to the
Governor of Ohio, yet the condition
calls for severe language. Every intel
ligent citizen of OHIO knows now that
the tin plate works at Piqua, that Nc
Kinley opened last year with an ora
tion and several brass bands, never had
| an existence and is now defunct. 1t is
now classed with Barnum's woolly
horse and the sacred white elephant of
Siam, that Barnum used as a drawing
| card in his circus campaign of 1887. 1t
was bare faced fraud, known to be
such by Mckinley when he sought to
open it with Mandatory grafton.
In commenting upon the ElWOOd
humbug the Chicago Herald we'll says:
"Of course, the United States of Amer.
lea can plant tin mill at Eiwood, and
can run IL with thousand hands for a
hundred years. They can sell the product
for 90 cents box and pay the freight.
They can make glass bottles and blow the
buyers portrait in the side. They can
manufacture window panes and build a
railroad straight as an arrows flight to
| connect the mills and the monkey who
swears by them. Sixty millions of people,
with treasure such as these people pusN
sess, can do almost anything they wish.
But that doesn't prove that the business
will pay. If the Elwood mills should
prove permanent pstablishment-which
they will not; IL they should work their
imported men and their transplanted
machinery on their imported tin to the
fullest capacity for the next ten years,
and fill our markets with American tin, il
would only prove that the American peo-
pie permitted themselves to be robbed"
On the vital Question,as to whether we
are making any American tin for the
market let US quote leading Republi-
can and an expert. Mr.. L. L. BroWnell,
superintendent of the Batavia Canning
Company, aud hitherto leading Re-
publican, disgusted with the Republi-
can campaign of fraud and numbug
has announced himself for Grover
Cleveland. In an interview, he says:
-Four years ago was president of the
Piumed KuiGhts's club of Mddleport, a
club organized to further the election of
Mr.. Harrison. The only reason am not
on that side this fail is the tariff. Last
year the Mckinley tariu law forced our
canning company to pay $4,000 more than
we would have done under the previous
lsw,while we were forced to sell our goods
lower on the market. II this sort of thing
were to continue we should bs forced to
close our factory, as others have done at
Webster, Fairport and other places. The
cry about American tin plate is all bosh.
Not a single sheet OF tin made in this
country is ever used in a canning factory.
The scales have fallen from my eyes, aud
am going to use every honorable means
TO further the election of Cleveland and
Stevenson
Here is a complete answer to the
ElWood, Indiana, swindle. Not q single
sheet of tin made in this country is
used in canning factory. This tin
plate tax is a clean cut robbery.
Let us produce another expert Re-
publican witness, who has sickened of
McKinleyism and its attendant frauds
and swindles on the unsuspecting pub
lie This witness is good one. 1t is
Isidor Jacobs, who is at the head of one
of the largest establishments in the
world shipping California canned fruits,