The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-10-26
THE CALAMITY AowLERA AT zANtsMLLE,


"We have the same people In this
country we had year ago. We have
the saine wealth, the same energy, the
same enterprise, the same factories and
! the same machinery. But we have. q
new national engine and a new engi-
neer, and they are both of the type of
before the war"
The above is an extract from the
speech of Gov. Mckinley at GAINESVILLE.
It was meant to catch the sympathy of
the ignorant and uni1formed, but such
utterances excite nothing but disgust
among intelligent and self-respectiDg
voters.
The Governor and everybody else
knC ws, that know anything of current
bis tory, that the first administration of
Grover Cleveland was one of the most
successful business administrations in
| the entire history of the country, and
that Grover Cleveland left the White
House, on March A, 1889, with an over
| flowing treasury, with q surplus of
some $133,O00,0O0, with all our
industries In full operation and our
leboring men everywhere employed, at
living wages.
We all know, also, that at the end of
Harrison's term, with the Mckinley
bill in operation, and extravaganza
venality and curruptionin riot through
out all departments of the government,
| the treasury was bankrupt, and the
whole country in state Of semi
panic. Confidence was only maintain
ed by the studied concealment of the
true situation by the Secretary Of the
Treasury.
The money panic Is no more charge
able to Grover Cleveland's administra-
ton than Is the disastrous failures of
Chas. Foster and Gov. Mckinley. Iu-
deed no two men in Ohio have done so
much by their lack of business sense
and judgment to destroy public conf.
dence, as Foster and Mckinley.
IL would seem that man who has
made the financial record of Gov. Nc
Kinley would be quite modest In criti-
cising the financial ability of man
like Grover Cleveland.
In view of Gov. McTinley's distress
full gall, in charging want of confidence
In the Democratic party as cause of
the money panic, we may be pardoned
for quoting from the Wooster Jack
sonlan, on Gov. McKinley's business
sense and Judgment. The Wooster
Jacksonian Is edited by an old time Abe
Lincoln Republican, Ben Douglas. We
quote from Ben. Douglas:
"If the Cleveland administration Is
to be held responsible for Charley
Fosters wrecking of the finances of
the country, why not hold 1t RESPONSE
BILE for his personal blockheadism In
manipulating his own finances, by
which he has reduced to poverty and
financial ruin score Of honest, con-
fiding friends2 Why nominate man
for Governor of Ohio who had not
brains enough to manage his own pri-
vate business affairs, and who, charg-
ing the Democrats Of paternalism, ac-
cepted the patenalism of friends as O
means of liquidating his private obli-
cations?
"Wby parade bankrupt before the
country who was caught In the tolls of
his own system, and bangles by the hair
under the sieve through which he
droppedP
"Are such Republican ducks, wear
ing their last taffetty cloAks, to be the
critics of the financial or economic
policy of the Democratic party? If
our Republican managers expect to run
this campaign by misrepresentation
and villification, and cross on pontoon
of baseless accusations or reckless.
ioOse.j jointed lying, they will discover
that the ground will not lie quiet where
they stand, and that they will be
limited to one wink In their prayers"