The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-21

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BY remarringe. ............ IL
BY legal limitation. on.................. IL
BY transfer 70 other agencies
From other causes (suspensions).. 10
Added during August. t...........,....4,oo3
Which includes 4,3o6 transferred from
Dayton home.
There you have the whole story. To
make up the $4,000 suspensions in Au-
gust, each suspension was multiplied
by 2,000, but that is a moderate false
hood when you take into consideration
the desperate straits to which the bour-
bon republican leaders find themselves.
During the closing months of Grover
Cleveland's first administration in 1885,
1889 there was but one question upper
most-how to reduce the tax burdens
of the people and prevent the accumu-
lation of dangerous surplus in the ma
tional treasury, which, after meeting
every reserve and every requirement,
amounted to a round 500, 900, 900.
During the closing months of Benja-
min Harrison's administration in 1892
1893, there was but one question upper
most, how to increase the tax burdens
of the people so as to raise enough rev.
enues TO meet the hungry demands
upon treasury that carried deficien-
cy instead of surplus!
The 800, 900, 600 of surplus was gone,
and the dimes and nickels and pennies
were counted as available cash in the
| treasury balance.
The 800, 900, 900 gold reserve for the
redemption of the legal tender notes,
had been impaired, and was being
maintained only as a fiction.
While President Harrison prayed fol
the speedy arrival of the 4th of March,
Secretary Foster clamored for the
right to Issue S5O,OOO,OOO in bonds tc
bridge the yawning chasms.
Our gold was flying across the ocear
at the rate of S2O 900, 900 per month
| and the trusts and combines created by
the Mckinley bill were collapsing anG
l threatening to engulf the nation il
l financial ruin.
The economical methods of demo
l cratic administration had been hooted
out of every department and the loot
| ers had done their perfect work. Wher
a democratic president and congress
| came into power on the 4th day oi
March, 1898, they found an empty
| treasury anda financial panic, and they
1 heard the hoarse shouts of the pirate:
| charging it all up 10 the people and the
| democratic party, jeering at the demo
cratic salvage corps and shouting
"You wanted a change and you've got
\ itr
And with that cry they hope to un
| ship horse sense in Ohio and carry the
| state for McKinleyism and Sherman
ism, the dangerous reef from which the
democracy have just succeeded in res
| cuing the ship of state.
But here in Ohio, with each succeed
ing republican state administration
and legislature, the people have seer
their taxes increase and the public in
stitutions unload larger and larger de
ticiency upon a consumptive treasury.
A democratic congress and president
over in Washington, with fresh and
| emphatic and unmistakable instruc
tions from the people, are at work re-
| lieying you from the burdens of a quar-
ter of a century of republican clas.
legislation and twenty-one years of re,
publican NAL administration, and that
gives you Buckeye voters the golden
opportunity to do big job of thresh,
ing on your own threshing floor.
Every officer to be voted for in Ohio,
from governor, state officers and legis-
lature, down to county infirmary
director, with the exception of a single
congressman to fill vacancy, has to
do only with your state and county
affairs and will determine whether
Ohio is to be turned over to the bond
brokers and tax-gatherers, or whether
the load of taxation for all purposes in
the state Is to be reduced below
10000, 600 limit next year, or whether
1t shall go beyond the $4,000, 900 limit
of this year, and call upon you for
$50, 600 or more of taxes annually.
If you want to see it reduced, you
will turn the present republican state
government and legislature out of
power,
If you want TO see 1t increased, you
will re-elect Gov, Mckinley and a
republican legislature, and by that
vote give them carte blanche to confis-
cate your property without the right of
appeal
No man more cheerfully comedies to
Gov. Mckinley all the high attributes
of honesty and integrity claimed for
him by his friends than l. / have
known him for many years. and known
him only to respect him.
But his administrative misfortunes
have been SO many and SO signal that
he well might pose as the modern Jere-
miah and issue new edition of Lamen-
tation.
Raoinnino With al Ar ~, l,lto A., ,.4t...