The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-08-17

depression 10 the result of threatened
tariff legislation. People are frighten-
ed because the taxes which they pay
favored class are to be lightened. Time
will tell whether the voters of Ohio can
be thus deceived. They shall certainly
have an opportunity Of learning the
exact truth,
GOV. M'KINLEY's APPOINTMENTS.
"The Democratic party in Ohio is
strengthened, and the Republican
party is correspondingly weakened by
the fact that Gov. Mckinley has per-
sisted in making had appointments.
BY this mean that the appointments
were bad from political standpoint.
Some were really bad in the full sense
of the word. Nearly all were weak.
Gov. Mckinley, when he was elected,
knew very little about state politics.
At the same time he had a supreme
confidence that he was man Of destiny
and could do about as he pleased. He
neglected to take counsel from the
party workers, and showed vacillat-
ing indecision in making his appoint
ments. 1t is said at Columbus that his
favorite way of making an appoint
ment was to virtually promise the
place to ten different men and then
compromise matters by hunting up an
eleventh, of whom no one had ever
heard, and who, so far as regards poll
tics, was weaker than any one of the
ten. He delayed appointments, kept
the party workers in suspense and then
turned them down. Among Republi-
cans outside of Ohio there can be no
idea of the intense feeling held against
Mckinley by the party workers who
did 80 much to elect him two years
ago. 1t Is feeling similar to that
which was held against Harrison last
year and which made the Republican
machine ineffective. Like Harrison,
Mckinley has way of getting behind
his dignity and forgetting what people
have done for him.
PROFLIGATE REPUBLICAN, LEGISLA-
TURE,
"The Democrats should carry the
state this year from the single fact that
the last legislature was the most reck-
less in the history of the state. The
Republicans were flushed by success
and they became profligate. Having
the necessary two-thirds majority,
they could at any time suspend the
rules and crowd through such legisla-
tion as pleased their excited fancy.
"For instance, when it became ap.
parent that the revenues of the state
would fall below the expenditures, in
stead of taking any steps to bring up
the revenues the legislature went ahead
and made appropriations exceeding the
revenues by 100000.
"0n Nov. 10, when the fiscal year
ends, the state of Ohio will be- prac-
tically bankrupt, with 100000 appro-
priations unpaid.
HOPE TO FOOL THE VOTERS.
"The Republicans hope to win in
Ohio by ascribing the present financial
depression to public fear of Demo-
cratic legislation in congress, The Re-
publican leaders know that such is not
The cause. They hope to fool the voters.
Democrats will show that the present
troubles result from long series of
legislative acts for which the Republi-
cans are responsible. Two of these acts
are the Mckinley law and the Sherman
law, Republican measures born in Ohio.
The Mckinley law served to intrench
certain corporations and offer them an
endless feast of plunder. Outside COM
petition seemed effectually barred.
With home competition regulated there
was no apparent reason why profits
should not bound into the millions.
From this unnatural, intoxicated con-
dition came an orgy of speculation.
Trusts were formsd-the steel beam
trust, the cordage trust, the Reading
coal combine. Stocks were watered.
Bankers caught the speculative mania
and took their depositor's money to
buy the stocks. Prices went up. VAL
ues became fictitious. Then came the
crash. After the drunk the headache.
The Reading combine pulled down
hundreds of men who had sDeculated
with other peoples money. The cord
age trust exploded because it couldn't
carry $5000O000 of water. Banks
closed. The talk became general of
this man or that man being caught.
Business confidence was shattered.