The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-08-06


hold the balance of power, all partici.
pated in one or both of the conventions
at st. Louis last week. and all of them
were for the Endorsement of Sewall
along with Bryan.
II it should, therefore, come to a vote
in the senate between Sewall and Ho-
bart, it is not very hard matter, even
now, to figure out which would be
chosen vice president.
The organization Of the Bryan Silver
league in this city, which was complet-
ed on Monday night last, has already
caused the Republican leaders Of the
county great apprehension. The fol.
ing preamble, and the first and second
articles of the constitution, set forth
the objects of the league:
Believing, as we do, that the rights Of the
masses are paramount; that the present hnan.
oial depression and social and industrial dis.
tress are the direct result of a bad financial
policy, long persisted in against the unavail.
| ing protests Of the people; that change for
the better can only some with change Of
| that policy, and that the full and complete
restoration Of the money Of the constitution
| and the unrestricted free coinage of gold and
silver at the legal ratio OF 10 to will bring
with IL relief from the prevailing industrial
| paralysis, and the restoration OF fair meas.
ure Of prosperity to the whole people Of the
country;
THEREFORE,, We hereby associate ourselves
together, without egard to past political diff.
ferences, for the attainment Of this end, and
for the purpose of securing unity Of action, OF
dain the following constitution for the general
conduct and government OF the organization
now TO be formed.
Article l. This organization shall be know
as the william j. Bryan Silver league of Frank.
lin county, and its object shall be that set
forth In the foregoing preamble
Art. ii. All persons residents OF said county
who are voters and who agree with the fore.
going declaration, and who Will vote in favor
Of the free coinage OF silver on equal terms
with gold, shall be eligible to membership
without regard 10 their previous party and
political affiliations.
The president of the club is w. A. Tay.
lor, pretty well known as Democrat.
The first of the 35 vice presidents is Hon.
George Riddle, one of the most promi-
nent and influential Populists in the
state, and the secretary Is Mr.. Appleto"
J. Ide, lifelong Republican and prom.
nent business man.
The enrolment in the league will pass
far beyond the 1000 mark at its next
meeting, and score or more of branch
clubs will affiliate with it.
The great number of Populists, and
especially of Republicans, who are being
enrolled, is what alarms the Republican
leaders Among the Republican re.
cruits who are enlisting under the
Bryan banner are workingmen, arti
sans, contractors, merchants, lawyers
and doctors-in fact almost every rank
The objections from the Democratic
ranks stand about TO 20 accessions
The Republican leaders here realize
what is going on and are correspond
ingly unhappy.
The voters of the United States neeG
have no trouble in making n choice be
tween the two sides of the main issue
this year. Here they are in plain, un
mistakable words:
GROWN OF THoRNs-CRoss OF GOLD.
tRepublican Platform, st. Louis 1896.l
We are opposed to the free coinage OF silve
except by international agreement with thu
leading commercial nations of the world, anC
until such agreement can be obtained the ex
isting gold standard must be preserved.
THE PEOPLES HoPE-PRosPERITY's HERALD
Democratic Platform, Chicago, 1896.
We demand the free and unlimited coinag
of both gold and silver at the present lega
ratio of 10 to without waiting for the aid o
consent of any other nation. We demand tina
the standard silver dollar shall be "a full lega
tender equally with gold for all debts, publ
and private.
The Peoples party convention ant
the Silver Republican convention mad
precisely the same declaration on tn
money question as did the Democratic
convention at Chicago. There is bu
one issue and but two sides to that issue
What miserable and insolent drivel
is for the Republican press to denounc
more than Falf the people as Populists
anarchists and worse, because they asl
the freeman's inalienable privilege o
having voice in the affairs of govern
ment.
Here is paragraph from speech de
, livered by B. f. Wade of Ohio in tn
; senate of the United States on Dec. IL
1867, which we recommend to the care
full and prayerful consideration of Re
publicans:
am for the laboring portion of our people
The rich can take Of themselves W
! never agreed to pay the bonds in gold; no ma
/ can find it in the contract and will neve
consent to have one payment for the bonC
!, holder and another for the people. 1t woul
sink my party and it ought to-
, William ]. Bryan declared that tn
7 man who earns his bread by the swea
t of his brow is as full statured in citizer
ship and all the rights which inner
3 thereto as the man whose rent roll bring
r him ease and luxury, and then the RI
! publican press denounce him as an al
l nrchist and the leader Of an anarchist
gang We beg these meters of danger
l GUS passions to beware. To be labol
: ing man or the friend of q laboring ma
t is not crime in this country yet, than
8 God, as it is in the countries who's
g financial and social systems it is prC
Q posed to fasten on this fair land.
s w, A. r.