The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-10-22
FRANKNEss.

year follow his time honored custom of
visiting North Lawrence and Massillon
on Saturday or Monday before election
day, that his old constituents can visit
him and meet him in the usual way and
Mr.. Mckinley will feel at liberty to speak
to them with frankness he would not
employ in addressing delegations of
strangers" Indeedl Whereof the
frankness2 What particular piece of
advice does the Major propose to give |
to Stark county voters that he could not |
with equal frankness to strangers? Are
Stark county voters more susceptible to
McKinley's arguments than strangers,
or has he particular kind Of argument
reserved exclusively for Stark county
voters that he would not use with
strangers2 Frankness of expression on
the part of Mckinley in this campaign
is such an unknown quantity that we
are at loss to account for a statement
| that he will remove the seal from his
lips, placed there by the national bosses.
While the Major is in the business of
talking frankly to Stark county voters,
there are few subjects we would be
pleasant to have him elucidate. As he
has not mentioned them with frankness
to the strangers that have visited him,
we presume it was because he was not as
well acquainted with the strangers as he
is with Stark county voters.
The sugar, oil, nail, flour, beef, window
glass, lumber and many other trusts are
organized and conducting their business
contrary to the laws of the United
States, and by such conduct of their
ment thousands of workingmen all over
the country by shutting their doors to
keep up prices of their produ It's. Will
the Major tell Stark county voters
whether if elected President, he will en-
force the laws against the trusts and
thereby aid idle workingmen,
thrown out by these trusts to Sc
cure employment? The importa.
ton of pauper labor contrary to
, law has gone on for years. Under such
importation, Italian padrones living in
our principal cities bind Italian emf.
: grants out to work for miserably low
wages, and compel them to live on the
@ refuse of the market houses and take all
D or nearly all their wages until they, the
q padrones, are reimbursed for the cost oi
{ passage and living. Will the Major, il
he is elected President, seek to enforce
a the laws against this importation o.
: pauper labor and recommend the pass
age Of such laws as will put protective
duty upon all importation of Chinese
n Italian and other like class of foreigners
s that are menace to our own people
s who need this kind of protection to {
u much greater extent than the manufact
i urers who employ this pauper labor
Then the old soldier has had grievance
for these many years that has gone un
needed.
s He wants service pension law, the
purp ort of which is well known by the
public officials at Washington. He alsC
wants an appropriation from congress
that will give him the difference between
J the dollar he was compelled to receive
as soldier, and the dollar that the gov
ernment voluntarily offered the bono
holder.
Will Major Mckinley tell the Starl
county voters and especially the soldiers
y who reside therein, whether he woult
r favor such legislation which they, il
a their national councils, have declared
I time and again, was just to the men who
stood up in defense of the flag.
Again the Major might, with frank
ness, tell the Stark county voters abou
his silver utterances few years ago, anG
what induced him to renounce them il
favor of gold standard in this campaign
There are good many Stark county
voters who would gladly hear franl
statement of the reasons for this change
in views.
|. All these inquiries need be met witt
- frankness. He can frankly state t.
Stark county voters how he will &C
when these questions come up for settle
: ment. This he may do in confidence al
the'Independent says he can speak witt
|. a frankness to Stark county voters tina
y would not dare do to strangers.
A SYSTEM OF ESPIONAGE.