The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-10-16
IIo Is the Founder and Pro-
motor of q Criminal Con-
spiracy.
COAL AT $40 A TON.
The People of the United States Com
PEELED to Annually Submit to
Systematic Robbery.
Garrett a. Hobart, tho Personal Repre-
sentative and Paid Lobbyist of j. Pier
pont Morgan-uow Would You Liko
Such Man ns Presldentf

| 1nlS VIII DO u puTt OF your conulOu
ton to tho republican campaign cor
ruption fund.
Gnrret A. Hobart, the republican
nominee for vice president, is the
| founder, promoter and one of the chic!
beneflcinrics of the anthracite Goa
trust, the most criminal and heartless
conspiracy against the American peo-
pie that was ever carried into merci'
less execution.
This is not campaign lie. 1t Is an
absolute fact, and Is purt of the his
tory Of the infamous Reading combine
with it's colossal conspiracy, backed by
00,0O0,0C0 of capital.
Mr.. Hobart says there is no coal trust
What do you think about 1t? Who 90
you suppose raises the price of coal
just in proportion as the season nd-
vances; in proportion as the cold grows
more intense and the suffcrings of the
poor increase? Do you suppose the rise
is occasioned by the law of supply and
demand? Do you suppose hard cool Is
worth ten, or nine, or eight, or seven, or
six dollars n ton?
And are you thinking of voting for
n ticket with Garrct y. Hobart on It?
Gnrret \. Hobart, the paid attorney
and legal representative of j. Picrpont
Morgan; Garret A. Hobart, the re-
tained lobbyist of the New York rail-
road wreckers; Gnrrct a. Hobart, who
has promoted and engineered more
trusts and invented more legal tricks
with which to defeat justice and OPP
press the people than any man In the
United States.
The man who votes for Hobart for
any Office in the gift of the American
people deserves to be robbed by trusts
and compelled to spend the remainder
of his days In abjcct slavery and pow
erty.
The man who dcclaims against trusts
three years and nine months and then
spends three months yelling and work.
ing for the biggest trust robber In the
United States and winds up by voting
to make him the presiding officer OF
the United States senate should take
out an insurance policy against the fool
killer.
Imagine the people of the United
States engaged in struggle against
the trpsts, with j. Pierpont Morgan's
man, Hobart, the presiding officer of
the United States senate. Any voter
who will indorse such calamity will
cheerfully vote il he is given n chance
to dsfranchise himself.
Suppose in the possible course of
events that Mckinley should die while
In office? We would then have Mr..
Garrett A. Hobart, founder and heavy
stockholder ir the coal trust (ten dol
lars tom, as president of the United
States of America. There is nothing in
the burlcsquc or comic opera more gro
tesque than this, and yet we are told
that several millions of American
workmcn who use coal and who are an
rually swindled out of millions of dol
lars by Mr.. Hobart and his fellow-con-
spirutors, now seriously propose TO
turn over TO Mr.. Hobart the absolute
governmental control of the country
They will not do it. There are
many fools in the United States, bu'
'hNg diN NV wv w a.
When you go to your coal Office ant
order your coal; when you go dowr
into your pocket and pay two price,.
for one of the absolute necessities oi
life, console yourself with the thought
that a good share of your hard-earned
money will be added to Mr.. IIobart'i
bank account, and that Mr.. Hobart 4,
n candidate. hf.rh no
fee in the gift of the American people
And then go home and sit down and
think.
The most vicious goldbug paper ir
Chicago is the Evening Post. In mo
n!ent Of thoughtlesspcss it printed tn,
truth about the coal trust. Here are
some extracts from the Evening Post
of October g.:
Hard coal may be eight or nine dol
lars ton before the winter is over
And should the anthracite coal trust
really decide that II needs the money
then will the dear public be obliged tt
pay ten dollars ton for it's winter fuel
beyond this figure 1t is hardly poe,
siblc that even the despotic coal trus,
We NNfN W HtA WIN DuDtIC
tiencc, ut least not for q year or sol
that is to say, until the public back
has become sufficiently bent TO the bur
den to warrant the risk OF n dollnl
or two more added without including
the preverbial last straw But foi
the present the public must perforcs
dance to the tune that the coal tr,is,
wishes to hear and must pay the piper
intoSthe bargain.
Like all other trusts the coal com.
bine declares itself not to be trust
1t never heard the word trust men
TONED, at least so 1t would appear from
the men who do its bidding In this city
And as far as Illinois laws hre con.
ceriied, the coal trust would have the
dear public believe that It's Identity !,
as visionary as that of the man In thu
moon. The mere mention of legal pro
ceedings will cause the trust TO vanist
into thin air like wiIl.o'-the-wisp
Should 1t happen that process OF law
threateps to bring about disruption
OF the illegal combine the combine IL |
self flies 10 the law for proteotionnI
Through the jugglery of a bankruptcy
court the trust manages to shed its
skin, snake-fashioned, emerging from
the hsnds 0f a law-appointed receiver
more vigorous and more vicious.
"Despite. the trusts facility for slip
ping through the meshes Of the civil |
aPd criminal law. another effort Will
shortly, be made TO cripple it's power,
for evil, atsleast SO far as the state OF
Illinois and the city Of Chicago are