The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-05-28
A TRICK EXPOSED.

Fair.minded men in the party who de.
sire to have an expression of Demo-
Gratis on the money question, should not
be led into the belief that the plan pro.
posed by the resolution was prepared in
good faith or by men who cared rap
for the principle, but only for the oppor-
tunity of naming delegates to the state
convention. Themen who prepared those
resolutions are not in politics for princi-
pie, but for control. The News-Demo-
crat knows whose head devised the
scheme and that settles the question of
good faith. Look at the unfairness of
the proposition "for the free and un-
limited coinage of gold and silver" or
"for the single gold standard" The
poker hid up the sleeve of this state
ment of the question isnot at first appar.
ent, but the sincere student after time
realizes that something is wanting and
finally discovers that the important
matter of ratio is not discernible even
with a miscroscope. Will Messr'. Welty
and Schweitzer kindly explain what be-
came of the usual Is to / attachment to
the silver side of the proposition? They
ought to know. To come right to the
point the News.Democra claims, and
challenges denial that the question Of
ratio 1OaS Intentionally and StudiOttSly
omitted by the men who wrote the
resolution with the purpose of making
the silver side of the question so broad
and the gold side so narrow, that not
ten men in Stark county could con.
scientiously vote against the former.
There's your trick exposed gentlemen;
you're not so smart as you thought.
Every intelligent man knows there are
three sides to the financial question. J.,
the single gold standard; 2, the free
coinage of gold and silver at the 16 to I
ratio; 8, the free coinage of gold and
silver at the commercial ratio, or at a
ratio to be fixed by international agree.
ment. Now then; it is an evident fact
that mere handful of men in this
county would be prepared to say that
they would votetor the single gold stand
ard and nothing else. Almost every
Democrat is for silver at one or the o'her
ratio, and knowing these facts as every
man does, the slick citizens who pre-
pared the scheme of capturing the dele.
gates stated the proposition in such a
way that one side would get all the
votes. The silver side is bound to cover
every phase Of silver belief, while the
gold side is trimmed down to the narrow,
est possible limits, and, we repeat, this
was done purposely and no man dare
denyit.
Why did not the tricksters, who de-
vised the scheme, give Democrats 9
chance to vote for one of the three
phases of the money question? Why
did they put two sides of it into one,
thinking their fraud, their deceit, their
insult on the voters intelligence would
go long undiscovered.
And so we come again to the reason.
Il is a scheme to get the selection Of
delegates to the State convention into
the hands of the men who prepared the
proposition. They may deny their
ulterior motive from now until judgment
day, and yet no man can possibly be
deceived
We say again to Democrats who are
not ayerse to vote on the financial
question that the proposition in ques.
tion was not prepared in good faith.