Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-25
: The Republican Party stands
(: for honest money and the chance
!: to earn it by honest toll.
!: WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
A POLITICAL PAPER,
And a Good One, Written by DIR. NJ. ".
Hardy of Marietta.


Hardy of Marietta.
(Installment No. p
We have talked about the prosperity
of our people while working under laws
enacted by the republican party, and
now we will investigate the other side,
candidly, honestly and fairly.
Since 1892 we have been trying to
live under democratic administration,
and our history records the fact that it
has been a time of general panic, waste
of energy and loss to our people, which
is without parallel in the history of
our nation. Everybody feels it, and it
is everybody's duty to look after the
cause and remove it as soon as possible.
Now for the unvarnished facts in the
case. The business of our country had
been done from a settled policy for
sense knows that change from such
a policy must for time, at least, en-
barrass business. If such policy was
bad, then a change would be adyanta-
cause we were prosperous, and pros
perity meyer obtains under bad or dam
aging influences.
1t is said that the American people
are always looking after "humbug',
but l, for one, do not believe it. We
perhaps fail sometimes to give as care
ful investigation to some matters as the
nature of the cases may demand, but
think we all mean for the best.
The time came to hand for the nomi-
nation of candidates for President of
our nation and in 1892 our democratic
friends convened at Chicago There
they denounced everything as wrong
which had been done by the republican
party, and that our country would soon
be ruined beyond redemption if the
management of affairs was not wrested
from their hands.
They branded the Mckinley tariff
law as worse than robbery, that it was
accumulating surplus that was most
dangerous thing for our nation, more
over, it was unconstitutional, and, that
if the people would accord them the
power. they would very quickly de-
stroy that Mckinley law, empty that
treasury of its surplus and give to our
people free trade policy, then, and
only then, would we really know what
was the true meaning of the word pros
perity. The thing we already had was
nothing to it. They promised our peo-
pie that our commerce should extend to
the uttermost parts of the earth that
our industries should be much more ac-
tive; that our labor should be in
greater demand and at much higher
wages; capital should be employed at
better profit the farmer should have a
much greater demand for his products
and at more remunerative prices and,
all in all, that new vigor should be in
fused Into all of our enterprises, the re-
suit of which would be untold pros
perity, the like of which was never ex-
perienced by the people of any country
before.
This was all very fine and fascinating
and their silvery tongued orators pro-
claimed it all over the nation, from
Maine to California and from the shores
of the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
Campaign literature was in abundance
and in this same strain.
Election time finally arrived and a
democratic administration was the re-
suit, and you know what followed.
As soon as it was generally known