The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
VIEWS CHANGE
BUT A GREAT PRINCIPLE Is AS
ADAMANT.
A. McGregor Calls Attention to Som
Political History and to Times
When Stark County People Fa-
vored Free Silver.

vored Free Silver.
Editor News. Democrat: The Republican
party, through the action of their national
convention at St. Louis have at last and
for the first time, got platform that pro-
claims the British gold standard.
Ex-Governor Mckinley, the candidate
Of the party for president accepts the
platform oheerfully. All this fathers and
endorses the iniquity of 1873, when silver
was demonetized, although then above
par as compared with gold.
So far as one can Judge hereabouts, this
British gold standard is not in accordance
with the views of Republicans generally.
There Is, in fact, little difference be-
tween Republicans and Democrats q, q
rule. A Republican laboring man or
Republican farmer encounter the same
hardships as does his Democ neigh.
Dor. Lack of work and low prices, with
high taxes, direct and indirect, reach the
one as we'll as the other, and both feel
fully the serious conditions. Do not for
get it.
Soheming money managers are ever
on the alert to use the government in
their interest 1t used, to be through
state banks, and so-called regulator,
United States bank. This latter was
mere model of the Bank of England.
Jackson and the Democratic party
knocked out this British affair and demon
strated that the government and the peo-
pie could get along better without 1t.
The fact is, Republicans as we'll as
Democrats have been deceived and he-
trayed, and the Republican platform
adopted at st. Louis is not what the
rank and file OF that party desired. The
Democracy were more fortunate and were
not gobbled up and many Republicans
4 understand it, and will, in November,
act accordingly.
But the campaign is now on, and IL Is
proper that facts be presented. We have
never heard goldite explain why silver
was demonetized when IL was above par.
Was it not to increase the gains of the
bond-holders, and the money magnates
and so rob the people more and more?
Has it not had that effectY Are not bust
ness and labor affected and afflicted
Has the prosperity promised in 1878 by
Sherman and others If his silver purchas-
ing law were repealed, been realizedP The
whole history of the iniquity shows
scheming treachery and triokery all the
way through.
Some people think the free coinage
platform adopted at Chicago was devia.
sion or departure from previous Demo.
cratic action. This is a great mistake.
And the Democrats of Ohio have bser
outspoken right along. In 1877, for ex,
ample, the Democratic state convention
of Ohio met at Columbus, July 25, and
nominated r. M. Bishop for governor, J.
W. Fitch for lieutenant-g governor; ukey
for supreme judge, Anthony Howells, Of
Stark, treasurer of state; j. j. Burns
now of Canton, for school commissioner
and Schilder for public works. The
fourth resolution was as follows:
That we denounce as an outrage upor
the rights of the people the enactment Of
the Republican measure demonetizinl
silver, and demand the passage of Law
which shall restore to silver its monetary
power.
Hon. Johnson Sherrick was elected thai
same year to the state senate, and cor
daily approved the platform, including
of course, the above resolution. Tht
same may be said of all the candidates
In fact, no one in either party approved
the rascality of 1878. Only recently hal
the wrong been endorsed and approved
openly.
The Democratic state platform of 1877
in the ninth resolution, said: "We favol
the issue by the general government
alone of all circulating mediums, whether
paper or metallic, to be always of equa
tender and interoonvertible.
In the United States senate, on De
cember 10, 1877, Mr.. Matthews, of Ohio
introduced the following resolution:
Resolved, by the Senate (the House o
Representatives ooncurring therein, Tha
all the bonds Of the United States issued
or authorized to be issued, under the saiC
! acts Of congress herein before recited, ar
! payable, principal and interest, at tn
! option Of the government OF the United
States, in silver dollars, of the coinage o
the United States, containing 4121
grains each of standard silver, and tina
to restore to its coinage such silver coin
as legal tender in payment of sal,
/ bonds, principal and interest, is not IL
violation of the public faith, nor in derog
alton of the rights of the public creditor.
The foreGoing passed congress and still
, remains, and no gold monometallist ha
ever offered to resoind 1t. But the follow
Z; ing were the opening remarks of Mr.
Matthews, and will show our Demo
cratic general assembly were for free coin
, age, including, Of course, the member
from Stark in both branches;
Mr.. Matthews said; "Mr. President
the General Assembly of Ohio, at its Sos
sion last winter, adopted the following
resolution:
g Resolved by the Generals sAssembl
of the State OF Ohio, That common hon
esty to the taxpayers, the letter and .spirl
of the contract under which the grea
, body of its Indebtedness was assumed b