The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-09-10
LET NO ONE BE SCARED.

AS the Hanna syndicate unfOldS its
campaign tactics it is becoming more
and more clear that attempts to bull
doze the working people into support
ing Mckinley are to be resorted to 10
all the cities, in the hope that in this
way the detection of the farmers from
the Republican party can be counter
acted. The failure of every small man
ufacturer and trader who has for years
been dependent on borrowed capital
is ascribed to the Democratic declara
tion in favor Of the resumption of the
coinage of silver dollars, and the threat
is boldly made that if Bryan is elected
there will be such shutdown of busi-
ness to which the present experiments
in the same direction will be merely as
q zephyr is to cyclone.
The fears of the workers in shops and
factories are to be excited so that their
votes will be cast against those of the
workers on farms. This is the game of
the gang which has put forth Mckinley
as its candidate for the Presidency,
and it is to be played with reckless
ness that is commensurate with the
enormous stakes at issue. 1t is mat
ter of win or lose for the monopolieS
and trusts fostered by the Republican
party in the past. They know that if
they are beaten on the platform adopt
ed by the Democrats at Chicago, and by
so Straightforward, courageous and
able a man as William Jennings Bryan,
they and their schemes are done for,
not only for this, but for all time.
Throughout the country the same tao
tics are being employed. The farmer,
who has heretofore cast his ballot for
the Republicans, because the latter de-
luded him into the belief that he was
being protected" has come to his
senses everywhere, and is not to be
fooled any longer: He is going to vote
against the capitalistic and mOnOpOl-
istic party, which is responsible for all
the trusts, syndicates and combinations
which have and are still robbing him.
Hence the workingman has to be looked
to for support for the millionaire ticket,
and, with the natural tyrannical in
stinct of the employer, threats of idle
ness and starvation are hurled freely
about.
Democratic and Republican working
men ought not to be frightened by
these vile tactics to influence their polit-
ical action. The men who employ them
would be fellow-sufferers If they I'M
dertook to do what they talk of doing.
They can no more afford to have their
machinery remain idle than this nation
can afford to have England and other
European powers dictate its policy on
financial or economical matters.
The employers Of labor are undoubt-
edly anxious to keep down the amount
of money in circulation, for the fewer
the dollars to be had the lower the scale
of wages can be kept, while the things
that the people must buy can be sold
at any price the mOnOpolists choose to
put on them. Every workingman Is
interested in getting as much for his
labor as he can, and the capitalists ad
vantage lies in preventing him from do
ing this. Let no one, therefore, be
scared by this talk that industry will be
paralyzed If Bryan is elected. 1t is only
the bluff of n man who is either will
ing or an ignorant tool Of the million
aires who want to run this Government
absolutely and without disguise.-New
York News.