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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

This is the issue that the Chicago con-
vention has presented with a distinct
ness and candor that challenges the
intelligent consideration of every farmer
and friend of labor in the country. DO
the defenders of the oppressive single
gold standard assume that the people
can be deceived any longer by the cry of
"honest money!" Do they assume that
the people will not be told and made to
understand that the policy of gold
monometallism means blighted industry,
prolonged depression, an endless and
hopeless era of falling prices and the
gravitation of all money into the hands
of money brokers? Do they not know
that the great Commoner and Protector
of his party that Titan before the people,
James G. Blaine, in famous speech
once said; "It is impossible to strike
silver out of existence as money without
results which will prove distressing to
millions and utterly disastrous to thou
sands?" Have they not heard the
muttering thunders in Minnesota, where
a large body of Republicans bolted the
Republican National ticket because they
prefer silver to partyP The white metal
came to this country with our forefathers
and our foremothers. 1t took its place
with gold in the Constitution and for s4
years the right of the people to have
free coinage of silver as well as gold was
not only distinctly recognized but care
fully protected by Congress. Silver was
current money with the merchant when
Abraham bought the field of Machpelah
in which to bury Sarah, and it remained
so until the dismal period of 1873. 1t
was then demonetized by the Republi-
can party and the people have always
characterized it more particularly as
crime than a mistake.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
WHAT SIXTEEN TO ONE MEANS.

Under the law established by the faith
ers of the great American Republic, 37ll
grains of pure silver were put in dollar,
and 1922 grains of pure gold were put in
dollar, sixteen gold dollars to weigh as
much as one silver dollar. That is what
IL to means. In other words, anyone
bringing 37ll grains of silver to the mint
had it coined into dollar, and anyone
bringing % % gold to the mint had it
coined into dollar. And as long as
this was the law, no man.was willing or
did sell that much silver or gold for less
than dollar. Foreign inducements at
times caused much of our gold to leave
us, as it is doing now, but we had silver
to fall back on, and then again when
much of our silver left us, we had gold.
Thus we walked down the century on
two legs, from thirteen poor colonies to
thirty-six grand states,
During all Of that century, the metal
in the two dollars never varied more
than three per cent, and could not, un-
uVi eiiC ihCAOidDiC law VI
demand, with the mints open and the
hands of our debtors on the.Governor
that controlled the demand. And the
fact that we had two metals to rely on
gave us more.money and safer system
than if we had relied on one of these
metals only. This was the elasticity
that bimetallism gave to our primary
money.
In 1873 the law was changed and gold
only was made primary money. The
mints were left open to the free coinage
of gold, but closed as to the free coinage
of silver. An unlimited demand for
gold for use as money was left in opera
ton. The unlimited coinage of silver
was stopped One of the main arteries
feeding blood to civilization was cut Off
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
before the supreme. tribunal Of the


The decentralization of silver was con-
ceived and carried out by the creditor
classes intent on increasing the purchas-
ing power Of gold and thereby increasing
the value of all debts. just as gold has
appreciated and prices have fallen an
unjust tribute has been laid on all
debtors, and this tribute the creditor
classes have enjoyed. The discarding of
silver as a money metal, leading 10 the
appreciation of gold and consequent fall
of prices has doubled tie quantity of
produce that we must exportin the pay.
ment of interest and charges to our
foreign creditors. We are required to
give our foreign creditors two bushels Of
wheat and two pounds of cotton where
justice requires but one. The labor cost
of producing cotton and wheat has not
fallen with the fall in price. 1t takes as
much expenditure of labor and energy
to raise the bushel Of wheat and bale Of
cotton today as twenty years ago, yet
the debt-paying power of wheat and
cotton, as of commoditiesin general, has
been cut in half by the fall in prices. 1t
is not question of the number of grains
in gold called for in our bonds and
mortgages, but of the sacrifice of labor
and the expenditure of energy we must
make to obtain those precious grains of
gold. When prices are high then gold
is cheap and our foreign charges payable
in gold are not onerous; but just as
prices fall gold becomes dear and the
burden of our foreign debt becomes
harder to bear. And this appreciation
of gold has been engineered by the credi-
tor classes with the purpose Of depress-
ing prices and thus doubling the sacrifice
of labor and the products of labor, which
their debtors must surrender to them in
satisfaction of their debts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

What answer can be made to these
indisputable facts Is it not surprising
that such wise and sagacious financiers in
the East as Jay Cooke and William p.
st. John have espoused the cause of
bimetallism? Who can not now see that
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
is gigantic wave rolling Eastward over
the country with unabated and tremend-
GUS fury? That New Jersey will be
swept from her Democratic moorings
and New York join New England, and
Pennsylvania in giving our distinguished
fellow-townsman solid Republican
electoral vote is as well known now as it
will be in November; but who can doubt
that thousands and tens of thousands of
voters in the West and Northwest will
put country above party, and principle
above partisanship in rallying a4ound
William J. Bryan and accepting him as
the true champion of the peoples rights
in the greatest economic question of the
day. 1t will be a great battle. 1t will
be fought on the cross roads, on the
Cinder banks in the mines the shons
the mills, the fields and the homes of
the country, and the Republicans will
fight for the money monopoly that has
prostituted wise policy of bimetallism
to an arbitrary and oppressive gold
standard just as the Democrats fought
in 1860 for the monopoly of slavery that
had prostituted constitutional rights to
the positive subversion of freedom.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
THE MAN AND THE PLATFORM.

The nomination of William j. Bryan
for the presidency brings fresh hope and
confidence to the multitude of voters
who believe that the restoration of free
coinage is necessary torestore prosperity
to the country.-Bucyrus Forum.
The powerful peroration of William
Jennings Bryan on the side of silver at
the convention was the greatest master.
piece Of oratory ever delivered at a
popular assemblage of Americans.-New-
ark Advocate.
Brains, brilliancy, youth, energy,
progress, are characteristic of him, and
his accession to the presidential chair
will be an honor to Democracy and a
matter of pride to the American people.
All hail the Hon. William Jennings
Bryan Signal.
Bryan is free.trader, a ree-silverite
and has spent his brief career earning a
reputation by denouncing nearly every
thing that Mckinley believes in, except
morals and the christian religion. He is
of correct habits, pure life and domestic
attachments Toledo Bee.
Upon this platform is placed the peer
less Bryan, Of Nebraska, matchless
orator, a statesman, and candidate
about whom the people will rally with a
determination to win.-,-Lima Times.
Democrat.
William j. Bryan is the Democratic
nominee Of the Chicago convention for
President of the United States, and
while we protest against much that took
place in the proceedings of that body,
there is nothing in the man nor bis final
nomination that variants his reputation
by the great Democratic masses. =
Youngstown Vindicator.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at the
present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the
standard silver dollar shall be full
legal tender, equally with gold, for all
debts, public or private, and we favor
such legislation as will prevent for the
future the demonetizatiOn of any kind
of legal tender money by private con-
tract National Democratic Platform.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
Real Estate Transfers.

Jesse Ault's heirs to Henry HeeE, lots
$40 and $780, second ward, Alliance,
81 900.
Il. II. Brosius to Alice Dutton, lots
l,0s4-sb-26, third ward, Alliance, $500.
A. H. Douds to A. j. Dehoff, lot
1905, second ward, Canton, $455.
Magdaline Rhine to John l., Ray, $40
acres In first ward, Massillon, 81 900.
Thomas r. Kidmonds to David Weller,
part lot 800, first ward, Massillon, $500.
Joseph and Rosa Runele to John Bell,
lots 92l and 9ss, second ward, Massillon,
S1,250.
s. W. Ricksecker to Elijah Teepls, 27-24
acres in Sugar Creek township, 81 1896.
W. Smith to Cora A. Huberty, lot
4,379, and Charles r. Frazer to Cora A.
Huberty, lot 1880, sixth ward, and Cora
A. Huberty to William Bean, same lots
s784.
4. Bellingbam, by sheriff, to j. J.
Clark, lot s,6li, seventh ward, Canton,
SO, ,O0l.
John j. Trump TO George W. Brown,
lot asa, Canton township, $780,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

He is firm in conviction but not radi-
cal and he is man of discretion and
sound judgment. He thinks before he
speaks, and, although fluent in speech,
he knows what he is going to say. He
has every qualification for President
and if elected can be depended upon to
give the country safe and sound ad-
ministration. Why should not Demo-
Gratis support him Loyalty and enthusias-
ically?-Zanesvill Signal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

The gold organs are filed with items
about few gold newspapers deserting
Bryan and free silver, but not one word
is said about the hundreds Of laboring
men that are daily deserving Mckinley
and the British gold standard. The one
is as good news as the other. Why not
print it?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

1t is confessed on all sides that the
one vital issue of the contest just opened
by the nomination of the Democratic
candidates is the restoration of silver to
the place it occupied prior to 1873. 1t
is not silver monometallism as is per-
sistently claimed by the gold men, but
simply return to the money of the
Constitution. Four years ago the con-
ventions of both the great parties con-
fessed the necessity for silver legislation,
and both promised bimetallism in elastic
and evasive terms. The Republicans
demanded the use of both gold and
silver as standard money; the Democrats
demanded the coinage Of both metals
without discrimination against either,
and the pledges of neither side have
been kept. In the meantime the Sher'
man law, which provided for the pur-
chasing and coming Of 100000 ounces
of silver bullion a month, has been re-
pealed and silver has been practically
discarded as money metal. The repeal
ing of the law which was done at the
behest of the money cliques, was to be a
panacea for all the ills that were hamper
ing the country at that time, and yet,
hafo.o tko ;,L ~, Ernyar rlayaIonJBs ,a,,
which signed the bill was dry, gold
appreciated and prices fell and gloom,
panic, distress and poverty settled over
our producing classes to such an extent
that today they are in the thraldom of
virtual slavery to an oligarchy
of wealth. The farmer and
planter have been deluded with the idea
that everything they buy is so much
cheaper now than it was prior to the
demonetization of silver, but they had
to school themselves into an under
standing Of the fact that where it took
100000 pounds of cotton or $4,000
bushels of wheat to pay President
Grants salary of $4,000 year in 1873,
it now requires one million pounds of
cotton or 5000 bushels of wheat to pay
President Cleveland's salary. 1t is this
issue of low prices and less wages for
those who produce, and more gain and
less sacrifice for those who absorb that
has made the currency question a very
different campaign factor in 1895 than it
has been at any time during the last
quarter of century. No deliverance
ever came from committee on resolu.
tons that so squarely and emphati-
cally demanded the restoration of silver
as did the ringing monetary plank Of
the Chicago convention, and the nomi-
nee has honestly accepted the issue
and will manfully present and defend it
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

%he probate Office has now been fur
ished with ret ords for registration of ply
sicians' diplomas from the State board
under the new law.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

Hives are not dangerous TO life but
they are prolific breeder of misery and
profanity. Doan's Ointment gives Instant
felief, even In the worst cases Of this and
other exasperating diseases OF the skin
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

The Sherman law was repealed in 1898
with the understanding that silver would
be taken care of in the future. But the
gold men have been more insolent since
its repeal than at any time before, and
when in the summer of 1894 bill passed
both houses of Congress, providing for
coming the seigniorage (which was only
a drop in the bucket,) the gold men
swarmed in Washington like stand of
bees to persuade the President to veto it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

While party platforms mean anything
everything or nothing this one plank of
the Chicago convention means more
than any plank Of any party since the
great Republican anti slavery deliverance
made in Chicago just 36 years ago, when
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for
President. The man and the platform
were jeered and derided then by the
monopoly slave drivers as the man
and the platform, and jeered and derided
now by the monopoly money kings
Had slavery been content with the
fullest legitimate protection, it could not
have been overthrown; it would have
been practically without assailants,
beyond the dreams Of peaceful and
gradual emancipation. 1t never could
have been confronted by foe able to
endanger its mastery in state and nation
had it not thus confronted itself. The
Lincoln convention of 1860 offered
slavery all the protection it claimed
when its existence was dignlfed by the
protection of the Constitution as framed
by the Fathers Of the Republic. But
slavery would blight every State and
Territory or it would die. 1t made the
issue, the people accepted it and slavery
perished in the convulsive throes of civil
war.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
BRYAN AND FREE SILVER.

The most heroic National convention
in the history of the Republic has finish
ed its work, and the candidates of the
two leading parties are now before the
people with the issues plainly defined.
No National assemblage ever called forth
so many intellectual giants to the scene
of battle as did the convention of the
past week. They were men of honor,
brains and philanthropic hearts; men
whose ancestors, more than hundred
years ago, freed this country from Eng
lands political despotism, and they met
in the great metropolis Of the West and
resolved to free her from England's
financial despotism. The one event,
which suddenly whirled the convention
out of the regulation routine, was the
address of William ]. Bryan, presenting
the cause of the struggling masses to a
Jury of American freemen. 1t was in
comparably the best of all his many
memorable orations and it led to his
nomination by great political party for
the highest civil trust of the world. 1t
will not only rank with the great
speeches on like occasions of Bourke
Cochran in defending Tammany in 1892,
and of Daniel Dougherty, in presenting
Cleveland in 1888; but it will go into
history as the most polished and at the
same time the most incisive half-hour
address ever delivered in any of our
National political assemblies. 1t is as
beautiful in sentiment as in diction.
Every sentence is telling epigram, and
it is text book for the Democratic
cause, so simple and yet so strong, so
rhetorical and yet so argumentative that
to answer it must be the one task Of Re.
publican pen and rostrum.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
Ayers CathartiC Pills.

The President vetoed the bill and the
silver men submitted; but they had an
abiding faith in the future. Since then
we have gradually drifted to a gold
standard and the growing greed of the
rich and the spreading poverty of the
poor finally forced great convention to
unmask against the injustice Of single
gold standard as slavery forced a great
convention to unmask against the
oppression of slavery SO years ago.
The gold men have nobody to blame
but themselves that in the coming battle
the people are arrayed against them.
They can certainly see now that they
have made more free silver men in the
past year by their stubborn hostility to
silver than all the Bland's, Stewards and
Warmers in the country could do by
writing hundreds of books or delivering
thousands of lectures on the subject.
But like the monopoly slave drivers
they would learn nothing and forget
nothing They still continued to thwart
silver in the insolence of power and as
slavery mortally wounded itself by re-
peal of the Missouri compromise and
protection received its mortal wound
from its own hands in the wanton reck-
less taxation of the necessaries of life by
the Mckinley bill, so did gold m monmetal-
ism receive its mortal wound by the re-
peal of the Sherman law, and heard its
death sounded in the Chicago Coliseum
of 1896.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16
THE DEATH KNELL or THE GOLD
STANDARD.

The most heroic National convention
in the history Of the Republic met last
week in Chicago, and the cause it es.
poused will be carried to the supreme
tribunal of the people. 1t was exception
ally heroic in the selection of candidate
whose sympathies are with masses, and
it was equally heroic in stripping the
currency issue of all semblance of dis
guise. The platform distinctly opposes
the British gold standard and demands
the free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1,
without waiting for the aid and consent
Of any other nation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

There was much shivering and jug.
Cling over slavery before the issue was
squarely met just as the Democrats have
been shivering and juggling over the
silver question; but from Chicago comes
the naked issue against a single gold
standard, just as the naked issue against
the mastery of slavery came 80 years
ago. The craze of "frse silver" was
only lately as appalling to the party
accused of favoring it as was the cry of
"Black Republican" in 1860, but it is no
longer title to conjure with. The Re-
publican West, where only few years
ago the average popular vote was two to
one Republican, is bitterly opposed to a
single gold standard and the platform
just adopted favoring the coinage of both
metals on equal terms will make every
State from Ohio to the golden slope of
the Pacific doubt in the coming con-
test.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

Such is the great issue of 1896. Will
monopoly and oppression or will the
people win?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

The battle in the Republican conven.
ton three weeks ago, was solely on the
platform. Its candidate was nominated
as early as April when the Prairie State"
turned down her favorite son and in
structed for the Napoleon Of protection,
but the great fight came before the
resolutions committee and afterward on
the floor of the convention. For the
first time in the history of the party the
Republican organization declared for a
single gold standard. Its standard
bearer now was chairman of the com.
mittee on resolutions in 1855, and the
platform then condemned the policy Of
the Democratic administration in its
efforts to demonetize silver. From the
day of the party's birth until the pre-.
sent time no article in the Republican
faith has been more pronounced than
the belief in bimetallism. One-sixth of
the Republican Senators and one.eighth
of the Republican delegates made an
attempt to incorporate bimetallism in
the platform, but the convention was
dominated by the financial magnates of
the East and they adopted platform
that means wealth to the wealthy,
poverty to the poor, power to the kings
of capital and slavery to the sons of toll.
In despair of bimetallism these Senators
and delegates asserted their highest and
noblest rights as citizens and they
CALAMITY walked cut of the convention
and bid the Republican party farewell.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-16

The gold men now are much like the
protectionists were few years ago. The
incidental protection of domestic indust-
ry was inaugurated by Washington,
sanctioned by Jefferson, commended
by Jackson and made great
policy by Clay. There was no powerful
party against it. Even Calhoun once
advocated it. 1t was like slavery, the
the accepted policy of the Republic. But
protected capital like protected slavery
grew insolent in its power, and greed
was whetted as the few grew rich from
taxes enforced upon the many. Instead
Of being content with II per cent of tariff
taxes imposed under Washington, the
beneficiaries of protective taxes initiated
the slavery leaders by constantly in
creasing their demands until we had
tariff of sixty per cent. Had protection
been content with reasonable tariff
duties it would have been .invincible.
But it would have monopoly, perpetual
monopoly, increased monopoly, and
when protection finally became engulfed
in monopoly, the people grew bolder
and bolder in revolt until four years
ago. The issue was made then just as
the slavery issue was made in 1850. and
it resulted in the election of Demo
cratic President, Democratic Senate, a
Democratic House and the complete
overthrow of Republican protection
policy.