The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-05-14
DEMOCRATS, STAND FIRM.

Major Mckinley is sure to be nomina
ted at st. Louis for president unles
some colossal political botchery on tn,
part of his managers shall prevent it
The Democrats ofStark county must no
be carried away by any efervescen
enthusiasm. We will congratulate the
city of Canton because one of its citizens
is to be the Republican candidate fol
president. To have such distinguished
honor thrust upon us only comes once
in lifetime.
1t is claimed on the part of the Re
publicans here that large bulk of the
Democrats in this city and county will
vote for Major Mckinley. This claim is
grossly exaggerated. While a few Demo.
Gratis will probably vote for him on per
sonal reasons there are many thousand
Democrats in Stark county who cannot
and will not vote for him for political
reasons. And why should they? He is
not only Republican, but partisan.
While in congress he voted for every
partisan measure that came up including
the revolutionary force bill. He will stand
on a platform Numerically opposed
to the fundamental principles of Demo.
cracy. He is now the accepted leader Of
the system of protection which the
Democrats voted down in 1892 by a
million majority in the country, and a
by thousand majorityin the county. He
is, and always has been the relentless
foe of all Democratic doctrines, and when
the Hon. Frank Hurd, with the Republi-
cans in 1854, voted to give him seat in
congress that was contested by Major
Wallace, Mckinley was not even gener-
Gus enough to return the compliment
two years later by voting for Hurd
when Hurd's seat was contested.
Let the Democrats of Stark county not
give way to any emotional politics this
fall Let them imbibe the loyalty of
Thos. II. Benton, who supported James
Buchanan for president against his own
son-in-law, John 9. Fremont. Principles,
net men, must be our guiding star. The
great principle of tariff reform is still one
of the deathless doctrines of Democracy,
and the purity of our institutions and
free government itself depends upon the
continuing and successful prosecution Of
that fight.
Major Mckinley is a nice man, a good
citizen and an honorable adversary, but
not any more so than is William c.
Whitney, Robert L. Pattison, William
+. Russell, John G. Carlisle, William II.
Morrison, Horace Boies, Governor Mat
thews or our own honored James L.
Campbell, and one of these gentleman
is sure to be his competitor. Business is
business and politics is politics. Let US
not be influenced by any temporary
sendmentality simply because our fellow
townsman is going to corral the Re.
publican presidential nomination.
The Democratic votes that Major Nc
Kinley will get in Stark county will not
affect the result one way or the other
He will carry Ohio if he does not get a
single vote in Stark county. He cannot
get more than 23 votes in the Electoral
college if every man in the county votes
for him, To those Democrats who feel
personally friendly to him and who in
sist on voting for him we desire to
say that you cannot swell his majority
in Electoral college any more than you
could have swelled the Republican
in the legislature last fall by
giving the Republican candidates for
representative a unanimous vote in
stark county. Why, then, menace the
whole Democratic county ticket with
disaster by such emotional politics?
Our Stark county Democrats must not
ret the idea into their heads that there
g no future for them but despair, and |
10 sequel but surrender. We have an
wen chance this year for fair deal in
politics if only they will be true to them
elves. The clear thing for the Demo,
rats to do is to nominate good county
icket, to stand by it, to live by it, or to
lie by it. We must retain our organiza-
ion in the county and work increasingly
Until the melancholy days of November
ome around. Remember Chauncey De-
'ew's prophetic words, that church is
lever out until the last hymn is sung.