The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-10-14

town and nobody mean enough to cover
them up, with handbills strewn all over
the streets, with parade by fine band
and selections rendered in the hall, and
with United States Senator as the prin-
cipal attraction, Chairman Allen Carnes
opened the first Republican meeting Of
the campaign at the Tabernacle last
night as follows:
Ladies' and Gentlemen There are
plenty of vacant seats over here on the
right side Of the hall" " Thus was the
opening minute gun of the campaign
fired, producing less effect, 1t must be
stated, than the two hours gun which
came later and during the firing Of
which there were still more vacant seats
on the right side Of the hall, as we'll as on
the left and central portions. Chairman
Carnes, in few eloquent words, intro
duced Judge George E. Baldwin as presi-
dent Of the evening. He said that Mr..
Baldwin needed no introduction. II
present to you, said he, "a man who, If
he lives long enough to be old, will be
known as our "Old Man Eloquent. "
Judge Baldwin was received with cheers,
for he is great man at Republican meet
ings. He knows just what to do and is
by all odds the best man in the business
when 1t comes to helping miserable cam
paign talker like the one who addressed
the meeting list night He knows wha t
PLACES the speaker has marked for ap-
plsuse, and he always gives the tip.. and the
spt cial com mmittee on amen, hear, hear,
and give-it-to-em" takes bis tips splen-
didly The joint com bination last night
gave the best exhibition of team work
saen in this section for some years.
The audience was made up of about
300 ladies, the cid Republican guard
which occupied the front seats, and
Numerous curious workmen who had
come in to hear what sort Of excuses
could be concooted for the peculiar sam
pie Of prosperity which puts tax on
commodities and offers no redundant
wsge fcale to make the parity. In the
short time allotted to Judge Baldwin,
this curiosity received nothing satiatiDg,
the eloquent Csntonian simply asserting
that prosperity had arrived. No objection
was made to J5e statement, Bs everybody
supposed this was part Of the Judges
introduction of the speaker, and Fair
banks cert inly pr seutsd a prosperous
appearance.
POSTPONED AGAIN.
The Republican committee chose Sena-
tor Fairbanks to oren the campaign
here, for he is several feet high, physi-
cally, and they knew 1t would take a
mighty tall citiz n to prove to an intelli-
gent Canton workman that he had lots
of money in his pocket, when he can't
reach down aud feel it himself. Senator
Fairbanks went to work at once to set
forth the plan Of operating on the voters
this fill, and in ordar to make the gag
work properly he proceeded OF once to say
that Mr. Mckinley is the "mCst distin-
guished man that lives beneath the sun
and then postponed prosperity. Those
two make up the issue for the Republi-
cans this fall as CLEANED from the tall
disjointei juRgle Of alleged
facts and distorted figures.
IT DAWNS.
Prosperity is dawniug," said he, but
1t will come in earnest if the people will
be true to their opportunity and elect a
legislature that will return
Marcus A. Hanna to the United States
senate" According TO that, the great
trust lawyer who came here to tell the
D ople how to vote, brings word that
hasn't come in fact. Its only
"dawning. 1t was to arrive right off as
oon as Mr.. Mckinley was elected. 1t
was tn follow at once in the wake of
- restored confidence" incident to his
election. Then it wss postponed until
day. Later it was decided
that it co1ldn't make connections until
the Dingley bill was passed. All that has
been accomplished, but now the best that
prosperity can do under these beneficent
oircum stances ia to kind of dawn" IA
little; just s,rt If peek up over the hori-
zon to see what Mark wants and then go
back till he gets 1t.
SAME OLD GAME.
1t is the old burco game; the same
thing that was played last year. We had
conditional orders then; now We have
conditional prosperity"
"If you pot your seal of 1isapproyal on
the Republicans this fall, said Fair
BANKS, "you put down prosperity" Even
the Dingley bill won t avail then. "Con-
fdenoe" will sneak of into hiding If
Marx Hanna isn't sent back to the sem
ate. There won't be any more famines
in India and the potato crop in Ireland
win be great success unless Mark sue
oeeds himself Ia the American House of
Lords.
THE TARIFF.
Senator Fairbanks, after calculating
bhs two features upon which the Repub-
loars hope to obtain at the polls this
Iall, praise for Mckinley aud the post
cf prosperity until Hanna