The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-07-08

Of the free and unlimited coinage OF the
silver dollar at the ratio of 16 TO l, with
full legal tender power, Is departure
from traditional Democratic faith. 1t Is
not 1t is renaissance of pure and un-
deiiled Democracy.
The Democratic party had wandered
astray from It's ancient faith and prinCl-
pies. 1t had fallen, like the Republican
party, under the evil domination oil rlch
corporations, of trusts, OF combines, OF
self-seeking millionaires, who sought
power and place for themselves alone ana
not that they might serve their country
best interest At Chicago, the Demo
cratic masses called halt. The people
reigned there They overthrow the
"bosses." They refused to indorse an ad.
ministration which had thrown ITSELF
into the arms of Wall street money.
mongers and become the willing tool or
every influence inimical to the people,
and which continued to enforce ana per-
petuate the pernioious financial leglsla-
ton and policy inaugurated by preceding
Republican administrations.
Five millions of men are now begging
| for 'leave to toll" Millions more, and
these chiefly from the agriculturists and
| middle men, are tOttering on the verge
| of bankruptcy. Agriculture Is unpro-
ductive, although God has done his part
| Our miners are staring starVatlen IN 1he
| face.
| the general features of the Dingley bill,
and particularly right at this time as its
| original features have been so dlSngureu
| by the senate as to make 1t unrecognlZa-
| BILE to the gentleman whose name IL pears
| 1t is bill such as James q. Blaine de-
| nounced as not designed to furnish a
| market for barrel of our flour or pound
| of our pork. 1t is bill which is the
product of the persistent importantly OF
| those industries which sought to be spe-
cially benefited by its provisions. 1t Is a
| bill which violates the fundamental pow
ers and principles of taxation under our
| constitution. And the features or the
bill, if sufficient (as claimed for it) to in
crease our revenue, do not disclose one
element which will bring prosperity gen
| orally to the country, and the Dill tur'
nishes no remedy to put stop to RAIDS on
the gold reserve whatsoever 1t may suit
the policy or greed of the Pierpont Nor
gans and the Rothchilds to make them
| A high tariff Is breeder OF trusts, anG
trusts have become the most powerful
and insidious enemies of free institutions
The Democratic party believes these is @
remedy for the present ills. 1t consists
simply in the reetitying OF grest wrong
surreptitiously done our people by the
money -mongers of Europe and America
through their ready agent and accom-
plice, John Sherman, in 1873 Thai
remedy is the restoration by law, to Its
ancient constitutional and lawful plac'
along side of gold, of the silver dollal
with free and unlimited coinage at oul
mints for both at the ratio of is TO l, anC
both endowed by statute with full lega
| tender power IN payment OF all debts
both public and private. We demand thai
silver shall not be permitted to be dis
criminated against by private contract
nor by the acts of public officials IN th'
in the redemption and payment OF gov
ernment obligation.
| If bonds and other obligations were
paid at the treasury today in silver ol
gold at the option Of the government, ano
that option not basely and illegally sur
| rendered to creditors, it would be long
stride toward bimetallism, and the com
mercial price of silver would rise VIII
silver restored we believe that prosperity
will quickly return.
| Our national. state and municipal
Golfers will fill; our debts, government
and individual, be paid; all burdens lifted
from our people. The declaration of the
ST. Louis convention upon the subject ol
bimetalism was intended to deceive.
Nor did the Republican party then, mol
does it now, while Mckinley's com
mission is now roaming ovel
Europe humbly begging those coun
tries TO give us permission to manage oul
financial affairs, promise what will be the
| policy of the Republican party in the event
| of the non procurement OF Ill lntefna
tional agreement. To restore silver by
act of the present eongressy No. They
are pledged, in that event, to maintain
the existing gold standard, to yield the
sovereignty of 7OOOO,OOO people to lot OF
| bankers in London
Democrats, we have one clear uneqivo
cal answer to all this twaddle, that ''onC
who runs may read" We demand the
free and unlimited coinage of both silver
and gold at the present legal ratio OF 1t
| to without waiting for the or consent ol
any other nation.
1--WE demand that the standard silver
dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally
with gold, for all debts, public and pri
yate, and we favor such legislation as
will prevent for the future the demonet
ization of any kind of legal tender money
by private contract"
And what has become of the promised
prosperity of which Mckinley was the
| advance agentH In this country the
| great source of material wealth is the
farm. Yet, there is nothing in the pro
posed Republican plan that promises thC
farmer any general relief. The proposed
legislation is all in the interest of aggre
gated wealth.
Under the call of the central committee
all believers in the remonetization OF
the silver dollar are invited to participate
| in the work of this convention and TO JoiI
with us in this campaign. On the silver
| question many persons OF conflicting
opinisns as to other political question,
.I | 4 "a - ,nnynntinn thaTa