The Butler weekly times., 1897-06-17
OHIO IS IN A VERY BAD WAY
James CreeIman Finds Great
Distress Over the State.

| Not Only Hopelessiy Boss Ridden, but
Suffering from Unprecedented Busi-
| ness Depression-Much Des,ltu,ion
Prevails in Canton, the Home of the
President.
Cleveland, O. June 10.-James
Creelman, a newspaper correspond
ent, who has acquired wide repu-
tation for painstaking accuracy. has
finished tour of Ohio, made for
the purpose of studying political
conditions He says in part:
1t seems to he quite certain at
this moment that Senator Hanna has
practically won his great fight for
the dictatorship of Ohio politics,
and that before the end of the month
he will be in supreme control of the
republican state orgaization. Moth
ing but democratic victory at the
polls can prevent him from being
the most powerful an1 irresistible
man in his party since the death of
Blaine His friends and lieutenants
are carrying all before them.
1t is political miracle like the
nomination of MIR. Mckinley. Sen.
ator Foraker has been completely
outgereraled. The influence OF the
presidential and the republican ma
tional committee has been too mu ,h
for him, yet what situation con.
fronts the new Warwick.
Cries of industrial and commercial
distress 60 up from every county in
Ohio. The whole commonwealth is
PROSTATE. In spite of the absolute
certainty that the tariff bill will be.
come law within few weeks. the
times ara growing worse instead Of
better. Everybody sees that the
new tariff will help the sugar. trust
and kindred forms of combined and
rapacious corporate wealth, which
are already powerful enough to
write laws and dictate to the presi-
dent, but nobody sees how the agri-
culture, industry or commerce of
Ohio Ia ~ h, balnaJ
GREAT DISTRESS EVERYWHERE
1t is impossible to exaggerate the
distress in this state. Farms havs
actually sbrunk to half their value,
and figures actually show that ever
sincs Mr.. McKinley's election values
have shrunk not less than 10 per
cent. The depression is so great
that the loan institutions arc hold
ing thousands of overdue mortgages
which they do not dare to foreclose,
because prices have shrunk SO low
that the farming land frequently
fails to bring the prics of the mort
gage at auction. From the fgures
already in my possession, l am sat
isfied that the list of assignments,
foreclosures and transfers of prop
erty for debt sipcs the beginning OF
this year in Ohio averages more than
half million dollars for each of the
counties, and that the total for the
state is more than $50,0OO,OOO.
give in this dispatch the official fig
ures, So far as they are obtainable,
for President McKinley's county
But shocking as they may be, they
are only faint shadow of the real
situation. Wages are being cut
down In all directions, factories are
running only part of the time and
usually with reduced forces. Thou
sands of idle workingmen join with
the ruined farmers in the cry for
the prosperity which was promised
Everybody knows it Nobody denies
, it.
MUCH DKsTITUTIoN IN CANTON.
Twas at Canton to-day and walkec
about the very spot where hundred,
of thousands of wsrkiDgnsn heard
{ Mr.. Mckinley proclaim from tn,
wooden stage erected in front of hi,
house that the defeat OF Bryar
would reopen the closed factories S
raise wages, give everybody work
restore the days of plenty and Sc
. curity to the farmers and give th,
merchants q chance to live. / talkee
> with many representative citizens
and they all told the same story
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