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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
WHAT ABOUT THIS "oFF YEAR"

According to traditions this is an "off year"
with the dominant party in Ohio. No one
recognizes this fact more clearly than the
leaders of the party. They are already aware
that under the most favorable circumstances
they can reasonably count on a falling off of
not less than one hundred thousand votes from
that cast last year. This falling off will come
despite of money, speeches, literature, organi-
zation or whatever else they propose to use to
bring it out. With the padded vote Of last
year and the disatfection in the party ranks,
which all their prctentions of harmony cannot
hide, there may be additional osses to the
vote besides that noted. The Republican
leaders in charge in Ohio do not care whether
the governor and state officers are elected OF
not But those who are identified with the
gold trust are exceedingly anxious that their
strength in the United States senate be left
unimpaired. Thus their hard fight to carry
the state legislature and prevent the election
of silver man to the United States senate.
The following is the present complexion Of
that body:
Forty-three Republicans, 80 Silver Demo-
Gratis. five Silver Republicans, Populists and
8 Gold Democrats. The failure-of Oregon's
legislature to elect senator and the death Of
Senator George makes two vacancies, leaving
the total membership at ss.
The dominant party in the senate may be
decided by the election in Ohio. The true
silver men know that the election of Mark
Hanna by the Ohio legislature means the
adoption Of a gold standard, greenbacks wiped
out and bank notes with a gold redemption
clause substituted and the gold anywhere but
in the hands of the people. 1t means more
than this. Every silver man knows that the
gold men in the control of the United States
senate means more degradation, more misery,
lower wages, less liberty and less of every
thing that is desirable to a free people. II
means revival OF the old Hamltonian federal
doctrine of government by the rich and we'll
born. 1t means lower scale for the man who
tolls, less chances to secure home and sur
round himself with the comforts and blessings
oflife. 1t means repetition of landed Eng,
land, with her landlord tyranny, high taxes
and plenteous poverty,
Yes, it means all of these and many hid,
den miseries that the men who today think
themselves in measure free and independent
can never fathom.
If in this of year" the indifference of the
independent voter causes him, to fail to recog
nize the importance of the election and what
it portends, and through that indifference he
either stays at home or worse than throws his
vote away, 1t will be as Mr.. Towne, of Mime.
sofa said at Toledo, Tuesday night. "The
people of Ohio will not be able to wash out the
disgrace of the endorsement of Hanna and
what he represents for generation and it will
be lasting disgrace to the state"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
THE LEAKY-R ROOF.

In all of the single gold standard organs can
be found references to our leaky financial roof,
and propositions to mend it while the sun is
shining and not wait for another wet spell.
All agree that there is the same need for cur
rency reform today that there was year ago,
One paper that makes a speciality of currency
reform ON gold standard and national bank
lines in recent issue says: HAS the ex-
perience of the past four years with its losses
of hundreds of millions not been sufficiently
severe to teach us that we must put our
national house in order? The currency ques-
tion must be settled, one way or another, be-
fore long or we shall again be exposed to tre-
mendous losses when the first i'll wind blows
over the land"
Our financial troubles do not seem to have
vanished with the presumed arrival of the ad.
vanced agent of prosperity. 1t does not re-
quire great craftsmanship to discover that
there is demand for reform in our currency,
No one who has given the subject sufficient
thought can fail to see that what now seems a
lull in the panic that has prevailed the country
in the last four years is simply temporary and
in the throes OF another more fearful and NOR
disastrous than has ever been felt before.
But it is one of the peculiar phases OF cur
rency legislation by congress, that the laws we
now have were passed at the instigation and
through the influence Of the men who are to-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
NEW BERLIN. .

Miss Cora Willaman is visiting In CO.
lumbus.
Mr.. Charles Brumbaugh made a flyinp
visit with friends in town last Saturday.
Clarence Shiltz and Paul Whitman
have gone to Columbus to attend the Ohio
State Medical College
Mr.. Charlie Bachtel who has been
away for tie past month, is again home
to spend the winter with his mother and
sister.
Mr.. j. j. Shook, Sr. Mr.. Henry Sny-
der, Mrs. Sarah Bachtel, Mrs. Sarah Pal
mer, Mrs. Lillian Kreighbaum and Mrs.
Kate Coleman attended the Shook reun-
ion near Seville LAST Thursday.
About so of our people accompanied the
band to Canal Fulton Thursday to helm
bring home the prize won In the contest.
The prize they worked for was the honor
OF winning, which oil New Berlin could
have share of.
The Pocahontas circle met OF the home
Of Mrs. Hoover. Miss Helen TroxIe
favored the circle with vocal solo which
was rendered in an easy, independent
manner which foretslls for Miss Helen
successful future as a soloist. The
Misses May Steele and Pearl Coleman
sang duet, "Ob, Restless Sea, =" with
Miss Carrie Hoover az accomranist, which
was their best production. Miss Ida
hlley also sang a solo which was fine.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
INCENDIARIsM Is NO REMEDY.

The wild and inflammatory declarations of a
few agitators have no sympathy from the real
leaders of labor and the pioneers in adyocat-
ing popular reforms. The action of Eugene v.
Debs in discouutenancing the incendiary dec
lamation at one of the sections Of the Social
Democracy is evidence of the fact.
Similar sentiments have been expressed by
William j. Bryan in recent speeches. At Seda-
liza, in Missouri, he said: "Those who have
suggested the burning of property or the de-
struction of life as a means of settling labor
disputes do not understand the genius of our
institutions" This is not the language of
sedition nor of revolutionist.
1t should be reassuring to all classes of the
people to know that the men described as
dangerous and engaged in precipitating revolt
against the laws and social order are in fact
the best defenders of our social and political
system. Some of their too enthusiastic and in
discreet followers may at times indulge in in
decent and extravagant terms of speech. But
the real labor and popular leaders have as
much regard for the interests of society and for
the preservation of the general peace as the
richest property owner and capitalists of the
great trusts.
If the trusts and monopolief, If the federal
judiciary, will be as conservative as the real
labor leaders of the country-if they do not
seek by aggression and lawlessness to force
the sharp issues in which the interest of all
classes is vitality involved there will be no
uprising which capital or good order should re-
gard as cause for alarm.-[Chicago Chronicle.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
SOUND MONEY VAGARIEs.

The cry Of Sound money" raised by the
people who are SO anxious to have the govern
ment Ego out of the banking business" is
hypocritical and insincere.
Even the demand for gold is disingenuous
for these "reformers' propose to retire the
greenbacks and substitute state bank note:
secured by the assets Of the banks" Was
there ever submitted to the American people q
more unsound proposition than that. Behind
the greenbacks stands the United States
government, and there is no contention that
a greenback is not now and always worth its
face. Could the same be said of state bank
notes2 If that is the kind of Sound" money
the "reformers" wish to force upon the people
the suggestion will be laid scornfully aside
with the comment that it possesses more
sound than sense"
Suppose for the sake of argument, that every
note were to have gold dollar back of it
What would that mean2 To retire all OF the
government paper would contract the currency
5000, 100000 To issue state paper, or national
bank paper, secured by gold, to fill this deficit
would require the securing of 100000 900 in
gold. Where will the advocates of Sound
money get this gold2 If these notes are not tc
be redeemed in gold they are thousand times
worse than silver, 50 far as safety is concerned
If they are to be backed up by gold it is the
duty of those patriotic ''reformers" who desire
this measure to inform the people where they
are going to get the gold.-[Newark Advocate
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
COXEY IN THE OPEN.

The mask was thrown off of Jacob S. Coxey
at Mansfield on Monday, and in the light of
circumstances there is no longer doubt as to
who Coxey is in the employ of. Chairman
Kefler issued a call for Populist mass meet
ing at Mansfield, for Monday, September 13.
who were there were representative Populists
of the county. Coxey was called on for a
speech and devoted nearly his entire attention
to denouncing Chapman and the Democratic
against Mark Hanna, his Doodle methods, or
the Republican party. After he had kept up
his trade against the Democrats for some time,
W. T. Geltz, prominent business man, and
A. w. Myers, a one-time candidate for repre-
sentative on the Populist ticket in Richand
county, arose and asked Coxey why he only
directed his abuse to the Democrats and not to
Mark Hanna and the Republicans. OF course,
Coxey could not make an answer to this ques-
ton and then both Mr.. Geltz and Mr.. Myers,
together with other Populists, arose and told
COxey in open convention they would not vote
for him, but would support the Democratic
nominees, for the manner in which he con.
Quoted his campaign smacked very much as if
he knew more about the Mark Hanna deal
than he wanted his followers to know. Every
man has a perfect right to his own political
views, but Mr.. Coxey must produce better evil
dence than he has shown sincehis nomination
to convince voters of this state that he is not
working in the interests of Mark Hanna
Upper Sandusky (Ohio) Chief.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
MOTHERS MISTAKE.
Canton Mothers Make IL, But With a
Little Light There Need
BE None,

lncontinance of urine is far too prevail
ent in children. Some are ushered into
this world with weak urinary organs.
Gold readily effects the muscles of the
bladder in others, and cases have oc-
Cured where forced retention or sup-
preston in school or church have
brought on long and stubborn attack.
Be the causes what they may one thing
is certain, on the parents rests the re.
sponsibility Of nipping this so.called
habit in the bud. IL is criminal to allow
child to grow up to the adult age afIlict-
ed with an offensive AN distressing all
ment, when a remedy-a sure certain
remedy can easily be procured. We are
not overdrawing the case. There are
dozens of instances met with in ply
sicians practice where the victims strup-
gle silently and bravely in manhood to
conquer what their parents should have
stopped in infancy, and as their struggles
prove abhortive they cannot prevent a
feeling of resentment when they medi-
tate on the Carelessness that marred their
lives, Here is an Ashtabula mother who
cannot be blamed by her children. Mrs.
+. b. Curea, No. 239 Prospect street.
Ashtabula, says: "I got Doan's kidney
Pills for nay little boy l3 years of age.
who has h"en since he is s years old.
| troubled ' tn a weakness of the renal
organs At that time he was taken with
spasms that physicians attributed to
worms. These were checked in time but
his kidneys did not regain their strength
and non.retention of the urine while
sleeping has embarrassed the little fellow
very much and caused very much annoy
ance to me. We have had him treated
| by physicians without his obtaining any
relief in the particular way and you can
realize how pleased we were to be able to
check 1t Oy using Doan's Kidney Pills.
Immediately his kidneys grew stronger.
| know that there are many children
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in that respect"
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers, price 80 cents. Mailed by Foster.
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name DOAN'S and take
no substitute.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30

The New York Sun that has been all
things to all men and on every side of
every question that has been discussed
by the people in the last thirty years
and during the last twelve months an
ardent supporter of Mckinley and the
gold standard does not believe the agita-
ton for the free coinage of silver is
dead. Commenting on the receptions
given to Mr.. Bryan in the west it says:
"People who think that the back Of
the free silver movement is broken are
deluding themselves. Wherever the
Bryanites we're strong in 1896, they are
strong today; and wherever they are
strong, the belief in and the demand for
free coinage of silver have not been di
minished particle"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
NOT JUST FOR FUN.

What a mess the gold bug press of this coun.
try is making about the action of the bank of
England, looking to the recognition of silver
in the banks reserves. From their headlines
one would think that the governor of the bank
of England was minny of the same calabre
with themselves and that he simply proposed
recognizing silver just for fun. The great
meeting Of the English banks so auspiciously
announced to take place on Tuesday to protest
against the action of Governor Smith, of the
great bank seems to have been all in the eyes
of the editors of the gold bug press of the
United States. The cablegrams announce
that there was meeting, but the prominent
bankers was not represented, and that the
meeting was held in secret and nothing def
nate regarding the proceedings could be ascer.
tanned. All else that appeared in the Ameri-
can press had been wonderfully padded in the
Office of publication. A few facts will bear re-
citing in this connection. The bank of Eng
land Is recognized as the greatest money
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
THE OLD WAY
VI Treating Dyspepsia and Iudiges-
hon by Dieting n Barbarous
and Useless One,

We say the old way, but really it is
very common one at present time and
many dyspeptics and physicians as well
CONSIDER the first step to take in attempt
ing to cure indigestion Is to diet, either
by selecting certain foods and rejecting
| others or to greatly diminish the ouan-
tity usually taken, in other words the
starvation plan is by many supposed to
be the first essential
The almost certain failure of the star
yation cure for dyspepsia has been
proven time and again, but still the
moment Dyspepsia makes its appear
ance course of dieting is at once ad-
vised.
All this Is radically wrong. 1t is fool.
lsh and unscientific to recommend diet
| ing or starvation to a man suffering from
Dyspepsia, because Indigestion itself
starves every organ and every nerve and
every fibre in the body.
What the Dyspeptic wants is abund-
ant nutrition, which means plenty of
good, wholesome, well-Cooked food and
something to assist the weak stomach To
digest 1T. This is exactly the purpose
for which Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are
adapted and this is the method by which
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in other words the patient eats plenty OF
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Tablets digest it for him. In this waV
the system is nourished and the over
worked stomach rested, because the tab.
lets will digests the food whether the
stomach works or not. One of these
tablets will digest 5000 grains of meat or
eggs.
Your druggist will tell you that Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets are the purest and SAT-
est remedy sold for stomach troubles
and every trial makes one friend more
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5Oc for full sized package at all drug
| stores.
A little book on stomach diseases
mailed free by addressing Stuart Co,
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30

day shouting the loudest for reform. Every
currency enactment in the last thirty years is
either the result of compromise in the interest
o. or the direct legislation of the bankers.
We have given out the job of currency legis-
lation to the bankers and corporations for the
last thirty years and they have made mess of
It. Every panic and disturbance of the busi-
ness interests Of the country under the cur
rency legislation of these bankers and corpo.
rations has been a serious loss to the people,
but strange TO say in numerous instances a d.
rect benefit to these same bankers and corpora.
tons.
Under ordinary circumstances and in every
day business affairs the men who are intrust.
ed with important transactions and make a
failure of it are usually relieved from further
responsibility or dismissed entirely. In public
affairs and especially in currency legislation,
we as American people do differently.
It's now proposed TO give the tinkerers OF
our currency, who have brought upon us all
the calamties of the last quarter OF a century
another trial.
1t is proposed to give them the job of mend
ing the leaky financial roof. When II is done
it will likely leak more copiously than ever
The tinkerers do not seem to have learned
anything from experience, Judging from theii
writings and speeches. American common
sense would suggest that we ought to hire
new set of men to put an entire new roof ovel
our financial structure. Men who have giver
the subject of finance and money ample
thought and study and who are capable o
framing laws in the interest of all the peopl,
instead of class.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
ABOU MARK HANNA.
Written apologies to Leigh Hunt

Written apologies to Leigh Hunt
Abou Mark Hanna (may his tribe decrease)
Awoke one night from deep dream of peace
And saw within the moonlight in his room,
Making rich and silvery the gloom,
Columbia writing the fate of gold.
Exceeding gall had made Mark Hanna bold,
And to the presence in the room he said;
"What writest thou2" Columbia raised her
head,
And with look such as one might expect,
Answered, "The names of those who'll get it in
the neck"
"Mine is not one," said Mark, "Yea tits
though"
Replied Columbia, Mark spoke more low,
But glibly still and said, "I tell thee then,
Give me an office to rule my fellowmen."
Columbia frowned and vanished. The next
night
She came again with dull November light,
And showed the names of those who'd been
selected,
And 10, Mark and his friends were not elected
McDON.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
A FITTING ADJUNCT.

The appointment of federal judges from the
ranks OF corporation attorneys who have been
under the control and dictation of corporations
and win so remain after they assume the
judgeship makes 1t possible to have a govern
ment by injunction. Judges are common
every day men and when they are the tools Of
corporations deserve no more respect and will
receive no more than the hireling of the worsi
class of our people. Being hirelings they
recognize their masters only. Tyranny, abus,
and injustice to all others is their natural pre-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
MIR. HANNA AND woRKINeMEN,

Republican papers are persistently claiming
that Mr.. Hanna is the 'workingman's real
friend" But the Cleveland Central Labor
union, representing eighty.nine labor unions
does not consider Mr.. Hanna friend of the
workingmen.
Read the following extract from a resolu-
ton adopted by it, addressed to Republican
workingmen
81. Ask the Hon. NJ. A. Hanna if he did
not aid in destroying the Seamens unions of
the lower lake regions and then contributed to
a fund to send A. K. Rumsey, his scab pro-
curer on pleasure trip around the world as
an acknowledgment of his services?
"2. Ask Major McKinley's bosom friend,
the Hon. NJ. A. Hanna, if he has not taken a
prominent part in wrecking the mine work
ers' unions of Pennsylvania?
''3. Ask this tremendous political general
who fleeces his workingmen with one hand
and spends money lavishly with the other t
purchase presidency, the Hon. NJ. A. Hanna
if he did not destroy the union of his stree
railway employees and positively refuse toallov
them to organizep
| ~. Ask the great President Maker Hann'
if he did not say to the striking employees o
the Globe shipyard that S1.3O per day is suffi
cient wages for them (when competitors wer,
paying more), but, if they would vote for Nc
Kinley, he would favor paying $3.50 a day2
'5. Ask the unselfsh Hanna if he is no
erecting a mansion for his son and employing
scab labor and disregarding the wage rate anC
eight hour day of the building trades2
"6. Finally ask Mr.. Hanna, if destroying
workingmen's unions and paying paupe
wages for long hours of toll is his interpreta
ton of protection to American labor and pros
perity and patriOtismP
Mr.. Hanna should be judged from his act
in the past, not by his declarations now.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30

The Dingley tariff law has proved a
great failure thus far. The title was
"An act to provide adequate revenues
from duties on imports to carry on
the government" For August and the
first two weeks in September the deficit
was over $l7,O00,O00, while under the
Wilson law for the same time in 1896 the
deficit was under s1l 100000 and in 1895
81, $500, Mr.. Dingley tries to explain
but fails. This administration is not
running on revenue derived from the
Dingley law, yet Hanna & Co., on the
stump are telling of the great success of
Republican rule.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30
THRILLED TO THEIR ToENAILs.

"Those among thesovereigns of the Buckeye
state who have listened to those big guns OF
the hustings, George Pendleton, Tom Cor.
win, Clement L. Yalandigham, John sher'
man, William Allen, Frank Hurd, J. b,
Foraker and, last, but not least, Allen g,
Thurman, the noblest Roman of them all, will
no doubt be thrilled to their toenails when
Hanna begins to speak. Marcus Alonzo will
tower above these men of mighty voice, majes.
tic mien and masterful mind as the hawbush
towers above the stately pine or the toadstool
looms above the grand old oak, beside whose
trunk it squats. s."-[Kansas City Times.