The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-07-22
TRUE PATRIOTS.
THEIR MISSION IN OHIO AT THE
COMING ELECTION.
Rriends of the People Must stand
shoulder 10 oshouidsr-A Strong and
Earnest Letter From Prom
tuent silver Republican.

Columbus, Onloi July l'@-LO hN' 'NN
an open secret that the Republican man
agement, under the direction Of Hanna,
would put forth every effort to keep Sill
yer Republicans from supporting the
Democratic ticket Hanne's lisutenants
have oposnly boasted that they would
reach certain leaders among Silver Re
publioans, and that potent ipiluence
would be brought to bear upon them to
secure the placing Of seperate ticket
in the field. The fact that no conceal
ment was made Of the purpose TO attain
this end by she large use Of money Is
not complimentary to the Silver Repub-
lioaus, but it is an abs, llte Indication ot
the regard in which all men are held
by the
APOSTLE OF CORRUPTION.
These boasts Of an intention to work
a bribery scheme would not have been
given much consideration but for the fact
that ce tain men who have been trying
60 pose as leaders of tie Silver Republi'
cans have recently begun to talk ser
iously about the advisAbiIity Of pla ing a
separate ticket in the field. This suspic-
ious change Of heart has had little effect
on the rank and Gle, who patriotically
left their party to support principle
that they deemed essentiIl to the wei
fare Of our country, and who cannot be
longer fy-led by the spurious pr0mi 'es
of the Hanna admini,trsti5n. The mat
ter, however, has served 70 call forth on
open letter from DR.. Abaer L. Davis, Of
Findlay, whose sincerity and fidelity 10
the cause will be doubted in no quar-
ter. It il addre sei to DR.. Asa Ellis, Of
Findl5y, ami is as follows:
DIR. DAvIs'S LETTER.
In compliance with your request Of
a few days since I herewith submit
my vilws relltive Co the attitude of the
new or silver Democracy toward the
miuor parties who are now in the field,
organizing and preparing to fight COIN
mon foe for the cause of the people.
Il am, as well as yourself Silver
Republican-in other words, Repub-
lican who believes in the principles Of
government as advocated by that great
and immortal friend of human liberty,
Abraham Lincoln.
Il do not forget that You and my
father were ius parable fDiends, b tn you
and he of southern birth and education
emixrsting to Ohil 10 the early thirties
because you had grown t. hate the iUsti-
tuition of human slavery 10 your native
states.
How you pitied the black man in his
bondage, ana when slave plutoCracy
threatened to overthrow the government
unless permitted to extend her insti-
tutions into fres territory, how you
stood should to shoulder in tie fight
for humanity.
Il also recJl!s sct the memorable day
in Janusry, 1868, when al that was
mortal cf your friend, my father, was
brought home from. A southern cattle
field, how you couuseled the bereaved aud
fortified taem sgniast their loss by the
assuring words tha5 re had not | st
his If in win; that hs mad died f-r the
caus, he loved,
THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE.
"How can a man ever forget the disin-
teres Ell latriolism cf those days? No
polilic-l C. eed held those brave and patri-
Otic men back from u Cuty tasy Usel to
themselves and their county. Republi-
cans, Democrats, Abolitionists lost their
creed and Were patriots, co nmOu citizens
of a republic that was in dancer.
Today a sim liar danger cOnftOnts us.
The liberties Of the whole people, the
common Felple, are endangered. The
forces which now confront us, the money
plutocracy, j. stronger, more fully in
trenched, aided and abetted by the money
power in oye,y laud, the enemy Of tie
people co trolling every point Of van
tage. They hope to psrpetuate their
power by deoeiving the people by every
artiace until the peolls no longer have
confldelcs in themselves or the strength
to organize for resistance against their
power.
1.-The money power is everywhere. Its
paid emissaries are omnipresent 1t al
most controls the press the pulpit the
lecture , Uform, the colleges, and is dis
semi mating it's insiduous and ftllacious
economic theories in the clwmOn schools
Of the country.
"Its paid emissaries iuvade every gath
ering Of tine people who have for their OBJ
jaot the overthrow of this gigantic power.
II manages to have its agents in every
political organization, its object being
TO show political di:oord, weaken and
break our ranks, thereby making their
victory over the people certain and easy.
"At no time since the money power
has taken on its aggressive and arrogant
attitude against the people, have their
methods been more subtitle and far reach
ing than that exhibited to the careful
and discerning student who atiened the
GREAT SILVER CONVENTION
OF the people Of Ohio, held under the
banner of Democracy at Columbus, on
the goth and 8Oth of June. Plutocracy
was there under the garb Of peDitent
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