The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25
BRYAN,s oaIo PROGRESS.


In the four days given us in the late
campaign was grand triumph through.
out. Probably never in Ohio did a
great leader draw such crowds and create
such enthusiasm. Certainly no one be.
fore Mr.. Bryan in Ohio ever addressed
so many people in the same time, for
he spoke three or four times day at
different points and always to large
crowd running up into the thousands.
Though after the election, MIR. Hanna is
not yet disposed of and we compile
few extracts from Mr.. Bryan's speeches
in our state, confident that the readers
of the News. Democrat will enjoy them:
81 know one man who shakes hands
with himself every day for what he did
last year to save the nation" daughter
and applause.)
Mckinley in his letter of acceptance
said the Republican party would keep
in circulation all the silver and paper
currency. If Hanna now wants the
greenbacks retired, how does he recon.
cile his position with the Presidents
promise?"
"If the Republican party raised the
price of wheat, why did it lower the
price of corn and cotton?"
"Why do the Republicans claim credit
for the rise in wheat and neglect to claim
credit for rise in sugar, due to the fact
that the sugar trust made the sugar
schedule in the Dingley bill?"
''The Dingley bill is responsible for
the fact that clothing is rising in price
With clothing rising, corn no higher and
hay and clover lower than last year, how
will the Ohio farmer know that prosper
ity has reached him?"
"rhe only prosperity is from wheat.
What will the farmers do when the fam.
inc in India is over?"
"The gold standard was conceived in
: avarice, fastened upon the people by
; stealth, continued by fraud, and its high
priest was Hanna"
"a vote for Chapman is vote for
. financial independence, preservation OF
s the greenbacks, for arbitration and
against trusts and government by in.
I junction"
$ "a vote against Hanna candidates fol
5 the Legislature is vote against the gold
standard and against government by in
$ junction"
e Mr., Bryan said the first six months
: of the Mckinley administration were
e the most disastrous in the history Of the
Q country.
d He charged Senator Hanna with hos
r tility to labor interests and also with
being the chief consprator in the Presi
= dental campaign of last year, when tht
: result, he asserted, was due to the twir
? agents Of fraud and coercion, and trace
able to the money powers of this anc
n other countries.
Bryan said the Democrats got as many
u votes in Ohio last November as was ex
. pected, but that the Republicans go
IS many more than there was any reason
to expect.
n In the Newark speech Bryan paid hi
r respects to Hanna thus:
IS "Mr. Hanna is congratulating himsel
= on saving the country from such baC
IS men as myself. At a great persona
!? sacrifice he rushed into the breach, tool
e Mckinley on his shoulder, carried hin
e to the Presidential chair and said NOV
s. take care of my country
g "Hanna stands the world over for
'S government for syndicates by syndi
ID Gates, without taking the people int
> consideration. Hanna says our platform
t bad. He dare not file bill of particu
y lars. Hanna is boasting that he employ
II 5000 men, yet he forgets that each ma
his equal. Hanna talks of them as
n he were philanthropist. Why doesn'
ls he tell these men where he stands ol
l. arbitration, and if he is against govern
IL ment by injunCtion?"