The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-10-21

year. lt was nnally oonclnded, however
that it ought to be exposed, and com
mittee Of three was appointed to report
suitable resolutions on the latest phase oi
fake campaigning. The committee or
resolutions met this morning aud pre-
pared the following, which will probably
be referred to a much larger body for
adoption, to-wit: a meeting to be called
on Tuesday evening, prior so the meet.
ing Of ex.Congressman Towne, of Mime.
sofa, at the Tabernacle. We have secured
a copy of the resolutions including the
preamble.
Whereas, An election is pending for the
election Of governor, county ticket and a
legislature which is to elect United
states senator for six years, and
Whereas, Mark Hanna is the only can
dldate endorsed by the Republican state
convention for tbsS high office ana as he
is known all over the continent as the
agent Of organized greed the ideal Of all
the trusts, combines and shy locks of the
land, also as the most relentless foe Of Or
gauized labor that ever appeared in Amer
can politics, therefore
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
further rule of Plut,crats and that we
denouuCs Mark Hanna and all his paid
agents, whether they appear as ward
heelers with bribes for the voters 10 their
pockets or as business men or partisans
too full Of ignorance and prejudice to
understand plain economic principles;
that the present attempt TO organize
a business league in Canton is on the
same lines and bears the stamp of the
same unprincipled outlawry of 1896, when
so-called business men threatened and
coerced the laboring men of Canton into
voting starvation to themselves and fami-
lies by voting for Mckinley. We call
attention now to the deplorable fact
as reported authoritgtively by the officers
of Associatsl Charities, that there is now
no charity money left for the poor, and
that there is now over two thousand men,
women and children in Canton who are
without work or support or the hope f
either, and that the coming winter is foil
of awful and terrible suffering for our
struggling poor. We also call attention
to the fact that wages in Canton are
lower than ever before known, aud we
call attention also to the fact that more
than two-thirds of our manufacturing { s.
tlblishments are working less than two
thiros force.
Resolved, That we sircerely and earn
estly recommend to our self constituted
order Of Republican business men, that 1t
they are as prosperous as they claim, they
devote some of their Surplus profits to
the allevation of the poor in our midst
and we advise t. em that instead of t,Bing
Mark Hanna's corruption money to blibe
voters into voting for their further degra-
dation and poverty, that this corruption
money be turned over to the Associated
Charities to keep from starvation the COM
ing winter, our lille and worthy poor.
Resolved, That we consider it exceed
ingly bad taste for manufacturer, oper-
ating a DONATED plant, and whose officiuus.
ness in politics in 1890 caused his down
fall and who was helped on his feet by the
aid of Democratic capital and Democratic
brains, to again jump into the murky
pool to aid to the highest Office in the
gift of Ohio citizens, the most corrupt
politician of modern times. And to avert
this calamity your committee most
humbly prays.