The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-06-03
THE REPUBLICAN STATE CON.
TION,l

Diary as to what sort Of claims to set
up with which to go before the people.
They cannot as yet claim much for ths
ministratiop, for that booming pros
perity has not yet transpired; and the
tariff bill will hardly be law them and
even if it were, they could not claim
anything for it. 1t is thus far receiving
from the people everywhere more curses
than augbt else And, indeed curses
are what the party is getting generally.
1t sowed the wind, and the Indications
are, it will reap the whirlwind
If the convention endorse tariff bill,
" hich vii: it be, the House bill or the
Senate bill9 Will Mr.. Hanna advise the
convention to urge tax on tea, and an
increase tax on beerp And the sugar
trust; will any reference be made to
that important interest, important to
the Republican partyH Senator Aldrich
said: " assume that the sugar industry
is entitled to fair treatment" Fair
treatment 1t is fair treatment to so
shape the law as to enable the sugar
trust to continue its robbery of the peo-
pie to the amount of millions year! If
this is fair treatment for the. trust,
what is it for the American peopleP If
one man or set of men get more, others
get less.
But no doubt Mr.. Hanna is giving the
mat! !er attention, and we ara little curl
GUS to see how his convention will wriggle
or founder through these and the other
troubles that beses them. 1t is not
likely the, wave of prosperity will come
elong in time to save them this fall.
However we shall see.
They may, as usual, lay great claims
to the wonderful and successful states-
manship Of the Republican party, but
if 81, they will also, as usual, dodge the
facts. They will not refer to the surplus
of $3.50, 900, 900 that Mr.. Mckinley found
in the treasury; nor to the empty treas
ury that Harrison and Charley Foster lift
for Cleveland. ssNeiUher will the plat
form allude to the free coinage votes in
congress that Mr.. Mckinley, Foster and
the party gave, and which their national
platform endorsed formerly.
Our Republican friends are given at
times, to putting on airs of wisdom,
and suesriog at the utter incompetency of
the Democracy. Their ancestors used
to do the same when Jefferson and jack
son were in control. At Toledo they
will hardly refer to the panic, and hard
times and bankruptcies we have been
having for years past. The insecurity
of late Ia this country reminds one of
the savage state, where there is no law,
or to a state of war where all law as to
personal and property.rights are trampled
under foot and violence and anarchy pre-
vail.
The change that has taken place in this
land is simply horrible Property that
a few years since would command good
prices, will now pring but little, If sold
at all. Property that formerly brought
good rent returns, cannot now be de,
pended on, all owing to business stagna,
tion. People may exolaim, "How long,
Oh Lord, how longH" Cunning and
injustice have oonspired to appropriate
and monopolize the fruits of labor. Ins0
lence and audaclty plot to Geize by opsr
force through trusts and combines. Th'
truth is, We have been rushing into q
state of lawlossness and iniquity, tend
ing to general ruin and disaster.
And all this-is the result of Repu blioai
rule.