The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

ard moves on and Bull Run will ye
culminate In its Appomattox.
From that veteran Of pure Democracy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, down to TN
woman found new inspiration, a new
hope. They began to see with cleare
eyes the duties incumbent upon them
the duty Of teaching that poverty wa
not a crime, that honesty was respectable
that the man who toiled all day to pa!
bis taxes and TO lift his sooum ulatinl
mortgages and keep the wolves Of de
struction from his door, had as muof
right to demand legislation for his pro
tection as had the keepers of the wolves
But woman.like, thev began to inquire
into the private life Of their leader
william Jennings Bryan. Was he th'
mouther of other mems words, or did h,
live the faith he announced to Others
Did he really believe with George Wash
ington, who said 'it Is we'll to keep alive
the vital fame called conscienoeY" And
did he have this In mind when he said
tha woman is the conscience Of the
nationp Who and what was the woman
iu his own home; the woman whom he
has held up 60 other women as bis Ideal
Of womanhoodH What place has tbi.
woman, in his home in his heart, in his
confidence, in his daily life2 In what
sense is she an exponent Of the American
womanhoodp OF the part woman IL
destined to take holding the old ship OF
state to it's moorings.
The question was easily answered,
Do you seek woman of gentle mien, Of
homely, old fashioned virtues; woman
who loves her home, her husband, her
children9 Then she stands EN- bodied as
in the trim little figure Of Mary Baird
Bryan.
Do you seek a woman of liberal educa-
tiop, after the true oo-eduoational plan, a
woman of brains, of self poise, a woman
who commands the respect Of men and
love cf womenP Then she stands, CON-
forter, counselor, ,co-partner, at his modest
Nebraska home. Do you seek q woman
of quiet speech and kind demeanor, inter
ested in her church, in social reforms, in
the woman's clubs; graduate at law
that she may be in closer union with the
m an she has sworn to love, honor and as
slst; who is interested in politics, because
politics affects the home and state and
the nation; who Insists that our public
revenues should be converted to improv-
ing the character Of all our people, thus
a affecting for good or veal, the millions
yet unborn?
There she stands, and IL you bad dwelt
as long under an absolute monarchy as
the two Russian travellers who came TO
America last summer to study social
Development under a republic, you would
throw up your hats, as they did, and
shout for Mary Baird Bryan, and thank
God for true type Of American woman
hood.
Mr.. James Sterling
made the shortest and one of the best
speeches OF the evening, on The Advance
A gent Of Prosperity" He said: This
phrase was coined during the late presi-
Dental contest by some one of the conf
~ In hnnrninu tho
voters of this country into voting for one
thing under the impression or belief that
they were voting for another. The phrase
Is catchy one in times Of sore distress
like the present. Prosperity is much
desired by all good people and being q
contest the idea was easily pro-
mulgated thct it meant national pros
perity.
The agent was understood to be an
agent who was put forth to represent
the thing so much desired.
The Advance Agent" carried the idea
that said agent was ahead Of the process
sion "a sort of bill poster advertiser), or
John the Baptist, preparing the people
to receive prosper ity, and the whole phrase
clearly recognized the fact that prosperity
was not only not In possession, but not
In sight.
Many voters believed 1t, and like the
fellow who bet with the three-oard monte
man on his own game, they awaited the
turn Of the card, expecting to see pros
perity; and like the fellow who had told a
lie so oft4n that he believed 1t himself,
some Of the confidence steerers SORT Of
looked to see it come in with the tide Of
votes.
So Dunn & Co. and many confidence
papers said when they saw the Advance
Agent triumph "It has come. EureKa!"
But did it conner Ask the army of
the yes unemployed. Ask them whose
wages have been cut-readjuste Ask
Dunn g. Co. S weekly recurring reports.
Ask any but the Fueglo men, the chief
jugglers Of the Bunoo gang, and the
answer will be sad negative.
But then they said after New Year.
Now IL is to come after the inaugural
ball. Then it will be after the raising of
he tariff, after the already languid
patient has more Of its much-needed
blood split, and so on ad initum, ad
lauseum for four years, and then they
will chant; Well, give us four years
more, and we will bring prosperity"
And so the n irsge will continue out Of
.aach and In imaoination an long aa Eha