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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The Chicago Times Herald says Chi
cago "has 5000 families actually starv-
ing to death, 10000 wives, husbands and
children begging for bread-begging for
pittance of food to keep body and
soul ogether-huddled into single
rooms and freezing in the blizzard that
recently visited the city. The New York
Tribune tells it's tale as follows: At no
moment within the memory of the pre-
sent generation has the number of un.
employed in this city been SO large as
Just now, and never before has the strain
on public and private charity been so
severe as during this winter season, 1t
is not merely the laboring classes-that
is to say, the classes who may be regard
ed as within facile reach of philanthropiC
relief-who are the sufferers, but those
who may be described as professional
men, the clerks, the statesmen, the
architects and the literary men. Few,
save the clergy and the physicians, have
any idea of the extent to which priva'
lion and actual want prevail among
these victims of the bad times. The
foregoing reports from the West and
from the East demonstrate that though
the "advance agent" has got along the
"prosperity" has not yet arrived,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
THE MARKETS.

PITTsBURo, Feb. o.
wHEAT-No. red. 87@sSc; No. red, $50
66c spring wheat, 8jd8G
CORNING. 2 yellow ear, 2Sl12S1Gc; No. 2
shelled, s61alI27c; high mixed shelled, 25160
2594c.
OATS-No. white 23IS6D24c; No. 2 do,
22161!3c; extra No. white, 216O22c; light
mixed. 20I9GD2lc.
HAY-No. / timothy, $l1756tl2.OO; No. 2,
1O.5l610.75; packing, S8.506D7.25; No. feeding
prairie, s7750s.OO; wagon hay, SA.0O9I5.O0
for timothy.
POULTRY-Large live chickens, 80185c rer
pair; live chickens, email, 46D5Oc per pair
dressed, l0Dllc per pound; live ducks, 65075c
per pair; dressed, l5G0l6c per pound live tur-
keys, l00ollc per pound; dressed, 130I5c per
pound live geese, 81 $l.251l50 per pair.
GAME-Pheasants, S4.5045O0 per dozen;
quail, Sl.256ol.6) per dozen rabbits, l50t20c per
pair; squirrels, lUll5c; wild turkeys, $780,
prairie hens, S6.5017.O0 per dozen; whole deer
l2QDl3c per pound; saddles, 1890.
BUTTER - Elgin prints. &c; creamery,
23024c; Ohio fancy creamery, 1920;
fancy country roll, l40l5c; low grade and
cooking, S1l0c.
CHEESE New York full cream, l2
0l21Rc; Ohios, fu'l cream, late make, lt160D
llo; new Wisconsin Swiss, in tubs, 1l159l2o;
limburger, new, l0Ollc Ohio Swiss, in
tubs, llHc Swiss, in bricks, 5-pound avg, 10
Ollie.
EGGS = Strictly fresh Pennsylvania and
Ohio, in cases, l5Gl6ci Southern, l31lici stor-
age, lO0l2c.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
GOING AROUND THE WORLD.

The Pleasant Trip Cleveland VIII Take
After March 4.
TOLEDO, Feb. 10.-A passenger agent
of the Canadian Pacific, now in this
city, is authority for the statement that
President Cleveland will take trip
around the world Immediately after the
Inauguration of his successor.
The president and his party will go
to the coast over the Canadian Pacific
road, and Division Passenger Agent
Sheehy of that line will conduct the
party in person.
1t is the desire of the president to
start as soon as possible after the inau-
guration of President-elect Mckinley.
He desires to avoid public functions as
much as possible, and intends to make
the circuit of the globe as private
citizen.
Private Secretary Thurber and sew
eral members of President Cleveland's s
cabinet are expected to accompany his
excellency. Mrs. Cleveland and the
children may accompany the party A;
that matter has not been fully decided
yet.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Private Sec
retary Thurber refused officially to con-
firm or deny the statement. He pre-
ferred, he said, to await the publication
of the story before making any an
nouncement regarding it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

Kinley organ during the campaign, is
fierce and furious against the bimetallic
speeches of Hoar, Chandler and Allison
in the Senate on the bimetallic COM
mission bill, pronouncing their course "a
clndalous, almost a criminal violation
of political good faith" The extract from
the Posts article says:
"If they had dared to make such
speeches in the course Of the campaign,
Bryan would have been elected. If what
they say and aim at is true and desira-
BILE, Bryan should have been elected.
That Senator Hoar is Bryanite on the
money issue he himself confessed in his
garrulous, senile way when he said that
all who voted for Bryan thought, of
course, just as he did about bimetallIsm.
To point to the international conference
clause of the Republican platform is be-
side the mark. That clause was sw, pit
overheard in the very first rush Of the
free silver storm. 1t played no part in
the canvass except to serve as the butt
of Bryan's ridicule. Bimetallism of all
sorts dropped completely out OF sight in
the Republican arguments, and If there
was ever anything to which any party
stood solemnly pledged and bound, it is
the maintenance of the gold standard, 4,
without alteration or addition, by the
Republican party. On that issue the
entire battle was fought, contributions
asked, sound money co operation from
all sides invited, the business world
appealed to. The gold standard, un.
changed and undiluted, was what the
Republican party said it was for, what
the majority voted it into power and
perpetua,e. The spectacle, therefore, of
Republican Senators leaping again into
the free silver slough, as if nothing had
happened since they we're last in that
quagmire, is one not only of unprecedent-
ed folly, but of unparalleled baseness.
1t is shameless betrayal Of political
trust. What are the sound money Re-
publicans of the house going to do about
it2 What has Speaker Reed to sayP
Win they join Senator Hoar in confess
ing that they were cheats and hypo-
critics all through the canvass, and that
they really believed in Bryan's princi-
pies, though voting and speaking for
Mckinley"
The magnates in the East and their
organs want their own way on the gold
standard, and are by no means favor
able to an international conference.
They submitted to it in their platform,
thinking it necessary to hoodwink the
people and secure the President. Hoar,
Chandler & Co. wish to continue the
deception and go on with their thimble.
rigging.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

1t seems to be the expectation that at
the extra session the tariff measure
will be rushed through. The bill will be
reported at once in the house, being
nearly ready now SO that it will pass the
house at the most in very few weeks,
while bills may be rushed through the
house, it is not the case in the Senate,
which is adeliberative body aid discusses
fully such measures. In the new Senate
the Republicans will not have majority
and the bill, as it passes the house,
may be subjected to numerous changes.
Senator Hill said in recent interview
that tariff bill of some kind will GO
through, but that "the vote OF the
Senate will be close, and the Republicans
will have hard row to hoe to bring
the different shades of opinion into
agreement" The Senator thinks the
extra session will not adjourn before
August.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

leves contains Revolutionary" senti-
ments. Silver Republicans and Popu-
lists must be thrust inside. "Single tax
men, old preenbackers, professional
labor agitators, Socialists" and other
mischief makers and malcontents" must
be expelled There must be no talk of
taxing incomes nor attacks on "charter-
ed capital" The Senator is one of those
individuals who is easily led If he has
his own way. He used to say 'I am a
Democrat" but we fear he has fallen be-
hind the procession and will hardly
catch up.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The immigration bill still hangs fire
in the conference committee. The feel.
ing has been growing that as first passed
it was too proscriptive. The house and
Senate at first failed to agree on the bill,
and as usual it was sent to conference
committee. The report of this com.
mittee the house accepted but the
Senate did not. The latter body favor
ing greater liberality and further
modification. A second report will
come from lhe conference this week and
it is thought the bill will be more accept
able. when attempts to put proscrlp-
tive views into law, we are apt to run
against circumstances not thought
of before. The prohibition against
Canadians coming over to wcrk
in the United States and yet living in
Canada, will be likely to provoke
retaliation. In British Columbia there
are said to be 10000 Americans working
in the gold mines, and retaliatory
measures might trouble them consider
ably. This sort Of legislation is very
troublesome to shape and when at
tempted in this country, has very soor
been rejected as instanced the alien and
sedition laws Of the elder Adams.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
PRICES DURING 1900.

Prices during 1896 we're the low est annual
average on record standing at 65 accord
ing to the index number of Mr. Sauer-
becks tables, the great German author
ity. In England the standard is the
average from 1867 to 1877, and is repre-.
sented ly 100. The prices last year
we're 3S per cent below the standard and
from II to IA per cent below the average
from 1889 to 1893. From February TO
July last year was steady decline, but
slight advance from July to October
with decline again in December.
A general rise in prices would un.
doubtedly revive trade and business
and so bring that promised prosperity.
These late years, with their hard times.
have been years of falling prices, and
dear money always makes falling prices
and so changes values and makes all
business uncertain, and inevitably leads
to ruin and continues so while the cause
continues. The money magnates and
their scheming tools In and out of Con
gress with their gold standard are re-
sponsible for these ruinous conditions.
Silver, since 1873, being a commodity
like other commodities, goes up or
down with them. Not so gold, for this
is the sacred article cared for by govern
ment and continues at the coinage
value. Today an ounce Of silver will
purchase substantially the same amount
OF commodities as it did in 1873, before
1t was cut off from free coinage. Gold,
on the other hand, will purchase about
double. This shows how debt-bearing
securities have increased in value com
pared with other things. Yet there are
people who sanction this robbery.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
ATTACKS HIS PARTVs POLICY.
A Republican Congressman Attacks TIN
BimetaIiIc Conference Bill.

A Republican Congressman Attacks the
BimetaIiIc Conference Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l0.-The interest
In congress in the question of an inter
national monetary conference was
shown by the presence in the house
committee on coinage of many mem.
bers to listen to the discussion Of the
resolutions before the committee. Sew
members of the committee on banking
and currency took part in the debate.
The first speaker was Representative
Hill, q Connecticut Republican, who
spoke from political standpoint, bit
terly denouncing the senate for attempt
ing to lay trap to ensnare the Repub-
lican party. IL was an attempt. he
said, to bring about the things which
the Republican party voted down at
the last election, the free coinage Of
silver and double standard Of value.
Referring to Senator Chandler. he said
the proposition was thrust upon the in
coming president by senator who had
bitterly and violently opposed his nomi-
nation, and that that senator had been
sustained and seconded by the chairman
Of the National Democratic committee.
Representative Brewster (Rep. N. "
remarked that the bill was trap by
the enemy to put the next president in
q hole.
Representative Fairchilds (Rep., N.
Y. said that he understood the senate
bill had been drafted by Senator VOL
colt after conference with Mr.. McKin-
ley.
"Let Mr.. Mckinley give his opinion
in the inaugural message" said Mr..
Brewster.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
WHY SHOULD MARK HANNA BE
SENATOR1

Mark Hanna, commission iron mer.
chant at Cleveland, long personal
fiiend Of Major Mckinley, the champ.
ion of protection which Mark Hanna
approved as helpful to him in his busi-
ness, is not statesman. He was not
even politician until his zeal for his
friend threw him into the field prior
to the Republican national convention
of 1896. But his friend is now Presi-
dent.elect of the United States, and all
of a sudden demand is made that Hanna
shall be given an important public
situation. He appears to have turned
up his nose at any suggestion OF place
in the cabinet and to have fixed his am.
bition upon a Senatorship from Ohio.
There is no vacancy. Major Mckinley
Immediately arranged to create one by
inviting senior Senator from Ohio, John
sherman, to accept the position of secre-
tary of State, but the successor Of John
Sherman must be appointed by the Gov.
ernor of Ohio, Mr.. Bushnell, who, being
friend of the junior Senator, Foraker,
who discovers no reason why he should
further the ambition of MIR. Hanna to sit
in the Senate of the United States, con-
cludes that some other than Hanna shall
be the appointee.
Whereupon it is asserted in semi.au-
thoritatiye way that the President.elect
must not be treated with disrespect
when he chooses to make vacancy in
Ohio by promoting the senior Senator
he must not be thwarted. If his design
to make his friend Hanna Senator
from Ohio is not given full force and
effect he who will be President of the
United States after the 4th of March
next will employ the patronage of his
great office to break down, discredit
and retire to private life responsible
members of the faction in thei Republi'
can party of Ohio that will not carry out
his behest.
In such situation Democrats can but
shrug their shoulders and await with
something of curiosity and disgust the
outcome of this maneuvering wherein all
consideration of public Office as a public
trust is lost in the struggle of factional
interests and personal animosities.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The gold men are wrathy at Senator
Chandler on account Of the resolution
he presented in the Senate, declaring it
to be "the sense of the Senate that the
United States should not permanently
acquiesce in the single gold standard,
and that the efforts of the government
in all its branches should be steadily
directed to secure and maintain the use
of silver as well as gold as standard
money, with the free coinage Of both
under system of bimetallism to be es-
tablished through international agree
ment, with such safeguards of legislation
as will insure the parity of the values at
a fixed ratio; furnish sufficient volume
of metallic money and give immunity
to the world Of trade from violent
fluctuations of exchange"
This resolution has aroused the un-
compromising gold papers in the East.
The Republican party managers, OF
whom MIR. Chandleris is one of the shrewd-
est, evidently wish to get away from
agitation of the money question while
negotiations for an international settle
ment of the question are going on. There
is little doubt but this meets the approx
al Of Major Mckinley.
The New York Evening Post, Nc
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

In his article, Future of the Demo-
cratic Organization" Senator David b.
Hill prophesies success in 1900 provided
ga policy of pacifcation rather than Of
antagonism shall be adopted by party
managers toward all factions, that a
spirit of charity shall prevail among
those honestly holding diverse views
upon some few issues while agreeing in
the main upon many Others" The
Senator talks of a policy OF pacifcation,
but his idea seems to be the party must
come to his views. The Chicago plat
form must be set aside. passion, pre-
judice, selhshness, sectionalism and
emotionalism," he thinks, framed that
declaration of principles which he be-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
PIrrsBuRa, Feb. 0.


CATTLE-Receipts on Monday light, about
30 cars on sale, with only fair supply of buy
ers; the market was active on good grades;
supply today light; ma>&et steady. We
quote prices as follows: Prime, St.9lO5.lOi
good, Sl.5OlDi75 tidy, S4.l5d4.35; good butch
ers', S3.0ld4.lO; fair, $50 03.S0 feeders, $500
D4.l0; bulls, stays and cows, Sl.7643.5D;
bologna cows, S5.03@l5,00i fresh COWS and
springers, S20.00@i0.OO.
HOGS-Receipts light; market ruled active
and about &c higher. We quote prices as
follows: Best medium S3.75G3,80; best heavy
Workers, S370a3.75; pigs, S3.6llt3.65i heavy
hogs, $35O6D360; roughs. $2.6O03,25.
SHEEP AND LAMBS--Supply light on
Monday, 20 cars on sale; market steady; the
receipts today are fair and the market SLOW
We quote; Ohio fed westerns, S3,800I TO-
prime natives, S4.lO64.25i good, $3.9Og4.OO;
fair, $33J0D375; common, S2.5Od32G culls,
$l.6002.0O. Lambs-Choice, S5.0O61520; COM
mon TO good, S4.0O0i.S5; veal calves, S6.0O1
$50; heavy and thin calves, $3.OO04.t0.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The millionaire magnates of the sugar
and coffee combines and their leading
employees are beng interrogated before
the LexOw committee Of New York
legislature, appointed tor the purpose
of investigating trusts in that State. The
Havermyers and Arbuckles have already
been examined as we'll as two or three OF
their leading men and one or two others
formerly but not now IN their employ.
The full unvarnished truth is hard to get
from these gentlemen, but still facts Of
Importance are obtained which show
the great profits in these enterprises,
All dealers have right to profit but no
right to form colossal and illegal COM
binations and shape tariff taxation for
their benefit. The fortunes Of the
gentlemen individually are quoted from
twenty to sixty millions all made in
this improper way.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The Washington county wool growers
are to present Major Mckinley with
suit of clothes, to wear on Inauguration
day, manufactured from the county's
best wool product. Washington county
contributes the wool, it was woven by an
Eastern manufacturer, and the suit cut
and made by Major McKinley's Cleye'
land tailor. Yet for all that we appre-
hend the rich hockmasters over in
Washington county will be dissppoint-
ed in their expectations Of the tremend-
ously high tariff on all kinds Of raw
wool. They will not get it. The man
ufacturers OF wooden goods, becoming
accustomed to the advantage OF free
wool, will be in the field against them.
On Tuesday the manufacturers and
wool growers are to hold a conference in
Washington, ID. O, TO see If they can
agree on tariff schedule. The Senate
tariff revising committee is waiting on
this conference Pittsburg Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
Cure Your Stomach.

You can quickly do this by using
south American Nervine. II can cure
every case OF weak stomach In the world.
~ always cures, never fails. Il knows
no failure Ii will gladden. your heart
ana put sunshine into your life. Il is a
most surprising cure. A week stomach
ana broken nerves will drag you down
TO death. South American Nervine will
heip you Immediately. No failures
always cures; never disappoipts. Lovely
to vake. Sold by Durbin, Wright u Co.,
druggists, Canton, Ohio.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

Opening the mills instead of the mints
sounded very nice, but about the most
important things opened since the cleo
ton were soup houses and distributing
points for the poor.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

Form The preliminary announcements
it would seem that one Of the aims of
the Mckinley administration is to be
the resurrection of all the Ohio pOliti-
clans the Foraker machine has buried.
New York Journal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The gold leaders would like to see the
supporters Of Bryan split up into trag-
ments, but the friends Of free coinage
and double standard are here to stay
and fight to finish.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

Senator Wolcott's mission to Europe
to secure an international monetary
conference seems to be a failure. The
French will not consent unless England
and Germany will honestly favor the
arrangement.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

In Manitoba, Canada, the rates tor
money on good security are but six per
cent, while in Dakota, on this side the
line and under our system Of banking,
the rates are twice as high.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
Old English sanker Dead.

LONDON, Feb. 10.--Mr. Frank May.
formerly chief cashier and practically
manager of the Bank Of England until
he assigned in 1899. is dead.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The icy sidewalks are making great
many converts to the "middle of the
road" party. Even some leading Re-
publicans are seen taking this course.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

A heavy duty on rags, imported from
abroad to make shoddy cloth, might
help the revenue.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
Twelve Men Killed.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-Through the col
lapse of the scaffolding of viaduct on
q railroad in Cornwall IL men fell dis
tance of l50 feet and were killed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
An American Liberated In Cuba.

HAVANA, Feb. 10.-Dr. Gaspar Betan-
court, the American dentist who was
arrested on Dec. as political suspect,
has been liberated.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

The reason mills and factories do not
sell their goous is that the people are
too poor to buy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
NEW YoRK, Feb. 0.

NEW YORK, Feb. 0.
WHEAT-spot market duh but firm; No.
hard New York, yl9sc.
CORN-Spot market quiet; No. 2, 2S4sc.
OATS-Spot market dull; No. 2, 2l94c.
CATTLE-NO trading. European cables
quote American steers at l0l60ll4c per pound
dressed weight sheep at s19o per pound
AFessed weight refrigerator beef 1T 9D1Oo
per pound.
SHEEP AND LAMBS--Market for sheep
trm; lambs quiet. sheep. s3.O004.S0; lambs.
tS.O0C05.6216.
hoas-Markst steady at sasoaLoa -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

Marx Hanna's first defeat was given
him by member of his own party. 1t
may not be the last.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
CINCINNATI, Feb. 0.

HOGS-Market active at S2.50l13.0O. Re-
eeipts, $3.50 head; shipments, 1900 head.
CATTLE-Market steady at $2.5OGD4.50. Re-
ceipts, 100 head; shipments, 2OO head.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Markeb for sheep
higher at $2.501l.5O Receipts, 80 head;
shipments. none. Lambs-Market firm at
S3.6OQD5.26.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

1t is now called Mark Hanna's dis
appointment to the United States Senate.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

Since Governor Bushnell will not take
care of Hanna President Mckinley will.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

No theory OF germs to chill
Affections budding blisses;
when ardent lovers took their fii,
No microbes on their kisses.
How happy they we're not to know
The germ-fad-5o years ago.