The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-01-12
STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY JANUARY IL 1899

carrIeu uh d system o. eslJTnage 20 |
intimidate and cOerce labor, that was |
made weak and timid by the appeals |
Of wives and children. Sixteen mil |
lions of dollars! No Wonder the |
cuckoos call him great--they paid such |
great price for him
Fraud and false pretense, falsehood, |
slander and libel were Tesorted to to |
prevent the restoration of the money |
of Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. Lin |
coin, in his last public utterance, said: |
THE more gold and silver we mine, |
so much easier we make the payment |
of the national debt"
Abraham Lincoln. on the last day OF |
his consecrS ted life, proposing to make |
the payment OF debt easier, while |
Mark Hanna and Wall street, misap-
propriating the name Of Lincoln's par
ty, not only have repudlated the prop
osition of Lincoln to make the pay
ment Of debt easier, bp' for two years
have persisted in a policy Of making ii
utterly impossible 10 pay either the
national debt or the private debts
They persist in their determination to
make the national debt larger and to
prevent the mining Of silver, thereby
reducing the quantity Ci money and
depriving labor Of hundreds of mil
lions Of wages
Somu Pertinent Queries,
Can any one discover any sympathy
OF the Hanna admin iStiatiUu either
with the debtor or the laboTeT of the
land, in an opposition that resorts to
fraud and crime to prevent the restora-
tion of silver? Can any one discover
any sympathy for the labOrcr of the
land In an administration that resorts
to fasehood and bribery to maintain
the accursed practice of government
hv iDi1luptipu2
Can any one discover any sympathy
for humanity in an administration
that stood impUtent, Notwithstanding
the fact that Spanish treachery had
assassinated the Maine and her 2GG
American citizens, and notwithstand-
ing the fact that murder starvation
and rape of human beings had been
perpetuated for three long years in
Cuba on our very doorstep.
Can any one discover any sympathy
in an administration that prostitutes
the secret service and intimidates
voters, that the wealthy and we'll
born" may be relieved of an income
tax and their share of the extravagant
expenditures of the government i'm
posed upon the middle classes? Can
any one discover sympathy for the
poor in an administration that secures
seats in the United States senate by
| bribery and fraud?
Can any one discover liberaTity or
| fair treatment TO the old soldier on
! the part of this administration, when
| 1t advises with Clay Evans, commits
sioner Of pensions, and approves of his
| dilatory tactics in dIscharging a hun
| dred clerks while there are G33 900
| claims for pensions on file and undis-
! posed Of?
| PeoksnifIian Impotence.
Yea, verify, verify, this party, with
the thumbs Ct It's insOlenCe IN the arm
pits OF impudenCe, drrOgatiug TO itself
| a monopoly of honesty and national
honor, now sweGrs uGdying allegiance
| to the single gold Standard and the
| yellow metal, although less than two
years ago It pledged itself to promote
| In every possible way the restoration
of silver. So devoted is 1t to anything
and everything yellow that in the wa.
with Spain it denied and deprived the
soldiers of medicines, physicians
nurses and food that they might have
the honor and glory Of dying Of yellow
| fever. With that everlasting loyalty
to. everything yellow, they are deter
mined that tho $4,000 pension claims
shall turn yellow in the dusty files be-
fore they shall receive the attention Of
the high and mighty.
Can any CaC believe the national ad-
ministratiOn is devoted to national
honor when the boys in our fever
|
embaimed beef and neglected even
unto death Or the want OF nurses, and
murdered by the ignorance and inCOm-
potency Of horse doctors?
The people, grOaning under taxes
| unneCcBsari y large, had filed their
treasury full Of funds, that the admin
istTatlOn might avail Itself of the best
and abest In the land. But in our
own home country, not in the land OF
| a foreign foe, In camps at the very
doors Of Oug cities, at the very Centers
Of our great railway systems, we found
our young manhood suffering disease
and death with 4 loss almost teufOld
| greater than was suffered in the face
Of Spanish MaUsers with all these
millions piled up in the treasury, and
with all these facilities at hand the
negligence and inCumpeteuCy and un-
fitness of the political appOinteos was
so apparent and fragrant that through
out the land the ministers and fathers
Of the great churches found 1t neCes-
sary to use the pulpit to sound the
alarm Great journals that had pro-
noted the election OF this administra-
tion published matter enough to fill
volumes, regounting the misery and
the miserable mismanGgemert In the
army. Can any one believe that the
administration is sincere in its dovo-
tiOn to national homer when II aD-
pointed as secretary of war a man wlH
had run away from the fight in the
COS?
Can any cne believe that the admin
stration is sincere in It's devotion t.
the national honor and to the interest
OF the poor, when 1t took into tho ca b.
met as attorney general a man who
was governor of New Jersey, the home
and stronghold OF those pirates known
as trusts and syndiCatcs? Caa any
one believe that this attorney genera
Is devoted to the national honor, when
he too remains In innOcuOus desuetUde
week in and week out, month in and
month out, seeing the daily press an,
nounCe the formation of as many as
six trusts in single day?
Is 1t possible that the attorney gen,
eral remains inactive and impOtent
without the knowledge Of the admin,
lstratiOn? Does anyone suppose that
II Andrew Jackson We're president oil
these United States the trusts would
go on fattening and the attorney gen,
eral would go on sleeping?
Is II unfair to test and measure
these men by the principles that act
uated Andrew Jackson aud made his
memory immortal? Is IL unfair to ask
the chief executive why he sent q sil.
yer commission securing Europe, witt
his close personal and political friend
Senator WOlCOtt, at the head, soekinG
, for the first time in history the con,
sent of Europe that we may govern
our own affairs, pretending to be In
search Cf sCme friendly word for this
restordT--TI - '-"TIT, ana aT the Very
same time having his secretary of the
treasury, Mr. Gage, asking congress
to fix more firmly the single golC