The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-01

| tice. AS to the beef trust, the ration
was good and wholesome. But with q
regal disregard for the fact and for an
honest public opinion General Miles
was censured for not making his
truthful charges sooner.
Cap. Neall is dismissed from the SER
vice in disgrace for a four thousand
dollar shortage, all Of which was repaid
to the government, while the depart
ment of justice has for eighteen
months given no excuse for permitting
Captain Carter to retain his sword and
lpay for being found guilty of embez-
zling 81, SOC, 100000, and Com. Gen. Ea-
gan, having been found guilty and sem
fenced, is compelled without duty to re-
ceive full pay till a month before he
reaches the age of retirement and then
to receive half pay for the balance of
his life. General Miles, the superb
citizen soldier, in whom the people of
the whole nation have confidence, is
relegated to a clerkship in the war de-
partment, while Otis continues an eff
fective blockade on the war correspon-
| dents at Manila, and manufactures
victories to order with the efficiency of
a Spanish general, proceeds without
progression, mis-states his casualties
and emplores more aid from Secretary
Root, a trust lawyer from New York
City, whose equipment as a war secre-
| tary consists of his practice in equity
courts, his membership In u humane
society and his close personal friend
ship with Senator Platt. Secretary
Alger after an interview with Hobart,
a scapegoat for the sins and shortcom-
| ings of others, is restored martyr to
the well beloved people of the Wolver-
inc state and welcomed upon his ar
rival in a speech, which, If set to music,
would be scarcely be called "McKinley's
Triumphal March.
The party in power, without embar-
rassment, claims at one and the same
time, that the nature of our immigrants
should be we'll looked to and that at
Castle Garden only those fit forself-
government shiuld be accepted, while
in the Philippines, unfitness for self
government is assigned as a reason
why the natives should be compelled to
come to us. The party favors Chinese
exclusion at San Francisco and would
compel Chinese inclusion at Manila. 1t
sends a commission to a disarmament
conference at The Hague, and at the
same time, breaking over the nations
practice of more that a century, it
strives to increase and perpetuate a
large standing army in this, our coun-
try. In recognition Of the Monroe doc
trine, 1t intervenes in the arbitration Of
the question of the Venezuela boundary
matter, and at the same time partici-
pates with monarchies in the selection
and crowning of king in Samoa, and
to the partys shame, 1t refuses to rec
ignize the right of the Samoans to de-
termine who the king shall be. 1t
solemnly declares that no nation can
Iprosper when it's expenditures exceed
its revenues, and then proclaims the
return of prosperity with the national
debt, the past year, increasing at the
rate of quarter million day, Sun
days included. 1t is for a tariff to
compel people to do business at home and
insist upon a gold standard to enable
and impel them to do business abroad.
1t is for a tariff, as it says, to protect
labor, and is for a Philippine policy
which will introduce slavery into our
territory, and by it's legislation fosters
and by its inaction aids the formation
trusts which enslaves our own toilers
in the land Of their fathers. 1t de-
clares that commerce follows the flag,
that the possession Of sovereignty is
necessary to promote trade, and boasts
that our commerce has invaded Europe
and our merchants compete success
fully in Germany and England with the
merchants there. 1t assers that Alger
has been a success and thereupon is
asked to dine with Hobart 1t declares
for tariff to prevent the commercial
invasion of this country, and clamors
20, aIo 4 -, H.
attend our merchantmen carrying out
goods on every sea. 1t claims to be an
enemy of the trusts and friend of the
old soldier, and yet in dealing with the
trusts, it spends the money of the peo-
pie with the prodigality of prince and
in paying pensions to the soldiers, 1t
holds the appropriation in it's miserly
clutch and with mer1torious claims
other fund overdrawn, it covers back
into the treasury $1,800,000. of last
years pension appropriation. What
trust will jingle that money in its
pockets before congress meets, we ask
the soldier to investigate.
With all these inconsistencies the
Hanna cohorts go into the campaign
under the leadership of the hero of
Santiago gentleman in whose single
.
and fieet-footed Mercury are so happi-
ly blended and so equally poised, that
in every situation that policy is exhib-
tied which is least appropriate. He
pursues peaceful Republicans at the
will of his chief with bitterness we
deplore and although the colonel OF a
splendid Ohio regiment he establishes
and maintains alibi relations with the
embattled enemies of his country 1t
is indeed not true that our lines this
year are cast in pleasant places.
The Importance of the campaign this
year must not be under-estimated. This
Is the year beginning the triumph of
1900 for Democracy's cause and Demo-
cracy's candidate. The issues are made
up Of the peoples interests and the
present administrations inefficiencies
and blunders The questions involved
are the hope of the people of the future.
the possibility of their prosperity, the
maintenance of their liberties, the ex-
istence of the fundamental principles
Inn Il tOI. n.