The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-11-14
Mr.. Mclean Reviews the ReSdltS of the
Recent Election.
EARNEST WARNING GIVEN TO THE PRESIDENT.
Rebuke From Patriotic People That Should Call Halt In the
Policy of the Administration In the Unhoy War-Demo-
cratic Standard Bearer More Than Grateful For
the Evidence of Popular Confidence.

Cincinnati, Nov. 13.--John r. Mclean
the Democratic candidate for governor,
has given out the following statement:
"Mr. Mclean, have you anything to
say?"
"Yes, have heard from Sandusky,
Henry Brown, Clermont, Highland,
Mercer, Putnam, Defiance, Fairfield and
Others, all showing surprising increase
in the Democratic majority, which cuts
down the Republican plurality.
placing Mr.. Jones's vote at 100000,
this will place Mr.. Nash, the admins
tration candidate (Ir. Hanna's MANI
rs 900 in the minority in the state of
Ohio. We have only to look back four
or five years when the Republicans car
ried Ohio by $4,000, whith 100000 ma
jority over all the other candidates,
and now, with nearly 100000 votes
cast, Nash is chosen governor, but in a
minority of $4,000.
"The result is both astonishing and
gratifying, and shows the attitude Of
the people in the state of Ohio toward
the present administration.
WARNING TO THE ADMINS
TRATION.
| "In this connection l am justified in
making some observations as a citizen
of the state of Ohio. I believe the vote,
if it had resulted in my election, would
have been a word of warning to the ad-
ministration not to go on the lines it
I.
would have emphasized this belief, the
amazing minority in which the admin
istration candidate has been placed by
the result seems to me, speaks in thun-
der tones to the Republican administra-
ton.
There can be no such thing as dema-
gogy after the result is known, and 1
want to say again that tits for the inde-
pendent business man, and for the man
not altogether certain Of his position
in the financial world, and for the poor
man that I am sorry. I thought that
a Democratic victory here would have
been a word Of warning to the admins
tration not to go too fast, to think well
before it acted, and not to assume
powers that did not belong to it, but
everything seems to be lost for the time
being in the whirl Of money making
the pursuit of money. Surely, there is
something beyond that. A man full of
the enthusiasm Of youth, with no re-
sponsibilities, not one depending upon
him, with no one to come after him,
can afford to laugh and play with
government, but there is nothing in the
world that would give me so much hap
piness as to believe that my son was to
have as good a chance in the world as
I have had.
OPPORTUNITIES PASSING AWAY.
"The opportunity for a young fellow
to get along and be independent is fast
passing away. Combinations, centrali-
cations are the thing of the hour.
Everything is menaced by it. The pro-
fessional man, the lawyer, is yet to be
assailed. There is not professional
man in the city but knows that he is
threatened as well as the craftsman or
the small business man. Look at the
great legal firms in New York. can
men of this city all know them) who
now no longer employ men in other
cities when they have cases, but send
their Office lawyer, who goes to the city
where the suit is pending, and where
he consults with the clients and en-
ploys for a very small amount local
attorney and manages the case from
New York. Counseling is done in New
York, the case prepared in New York,
and great fees are paid to New York
1t Is the work of absorption going on.
Men are fast becoming merely a detail
"a part. They are no longer indepen-
dent. The trust absorption of business
means to take away from the profess
sional man, the attorney at law, his
business. Where 10 separate and dis
tinct business houses each had it's own
lawyer, these 10 houses consolidated
employ but one. AS London Is to Eng
land, so is New York fast becoming to
the United States. It is the great wheel
that has created a current that attracts
everything to it.
Rarely an enterprise OF any conse-
quence Is started without the aid of
New York capital. All returns are
made to that great great city. McKin-
ley has followed suit. He, too. has un-
dertaken to absorb the power that we
have always believed belonged to the
legislative part of our government.
Even yet 1t is not too late for the presi-
dent to go slowly, to wait until con-
gress assemblies and then hear from the
people through their representatives.
LET M'KINLEY TAKE HEED.
II was defeated. Therefore what !
say, every right-thinkng man must be-
lief, comes from sense of honest be-
lief hope that Mr.. Mckinley loves his
country enough, is patriotic enough,
not to pursue the lines he has been on
for the past year; to counsel with better