The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-06-12
hon. c. ". HASKELL
Still For Silver, But Considers
Other National And State
Issues.
(Copyrighted,)


/ have your courteous request for
my views as to the platform, which in
my opinion Should be adopted at our
coming Democratic state convention"
In brief they are:
/. Reaffirm in full and emphati-
cally the Chicago 1896 Democratic ma
tional convention platform! This doc
trine was good then, and 1t is good
today
We know, from hundred years ex-
perience that our country, in its pro-
ductions and business, has its success
slve periods of prosperity and de-
preston, and that the producer re-
quires the averages to insure his un-
interrupted comfort.
The Democratic party has always
contested the Republican laws, which
licensed the manipulators to confis-
cate the producers surplus in times of
bounteous harvest, and leave him to
meet his certain deficiencies in time of
adversely.
1 am opposed to dropping the silver
question. / have been in favor of sill
yer for twenty years and have never
been, and will not now be turned there
from, by our temporary prosperity
prosperity due to natural causes and
the wonderful producing capacity of
our country, in spite of improper laws.
National banks should not be the
sole beneflciaries of a necessarily ex-
panded currency.
But II is also true that there are
new and important questions for the
Democratic grand jury.
The Republican party never existed
four years. and probably never will,
without giving just cause for new
lot Of indictments. but while we have
them on trial for petit larceny, that
indictment should not be nolled simply
| because they have, pending such trial,
| been guilty of highway robbery. Indict
| them farther-condemn trusts and the
Republican protection, and fostering
thereof. They can and should be
| abolished. Any system of laws which
| enables a corporation to pay dividends
| on $40 worth of watered stock, which
| has only 80 cents worth Of actual as
sets, must necessarily be sapping the
| life from the honest producer, as well
as the consumer.
This comparison is not e&travagant;
| the steel industry, the oil industry,
and other leading industries are to-
| day painful examples that testify to
| this fact.
Condemn militarism as being de-
structive to our form Of free govern
ment, and more dangerous to the ruler
than to the ruled. 1t is unworthy of
| free and patriotic people to argue for
| continued control of the Philippine is
lands for their trade and commercial
value. Have we sold our sense of
honor and Justice to man for a COM
mercial advantage? AS we'll might we
have we perpetuated human slavery for
its benefit to the cotton trade.
Glory in the war with Spain and the
spirit that inspired the American SOL
dier to grasp the Spanish oppressor by
the throat and wrest from him his
defenseless victim; but for the love
of heaven and of liberty stop there;
don't search the victim and take from
him any morsel that Spain may have
| overlooked.
| Sympathize with the Beers, whose
struggles for life, liberty and fireside
are as glorious and sacred today as
were those of our own forefathers
against the same British oppression.
And of state issues:
Remember Governor Nash. Deplore
the fact that the great state of Ohio
is 100 years old, and can't celebrate
the event, because the Ohio Legislature
had sufficient manhood in it to refuse
to allow Hanna to make a great politi-
cal machine out of the Toledo centen-
nial and therefore our governor won't
play in Toledos yard, nor slide down
her cellar door.
There may be other things, but the
above are some of them. If there are
more, put them in. Don't be afraid
of being called a Calamity howler."
If the Republican party had existed
in the days of that good, old pioneer
Methodist preacher, Peter Cartwright
they would have called him "calam-
ity howler," for warning them that
their course would lead them to eter-
nal damnation. Sincerely.
C. w. HASKELL.