Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-08
130 South Main st.

stock of mouldy and veteran jokes
which would not pass muster in n
country shoe shop, and at which all
'loyal Republicans" are expected to
properly laugh. The Vandcrbilts pay
this man fifty thousand dollars a year
for attending to their business, and
the people pay him eight thousand
more for supposedly attending to
theirs; but in any case in which the
interests of the people come In collis'
ion with those Of the Vanderbilts, as
it often must, and Mr.. Depew's vote
in the Senate is to help decide the
matters. is there n doubt about for
which interest it will be cast! VI
course HE is prosperous, and who can
blame him for shouting prosperity
He is prosperous, to be sure! lie mas
lust returned from one Of his frequent
visits TO England, whittier he went
TO reiuvenate his shop-worn jokes ana
to hob.nob with the "pig'stlckers
who have got home from their favorite
amusement Of burning the Boer
farm houses and subverting two Repuo
lican governments, and thus he Is OF
course well qualified to know the needs
OF American agriculturists and work
ingmen. Indeed, In an interview had
with him as he came down the gang
plank of his ship, on his return TO
New York the other day, he assured
the scribe that Bryan is losing his
grip" a fact which he got from the
"Henglish, you know" Perhaps the
voters Of Ohio will take their political
opinIons aud cast their votes upon the
say-so of this prosperity tonter'--
this sleek, well fed, well-kept 5S thous'
and. .dollnr>a, year man, who goes to thf
other side for his knowledge of theil
interests and knows as little Of the
inspiration arising from the prarief
West and the bone and sinew OF tht
country as Tobe Jackson does about
the transit of Venus.
The other keynote starter Is MI
Foraker. He too. is a Senator, draw
ing like salary from the people fol
his supposed services in their behalf
He appeared before the Supreme Cour
Of Ohio last spring as the paid attor
ney of one Of the largest trusts in thu
country, and argued long and lout
as to the "bencvolent' character o
trusts In general, and wound up b.
saying that, In any event. the com
bines were here, that they We're in thu
saddle, aud that they had come t,
stay. This was but another way q
saying: What are you going to d,
about It, anyhow" Being therefore {
Senator, and being trust attorne,
too he also is prosperous" and shouts
prosperity" We may be sure h,
would not be on tho stump for McKiu
ley and the Republican party il tn,
Republican party and Mckinley wer,
not ON friendly terms with his clients
OF course toJ, he will tell what 1
sanity man Mr. Mckinley is, ant
what n great man he is, and how mucl
he loves him, just as he slobberet
him all over In putting him IN nomlna
tion at Philadelphia In terms so ful
some as TO be offensive 10 modest
merit. Equally of course he vii
omit TO tell his hearers that the sub
iect Of his seryilc flattery is the sam,
Mckinley whom, few years ago, b,
tried TO drag down into the persona
smirch and tilth of his patent ballot
box scandal, after the fakishness o
the whole plot had become patent L
all discerning men, and for which per
Torrance the people of Ohio relegateC
this starter into the obscurlty out o
which the trnsts pulled him and mad
him the beneficiary and the disciple o
prosperity" For all which the goo,
Lord ought to make us duly and dc
youuy thankful.
These are the men sent into the wes
tern Reserve Of Ohio to Instruct II
citizens as TO their political duties an,
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