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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
WILL BEAR WATCHING.

The great coal strike is practically
10000 miners in the anthracite region
of Pennsylvania. This is, according to
statements of the Miners association,
about 100000 in the treasury. That Is
four dollars for every man affected,
and most of them have families. 1t is
true that some will not require immed-
late aid from the association, but at an
average wage of s1.35 per day 1t is
hardly likely that there are many
"bloated bond holders" in the lot. Es-
pecially is that true Of the fellows who
were getting only 80 cents per day for
years. They will be found with little or
nothing that has been required to
keep full their dinner pals. 1t Is fair
to assume that of the 100000 at least
100, 900 have no means but their immed-
The treasury of the organization can
allow them Sc for absolute necessities,
and in pinch they can get along some
little time on that. Credit Is impossi-
BILE, for the companies for which they
worked, own the stores and they will
probably not aid the strikers with meat
and bread, when starvation is the
weapon they are employing against
them, having refused arbitration of diff
fcrences. 1t will, therefore, be plain
sailing for little time. And then
what? When hunger begins to gnaw at
the vitals of the miner will he succumb?
Will the country at large give aid and
sustenance to these men who are strug-
Cling for an honest recompense for an
honest days toll? VIII settlement be
forced by a sympathetic strike in other
lines? There are immense possibilities
in the situation in the anthracite coal
regions. The men have been nursing
their wrongs for years. Their conten-
ton has become almost religion to
them. VIII riot and bloodshed be one
OF the products of the struggle? If
sympathetic strikes come out of the
difficulty every community may be at
fected. 1t is situation in which every
man Is interested. The fact that the
men asked for a board Of arbitration
and the operators refused 1t gives them
the best Of the argument before the
people, at the outset.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
THE CAMPAIGN OPENING.

The attendance at tbs park where
William Jennings Bryan spoke Friday,
at Columbus, is stated by reliable au-
thority to have been forty thousand.
So whether the railroads We're greedy
or discriminating or whether the COM
mittee blundered in not making ar
rangements in time, the success of the
Democratic opening was not interfered
with to any material extent. The fact
is that all of the people that could pos
sibly have gotten within range OF
the Democratic leaders voice were
there and the great orator swayed them
as the wind sways the mighty oak.
The puny attempt of railroads to inter-
fere with the attendance did not keep
the crowd from hearing the orator.
And if Democrats were kept away the
Republicans Of Columbus heard him,
for the crowd must have come from
somewhere. And 1t Is the Republican
that we want to hear this year. If he
gets away from his bigoted idolotry he
may learn something that will aston
ish him. In many instances in the past
the Republican party has been right
and it succeeded because it ought to
have succeeded. Now 1t is wrong. 1t
attacks the very foundation Of the
government that 1t boasts It saved.
There is no middle ground at all this
year. 1t is republic or empire and Re-
rublicans that know their business will
quit following the king can do no
wrong notion and wake up to the per-
lis that beset them as citizens Of this
free country. Bryan talked to a lot OF
Republicans Friday, the story that
the Republican papers tell about the
outside attendance is true. II he did
the Franklin county gain for the DEM
ocrats will be about 100 per cent.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

While President Mckinley is here he
ought to pass out a few jobs. Now,
there Is an island away down In the
yellow China sea that isn't fit for hab-
itation, and this country paid lot of
money to Spain for 1t. The island Is
one of the Philippine Archipelago, but
is not mentioned on the map. There is
no communication with the outside
world and the island produces a fine
collection of persimmons, prickly pears,
wild cucumbers, horse chestnuts,
prunes, angle worms and asafoetida.
The earth is covered with cactus, burrs
and others jaggers and it is so hot the
fellow that lives there can't wear shoes.
Canton has a nice bunch that ought to
go there in a body. If the president
hasn't list of the late census takers
for this town we will see that he gets
one.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.

The Canton News-Democrat MOURN,
fully calls attention to the fact that
there Is not a Democrat in the Stark
county temple Of Justice. This is true,
but the positive assurance that Stark
county funds are all where they ought
to be should go q long way towards
reconciling the public to the circum-
stances.-Massillon Independent.
That positive assurance" is just the
point. How positive is it? How dS we
know they are an there? With every
body of the same complexion in the
court house it isn't likely that amy Of
them would ten all about everything.
The county has doubtNess been fortu-
nate In its last batch of Repeblican
office holders, but there was a time,
and not long since-vhen that was not
fact. 1t Is to avoid against the acci-
dental spillmg Of mucilage' over the
coin In future and It's attendant result
by. contact with the finger that there
should be y few Democratic officials In
the court house. This Is a grand year
to 60 ahout II.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

Now Webster Davis is being called a
traitor because he sympathized with
the Beers in their struggle for liberty
and tried to get ablebodied men to go to
the Transvaal and help the Burghers
lick Lord Roberts. The Republican
press says he is guilty of treason. To
whom? England? Well, what of It?
Do they hang men in America for OBJ
jecting to England throttling a repub.
lie? Is the alliance with Great Britain
not so secret after all? But Davis may
be sure Of one fact and that is that he
has plenty of company. If everybody
who sympathizes with the Beers is a
traitor, patriots are a very small and
unrespectable minority in this country.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
YOUNGs 70 WN AND TaE CENSUS.

BY the census report Youngstown Is
given a population of 44,8S5. as against
30,667 for Canton. Youngstown is, ac-
cording to that showing, 1A.21S ahead Of
this city. That Is. Youngstown Is an
other big city ahead of Canton In point
of population. Massillon and a great
part Of Alliance could be added to Can
ton and yet only the Youngstown figure
would be reached. The Mahoning
county capital-pracucally all there ID
OF Mahoning county--is not satisfied
with its census and believes there are
at least $1,000 people there. But the
showing is great. any way 1t Is looked
at. Now. does anyone imagine that
Youngstown Is as much larger than
Canton as the figures show? 1t may
be a fact that Youngstown is larger
than the census shows and II the emu
meration was taken after the fashion
that prevailed In Canton there is little
doubt that 1t is. but to compare the
cities in school enumeration, In bank
clearances. In vote and In other ways
1t is not discovered to be, at the outside
more than 5000 greater In population
than the capital Of Molly Stark. That
youngstown In given about $1,000, AK
ron 1900 and Canton only 10000 seemi
preposterous on its face. Surely 9
great injustice has been done "a the
business interests OF this city that car
not be too early rectifed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

General McKibbon has solved the
camera fiend problem. A youth with n
kodak was about to photograph the
nude body of woman, lying on the
beach at Galveston, when the soldiers
under McKibbon, ordered him to de-
sist. He persisted and snapped the
awful scene, when the soldiers shot him
dead. Here is valuable suggestion
for front porch consummation. Nc
Ribbon has given Mckinley the enc
how to save the grass, that has again
had respite and is shooting up timidly
from the sod. from being punctured by
the tripod or tramped down by the
kodak man. Besides, the presence of a
few soldiers would not be out of place,
as part Of the campaign.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
RATIO APPLIEo TO CLDsE srArsi

The result of the election in Maine
has set all the politicians agog, espec-
tally in the light of an exact condition
of the sort in Vermont. Naturally DEM
ocrats are more elated than their Re-
publican brethren. The Democratic
press bureau at Chicago has prepared
an estimate Of the gains In Maine as
applied to other states and it is found,
just as was presented by the News
Democrat few days since, that Ohio
Is safe for Bryan by over 100000 plural
ity If the same ratio is kept up. and all
the so-called debatable states will be
won for him on the same hypothesis.
Assuming this ratio of republican loss
and democratic gain to obtain in either
states, the press bureau computes the
following pluralitRs for November,
ba sed on the vote Of 1896:
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

ment--in the hereafter. He intimates
that they will fight the United States
quite a while yet, and insists, most alb
surdly, that il we were to abandon the
islands we would be entering on q ca
reer of militarism. He refers to the
splendid appointments that have been
made for positions in the government
of the islands, but appears to eliminate
any reference to Major Rathbone and
his tool, Nicely. He humorously, in this
connection, says that no appointments
were made for political purposes.
AS a whole the document is weak.
1t is flabby enough to make Democrats
rejoice. 1t is very good photograph
OF the young man who was sent for and
couldn't come,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
SUNDAY ACCEPTANCE.

The Sabbath was further fractured
by letter of acceptance from Theodore
Roosevelt, put on the wires Sunday
night. Mr.. Roosevelt evidently operated
on the theory that his letter needed
some leavening and he chose the Sab
bath day for It's deliverance, that some
suspicion Of moral intent might attach
to 1t. He accepts the nomination. It
was rendered on a week day, but to
show that he is not afraid of even the
Lord Almighty, much less a fleeing
Spaniard. whom he shot in the back, he
accepts it on Sunday. His premise Is
characteristic. Fundamental to his
screed appears the statement that the
success Of the Kansas City platform
would mean unspeakable humiliation
to those who are proud, etc." With this
basis, please do not humillate me by
defeating me-" he launches forth in an
appeal to mems passions rather than
their judgment, and says all good
men" should stand on the same plat
form on which he stands. And to prove
that he is really good he gives his ut
terances on sacred day. The sermon
izer next says that morals are the
paramount issue and that 16 to / is q
terrible nightmare, from which all cit
izens should be early awakened. prob
ably including President Mckinley
who has had over 100000 16 to 1 dol
lars coined during his administration.
AS correction for the trust evil
Mr.. Roosevelt says that much can be
done by taxation-probably war taxa
t!on. Much is being done along that
line-too much, many believe.
The annexation Of certain territory
such as Louisiana, Texas and Califor.
MIA is referred to as precedent for the
killing Of Filipinos for which 80 head
was paid, but It Is not related In tn,
sermon that there was anything done
that was not by the consent Of the gov.
erned. Speaking of the Philippines
Mr.. Roosevelt wanders and offers moth.
Ing that ID at al helpful. He says tn,
Filipinos will fight II we withdraw
but that they will fight themselves ant
not us--all of which, he ought to know
would cheaper the killing process q
far as this country IL concerned. for 1
seems to. be the policy Of the present ad
ministration to kill the Filipinos on
that they may be given stable govern
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

, The New York Journal, referring to
the Galveston tragedy, aptly says:
"The Island Of Galveston, like all the
low-lying coast region of Texas and
Louisiana, exists on sufferance of the
treacherous Gulf 1t is like keeper in
the den of a half-tamed tiger. The
monster may be quiet, submissive.
perhaps purringly playful, but some
day it springs, and then there is a trag-
edy. When 10000 people live on a sand
bar not ten feet above a sea swept by
hurricanes, the materials for a colossal
calamity are ready to hand"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

None Of the foregoing states was
carried by Bryan IN 1896. although he
managed to get one electoral vote In
California and one in Kentucky. OF
tho states enumerated above the Re-
publican pluralities in Maryland. West
Virginia. Indiana, Kentucky, North
Dakota. California and Oregon might
be considered close, but In other states
the Republican pluralities were large.
OF course 1t Is hoped but not entirely
believed at Democratic headquarters
that Colonel Bryan will carry all the
states named in the foregoing table
but the drift Of public opinion as In
dicated by the rockbound states OF
Vermont and Maine is regarded al
significant.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

urday the same item appeared In the
Salem Herald, credited to the Alliance
star The Salem man doubtless de-
sired to give proper credit, but how
did the Star get that story?
The water works department is doing
its best to get spring water for Canton
and has some springs connected, which
is assisting the service, but the wateS
from the northwest wells Is still turned
into the race and mixed with the race
water. So, in the main, the people get
great portion Of surface water yet.
The system is by no means satisfactory
so far az the quality of the water Is
concerned and creek water Is still a
most prolific source Of supply. But, as
stated, the water works board and OFF,
cials are working hard to better the
supply. 1t cannot be accomplished all
at once and It will be some time before
the people are getting the pure water
that is demanded. This Is inserted for
the benefit of those who notice that the
water is not much better than 1t used to
be and who have been laboring under
the impression that the system OF fur
nishing all spring water had already
been inaugurated.
That respected citizen Of Canton and
former president of the city council,
J. H. Dumoulin. has been suspected
somewhat of being q Mckinley adher-
ent during and since 1896, though hav-
ing an enviable record as Democrat
prior to that time. 1t was feared that
Mr.. Dumoulin would continue in this
very grievous mesalliance this year
but Mr. Dumoulin Is sincere citizen
and he would not say anything he did
not mean and when he subscribed his
name in a local Sunday paper to the
statement that competition in any
business means reduced prices but bust-
ness monopoly means higher prices,
it may safely be noted that he has been
reclaimed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

Mr.. Bryan evidently believes that the
American army has lots Of fighting
prowess but he has some doubts about
how long the fellow who is licked stays
on the present trip he said We can
whip the Filipinos, have no doubt
about it. can not tell how long 1t will
take or how much 1t will cost or how
often it will have to be repeated. but
my friends you never can by force make
a people love you. You can with an
army keep a people from making faces
at you while it is daytime, but they will
pray for night that they may make
faces at you in the dark.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

The Republican managers see that
they made great mistake in opening
the campaign at Youngstown They had
no notion that so many conditions that
are untoward were prevalent there and
they have since learned that many of
the Republicans were buttonholed by
residents of the city and the situation
was explained to them. They were
sent home wiser than when they ar
rived, and it was not the wisdom Sc
cured from listening to the campaign
orators. Again. the opening has
brought Youngstown into prominence
everywhere. and while the town bene-
fits from the advertising, 1t cannot be
seen where the Republicans get any
benefit. Everyone who speaks d
Youngstown. speaks Of the great min
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

A Peking special says that the French
and Russian troops are guilty of fright
full atrocities. At Tungchow they as
saulted and slaughtered women and
killed children. General Fukushma,
one Of the japanese commanders. made
personal complaint to the Russian
and French generals, and urged Cen
'eral Chaffee to do likewise. 1t is not
related that any response was made
by General Chaffee. A little matter of
benevolent assimilation" like that
would hardly suggest itself as worthy
.oe American interference.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

AS a campaign issue Mr.. Bryan's
trumped up Imperialism is not -uc-
cess.-Home Organ.
That's probably the reason you are
printing so much double-column black
letter stuff about it, and it's lack Of sue
cess may also account for the excited
condition Of Chairman Hanna as he
rushes up to the Apathy mansion and,
giving the knocker a tremendous
thump cries: Wake up, General!
Wake up!!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

Fresh from the Youngstown meeting,
where he had ridden while the other
fellows walked the five miles of parade.
Mr.. Hanna made speech at Chicago
that indicates he was not quite salts
fled with the reception he got at the
Ohio opening. He said: II have not
restrained the expression that / believe
there are elements Of danger in this
campaign, principal Of which Is over
confidence. say that there is an
apathetic condition. want every man
TO expect to be called upon for his SER
vices In this campaign. to know the
fscts. don't want any sentimental
IDEA that we are all right. anyhow.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

Canton's response to the Galveston
sufferers is both generous and timely.
Mans inhumanity to man" has made
countless millions MOURN" but it is
charitable, at least, to note that half
the world does not know what the other
half is doing" 'One touch of nature
makes the whole world kim" may be
more applicable here, though natures
touch was unduly heavy in this in
stance.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

1t is said at Naples that President
Kruger Is on his way to Europe to en-
deavor to get settlement with Great
Britain. He is wise old man by re-
pute but he has probably made an err
ror in this instance. Great Britain has
already annexed" the domain of Dom
Paul and Is searching for a name for
each Of the various provinces. The
thought of settlement seems never
to have entered the mind Of the Briton
He is after territory, much as is the
United States under the present admin
istration, without caring what the cost
in blood and treasure or how seriously
the code of morals Is fractured.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
RoosEvEL,'s INSULT TO LABOR.

When Governor Roosevelt goes about
fishing for suckers among the laborers
% America they should recall few
things about him. In the first place
they should understand that he has
been continually holding office for years
and that there is no place where there
is record that he has done anything
specially for labor. Again he has shown
his contempt for common people by in
sisting that he and some regulars
could beat all Of the volunteers in the
army. These volunteers, the bulwark
Of the nations fighting strength, left
their business places the factory and
the mercantile counters and went to
war. They did valiant service and no.
body but a Roosevelt, in his strenuous
bigotry, would have thought Of insult
Alene outrages, 1t Is also wise for labor
to investigate the candidates on the
Republican ticket, for 1t was under Re-
publican auspices that the miners in
| that Nevada district were locked up In
| bull pen and left there to starve for
weeks because they desired to change
employers and work for somebody other
than those who were then employing
them. The president appointed q COM
mission to investigate that affair and
| then refused to allow congress to order
the testimony printed so that the pub
| lie might get hold Of it. II there was
| nothing in 1t, why suppress it?
But Roosevelt's record is also as
clear against labor as that Of the per-
patrators Of that terrible occurrence.
In the Review of Reviews, q well known
publication, he wrote an article in 1896
in which he paid his respects to those
| people who do not believe that an in
junction ought to be potent enough
| TO make man work for certain en-
ployer whether he wants to or not. He
did not then think he would be q candi-
date for vice-president but only
thought Of the power of his pull with
New York, where he wanted to be gov
ernor. Here is what he said in the ar
ticle in the Review of Reviews in
September, 1896. on page 295 Of the pub
lcation mentioned:
| "The men who object to what they
style government by Injunction are,
as regards the essential Arinciple of
government, in heartily sympathy
WITH THEIR REMOTE SKIN-CLAD
ANCESTORS WHO LIVED IN
CAVES, FOUGHT ONE ANOTHER
WITH STONE-HEADED AXES, AND
ATE THE MAMMOTH AND,WOOLLY
RHINOCEROS.
"They are interesting as represent
ing geological survival, but they are
dangerous whenever there is the least
chance Of their making the principles
OF this ages-buried past living factors
in our present life.
| "They are not in sympathy with
MEN OF GOOD MINDS AND SOUND
CIVIC MORALITY"
| The Republican cadidate for vice.
president has shown himself there in
his true colors. There Is what he
thinks Of laboring men. There is get
forth, over his own signature, his no
bion about men who are employed and
who, at times, are obliged to differ
with their employers with reference to-
the wage scale. The reference is even
| greater in its concluding paragraph
and is really direct personal affront
to those who tell that they may obtain
for themselves and family the neces-
saries Of life.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
that are closed by the trusts. For once
Hanna blundered.

Mayor Jones, who has just declared
for Bryan, had votes enough in 1899 to
have swung the state to the Democratic
candidate. with many to spare. Aside
from the fifteen per cent gain that is
certain from the eastern forecast, there
is the Jones vote that is bound to cut a
figure. Well may Mr.. Hanna set off dyn-
amite to awaken General Apathy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

There seems to be as much rivalry
among cities over who can give the
most to the Galveston fund as there
was over the census. 1t is a good in
eication that the American heart is in
the right place after all, though 1t has
become somewhat coated by the ten
dency Of the times toward selfishness
and sordid gain.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

Mr.. Hanna is developing into a ter
rible fellow. We are told by the head
line artist of an exchange that, out in
Indiana, he literally tore Bryan to
pieces and was preparing to eat him. 1t
is needless to remark, however, that Mr..
Bryan was not present when this in
teresting process was taking place.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18

The idea of giving the Filipino a sta
BILE government by killing him Off Is
original with the Republican party.
This display of confidence in the AL
mighty to run satisfactory hereafter
probably accounts for the leverage Mr..
Hanna gets on the crops.