The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-02-27
A uNIrEp nrMocRArIo rARrY.

If Mr. Hanna is depending upon a
divided Democratic party to re-elect his
president, he is certainto be disappoin-
ted. The campaign of 1900 will be fought
with a united Democracy. Depend up
on 1t, that whatever opposition there
may be now, to William ]. Bryan as the
standard bearer by the time when the
Democrats shall meet in national con-
vention-July 4-there will be none.
Each day brings new evidence Of this.
AS an indication of what the Demo-
cratic opponents of Bryan in 1896 will do
in 1900, we give herewith an editorial
from the Chicago Chronicle" one of
the most ably edited Democratic daiies
of the west. The Chronicle" suppor-
ted MIR. Mckinley in 1896, but it will not
do so in 1900. In giving its reasons whv
Democrats should not give laid and
countenance" to Mr.. Mckinley it says:
Mark Hanna has parted from his bo-
gy. He has killed the goose that laid
the golden egg. His great campaign
he may now "caper nimbly in a lady's
chamber, to the lascivious blessings of
a Lutte" When he presents himself this
year, endeavoring to frighten Demo-
Gratis into support of Mckinley, he will
be laughed at. For he will not be able
to rally Democrats to the defender of
the trusts and the subverter of the fun
damental ideas of the republic.
There can be no excuse for Democrats
giving aid or countenance to this man
Mckinley. When he presents himself
demanding the sinews of war to bolster
up a candidate who has nothing to rec
ommend him he will be laughed at.
1t is now the boast of a Republican
correspondent that, the senate having
passed the currency bill by an over
whelming majority, the financial ques-
ton is removed indefinitely from the po-
litical campaign, because even If the
proponents of free coinage were to en-
deavor to undo the work of this bill they
would enter upon stern chase which
obviously is a long one. They would not
be able even with a silver majority in
the house of representatives., to repeal
this law for at least six years. 1t will
be idle, therefore, on the part of Mark
Hanna to raise the cry wolf! Wolff"
Nobody will heed it, and time will be
afforded the immense number of social
ed gold Democrats, who really elected
Mckinley in 1896, to give their undivided
attention to chastising that gentleman
for his manifold sins. In effect, Mark
Hanna serves notice on the country that
an ally is not needed, that nothing is to
be feared by those who are timorous of
the enactment of free silver legislation,
and, therefore, no one feeling strongly
about the matter need give himself fur
ther concern. He has succeeded in es-
tablishing the gold standard for at least
six years. Any assaults upon it in the
mean time will be mere waste of effort
The Democrats who in 1896 made Nc
Kinleys election possible are now thor
oughly ashamed of the part they had in
elevating to the chief magistracy man
with whose general political sentiments
they had so little in common and are
likely very gladly to accept the hint of
Hanna that he has no further use for
them.
The currency matter is settled for six
years at least. 1t is no longer an Issue.
Mr.. Mckinley cannot be posed by Han
la DIS the savior Oh the currency, as the
champion of stability and the single
standard.
He will come before the country seek
ing the presidency not on any question
of free silver, but as the wabbly cham
pion of protection, so-called; as the par
ticular friend of British aggression
against republics of Dutch origin, as the
friend and defender of trusts and as
the originator of an imperialistic policy
which condemns the declaration of in
dependence and seeks to give a new
character to the Republic of North
America.
AS such, Democrats cannot but con-
denim him. He will appeal to them in
vain. He had assistance from them in
96; he can no longer claim it. If he does
claim it, if he does send his corrupt and
managers seeking to fright
EN- Democrats into support of his can
didacy, he will not get it.
Three years of Mckinley have DEM
onstrated to the peopleof the republic
that to prolong his term would be unde-
sirable, perhaps fatal.