The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-01

date owes 1t to his party to help himself
so far as possible. The great difficulty
with most campaign speeches, though.
is that they are made up Of catch
phrases to lead the public mind from
the real issues. Mr.. Mckinley is a mas
ter at this and II is not to be presumed
for a moment that he will be permitted
to keep quiet during the campaign. Be-
sides, il he talks some, lot Of fellows
like Grosvenor and Jimmie Hoyt, and
the "murmurous river of breath" from
Michigan, Burrows, may keep quiet.
So Mr.. Mckinley, after all, will be doing
something in the interest of humanity,
thing that he has not done very sue
cessfully since his incumbency at
Washington.
Mr.. Wellman and other pleasant
Washington gentlemen probably imag-
inc that they are assisting to fool the
people by giving out that there are to be
no speeches and no delegations. Then
when the delegations come, these gem
tlemen will be able to assert that the
president just couldn't keep the people
away from him. A repetition OF the
campaign of 1896 will necessarily look
studied and designing, but this is call
culated to give 1t a degree of spon-
taneity which 1t sorely lacks at first
blush. But there is no need to throw
out that notion to people of intelligence.
Mr.. Mckinley will come to his own
home because Of the improperly OF
making campaign for his own benefit
from home furnished him by all the
people of all political parties. There
will be nothing amiss for the president
to make some speeches in Canton.
Why shouldn't he? He would be rum
ming off to some other resort IL he didn't
come here. He has right to run for a
second term If he wants it. 1t is a
laudable aspiration. We don't think he
ought to get there, and we are going TO
assist in seeing that he doesn't, but as
a Cantonian he must keep up the rep
utation of his town and hustle. II 1t
takes a few delegations to work the
thing off properly, let's have them. If
Mr.. Mckinley doesn't want 10 talk to
them, turn them loose. We can use
them in our business. No use to shy
off and be modest about this thing.
And it won't count to have lot Of fell
lows write out from Washington to
their country friends that there are to
be no delegations, only for the purpose
Of working the spontaneous racket.
There isn't going to be anything spon-
taneous about 1t and nobody that has a
mind worth encasing in Uranium i'm
agines there is. 1t will simply be the
plan that will be adopted by one Of the
great parties to get its contentious be-
fore the people. The Democratic party
and Mr.. Bryan will adopt another plan
and whatever it is it will be adopted
with a view of getting there. We're
not going to be modest about it. We
want the presidency and we want con-
gress, because we believe the people Of
this country will not fare well till the
Democratic party, the hope OF the peo-
pie, gets back into power And we don't
care who knows it. We are not going
to work off any moss covered sponta-
neity gags and we give notice now that
they can't work off anything of that
sort on us. The other fellows want to
win and so do we, and that's all there
is to it. During the heat of the cam
paign both parties will doubtless do
some things and say some things that
would better be relegated to the Bow
cry, but let's start out honest, anyhow