The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-09-20
IS ALL BRYAN'S WAY.
EVIDENCE OF A LANDSLIDE TO
DEMOCRACY'S CANDIDATE.
Even Party Managers Arc Surprised
at the Bryan Enthusiasm Mani.
fested-Smali Percentage of Gain in
Each Precinct will DO the Work.

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| Washington correspondence:
1t is campaign coincidence worthy
of note that on tie day when the Re
publicans inaugurated their campaign
in Indiana. Senator Fairbanks, speak
ing for the administration, devoted
much of his time to the farming ele-
ment of the voters and attempted to
show what great things had been done
for them by the Republican administra-
ton, while Mr.. Bryan, addressing an
agricultural and mining community in
West Virginia, proved conclusively that
the Republican party had done nothing
for the farmers except to foster COM
bines that put up the price of everys
thing the farmer had to buy. Both
these speeches We're printed, side by
side, in the metropolitan press.
| Mr.. Bryan's attention was directed to
the farmer at some length because of
the attempt of New York newspaper
| to make it appear that Mr.. Bryan was
making a large profit out Of the pro-
ceeds of his farm" In showing that
he did not own the large farm alleged
and in celebrating his text by showing
that the farmer was not the beneficiary
of the benefits claimed by the Repub-
licans, Mr.. Bryan innOcently and inad-
vertently replied to the very speech de-
Ivered on the same day in Indiana by
Senator Fairbanks, who made the far
mer his chief auditor and who pledged
the Republican party to curb trusts and
combines and repress everything that
sought to restrain legitimate trade.
The condition of affairs in Indiana
and West Virginia, both Of which
States went for Mckinley four years
ago. have filled the Republican manag-
ers with alarm. The reception that
greeted Bryan In the Hoosier State a
few days ago was revelation even to
the managers, who few days before
the arrival of the distinguished candi-
date were compelled to admit that the
party poll indicated landslide to the
Democratic ticket. The order went out
for the immediate opening up of the
campaign, and indianapolis, where
Bryan spoke, was selected as the place,
and Fairbanks, the Presidents mouth
piece in the Senate, as the spokesman
Of the administration in the State.
Meanwhile Bryan, Fastening across the
Presidents State, hau set Maryland
and West Virginia on fire and started
a wave of enthusiasm that the Repub-
licans have endeavOred in vain to re-
press.
Mr.. Bryan has asked his hearers to
name one thing that has been done by
the Republicans to raise the price Of
farm products. Proving that the Re
publicans have no policy that will raise
the value of the farmers products, Mr..
Bryan has shown elaborately and con-
clusively that it does promote the trusts
and through them raises the price Of
everything controlled by the trust that
the farmer has to buy, from the twine
with which he binds his grain to the
article on his table and the material
used by his good housewife in every
branch of the household economy.
And yet Senator Fairbanks. pushing
the history of his State behind him and
ignoring the record which was an open
book. INDUCED In glittering platitudes
intended to catch the unwary and ap-
peal to Republicans that might he wa
yering in their allegiance TO the party
of trusts and combines. Mr.. Fairbanks
attributes the gain in the value of farm
products and live stock, which he says
have gained in value, not to the law of
supply and demand, which usually con-
troll prices, but-to the Republican ad-
ministratiOn. He declares that the
ranks Of the employed have been in
creased by hundreds of thousands and,
in the shape of an axiom, says: "ThOse
who toll should not be defrauded of the
fruits of their labOrs."
1t is the literal fulfillment of this tru-
ism that the Democratic party de-
mands. Those who toll, in Indiana,
have been defrauded Of the fruits of
their labor. 1t is one of the trust-rid-
den States of the West, and yet no
where are the trusts more loudly in
Weighed against by the Republican poll
ticians than in Indiana. A recent can
vass of the State shows that the glass
trust, the pottery trust. the iron and
steel trust, the wire nail trust and the |
bicycle trust have thrown out of en-
ployment upward of $4,000 men who,
through no fault of their own, have !
been compelled to stop work and suf- |
fer for the absolute necessities of life. |
This stOppage was not due to the con- |
dftion of the market. 1t was in def
ance of the demands for the products |
of the labor of these men. They were |
turned out and the works closed down |
simply because the capitalists behind !
the establishments wanted to lessen !
the output. create an artificial demand |
for the goods and by reason of the
shortage push up the prices. That was
all there was to it, and to accomplish
this condition the Indiana laborer was
required to suffer.
The loss of something like five thous
sand votes in the Republican majority
in Vermont this year was accounted
for by Senator Proctor of that State at
the White House when he said that
the loss was due to the return of the
gold Democrats to their regular party.
Senator Proctor is noted for his blunt
and he doubtless believes
that this is the real cause of the big
loss. His statement has set
politicians to thinking. If
the same change is seen in other States,
where the Mckinley majority four
years ago was small and due entirely
to Democratic disaffectiOn, what may
the result be this year when the party