Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-11-08

power and prestige Of great and COM
pact fiscal organization, and few of
us realize how powerful such an organ.
ization is.
And the other banks have followed
in the wake Of these, Imagining that a
prosperous financial policy lies in
servile dependence upon the fiscal in
stitutions of the great money centers
of the country. and ignoring the ad-
vantages which would accrue to a cour
ageous and independent policy in the
interests of their patrons and the peo-
pie.
Scarcely less powerful than the Of
fice-holders In prosecuting the late cam
paign, has been the infinitely larger
contingent of office-seekers and office
hopers. Bats as varied as Mr.. McKin-
ley's ideas Of plain duty and as
many-sided as his views upon the mon.
ey question, have been thrown out
with skill that would make Izaak
Walton turn green with envy, land many
have been the gudgeons who have Bit
ten thereat. They all have been ''im-
pounded" into a common net,-that OF
furthering the political prospects Of the
Administration and soon they will be
clamoring for their reward, and many
will be the carpet-bagging places Great
ed for them, both at home and among
our islander subjects,-the people, as
ever, footing the bills.
The dinner-pail argument, likewise,
Notwithstanding its low level and
grovelling tendencies, has proved
potent weapon against us in our late
contest. Many man to whom an ap-
peal addressed to his reason or his con-
science would have been wholly inert,
has been moved by this idea that in
some occult way, Doctor Hanna has
filed his pail for him. and is going to
continue filing it, and that to be sure
of hanging Oh to his job he must vote
the Republican ticket, although he
knows full well that he has filed the
pail through his own exertions, and
that Hanna and those for whom he
stands, will take away his job from
him the moment they can find man
who will do it for less money. The
very grotesqueness OF this par
ticular claim Of title to his vote, and its
utter want Of sequacity, seems not to
have occurred to him.
The natural conservativeness of null
titudes Of voters also, has kept them in
line for the Republican ticket. A dis
like of change, n being satisfied with
what is, an undue reverence for the
ant of abuses to degree that cannot
be at all measured by quickened and
responsive political conscience. To this
class the many dishonest predictions Of
industrial disaster as sure to follow
upon Mr.. Bryans election have come
as the determining circumstance of
their vote. To many, no doubt, the
prophecied danger has seemed very
real, and to many, equally without
| uoupt, ~ huS pVSu thV oSNuSioh i"'hSi
than the reason of their support OF
Mr.. Mckinley; wanting an excuse in
stead of reason for their predeter
mined political conduct, they have
seized upon one which for pure scoun-
drellsm In purpose and for clumsiness
of manufacture has not been matched
in any of the campaign gold bricks of
all our political history.
After all Is said, one can account for
by far the largest eIement numerl-
cally of those who voted for Mr., Nc
Kmley only upon the hypothesis that
Banum was absolutely right when he
said that the people like to be hum
bugged. Manifestly they do like it.
And In the contest just ended, they
have been treated to their liking with
out limit. The whole campaign, ON the
part of the prevailing party, has been
but long and shifting panorama of