The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-11
CANTON STRICKEN
FROM The LIST.
Travelling Men Will Hardly
Come in a Body this Year.
BRYAN SPEAKS AT WHEELING
He Mentions Some Changed Conditions
and Refers to q Delegation
That visited Canton
in 1890.

In 1896.
One Of the cleverest impromptu ad-
dresses which william J. Bryan made
on his present trip, was made at Wheel
ing, West Va. In that address he said:
'Tt amazes me that men can be so
blind and shortsighted as to favor poll
cies that simply bring benefit to a few.
I charge that the republican party of
today is the party of the few and that
| its legislation gives benefit to the COM
paratively few at the expense Of many.
I believe that through the republican
policies there lies one vicious principle,
namely that the dollar is worth more
than the man. The proper relation be-
tween man and money IA that man 10
| the master and money the servant. The
republican party has reversed 1t and Is
making money the master and man the
hservant. Take the vicious acts Of legis-
lation that the republican party has
been guilty of. Do the masses of peo-
pie petition for such legislation? Not
at all. The republican party does not
ask the great majority Of people any
thing about legislation. 1t simply seeks
| the opinions of those who are conspicu-
GUS in business and in finance. 1t does
not fight open battles. 1t seeks secret
| advantages.
To-day the republican party has not
policy on any question that 1t dares OUT
| line before the people. They say want
| to talk about the money. In 1896 they
won a victory behind mask of inter-
national bimetallism. They did not ad-
yocate the gold standard in 1896. They
advocated international bimetalism,
and when the election was over the
/ president sent commission OF three
DISTINGUISHED men to ask the European
nations to help us let go of the gold
standard. and the republican congress
appropriated $780, to pay the ex-
penses of the commission. Now, IL the
gold standard was good, why did the
republican party appropriate money to
get rid of a good thing? I know how
careful republicans are Of public money,
0aughter), and I cannot imagine that
a republican congress would be willing
to sauander 100000 to rid this country
of a blessing.
PRETENsE IS DROPPED.
but when the commission returned
empty-handed, then the republicans
dropped the pretense of international
bimetallism. When England spanked
our commission and sent 1t home, then
the republicans turned over on the sub
lest. Now they are very anxious Tor
the gold standard. Why, 1t Is less than
year since they passed bill through the
house and the senate and the Dill re-
ceived the signature Of the president.
The fourteenth section Of that bill pro-
yided that the bill was not intended To
! lay an obstacle in the way of restoration
of bimetallsm when the other nations
would help us to do 1t; and yet today
the republican party seems very anx-
ious to discuss the money question.
[ The reason why the republicans are
so anxious to discuss the money ques'
tion is that the republican leaders are
i familiar with the arguments that they
= used in 1896, and they cannot think Of
, any argument to use in defense or tht
!, trust, the large standing army and the
imperial policy. Already the republi
I can party has advocated the retirement
0 of, the greenback. Did any republican
: in this audience eNC petition congress
to retire the greenoaeks? And yet thu
. republican party Is responsible for s
:. financial bill which provides for th'
4 retirement of the greenbacks, which d'
not draw interest, and the substltion o
bank notes issued by banks, based OF
bonds, which do draw interest.
s THE PARTY AND WEALTH.
n "The democratic party makes no wa
n on the honest accumulation of wealth
The Democratic party Is no menace Il
n the man who wants to eat thebread tina
II he earns. It's only menace Is to tn
q man who wants to eat the bread som
i one else earns without paying for tn
" bread. Since 1896 all the evil tendencie
! then noted in the republican party hav
I, increased and today people see what
,. going on who did not realize 1t in 1885,
E, Many who did not understand tn
money trust are able to understand tn
v Industrial trust. Many who do not rea
a lize what 1t meant to have monopl
q given to one kind Of money, now fin
J. out what a Standard Oil monopoly, o
IT a barbed wire monopoly, or sugar trus
J. monopoly means. Men who did not Sc
J. that they would soon be the victims
this concentrating spirit, II continued
y have since become the victims of it."
,e In this connection, Mr.. Bryan mad
Y. the following reference to the travelin
ID men and the effect of trusts upon them
l. "why, in 1896, there were great man
IN travelling men VINO were ueiuueu an
1t led to believe that all we needed was
,t republican administration, and the
went up and down the land and preach
ed for the republican party.
"But since the election no class ha
suffered more than the travelling mel
Why, ! remember reading duFng tn
campaign how the travelling men wer
10 down to Canton and they took bant
and they marched in procession to tn
house of the presidential candidate an
he received them and told them how I'm
portant the travelling men were; tol
,s them that you could not tell the sent
), ment of the people better than to In
~ uuire of the travelling men.
IT wonder II 1t would not beproper fo
" the travelling men who have lost the
v places since the last election becaus
of the trusts to organize an excuriso
20 o.n dnur IN the preRidpntS hon