Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-23

Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 22-The poll
tical sensation cf the week was the
announcement yesterday that what
was intended to be made the par
amount issue" of the campaign so far
as the Democrats are concerned, had
been entirely abandoned as an issue at
all in the state of New York under cr
ders from Richard Croker, the corrupt
political boss. The question of lmper-
ialism is to have nc place in the dis
cussions of the Der ocratic campaign
orators in that state, bu. lie trust
question is to be put to the front, and
worked for all it is worth in an ap-
peal to the passions and prejudices of
men, who earn their bread by the
o. sweat of their brow in the shcp. fac
tory and store. But the fact that the
corporations called trusts give employ
ment to so many thousands of men in
New York and the other states who are
now working over time at fair wages,
is likely to make it unpopular as an
issue, when present conditions are con-
trasted with those which prevailed
four years ago,
State Chairman Dick gave out an in
terview some time ago in which he
made the prediction that the cry of
imperialism would be abandoned as an
issue by the Democrats before thecam
paign was half over, and theannounce-
ment made in a New York dispatch to
the Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday
that this had been done by the Demo
Gratis of that state, adds to General
Dicks reputation as a political pro-
phet. The Democrats Of the country
are practically without an issue. Col
onel William Jennings Bryan brilliant
orator that he is. has declined to meet
Senator Hanna in joint debate, and
discuss the commercial advantages to
the country in consequence of our pos
session Of the Philippines. Senator
Hanna in a speech at Chicago few
days arc offered to meet the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate anywhere
at any time and discuss the Philippine
question but the Nebraskan did not
care to face the plain spoken, junior
Senator in joint debate, and declined
the invitation.
Congressman John j. Lentz's invi-
taticn to General Dick to joint dis
cussion of the Couer D'Alene labor
troubles, has been declined by General
Dick, who proposes to give his entire
time and attention to the management
of the Ohio Republican campaign.
Mr., Lentz has only one congressional
district to look after While General
Dick in a sense is looking after the
twenty-one districts of the state and
neglectng his own if any are being
neglected In his answer to Mr..
LentZs challenge, however, General
Dick, who was member of the com
mittee Of congress which investigated
the Idaho labor troubles, enters into a
full and complete discussion of the
testimony produced before the commit
tee, quoting copiously from that of the
Democratic governor of the state, in
which he assumed the full responsible
ity for the lives lost and Imprisonment
of miners. In calling upon President
Mckinley for federal troops, the COVER
nor stated that the militia was unable
to cope with the disturbers of the
peace, and that a state Of anarchy ex-
listed, which the state authorities were
unable to suppress. General Dicks
letter to Congressman Lentz is a com
plete answer to Mr.. Lentz's harangue
and misrepresentation of the facts in
the case, as any one and every one who
followed the testimony will readily re-
call. General Dicks should be used as
campaign document.
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State Senator George S. Long, who
was absent in Europe when he was Sc
lected as chairman of the Democratic
state committee, has retured from for
eign monarchies to fight Imperialism
at home. Mr.. Long did not exactly
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