The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-09
THE ISSUES WERE DEFINED.
The Most Versatile Orator in Ohio
Creates Great Enthusiasm.
HE PUNCTURED MILITARIsM
And Gave Facts and Figures From Onicia
Sources That Backed Up What
He Declared The Phil
ippine War and
Trusts.

Trusts.
The announcement that General Isaa
r. Sherwood, of Toledo, was to addres
the Bryan and Stevenson club, was suf
ficent to attract large audience for thi
brilliant orator.
At an early hour the assembly hall wa
filled to its full capacity, many ladie
being present. Quite a number of Re
publicans were present who seemed t
enjoy the speech.
TAMMANY GLEE CLUB.
The Tammany Hall Glee club, com
posed of nine young men, sang two Sc
lections, the second one in response t
applause that would take no denial
The first was Goodbye, Mckinley
goodbye" and the second 1T love no.
body but you" The parts were vel
sustained and the singing excellent.
Chairman Sterling introduced General
Sherwood, who spoke in part as fol-
lows:
GEN. SHERwOOD'S SPEECH.
''It gives me great deal Of pleasure
to talk to an audience in Canton.
II have been wondering for the past
thirty days why there is so little excite
ment in the campaign. AS I came into
the city I noticed that there were no
street corner orators, as there were four
years ago. The Republicans tell us
that men are too busy to talk politics,
but the Democrats say that so
large number Of the thinking Republi-
cans are dissatisfied with the policy of
the administration, and it Is impossible
to get them to enthuse. Recently saw
letter from one Republican to another,
the writer being an Office holder under
Mckinley, in which the author said:
The Republicans have nominated a
man who is either
MAN OF PUTTY
or a scoundrel, for president, and an
aristocrat for vice president, who goes
around with a chip on his shoulder
4 propose to vite for Bryan
The writer was Hon. Charles Kellogg,
Republican district attorney, of Wayne
county.
IT was at Indianapolis at the anti
imperialistic league meeting when Geo.
s. Boutwell,, of Maine, said of Mckinley
that he was a worse enemy Of his
country than jeff Davis, for while JEFF
tried to divide the nation, Mckinley
tried to destroy it.
- THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
"Tonight shall discuss the paramount
issue-imperialism. 1t might be said
that imperialism and militarism are
twin devils, like the Siamese twins.
They were united by an umbilical chord
and the same blood flowed through the
veins of each. One could not be destroy
ed without causing the death Of the
other.
Roosevelt has been saying that JEFF
ferson was the same kind of an expan-
sionist as Mckinley, but I can make IT
clear to every Republican that there
Is a difference between the expansion
policy of Jefferson and that Of McKin-
ley.
Jefferson was an expansionist when
he bought Louisiana in 1903, but that
was before the day of railroads and he
saw the value of the Mississippi river
as an avenue of trade. We paid only
fifteen million dollars, and the treaty
provided that all should have the full
enjoyment of the rights of citizens un-
der the constitution.
"The same treaty rights were accord
ed the inhabitants of florida when we
made that purchase of Spain, and got
control of the gulf coast, and the in
habitants were willing to come into the
union. We paid s15.O0O,OOO for Arizona,
New Mexico and California and extend
at that time occupied the country of the
Montezumas, yet he did not claim that
we had won that country by conquest.
"As to the civil rights Of the Filipinos,
the Paris treaty says that the civil
rights of the native inhabitants shall
be determined by congress, and McKin-
ley said he would submit the whole
question to congress. But what did he
do? He hustled congress out Of WASH
ington and never submitted the question
to that body.
Mckinley says there Is no imperial
ism. do not know whether Mckinley
knows what Imperialism is or not.
Gaughter). We know that we have a
government of force in Porto Rico. The
inhabitants of that country met Gen.
Miles and welcomed him.
FLOWERS WERE sTREWN
in the paths of our soldiers. Such has
been our policy toword these people,
however. that now they are more bitter
toward us than they were towards the
spaniards. Spain allowed them three
representatives In the law making
body. we allow them none.
Militarism IL shown In the increage of
the army In time of peace from 25.O00
to 260,OO0 men, the increase being kept
up after Spain had surrendered and the
peace treaty had been signed. NJ
"Let me call attention TO another
fact. When war was declared In 1Sss.
why did Mckinley call out A. army Of
11O.o0o men whsn Fits Hugh I'ee aatd
tnat ocain had only 13,Qot eGeot1vo'