The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-03-06

C1pal ADDRESS. In TeSDOuSe u luS
subject assigned him, What Mckinley
ism Stands For" General Sherwood
said:
For the first time in our history we
celebrate the birthday of George Wash
ington, trembling for the present, and
doubtful of the future.
For the first time the teachings of
George Washington and MS great civic
compatriot, Thomas Jefferson, are re-
pudiated by party, whose birth was
heralded forty-four years ago with the
reincarnation of the vital esseuce of the
Declaration of Independence. For the
first time in the life of this republic
those great intercontinental ideas, pro-
claimed by President Monroe, in 1923,
historically known as the Monroe
doctrine, which up to President Nc
Kinley have had universal approval by
all parties in this country are ruthless
ly cast aside and repudiated. For the
first time since Washington men of
keen intelligence and patriotic alertness
are gravely discussing, in anxious
groups, the mementous question
whether the republic "of the people, by
the people, and for the people," so
vividly depicted by Abraham Lincoln on
the battlefield Of Gettysburg, is not
already perishing from the earth.
1 speak just as history will record
when 1 say that the two years and
eleven months of McKinley's admins
tration have been the most eXtrava-
giant, the most venal the most threaten
ing to free institutions in the entire
history of the republic. In his war of
conquest for the control of ten millions
of alien races in the Orient. in his alb
ject and complete surrender to the
spoilsmen, in violation of the national
Republican platform pledging purer
civil service; in the secret alliance with
Great Britain, in the interest of mill
tarism and conquest; in the humiliat-
ing and disgraceful surrender of our
natural rights in the proposed Mica
ragua canal treaty; in his refusal to
enforce or even attempt to enforce, the
national antitrust law: in the viola
ton and repudiation of the pledges
made in the last national platform for
bimetallism; in the abject surrender of
the right to coin money, to the private
corporations of the money trust; in his
open and audacious espousal of i'm
perialsm and militarism; in his sympa-
thy, everywhere apparent, to aid the
empire of Great Britain to crush out
the struggling republic Of the stalwart
Beers, the only republic in the Orient;
in everything sacred and vital to Demo-
cracy in it's best and broadest sense,
McKinleyism stands opposed But he
holds fidelity to one yellow idol only
the almighty dollar. In all his twenty
years of public life, Mckinley has never
wavered in his devotion to the man of
the high dollar We all know in Ohio
that Mckinley is politically a dollar
made man: and while he has been on
both sides Of every vital public question
he has never wavered in his fidelity and
devotion to his maker-the almighty
dollar. He has done this devotion with
more grace, with more success and more
pious cant, than all the Schuyler Col
fax, and Pecksniffs and Tallyrands
that ever afflicted a republic or an en-
pire.
The most dispicable and damnable
palaver that has been heard in this
generation is the oratorical palace car
palaver of President Mckinley, about
duty and destiny, and benevolent as
similiation, and upholding the honor of
the flag. over subject races. The diff
ference between the breech-clout Of the
average Filipino and the studded and
starchd shirt front Of the average Nc
Kinley boodler is a mere matter of
climate and personal opinion. For
aught we know God and decency may
be on the side of the breech-clout.
Never until Mckinley has there been
a war anywhere around the world, for
liberty for self-government, against
the dominion of kings, that our people
and our government have not lent open
sympathy and prayers for it's success.
And for the first time we have a man
sitting in the White House in open
sympathy with a greedy monarchy
crushing out the life of an infant re
public. We have a president now in
secret league and alliance with Great
Britain, in violation of the constitu-
tion of his country, to crush the patrio-
tic Beers who are fighting in the same
sacred cause, against the same domin-
ating power that George Washington
and the Continental army fought one
hundred years ago.
It is this war of England against the
brave, honest and God-fearing Beers,
an unprovoked mercenary war for plum
der and pelf only, that our own MCHin-
ley is using his most adroit diplomacy
to aid, in defiance of the open sympathy
of every liberty-loving and Justice
loving American citizen fit to stand un-
der the Stars and Stripes.
According to the Hon. Chas. e. Ma
crum, ex-consul to Pretoria, the capital
of the republic of the Beers, the McKin-
ley administration in it's foreign policy,
is a complete abandonment of the recog-
nized policy and traditions Of the Tinted
States for over a century. The recent
letter of Charles E. Macrum also reveals
the lurid fact, humiliating to all true
Americans, that the Mckinley admins
tration has not only fiagrantly violated
all the traditions of the country, in it's
secret alliance with Great Britain, but
has violated the constitution of the
United States and at the same time both
officially and semi officially lied about
1t.
Let us remember that ex-Consul Ma
crum was not only the chosen repre-
sentative of this republic to the re-