The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03
Gen. Sherwood Expect
ed Democratic Defeat.
CAUSE WAS CRIPPLED
BY Exclusion Of Silver Plank
From the State Plat
form, Says the
General.
From a STAFF Correspondent.

From stan Correspondent. HI
Columbus, Nov. 29.-"I didn't come
to Columbus to talk politics." said
General /. r. Sherwood, formerly edl-
tor of the Canton News-Democrat,
when your correspondent met him on
the street. II came down simply on
business for. my Cleveland publica
ton. | am making good many bust
ness trips these days. OF course a
man can't avoid talking politics ct
some time. / have had very little 20
say about the result of the late cleo
tion. l was not at all surprised at the
result and do not think any thinking
Democrat in the state could have ina.
gined 1t to come out differently than
1t did. The manner in which the state
convention treated silver was enough
to ALLEVIATE a great body of Democrats
for the time being. l feared that
would be the result. 1t was just like
turning thousands away to please
hundreds. Take the vote in Lucas
county, as an instance. We were short
1000 votes up there. In return for the
seven thousand We got only a few of
the men who were not with us in 1896
and 1900. The thing did not work
right. 1t was not planned right. There
would have been no harm in endorsing
the Kansas City platform, which was
an endorsement of the Chicago plat
form of 1896, though declaring imper
ialism the paramount issue. The
Kansas City platform ought to have
been adopted IL only for the govern
ment by injunction clause IL contain
ed. We have had some government by
Injunction recently. l wonder how
the laboring people who have been en-
ployed in the steel mills like it? They
ought to have their fill of it by this
time.
AN IMPORTANT CLAUSE.
"The Kansas City platform, that was
turned down at the Ohio state con-
vention this year, declared against
government by injunction in no uncer-
tain terms. 1t ought to have been
adopted into the Ohio platform this
year. l am not prepared to say Just
how many votes would have been
gained, but as a matter Of principle.it
ought to have been part of the plat
form. Principles do not change
though men do. We cannot, there
fore, surrender a principle without
seeming so inconsistent as to deserve
defeat. Then the Kansas City plat
form contained an income tax clause.
Surely that is a good thing. Every
nation Of Europe that has any financial
standing has an income tax. We have
exploited ourselves as a great world
power and are anxious to get out and
away from home among the other ma
tions of the earth, but at the outset we
repudiate something that has aided 20
make them grow great. The theory
of taxing wealth is right and Is Just
as correct whether a state platform re
pudiates 1t or not The principle re-
mains the same.
Il noticed with some regret the in
creased Republican majority in Stark
county. They played the game pretty
well up there, and suppose the way
in which they insisted on the Republi.
can vote as an endorsement of the
dead president had much to do with
the increase in the Republican major,
ity Stark county, in my Judgment
will not be Democratic again for some
little time-not until the people see tn,
evil of the great business combinations
That will be In about two or thres
years. do not look for them to allow
the country to be prosperous mucs
longer than that"
BER e. WILLIAMSON.