Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-08-28

Ex-senator Chambers article In the
Independent of August Is, on New
work for the Republican party" takes
the ground that such enormous COM
binations of capital AS are witnessed
in the organization of the steel trust
lead to evils which threaten the very
existence Of the republic itself.
Whether the majority of people will
go with him as far as this is per-
haps uncertain, but few will deny that
the danger is a grave one, and the
present strike In the steel industry will
strengthen the belief of all those op-
posed TO such combinations, whatever
their opinion may be of the actual
merits of the present controversy.
Mr.. Chandler insists, however, that
the Republican party is the only party
that has 1t In Its power to check this
evil, and calls upon It's voters to do
so. But is not the Republican party
the party that Is chiefly, IL not sole
ly, responsible for the evil Of which
Mr.. Chandler complains? Does it not
contain among Its leaders and in its
ranks practically every man who is
an organizer of capital and promo
ter Of trusts? The amazing part is
that, owing largely to the delusion
the party has 50 successfully main
tanned In regard to the protective sys-
TEN, 1t contains q majority Of the
wage earners In the country also. To
be sure, for the last few years the
free silver heresy that has taken hold
Of the Democratic party has Justly de-
prived 1t Of the support of great
mass Of the latter body, but previous
to that time the cry Of free trade was
very successfully used in holding this
vote for the Republican party.
The reasons which Mr.. Chandler
gives for believing the Democratic
party incapable of performing the
work which he lays out for his own
party contain some truth, more that
is not truth, and much that is mani
festly unfair. 1t is true that at pre-
sent the Democratic party appears tc
have mo fixed principles generally
that 1t f'has lost the confidence OF
the country" 1t is not true that
the first purpose' of the Democratic
party at the North Is to keep Tam
many hall in power. Mr.. Chandler IL
very far from being fool, yet every
fool knows that Tammany hall owes
its present power to n deal with the
Republican ''leader'' in New Yorl
state in the fall of 1897, whereby Mr.
Tracy received 100000 votes, which /
cast for Mr.. Low would have electe,
the latter mayor Of New York city.
The state OF Pennsylvania and tn,
city of Philadelphia present a spec
tacle Of political corruption uneQuale,
by anything In the country, and TO
| which It would be far more Just t.
hold the Republican party at larg
rASnnn aiINIa thnn thn Ia, ,N,, t,
for the vices of Tammany hall. A
| least 10000 Democrats cast inside thei
party prejurices in New York cit.
four years ago and voted for Mr.. Low
but there We're not sufficient of thos
of the Republican faith to join them
Mr.. Chandler seems to think that tn
Democratic politicians are much NOR
susceptible to the influence of n cor
rupton fund than the Republican, bu
the lobbyists at Washington and AL
bany and Mr., Croker could tell hin
very different story. Human natur
IN this respect, 1t is to be feared, |
very much the same In both parties.
II Is not true, either, that the Demo
cratic party Seeks to ruin our manu-
featuring interests by destroying tn
American tariff system" 1t Is thl
system, carried 10 It's present extrem
form, that Is largely responsible 70
the very cvil of which Mr. Chandle
complains, and the accusation tha