The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-09

ceeded, under Pierce and Buchanan,
and from the same cause; the belief
that 1t has the world in a sling and
may do as 1t pleases.
Public opinion needs to rise upon It's
hind legs and to kick the stufflng out
Of It; at least to kick 1t into a realiz-
ing sense that there is something yet
greater than money and partyism ana
patronage; that the machine is not in
vIncible; that there are yet a people;
that there is still God
Nor ever could change of parties be
effected with so little danger to exist
ing conditions. What risks do even
honest Republicans take in setting
Roosevelt aside, and in preferring
Parker and Davis? The money of the
country is safe beyond human agency
to disturb it. The revenue laws are not
likely to be adjusted to suit me, and
men like me, until The manufacturers
come to see, as they surely will. that
the protective tariff is hindrance and
not help to American industry.
Where, then, is the danger? My able,
learned and ingenious friend, the re-
cent secretary of war, finds 1t in the
age of our nominee for vice president
II Mr.. Parker is elected president, says
Mr.. Root, he may make Mr.. Hill secre-
tary of state. Then Mr.. Davis, the
vice president, might die. Then some
Guiteau or Czolgosz might remove
President Parker-and then-why. then
Mr.. Hill will be president! That re-
calls the familiar story of the good
wife who was found by her loving hus-
band in the throes of a great sorrow
Suppose" she said, between her sobs,
suppose our Mary Jane should grow
up and marry a man by the name Of
Jones; and suppose they should have a
little baby named SaIlie Ann; and sup
pose the baby should fall into well
and be drown-n-ded!" But even this
| luxury of grief has been denied Mr..
Root, for Mr.. Hill says he won't be
secretary of state. I always knew Mr..
Hill hates the Republicans, but never
before conceived the intensity of his
hatred.
Fon one, I believe in the Democracy
of the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of the United States.
believe in EXPANSION. but in that
expansion which carries with it the
promises of the declaration of inde-
pendence and the principles of the Con-
stitution of the United States. / be-
lieve in the flag, but beneath 1t only
and always, uniformity Of laws; be-
lieve in the tariff, but in tariff levied
solely for the support of the govern
ment economically administered l be-
lieve in the public credit, supported
by sound, stable circulating medium
expressed in gold and silver and paper
convertible into coin on demand, the
single standard of measurement per-
manent and absolute believe in the
public order; all parties, the labor un'
ions and the labor employers to bt
made to obey the law, the government
the master of both. Through my life
have fought to attain these ends
Some of them have been attained
Hence is it. that ! still believe in th'
people, and, believing in the people,
, am confident that they will take NJ
chance, either in the would-be-man ol
, horseback, or in a new lease Of powe
to a party already too firmly set il
the saddle, but will come to the rescu
, of their threatened institutions, willis
, they may. They did this in 1876. and
though cheated out of the immediate
fruit of their victory, they yet scotche'
, corruption and put check upon arbi
, trary powers. Another Tilden has ar
, rived upon the scene, and. fitdngly
, here in the Empire state Of New York
a very tribute of the people, calm, res
a olute and qualified; in all things tn
exact antithesis Of Theodore Roose
, velt; and, in my belief, as surely a
Tflden was elected. he will be elected
. And, when elected, he will be inaugu
rated, and all will be well.
I, Clark Howell spoke next He sal
= that by national unity he meant unIr
= of sentiment and of patriotic purpos
among all sections-all moved by tn
. common impulse to contribute to tn
!. national welfare by the exercise Of
pOllCy 30 DTOdu ohu 6ChCiouo 90 =
let every section share alike in tn
}. benefits of the federal administration
u Referring to the presidents attitud
3 toward the negro, Mr.. Howells said:
.T speak the sentiment of the Sout
= of today-the new South, IL you will
Il when tell you that the mistaken a
titude of the Republican president ha
i done more to check the real progres
i of the negro than anything else ths
has been done since the war"
He summed up his remarks in tn
following sentence: Eliminate tn
! race question as a political issue an
t you have to put the capstone on tn
pyramid of national unity"
e Andrew Mclean stated that Ne
y York was placed in the list of doub
a ful states by many.
Is 1.-THE truth is" he said, "that Ne
n York 1s not doubtful. IL ia clearly q