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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE?"

These campaign issues underlie
Mr.. Bryans proposition this year as
heretofore it is a question Of: Shall
the people rule?"
l. Popular election of senators.
2. Publicity of campaign contribu-
tions before election.
3. Valuation of railroad properties
by the government.
4. Lowering the tariff.
8. Injunctions.
6. Trusts.
On No. / the Republican platform
Is silent; the Democratic favors.
On No. 2 the Republican platform Is
silent; the Democratic is for publicity
before election.
On No. the Republican platform is
silent; the Democratic declares for it.,
besides covering every commendable
point set forth in the Republican ut
teFance.
On No. the Republican platform is
silent; the Democratic favors.
On No. the Republican platform
makes vague promise; the Democratic
offers protection to labor by preven-
tion of Issuance of DEGREES when In
other than labor disputes they would
not issue.
On No. the Republican platform
actually proposes to legalize trusts
the Democratic to prevent private
monopoly.
If the foregoing omissions be en-
dorsed and the Republican party re-
turned to power, these Issues having
been openly raised, what complaint
can the people make if their rule be
further prevented, as it has been in
the past?
Could conclusion be palmer?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
GOVERNORS PooR EYEsleHT.

Governor Harris has had another
contortion on the temperance issue
which he Is to bang away" at during
the campaign.
He charges that the liquor interests
have raised an enormous corruption
fund.-" which he puts at 100000, to
defeat him, and repeats the false
charge Of an alliance between the
Democratic party and the saloons.
1t is not surprising that the Gov
ernor, who couldn't see corruption
right under his nose at the state
house, Is beginning to "see things"
to frighten him in a campaign.
The Governor does not charge that
this alleged enormous corruption
fund" Is to be turned over to the
Democratic campaign Management
because he knows better, although he
seeks to convey that impression. The
Governor is not fair enough TO admit
that whatever funds the Personal
Liberty League is raising IL Is using
to carry on its campaign in county
OP'iOh SChNS5NoB JUST 10 'iS @ANA
Saloon League Is using its funds to
carry on county option elections.
Such subterfuge by Governor Har-
ris will not answer the manly and ex-
plicit public statement made by Judge
Harmon that If elected Governor he
will enforce ALL the laws, and that
he will not be dictated to by either
the Personal Liberty League or the
Anti-Saloon League.
Governor Harris, who has not en-
forced any laws, seems to have no
better eyesight in a campaign than he
had as Governor last winter, when a
committee of the Legislature re-
vealed a loss of over $4,000 to the
state in interest on public funds. The
Governor did not trouble himself, to
see how these funds we're being
handled as the law requires him to do.
Evidently the Governor expects the
people of Ohio to be as blind to his
campaign Establishments as he was
last winter to his official duties.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
TIME FOR A CHANGE.

A peculiar condition exists among
students of the o. s. U. at Columbus.
According to a statement published
in Columbus papers last Friday, many
students who find it necessary to
work their way through college,
and honor themselves by doing it
are unable to obtain employment in
Columbus for their odd hours.
Just note this statement: "The
boys are willing to work and work
hard is only they can thereby remain
at the university and obtain an educa-
ton" Out of eighty-six applications
on file, fifty-four declared in blanks
filled out that their education de-
pends upon obtaining employment.
Nor are these boys choicy about the
kind of work to be obtained. They are
said to be willing to do housework,
even to washing dishes, sweeping,
tending furnaces, lawns or barns"
This is no reflection upon the manly
young men at the university who are
struggling to obtain the pricesless
jewel of education.
Anticipating just such comment as
is being made here, a Repul fican
paper seeks to explain the situation
by the great increase in the number
of students over former years. But it
is not difficult to reach more reason
able conclusion. The capital of Ohio
is not more favored than many other
cities in some of the results of the
present Republican panic. 1t is not
without its own citizens working on
reduced time or not at all, and facing
the winter with dread and despair.
There is a lesson these worthy stu
dents are learning by bitter exper-
ience. 1T IS TINE FOR A CHANGE
in the nation as well as in the state
Once more let us quote Mr.. Taft:
For where party is constantly in
control so as to be overwhelmingly
the victor every time, 1t is with great
difficulty that evil men are kept out
of the administration of the govern
ment"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
WHY REBUKE BANK ExAMINERs7

What means this denunciation of
bank examiners by Mr. Murray, the
new comptroller Of the currency, for
failing to discover the embezzlement,
defalcation and dishonesty or other
unsatisfactory conditions of banks?
Why should he say to them "If you
are unable to discover the true con-
ditions of a bank, do not send ex-
cuses. Simply send in your resigna-
tion and your commission for can
collation."
What is wrong? Mr.. Taft says that
to guarantee bank deposits would "en
courage reckless banking" Does our
new comptroller man to say that we
already have that kind Of banking
without the guaranty of deposits?
The very conditions which Mr. Muir
ray insists on bank examiners dis
covering are conditions which furnish
the people the strongest arguments in
favor of the guaranty of deposits.
The comptroller of the currency has
knocked the prop out from under Mr.
Taft's peculiar argument on the dan
ger of making banks safe.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
RAISE PRICE OF BREAD.

Only a few days ago the master
bakers Of Cincinnati unanimously de-
eided to RAISE THE PRICE OF
BREAD.
Such action at this particular time
shows the trend of Republican pros
Derity during Republican panic.
And of all places in the United
States, there is double importance in
the fact that the price of bread should
go up in Mr.. Taft's home city, only a
few days before Mr.. Taft started out
to tour the country as a candidate for
president.
Representatives OF labor declared
after the Chicago convention that
they asked for bread and were given
. stone. Now Mr.. Taft's home city,
where Senator Foraker said several
weelu ago, in a speech to the Cham
Der Of Commerce, that 10000 people
are seeking employment, the laborer
not Only received q stone from Mr..
Taft'a cepyention but must also pay
FOR bread-regardIess OF the bumper
crops that Republican papers boast
about as signs Of prosperity.
II Is a safe bet that In his cam
paign speeches Mr. Taft will make no
reference 10 the raising OF the price
ef bread in his home city.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
URGES DEFEAT OF esEEN.


The Cleveland Leader, the leading
Republican paper in Northern Ohio,
urges its readers to defeat the Repub-
llcan nominee for State Treasurer. A
recent issue says:
The Leader has. explained, more
than once, why the Republican candi-
date for State Treasurer ought to be
defeated this fall. MIR. Green should
never have been placed upon the
ticket. He is too vulnerable. His
record In the office Is too unsatisfac-
tory to the people of Ohio. The rea-
sons for his unpopulartiy with care
ful voters are too solid and sound.
AS Treasurer MoKinnon's deputy
and close associate in politics and in
private business as well as in the
work of the Treasurers office, Mr..
Green must stand before the people
as representative of the methods
which have prevailed in the Office of
the State Treasurer. He cannot es-
cape that position II, indeed, he would
desire to do so.
Investigation has shown that the
treasurer's Office was lax about col
lecting interest on state funds, that it
made little effort to obtain the high
est rate of interest possible for the
state, that its deposits of state funds
were obviously Influenced by personal
considerations, to some degree, and
that It's bookkeeping was not what
might properly be asked of public Off
cials, In position of much respon-
sibility.
1t 10 not necessary to place a sinis-
ter Interpretation upon any or all of
these facts in order to reach the con-
clusion that Treasurer McKinnon's
trusted and close associate in the ad-
ministration of the Office ought not to
have been nominated to succeed his
chief. It is plain that in private
business no such promotion would
have been thought of, under the cir
cumstances. 1t is equally clear that
the best course which the people of
Ohio can take In respect to Mr..
Green's candidacy is to defeat him at
the polls. The Leader regrets to be
forced to advise such action but the
error Of the state convention leaves
no alternative consistent with duty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
MR.. ROOSEVELT AND MR. TAFT.

"Mr. Roosevelt cannot help the Re.
publican campaign by further efface,
ment Of Mr.. Taft. Mr. Roosevelt is
not the Republican candidate, and
when election day comes the country
will have to choose, not between Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan, but be-
tween Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan. If the
president becomes the whole RepublI-
can campaign, in the popular imagi-
nation, while Mr.. Taft becomes more
and more a shadow, may not the
country in the final test prefer that
one of the two actual candidates who
at least dominates absolutely the
situation on his own side, and who is
the most active and aggressive can
didate for the presidency who has
ever appeared before the people. -
New York Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
WOULD MAKE BANKING SAFER

A prominent banker In Columbus
who prefers that his name should not
be quoted because he was expressing
his opinion In a private conversation
fully answered the slanderous charge
made by Mr.. Taft and Governor Her.
rick that to guarantee bank deposits
would encourage reckless banking
and tend to make bankers dishonest
This Columbus banker, who favors
the guaranty proposition, declared
that the effect of such a measure
would be directly the opposite of what
Mr.. Taft has publicly asserted. In.
stead of encouraging reckless bank
ing" this Columbus banker said such
plan would make bankers more
careful than ever before in guarding
the interests of their customers. The
mutual responsibility of bankers for
failures from whatever cause, would
naturally make every banker solicit.
GUS as to the standing of all banks,
and bankers would be the very first
to institute proper inquiry so as to
protect themselves, as we'll as de-
positors and others directly inter
ested, whenever rumors got into cir
culation affecting the standing or con
dition of any bank.
1t would be this mutual surveillance
of the banking business by the bank.
ers themselves which would eradicate
to a great extent whatever reckless
banking may exist today; and the
other effect of a guaranty law would
be to stimulate confidence in hanks
among depositors and bring money
out from under the carpets and out of
old shoes and out of old clocks and
out of old socks and out of old stoves
and out OF old cupboards and other
places Of hiding, for deposit in place
that will be absolutely safe to the de-
pOsitor.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
CORRUPT MONEY IN POLITICS.

Foraker has been skinned and some
others high in public life have been
smirched by Hearst's disclosures.
The question most interesting to the
American people at this time is, How
many of those with whom Foraker
acted in both Houses Of Congress are
tarred with the same stick?
For at least seventy-five years, that
Is, ever since President Jackson's
fight On the United States Bank, it
has been no secret that powerful COM
binations of wealth, seeking advan-
tages from the Government, or trying
to hold on to advantages they al
ready have, are ever ready to extend
favors to their friends in Congress
and at least pay the campaign ex-
penses Of candidates upon whose
friendship" if elected, they can de-
pend.
Only very small number of Gov
ernment officials or members of Con-
gress who accept such favors, cor
ruptly are ever detected and miscon-
duct so brought home to them that
they are driven from public life.
Forakers is an exceptional case.
But how about the other reaction
aries in the Senate with whom he
worked? How many of them would
hold their places in Congress If they
were not backed by one great interest
or another which is much m ore con-
cerned in its own than in the general
welfare?
Mr.. Taft on his tour through the
West is pledging himself to real tariff
revision. If he should be elected
with a Republican Congress nothing
is more probable than he will find
such considerable number of the
Republican membership under obi
cations Of one sort or another to the
protected interests that his hands will
be tied.
1t Is not believed that a majority of
Congress-, or OF any party in Congress,
or even 20 per cent Of the membership
Of either party in Congress can be laid
under obligation of this sort, but even
5 per cent 10 good working force
when 1t is composed of influential and
alert men.
The corrupting power of money is
Is great. No Government Is entirely
free from 1t The only way to min
imize 1t is to divorce the Government
from promotion of private interests of
any sort. Monopoly tariff must be
abandoned. The only proper func-
tion Of government is to make laws
which give the equal chance to all.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

Because the public is prone to trust
fulness and merchants prone to dis
honesty, false bottomed measures and
"doctored" scales hay3 for decades
been in use to rob the householder,
and millions of dollars have annually
been stolen by this pitiable system of
petty larceny Nobody protested. Gov
ernors appointed State Sealers of
Weights and Measures because they
could deliver assembly districts, and
Mayors appointed City Sealers be-
cause they could deliver wards. Now
that is going to stop. The Bureau of
Standards of the United States De
partment of Commerce and Labor has
not only taken up the legal standard
ization of all weights and measures,
but it has just received from Attorney
General Bonaparte an opinion that
will cause a shiver to run down the
backs of hundreds of thousands of the
petty sWindlers of the false bottom
bushel and the overweighted balance.
The Attorney General has answered
the request OF Director Stratten with
the direct statement that Congress
may bring all scale and measure
swindlers to book and force them to
give 16 ounces for a pound, 2240
pounds for long ton of coal, and to
make them prove from time to time
that the scales they use tell me avoi-
dupois lies. 1t is only justice to say
that If this Bureau brings about the
observance of legal standards it will,
by that one stroke, justify it's crea-
tion snd existence for all time; for
the money taken from the pockets of
the public each year by these petty
methods amounts to as much as the
Panama canal will have cost when
cOmDlpted ..ra.r
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

Speaking at the dedication of a
new court house at Germantown, Va,
this summer, Mr.. Taft said: "For
where a party is constantly in control
so as to be overwhelmingly the vic
tor every time, it is with difficulty
that evil men are kept out of the ad-
ministration of the government"
That is about the conclusion
reached by the people of Ohio and
they are disposed to take him at his
word, at least so far as the political
control in Ohio ls concerned.
His party has been the overwhelm-
ing victor In this state in every cam
paign for the past dozen years, until
three years ago. The people learned
then that they can have Just the kind
Of government they vote for They
voted Herrick out of Office and put
Pattison in his place. Death removed
Pattison and the accident of politics
put Harris in his place, when all the
reform In state administration begun
by Pattison came to a standstill.
The people of Ohio, taught by the
experience Of the past three years,
will remember what Taft said at
Akron three years ago and at German
town, Va, this year, and show by
their votes in November that they are
fully convinced that 1T IS TIME FOR
A CHANGE.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

County local option contests in
some Of the counties are to be settled
soon, and, like the temperance laws
on the statute books of Ohio, they
will be settled by non-partisan votes
Neither the Anti-Saloon League nor
the Personal Liberty League cares to
raise the party question in any OF
these county option contests.
County option cannot be made
either a Democratic or a Republican
Issue for either side in any county
How inconsistent, then, is the Cover.
nor's attempt to make temperance a
party question in the state.
If lie expects to fool any Democrat
by su,'h false pretense, he exhibits no
more respect for the intelligence of
Democrats in general than he con
fessed when he said in a speech al
Columbus that he had never voted for
a Democrat in his life for any once,
national, state or county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

According to reports received
throughout the country, Republican
spellbinders and orators, are being re.
ceived by small crowds and chilly re-
ceptions. A few nights ago, Speaker
Joe Cannon was received by an audi.
ence of 2s1 people in Des Moines,
iowa, while on last Saturday evening
ex-Secretary Shaw spoke to less than
seven hundred people at the Auditor
ium In this city. Over forty per cent
of the audience was made up Of wo-
men, ten per cent of office holders
and prospective candidates. the bal
anee voters and kids. attracted by the
music Of the band. Some how or other
voters will not enthuse over the g. o.
P. this fail But then, you know, the
dinner pail is empty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

The reputation by the late Mr..
CleVeland's executor and also by Mrs
Cleveland, of the article on the presi-
dental campaign which was recently
printed as coming from Mr.. Cleve-
lands pen, now adds another sersa-
tion to a sensational presidential
struggle. That the Cleveland article,
in which the late president appeared
to favor Mr.. Taft to Mr.. Bryan, is
now to be regarded as forgery from
beginning to end, must be accepted
as established, in view of the admis-
siOns made by its original publishers.
To Col. Henry Watterson is probably
due the credit OF running down and
exposing the fraud upon the American
people.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

For Governor
JUDsoN HARMON. of Hamilton.
For Lieutenant Governor
DAVID L. ROCKWELL, of Portage.
For Secretary of State
J. H. NEWMAN, of Miami.
For Supreme Judge
GEORGE B. OKEY, of Franklin,
HUGH t. MATHERs, OF Shelby.
For Auditor of State
w. w. DURBTN, Of Hardin.
For Treasurer Of State
D. s. DREAMER, Of Belmont
For Attorney General
]. 8. HOGAN. of Jackson
For Supreme Court Clerk
o. G. LARSON, OF Licking.
For Dairy and Food Commissioner
DAVID ELEY. Of Ashland.
For Board Of Public Works
JOHN A. STATES. Of Allen,
BERNARD DORAN, of Perry.
For State School Commissioner
JOHN A. MCDOWELL. OF HolmeS
For Circuit Judge
r. M. VOORHEES,.
For Circuit Judge-(Short Term1
ROBERT 8. SHIELDS.
For Congress
J. ]. wHITACRE.
For State Senator
EDWIN 8. DHFoRD.
For Probate Judge
FRANzo D. MILLER.
For Clerk of Courts
MILTON g. MOORE.
For Prosecuting Attorney
CHARLES KRICHBAUM.
For Representative
e to elect)
OWEN J. EVANS,
BERNARD BELL.
For Sheriff
HORACE CLARK.
For County Auditor
CHARLES FRANTZ.
For County Treasurer
HENRY sEXAUER
For County Recorder
]. U. DOUGLASS.
For County Commissionrs--
g to elect
G. w. PALMER,
c. H. STONER,
A. L. YOUNG.
For County Coroner
DIR. T. C. SIFFERT
For County Surveyor
OLIVER W. HOLL.
FOR Infirmary Directors
g to elect)
HENRY S. BELDEN,
CHRISTIAN GRADER,
WILLIAM H. WISE.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

During the year ending June, 1907
the Federal treasury deposited more
than $100,000,000 in national banks
The Standard OIL bank in New Yorl
city and the two principal banks dom
mated by j. Pierpont Morgan re-
ceiyed about 80 per cent OF those de
pOsits and all other banks in the
United States got about 20 per cent
When the small banker hears argu
ments from Republican sources set
ting forth that party's solicitude foI
the banker, II might he well to remem-
ber the figures herein set forth; they
are from the Official reports at Wash
ington. They are exceedingly inter
esting TO bankers as well as others
In.rnAl- Lln.... I...nI 49,. 49,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
is TEDDY SEEKING AEvENeEr

What a terrible revenge on his
party Roosevelt takes for not renomi-
mating him by now seeking Taft'E de-
feat By ietters.-Pittsburg Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

lndorsed for United States Senator
JAMES e. CAMPBELL, Of Butler.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

Elyria-Mrs Patrick oKeese. IS,
shot by John Stang while in stangs
orEheld.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01

Jewett-Four business houses de-
str0yed by hre; loss $4,000
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For President,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
For Vice President,
JOHN w. KERN.