The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
aAs GOES MAINE.v

The result in Maine clearly pre-
sages the triumph Of the National
Democratic ticket in November.
Never yet has the outlook for the
Republicans looked SO gloomy, for the
Democrats so bright, at this mid
period of a Presidential battle. The
whole trend of public sentiment is
Bryanward. We shall sweep the
country in 1908 precisely as we swept
1t i'm 1892.
The people from Maine to Texas,
from Sandy Hook to the Golden Gate,
are sick of Republican waste and false
pretenses, of Republican double-deal-
ing and extravaganza, of Republican
assumptions of patriotism in the in
terest of the preferred classes, honest
wealth too often making common
cause with dishonest and lawless
wealth, in short, of Republican mas
querading as "a friend of business" in
the East aud a friend of humanity in
the West, still holding the South at
arms length and in allegiance.
There is not an argument, not an
epithet, used by the Republicans
against Bryan which was not used
against Tilden, against Hancock and
against Cleveland There is not
Republican abuse against which Dem
ocracy trained its guns in 1876, in
1880, in 1884, and in 1892, which is not
yet alive and crying to heaved for re-
form. The Republicans themselves
soi, ~, For hn
reform of their own abuses. Thus
their platform is two-faced and their
ticket is two-faced. If Taft be not
Roosevelt, he is sailing under false
colors. If he be Roosevelt, he ought
to get off a ticket carrying Sunny
jim" Sherman and supported by Aid
rich, Cannon and Company, trust
builders and grafters inordinary
preaching Socialism to the Socialists,
prohibition to the Prohibitionists,
promising what they have no power
| nor intention to give, Withholding the
simplest remedies, Protectlonism-
the father and mother and wet nurse
of monopoly-their single cure-all.
The trick is worn out. 1t will not
work any longer. They have shrieked
wolf" too often-even man over
board" will not suffice. The public in
telligence is affronted and it is tired.
It wants a change for the sake of the
change. 1t knows that it is not
the nature of parties to reform them
selves in power. They need to be
licked into it; to be reminded by de-
! feat that there is an institutional Sys
TEN, commanding the allegiance of
men, that there are People and a
! God
That the election of Bryan means
business disaster or stagnatiuG it IS
lie-a plain, barefaced palpable lie
"a lie out of the rotten old cloth
which has been worn by the Repub-
lican politicians and editors until II
can scarcely hold together and was
long ago greasy and-airty and dis
repu able.
That Taft is Roosevelt, and Roose
welt is Taft-is a trick, a sham-to
serve it's purpose in the West, whilst
Sunny Jim" keeps the boys quiet In
Wall street.-the Roosevelt flag wav
ing from the foremast, Taft and
Roosevelt making signals from the
! bridge, whilst, under the gunwales,
are crouched in concealment, but
| ready to spring, all the Pirates OF
High Finance and all the Grafters OF
High Protection, from Hartman to
Cannon, from Rockefeller to Aldrich
Even in Maine they see it. Rock
bound, iron-clad, they are yet able tc
distinguish betwixt hawk and buzzard
AS in the olden days whe
MAINE went,
! Hell-bent,
For Governor Kent
the pointer" is unerring-one lionel!
STRAW" may show which way the
wind blows-and once again, as II
1840 "as goes Maine SO goes the
Union"-for, taking the percentage o
the Republican losses and the Demo
cratic gains in last Tuesdays elec
ton, and applying this to the de-
batable States, and we carry all be
fore us; only the percentage in oui
favor will be, much greater In New
York, for example, than in Maine, in
creasing as we come westward, insuT
ing us Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The Republican managers see dealt
staring them in the face. Before thu
middle of October as their last des
perate resort they will have Theooor'
Roosevelt upon the stump vainly try
ing to stem the current. Nothing can
avail them. They have been tried II
the balance and are found wanting
The Taxpayers are weary unto dealt
of billion dollar Congresses with moth
ing to show for them. They are wear,
unto death with promises to reform
abuses, each and every cne of then
of Republican origination.
The devil is sick-the devil is ful
of penitence-let him die, tn
wretched old son-of-a-gun-let hin
die and be born again, say the voters
of Maine, and so say we all" will b.
the confirming voice of the nation tn
coming 3rd of November.-Louisvili
Courier-Journal.
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