Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 November 1896 — Page 5

BEPtJBUCAJf PROSPECTS. Wbau (he Dollareratic Party Has Dome and the Future Outlook. McKinley and prosperity! A majority of the voters of the country want Mr. W! William McKinley for president, and •verybody wants prosperity. . V W* But Mr McKinley's election has not brought such a revival of business as the doJiarvrat newspapers have claimed. Thus far no prosperity is apparent save the natural renewal that always comes | after the close of a presidential election, | When the doubt and uncertainty of the eEtapaigu have passed away. The election of Mr. Cleveland in 1898 had the same effect Prices went op spasmodically immediately after that event, and * business was better after it was known that the patty had been dethroned which will soon again come into power, f Bat this oondition did not last long. It was followed by a succession of panics ■ and business depression, and the reoord of the Cleveland administration that I has thrown the nation in debt to the extent of some $600,000,000 is too fresh in the minds of every one to need special enforcement of the fact that any basis of hope growing out of that election was but the most unstable and fictitious. The party that upheld Mr. Bryan and the Chicago platform iiL the recent eleotion will not put a straw in the way of the prosperity that the Republicans have presaged. To them the prosperity of the entire people is of far morn consequence than the welfare of any party. Bnt they will be Interested in watching what measures the incoming adminisL tration may adopt to secure the great revival in business which it has been so strenuously claimed will ensue. The policy they have outlined is ridiculous, considering past experience and the previous tenets of the party. Strange to my. Mr. Mark Hanna, the Republican Pooh Bah. seems to favor, not a tariff for protection, not the kind of tariff that the Republican party has advocated since its birth, bat the kind the Democrats have always favored—a tariff for revenue, something like that the present Wilson bill was enacted to secure. Just how they will succeed if they try to enact a tariff that will increase the revenue aud yet give the protection that the trusts and monopolies have so long nought remains to be seen. *TV. tk. <<_... _ i. I ...

tbe Republican party were already in ^ 4 tremble and in fear and trembling. We H know what the Republicans and Clove- * land Democracy have done for the country during their years regime. With niUare yielding an unvarying abundance they haTe so impoverished the many and enriched the few that one-half tbe wealth of the country is in the hands of 80,000 people, and in times of profound peace they have so manipulated finance that the national debt measured in laW bor and the world’s products is as gnat am it ever has been. Added to this they have so increased the mortgage indebtedness of the country that there is an average of two farm mortgages to every farm. It would be amusing were it not so portentous to note tbe makeshift suggestions of the successful party. But the prospects are anything but alluring. Id can time let the people get in line for their victory in 1900. SIX MILLION VOTES. A Mighty Host Cast Their Ballots For Bryan and Bimetallism. Of the enure number of votes cast at tbe last election Bryan received about 6,000, uo0 and McKinley 1,000,0001 This is the largest number ever polled. Yet Brvun has 500,000 more to his credit than Cleveland, four years ago. Tbe maguitude of Bryan’s vote is overlooked in the shouting ever McKinley's victory. It is something that the .Republicans should consider eveti more khan the Democrats. Bought to furnish them food for must sextons thought for every idle moment. Practically i7 out of every 100 meu who went to th* polls oast their ballots for Bryaa and tbe principles be represented. Six millions of voters, standing to-' get her as did those who supported Bryan—in many sum? without organization. and in all without money for the Boat legitimate of campaign 03lenses-— are something that may w»ll e the corporate trusts, monopolies aim • apitalIstic combinations generally the nightmare. They were outufcmN-i-d this time, hot can they he again U something is not done to nght the wrongs cf which they so emphatically complain?

For the Sake of Good Feeling. It is a remarkable fact that every anarchistic utterance that fell with thrilling plonk upon the palpitating ether during the campaign emanated from a Republican or gold Democrat. Palmer, Roosevelt, Lauteibaeh. Breckinridge 1 Well, admitting fear the sake of good feeling that the bimetallists as a body were craxr, the gold standard forty can certainly.boast that they brought forward the four supreme, motion eyed idiots of the contest. —Chicago Up to Rath Plenty of Backing. Silver Dick Bland of Missouri has Once more entered the lists. He has been the foremost fighter in the cause of bimetallism for 80 years and has half the country at his back.—St Louis Re* | pablio. _ Hot Much to Hope For. Major McKinley has cut a rather poor figure as a speechmaker on his front porch. It is to be feared he will cut •yen a poorer one in the presidential •hair. __. There's Six lAlMona. H The indication* are that there will ba enough of the Democratic party to do •oustderable business with in 1800.— Washington Post Britishers Are Pleased. London Times describes the reMan international victory. **

NO MOURNING FOR DEFEAT. DEMOCRACY ILL RISE AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. Senator Daniel Point* the Way to Ultimate Success—Urges Democrat* to Persevere In Behalf of the J People! Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia i* * sturdy Democrat of the Jeffersonian type. His eloquent voioe is always raised on the side of the people, and daring the campaign which has just closed its ringing accents have been heard all over the land. It is due in a large measure to the sealous campaign work of Senator Daniel that such a splendid viotory for the Democratic cause was achieved in the Old Dominion. Without mourning over the defeat of the party in the nation. Senator Daniel •peaks a word of encouragement and good cheer. He urges the Democrats oi the country to persevere in the good ■ wdrk which they have undertaken in behalf of the people, and, Instead of brooding over the defeat of November I, to press forward to the crowning triumph of Democracy which awaits the : party on the battlefields of the future. Says the able Virginia senator in speaking of the recent campaign: The party to overthrown two years sffo by an unprecedented majority and started this campaign handicapped by an administration which had gone into partnership with Its enemies. Notwithstanding this, it has made deI elded gains in congress, and, considering that the Bryunites' great leader fought “against wind and tide, ** the result Is the most marvelous achievement of American politics. The wisdom of the Democrats in the nomination of Bryan has been vindicated. He has compelled the respect of his foes, endeared the hearts of I his friends and upheld our cause with tireless energy, noble eloquence and unanswerable 1 logic. He Is today the foremost citizen of America—'"first in peace and first In the hearts of his countrymen." e___r-L... t. il. l_a _in

. indorse the praise which Senator Daniel bestows upon oar courageous leader. With a genius rarely equaled by any oI the great men who have preceded him and a love of country which rises supreme above every thought of selfish - ness, no cause was ever blessed with a grander or purer champion than William J. Bryan. With respect to the victory achieved by the Republican party in the last election Senator Daniel observes: Every autocrat and ort-rj- plutocrat In Eu- ! ropo Is today rejoicing over McKinley's victory. and well they may. for It was a European and not an American victory. It cannot man- ' ufactnre prosperity out of higher taxes and | lea* money, and its promise to promote inter- | national bimetallism la predestined to failure. All of its pledges will prove Dead sea fruity and when their fallacy is exposed Democracy will rim again triumphant. During the next four years the people of this oountry will be given a fair opportunity to test the principles of the ; Republican party. That the party of i tbf money power will be able to restore this nation to its former condition of prosperity is a pledge which the Republicans have made in the late campaign Unless the party succeeds in making its i promises good during the next four years the doom of Belshazzar will be pronounced uot only upon the siugle gold standard, but upon the hopes of the Republican party in the nation.—Atlanta Constitution. REPUBLICANS ON TRIAL. They Must Give Us Prosperity'Under a Gold Standard. The Republican party is now on trial as it has never been at aby former time in its history. With the entire machinery of the government under its control, it must either stand or fall by the record it makes. Four years hence the people of this country will demand of the party a full account of its stewardship. . Uuless its pledges to the people are redeemed and a season of prosperity succeeds the present era of depression under the siugle gold standard, the Democratic party will regain its lost authority iu the nation, to surrender it uo more at the bidding of the mcney power.

By possessing ourselves with patience and remaining true to the great priuci1 pies on which the party has relied for success iu the recent campaign the defeat of our cause on Nor. 3 may yet be converted into a glorious triumph In 1900.—Atlanta Constitution. Work For Watchdog Holman. Objector Holman, the treasury watchdog, is on watch again. But there's nothing left for him to watch unless it . be the secretary of the treasury casting up the account of the amount of principal and interest the government owes J. Pierpont Morgan and others.— Exchange Lack of Confidence. ! There is talk of dissolving the 8teel trust owing to mutual suspicions. It is not altogether surprising that firms j which are lacking in conscience in their dealings with the public should discover reasons for failing to implicitly oonfide in one another.—Washing ton Star. Stronger Than Before. There is something for everybody to be pleased about The Democrats party finds itself strong'!* today without the | bolters than it was ever before.—Cincinnati Enquirer. —- Hanna’s Share. Since there is no office he would accept, perhaps Mr. Hanna will taka it out in protection.—Detroit Neva Where Haaaa Will Sit.

r PEOPLE OF THE DAY. King Oscar of Sweden, who is likely to take an important part in the arbitration of the Venesneian question between the United States and Gre; *: Britain, is a mouarcfi of judicial mind and great fairness and would doubtless be an acceptable referee to both nations. Be is especially friendly with the Prinoe

IIVO OSCAR n. at Wales; hot, on the other hand, he has always treated United States ministers at Stockholm with great consideration and expressed much interest in Americans generally. King Oscar is one of the most popular monarch* in all Europe. He is extremely democratic in his mode of life and moves about among his subjects with the greatest of freedom. It is said to be much easier to obtain an audience with the ruler of Norway and Sweden than with the president of the United States. Kir? Oscar is a refined and accomplished gentleman. He is a skilled musician and has composed several pieces; he is well up in literature and has published several books of. his own, including a volume of poems; he is au enthusiastic yachtsman, a lover of the theater and a judge of champagne. Moody, the Svanselist. . The famous evangelistic partnership between Dwight L. Moody, and David Sankey, the great revivalists, has been renewed after a lapse of about seven years, and they are once more stirring great audiences as in the days of old. Just now they are appearing iu histone Cooper Union, New York city. It was 25 years ago that. the gospel firm of

DWIGHT L. MOODT. Moody and San key was formed! Moody, who had already done much evangelistio work, was attending a Young Men’s Christian association meeting at Indianapolis when be met San key and was attracted to him by his wonderful singing. He induced Sankey to accompany him to Chicago, and two yeai-> later they made their celebrated European trip, after which they appeared in every city in the United States. ▲ Cabinet Probability. Judge William R. Day, whom the cabinet forecasters have slated for attorney general under the McKinley administration, is a prominent lawyer of Canton, O., and has been for many years a personal friend of the president elect Judge Day was born at Ravenna. O., April 17, 1849, and comes from a race of lawyers, his father, the late Chief Justice Luther Day, having been one of the most prominent practitioners in northern Ohio, and both his paternal and maternal grandfathers having been supreme court justices. Jnuge Day studied In the collegiate and law departments at the University

JTTDGB WILLIAM B. OAT. of Michigan from 1866 to 1872, and . while a Rtodmt was librarian of the law library. Ha was admitted to the bar in 1872 and became the partner of William A. Lynch of Canton. In 1866 be wa* elected judge of the court of common pleas, being the candidate of both parties- bat resigned the office after earring a abort time. Three years later he was appointed by President .Harrison aa judge of the United States ! district court for the northern district j of Obkc hat poor health obliged him to I resign before qualifying. Since then he 1 has given bis attention to his large general H i

THEIR AWFUL FRIGHT. The Dollarcrats Have Not Yet Recovered From It. One of, its dollarcratic readers sends the following letter to the New York Sun: To tbe Editor of The Son: Sir—In your editorial admonition of yesterday to “Keep the Ranks Solid" yon justly say the crop of rotes harvested by Bryan was “portentous In its magnitude." Are we not In danger, la onr exaltation over McKinley's I largo electoral majority and his glorious popu- . lar plurality, of overlooking the foot that we j really saved the day only by the skin of onr teeth? A chain is only as strong as its weakest i Units. Where are the weak links in the sound money chain that has saved us this time, I which we must devote tho next four years to strengthening} A careful study of the flgursa will show. „ Bearing In mind that a majority of 5.000 is Changed by tbe transfer of 3,000 votes Into a majority of 1.000 for the opposing candidate, let us see what would have resulted from a few such changes in ten critical states: Total vote Eiecttn Idle. ore. 70.000 8 840,000 .. 13 10.000 ■’ 8 87.000 • 78.000 4 337.000 13 300.000 0 90.000 I 171.000 6 854.000 18 1.888.000 n According to the best figures to be had four I days after the . lection, it appears that a change ; of 40,0.0 votes in the ten critical states above enumerated would have given Bryan 71 more electoral votes and a majority of five in the electoral college. Allowing for the probable Increase tn tour years, it is fair to suppose that the total vote this year in these tea states is not less than 8.009,000 In other words, a j change of 3 per cent of g ho vote in ten states would havo made a free silver anarchist the lawful president of the American republic. 1 yield to no one in admiration of the mag' niticeat Gibraltar* of sound money that stand revealed in the votes of New England. New York. Pennsylvania and Illinois. But the figures here compiled show that we also have a Sudan to defend, and that Bryan came peril- ! ously near to victory. Even taking tbe country at large and counting in all the states that are overwhelmingly for sound money, a popular plurality of 1.0U1,COO in a total vote of 13,000,009, superb and unprecedented as it is, nevertheless leaves us face to face with the ugly fact that 45 out of every 100 American citizens deliberately preferred tho Chicago platform of repudiation and anarchy, for the candidacy of Palmer has at least served the purpose of enabling ns to know that the Democrats who voted for Bryan, like the mob that nominated him, did so from choice and not from party compulsion. E* EH SON E. Stkarna Votes changed. Booth Dakota. 390 Kentucky. 1,000 Wyoming..?.. 1.000 • Delaware. 1.590 ' Oregon. 4,000 ! Tennessee. <099 California. 4.0J0 North Dakota. 6,000 West Virginia. 8.000 Indiana.. 11.000 Totals... 40,000

M’KINLKY’S LEADERSHIP. His Masterly aud Magnificent Conduct of the Campaign. About 9 o'clock in the evening of the election, while the "landslide" to McKinley was being reported vaguely, but persistently, a wealthy gentleman named Garret A. Hobart telegraphed to Major McKiuley, " Congratulations with all my heart on the glorious achievei ment under yonr magnificent leadership” The enthusiastic congratulation turned out to be a little premature, being based on the rumors started by somo one not over 1,000 miles from Republican headquarters. But it was none the less touching in its simple truth. The leadership of MoKinloy has indeed been magnificent Ho has led the way from the state capital to Canton. He has, nuder the direction of Mark Hanna, led the way to the table, and from the sitting room to the front porch, from which he has harangued his hired pilgrims with his ably edited and carefully memorized speech on the absolute necessity of electing him president McKinley led the country into the trap laid for it by the tariff barons in 1890. He led his followers that year into the depths of despair. He led the crowd of hungry office seekers, who repudiated their former views and concealed their present views, or lack of them, in order to feed at the public crib. In this campaign Major McKinley's leadership has been unquestioned. Who doubted that he was exercising his own will and judgment when he declined to state his views on the currency until a complete set were furnished him with J his nomination? It was, no donbt, his j masterly leadership that made him resent the attempt of the people to get him to say one word on the subject of the trusts, who owned a controlling interest in him. For the extraordinary meekness with which he allowed Mark Hanna to alter his ideas and supply him with ready i made opinion no other term can tie more appropriate than "magnificent leader- ; ship. *’—Kansas City Times.

Silver Must Be Restored. The restoration of silver as standard money most be accomplished not only in this, bat in the other great commorI dal nations of the earth. The party that pins this banner to its mast will be the dominant party of thro future. The Dispatch calls upon every citizen to aooept the verdict loyally. It is impossible to get higher than the people. Ho who would rise must lift the masses with him. Bryan has only bqgun his work and will not abandon his destiny. This paper will be with him in sunshine and storm, not because be is Bryan. but because be represents the beet aspirations of the great people —Chicago Dispatch. Very Hack Alive. The London papers are afraid that "Bryan is not deid. ” Their apprehensions are well founded. No man in the United States is more alive today than | William J. Bryan. Worries the Pest. The talk of an international agreement is cropping out, and the New York Evening Post is throwing a fit every 84 hours, Sundays excepted. A Poor Outlook. The McKinley victory is a triumph fOr high tariff at well as for a continuous tssnsnnn of bonds in time of pesos Too majr tvrWk you xamj tria lb* ntenia job vrUJ, The smell of Mark's boodle WUt haag rosad ihomasUt

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