For 1890, the Democrats gerrymandered McKinley one final time, placing Stark County in the same district as one of the strongest pro-Democrat counties, Holmes, populated by solidly Democratic Pennsylvania Dutch.
Democrats ran a strong candidate in former lieutenant governor John G. Warwick. *To drive their point home, they hired young partisans to pretend to be peddlers, ***who went door to door offering 25-cent tinware to housewives for 50 cents, explaining the rise in prices was due to the McKinley Tariff. **In the end, McKinley lost by 300 votes, but the Republicans won a statewide majority and claimed a moral victory.[70]
Just think if we did this door to door with gas prices!!