The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-09-09

raop;c should he left free to pursue
! uc.s DwE cgurse, in their own way,
/ s.i s.,u- interference or hindrance.-
. tn,.-e principles were all recognized
.u .g" state governments. The peo
l.y o.. the respective States conferred
. .riy upon the State governments the
. power 10 protect as a general PROPOSE
Sion life, liberty and property. But it
. '-g.t'u" necessary to create a general
+ government. What kind of powers
. ,,.G they confer upon it? Not general
uutiIuitvd powers, by any means, but
! specific and limited, which are defined
! In the constitution OF the United
/ States. They declared that the gen
! vrai government should have certain
| specific powers and no other. Why,
consider for one single moment
! Where does the power of protection
10 your life, your liberty and your
! property rest? fla man enters your
house tonight and steals your prop
crty, if lie assaults you upon the pub
Tic highway or illegally confines and
restraints you of your liberty, where
do you resort TO fer protection Not
10 the general government at Wash
ingtOn, All the power conferred up
on that government is not sufficient
to redress either one of the wrongs to
which l have referred. A simple
tcespass committed upon your prop
erty cannot be redressed by all the
powers possessed by the general gov
ernment. They have no power over
the subject. They resort to the power
OF the State government-to that vast
amount of reserved power which the
State and the people never gave up to
the general government. And so eau
tious We're our foreiathers, those wise
men who formed the government, to
guide against usurpation on the part
OF the general government, that they
divided its several powers into three
derartments-namely, the executive,
legislative and judicial. If the Legis-
lative Department exceeded its pow
ers it could be checked by the Execu-
tive, and so, if the latter exceeded its
powers it could be checked by the
Legislative Department, and if there
We're a conflict as to the power of
either to do an act the Judicial De-
partment was made an arbiter to set
tie the dispute and thus to make q
harmonious government. Now our
government has therefore been called
OI!e Of checks and balances, 1t is a
government wherein the power con-
ferIed cannot be exercised by any one
department., and il was intended to be
80, JAat one department should not
usurp powers not conferred, and the
oyhcr department could check and
,aus cOutiOl them. desire again TO
aadf- - any Republican friends. do
aa. -ow accuse The Republican party
s, t.e charge which L am about to
uran, DectG-e tbs masses OF that
parry. IKE tha whole masses of the
people, were perfectly sincere and hon
est.
PRINCIPLES VIOLATED BY THE REPUBLICANS
The gfcat-nlass of the people have
Ey interest in an election except to
have goOd government. IF any body
ever gets rich out of public Office
and very few become wealthy out of
public office hOuesLly-it is not the
masses of the people. They desire to
vOte-and I give credit to the Repub-
licans as we'll as to the Democrats
they desire to vote so that our gov
: ernment viii be perpetuated as it was
made; so that we shall have a govern
= ment that will not oppress and rob
the people, but administer its affairs
upon economical, safe and sound prin-
Ciples. But the organization of the
Republican party has been seized by
: 3 few extreme, bad men, who are con-
trolling its action in Congress and its
organization throughout the country,
and are intending, in my honest judg-
ment to overthrow every free princi
pie upon which the government was
founded.
Now, have said something to you
in regard to the principles upon which
the government is founded, and 1 fur.
ther assert that these vultures who
have seized the organization of tht
Republican party have violated every
one of them. They have the absolute
\ control of the legislative powers Of
the government, and by their major
= ity have Oyerridden the veto of the
{ President. Have they not usurped
= the powers of the Executive? Is il
/ not notorious tllat they have taken
{ ! from the Executive the powers con
? ferrad upon him by the Constitution
OF the United States and which have
1 been exercised by every President
from Washington to the present time:
D They have taken away all has power
and patronage-all power to appoint
2 pU1iic officers-a power which every
: President has exercised since the for
= nation of the government, and with
e out the exercise of which undertake
/ to say this government cannot be
I tlyadmtnistered.
K Why, loOkat it for single moment.
{ Sec the vast, complicated financial
+ machinery cast over this country, in
: vo,vinE Immense amounts of money;
Z 5 et The President, by the action o1
f. Congress, is prohibited from remov-
2 ing the most important public officer
T. connected with hecollection and dis
1 hurscment of the finances of the
i, country. Take the most notorious
official thief, who has stolen the peo.
z pies money, robbed them of their
y hard earnings, and the President has
| no power to remove him. If he at.
D tcmpts to do so and the culprit claims
= 10 he an adherent to the radical party
. and It's extreme measures he is sure
= 10 be retained. (Cheers.) Not only
= that-the constitution of the United
' States, in express terms, makes the
,. President. of the United States the
r Cohlmander-in-C Chief of the Army
D and Navy. Have they not taken that