The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-08-26
The Political rUndertow Radicals
Going Under.

The New York HERALD, an anti Dem
cratic Journal, thus discourses on the resi-
of the Kentucky election
'0The figures, as they come in from Ke
lucky, are mounting up for the Democrat
majority. The last returns, which Wepu
lished yesterday, set down eighty thousN
majority for Stevenson, the Democrat
candidate for Governor, and these retur
represent the county districts from whit
shey come in slowly, and will show larg'
! gains according as they are received. II
| result of the June election in Oregon
quite as remarkable an evidence that Il
people are awake to the NULTIFARIoUs MI
CHIEF WHICH THE RADICAL PAErY HA
WROUGHT IN IFS ADMINISTRATION OF II
GOVERNMENT. Weconnot, therefore, sh
our ewes to the direction of these stray
which show how the wind blows. TheR
publican majority in Oregon in 1856 "
327 the Democratic majority for memb
of congress (the solitary one who represeu
that young State) was, at the election of Il
first Monday in June, 1865, 1909. He
was gain of the ant=radicsl party of ov,
fifteen hundred votes in q voting populatifI
of about twenty thousand. Taking the
. two States as an example, we will find tn
the people are not abandoning their hostili
ty to the wANToN AND DANGEROUS POLICY I
. THE RULING FACTION WHICH, DURING THRI
YEARS OF PEACE, EAs KEPT UP WAR PRIc'
AND WAR TAXATION. The Kentucky electiC
has taken place since the Presidential nor
;, nations of both parties were made; and J
~ so far from the nomination of the radio
convention strengthening the backbone
y the faction, or the nomination of Seymo
=. and Blair weakening the spinal column
the Democracy in that State, they have tur
ed events the other way. These results q
but the early indications (the skirmish fiji
as ii. were, of the great revolutionary bat
which is about to open.
90 If the other State elections which are
ce come off between this and the President
,ir contest in November should happen to G
in like indications of the popular hostility
e,. THE RADICAL UsURPATIoNs AND CoRIUPTIo
or who can tell but that the nominees of
to. Chicago Convention may be oycrwheln
ON by the weight of Radical maladministrat
nst since the Rebellion was wound up by G
fo, eral Grant upon their shoulders If
tb- look at the facts which confront the pe'
nv when tley come TO vote, we Gnd that t.
ors ES TO THE AMOUNT OF THH
THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLl
20 HAVE BEEN IMPOSED UPON Us.
IT. FIND THAT THE NATIONAL DI
col HAS BEEN TO THE TT
,or OF THREE THOUSAND MILLI(
ON MORE. And this when the country
hut peace, and thu people have = right to
the for reduction of taxes and the nationa
NV legation as the fruit of victory won,
IL knows with what terrible sacrifices to e
nm, home and hearth in the country. BIT in
of the load being lghtened WE ARE CA
red on TO BEAR FURTHER ExAcTIoNs, TO So
TO INCREASED EXPENDITURES. In ord
B.. keep a portion of the country in subje
more troops are called for. Men foist'
to Congress from the Southern States,
" Governors who really represent little
'eS' than a mock constituency, demand fro
| Government an expensive army 10
~ them in carrying out schemes and amb
"iio which are purely partizan, and are pos
can ly destructive to the peace and good c
YET country. 1t is facts like these which
intelligent men of all parties when they
to cast their votes, and We cannot be S
scd that majorities are found to protes
phlqqticalIy phlqq against continuance of thi
tai | of government