The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-01-26
THE PARTY OF TREASON AND
TREACHERY

| LLEANlAEAN
We are unable to find single pledge
which the radical party now in power has
sacredly observed after attaining power.
On the contrary they have shamefully
violated and disregarded every pledge
made.
Their "war for the Union" has only
turned out to be a war for the Negro, and
against the Union and the Constitution.
After taking an oath to obey the constitu-
ton, they have constantly and repeatedly
trampled it under foot, and are now en-
gagged revolutionizing cur whole system
of government. In this work of tyranny
they ruthlessly consign sovereign states
to bayonet rule, and reconstruct, uncon-
struct, or niggerstruct these states by the
same means.
Amid all these doings their treachery
is manifest by claiming that they are ''thc
party of freedomp' Their claim of
Equal rights" is seen in their exempting
bondholders from taxation-their favor
ing National Banks with special privileges
and the general corruption and burden
some taxation heaped upon the people
An exchange thus presents a few of
their "PLEDGEs BROKEN -
The Republican party went into power
on tins pledge of their national platform
plank number two:
The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the South was
demanded by every consideration of pub
lie safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and
must be maintained; lChiIe the question
of suffrage IN all The loyal States properly
belongs to the people Of those StateS"
Power got, and the Republican party at
once broke faith. 1t is driving the if
teenth amendment along with whip and
spur, which takes away from the loyal
States what properly belongs to the peo-
plo of those States, the control of ''the
question of suffrage"
The Republican party went into power
on this pledge of their national platform
plank number Z:
"The government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy, and the corruptions which have
been so shamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew Johnson whom they themselves
elected call loudly for radical reform"
Power got, and the Republican party
at once broke faith Mr.. Dawes is a wit
ness from their own ranks that their talk
of economy was pretence, their denunci-
alton of corruption a piece of hypocrisy
their pledge of reform fraud The eco
nomical estimates for this years expenses
are outrun by millions, and the peoples
money is squandered so recklessly that
even honest Radicals cry out in protest
The Republican party went into power
on this pledge oftheir national platform
the resolution added on motion of Carl
Schurz:
"Resolred, That we highly commend
the spirit of magnauimity and forbearance
with which men who have served in the
rebellion, but who now frankly and hon
estly cooperate with us in restoring the
peace of the country and reconstructing
the Southern State governments upon the
basis of impartial Justice and equal rights
are received back into the communion of
the loyal people; and we favor the remov-
al of the disqualifications and restrictions
imposed upon the late rebels in the same
measure as their spirit of loyalty will di-
rect and as may be consistent with the
safety of the loyal people"
Power got, and the Republican party
again breaks faith Virginia complies
with every condition demanded of her,
submits TO all milations-Congress still
refuses to her the representative self-gov-
ernment which is her right, and makes a
mockery OF fthe guarantee of the Constitu-
tion to that effect. Georgia is in like case,
and is treated with equal and monstrous
perfdy.
The Republican party went into power
on this pledge of their national platform
plank number f.
1T is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and re-
duced as rapidly as the national faith viii
permit"
Power got. and the Republican party
broke its faith General Grant recon-
mends that the tariff swindle shall stand
as it is; in the face of an enormous sur
plus that is now at Washington squander-
ed by millions a day.