The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-08-31
GENERAL MOVES,

ZEN AASAA No ONESs
The Republican candidate for Governor,
spoke his piece in Columbus, on Thursday
evening last He unfurled his banner to
the breeze and set his sail.
| ON AMNESTY.
General Noyes is both for and against
amnesty. He thinks it would have been
better had the more prominent traitors
been tried, condemned and execatGd after
the war" by not doing So" he says.
1--WE lost the force of a salutary example,
Still, adds the General,
ain the estimation OF the civilized world,
we appear in strong and favorable con-
| trast with the Versailles Government,
which, upon the downfall of the Commu-
nists, INDUCED IN wholesale butcheries of
men, women and children"
A little hanging-retail "butcheries" of
the prominent rebels-is what the General
would have had. Being disappointed in
this respect, he now favors general amnes-
ty, poith exceptions.
AS To THE KU-KLUX MEASURE,
The General heartily endorses it. It is by
this act President Grant can suspend the
writ of ha6eas corpus in Ohio to-day,
have one of his lieutenants arrest Cover
nor Hayes, try him by a court-martial,
and hang him before night, or send his
bayonets and Gatlihg mitrailleuse to a
State Convention and drive out the anti
Grant Republicans, as was done in New
Orleans two weeks ago. These are the
possibilities and actualities of the law
General Noyes indorses as ''timely and
wise" He is an advocate then of the
Grant republican bayonet despotism. He
did not say what he thought of the work
at New Orleans. CARL ScHURz says on
infamy:
''The (Ku-Klux) bill was opposed to
the fundamental principles of our consti-
tutional system. 1t was not right that
President Grant should be clothed with
the almost dIctatorial power which the
Ku-Klux bill gives him, so that he could
act according to his own free will in any
part OF the land, and declare any part of
the land in state of insurrection; declare
any part, where there might be a combi-
nation of men whose supposed object
might be violence to life or property, un-
der military subiection, without requlsi-
ton from the Governors or Legislatures.
On the strength of declaration of insur-
rection, he might suspend the hG6eGS COR
pltS-the palladium of liberty against
evil disposed power. I voted against it
because believed that the constitutional
limitations that guard our rights and lib
critics are of more Importance to the coun-
try. opposed it because I would not be
willing to give the best of men the dicta-
torship over the American people. Had
such a law been called into existence in
the time of James Buchanan, the Presi-
dent by virtue thereof might have declar-
ed the anti-slavery organization, ay, even
the Republican party, at least in the
South, N state of rebellion, and punish
ed it accordingly"
Noyes or SchuIz Who talks most like
a statesman imbued with the principles of
constitutional liberty?
ON FINANCE AND TAXATION
The General lodged wofully. He twad-
died about 'repudiation" as if the Demo-
cratic party favoredit. But he calls paying
the bonds in greenbacks reputation. Why,
did not the Radical State Convention of
Ohio in 1868 declare in favor of taxing
the bonds and paying the debt in green
backs? Did not Senator Sherman stigma
tie as an extortioner and repudiator, the
bendholder who refused to receive green
backs for his bonds? Has he forgotten
what Senator Morton declared, or the
stinging sentences of Thad. Stevens, who
drafted the loan bills?
Let Mr.. Noyes remember that customs
duties in the last year of Johnson's ad-
ministration amounted to $164, 100000
per annum. They are now over $685.
100000 in gold. No wonder General
Noyes considers finances "a difficult sub
ject to handle Such facts do not' look
like lowering the taxes And Mr. Noyes
should show wherein Grant & Co. have
reduced taxes ninety millions where he SO
asserts. His villainous statement that
fifty thousand murders have been commit
ted al the South within short time is
equally infamous.
General Noyes thinks National Banks
are not very profitable and as to the tariff
he is not very clear but sufficiently so to
indicate his fealty to the robbery system
of yankeedom.
As to civil service reform he praised
Grant for what he has done, not alluding
to Grants kicking Ex-Governor Cox from
the Interior Department because of his
being in favor of reform in the Depart
ments at Washington and throughout the
country.
Of course, like the rest of the radical
stumpers, he was silent on carpet-bag
stealing ($l75, 100000, land-grabbing, the
San Domingo Job, Grants nepotism, and
the use of military power to control the
local politics of States in the interest of
the Presidents Reorganization. He in
dorses the Ku-Klux bill champions the
National Banks; and favors the continu-
apce of heaUv taxation