The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-11-12

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people are a constitution-loving people
Show me one valuable provision of the
Constitution of the United States that ha:
not been violated by our Radical rulers
in the last nine years. The American
people are a liberty loving people, but
liberty has been trampled under foot from
one end OF the Republic to the other by
this Radical party The American people
are Home Rule loving people, but
Home Rule has been treated with scorn
and contempt by our Radical rulers, and
the doctrine is now acted Upon persist
emily by the American Congress that il
may exercise as omnipotent power as the
Parliament Of Great Britain. The Amer
fcan people are an economy-loVing peo.
pie, but our expenses are such that man
looks around-in despair when he sees
the face of the tax gatherer. The Amer
ican people are an honesty-loying peo-
pie, but Credit Mobiliers, -Sanborn con.
tracts, Custom House frauds, the secret
service division tcheersl have made
corruption a~synonym for Government
IN the United States. No wonder there
IS discontent- But, says some one, the
great cause Of discomfort is because we
are in financial trouble, that many mills
and factories are stopped, or are running
on half time, that many laboring men
are thrown out of employment or are
only on half work. That is very true
and no one sympalhizes with them more
than do, but let me ask each one of you,
II the government is responsible for
that condition CT things.if any party in
the country is responsible for the want
Of employment, for the stoppage Of mills,
for the laborers cry for bread for his
wife and children, what party is it :
lCnes Of the Republican party" Il is
not the Democratic party, for we had no
power in this land for the last twenty
years. ("That's so, and cheers.) What
could such man as do : Laboripg men,
when I entered that Senate thefd were
ten Democrats against sixty Republi-
cans when we were less than one-third
of the Senate. But during all this time,
during the four years of the war and ihe
nine years Of peace, that have passed
sinfe NE war CLOSED, the Republican
Batty bias had 4 Triumphant Bmaj0rity in
both branches Of the government Of the
United States. Il has had absolute con-
troll over the currency it has exercised
lthat control 1t has legislated out Of ex1
Iistqnee alllthe old hanks, ahd Set up its
lowh fnstitutibns inl their places. The
Republicans have claimed to be the wis
est and best financiers the world ever
saw, and therefore | say that if these
evils and suferings Of the peoplear to
be laid at the fleet Of any po itical
party, they must be laid at the feet Of
the Radical leaders of the nation.
(Cheers,) But, my friends, while no
doubt it is true that this condition of the
country has influenced the vote of many
men directly, yet l believe its indirect
effect has been greater than its direct ef-
feet. And in this way, while everything
was going on in apparent prosperity,
when the wheels Of industry were all in
motionand every man was getting good
wages and everything looked bright and
cheerful, and although there was q vol
cano liable to eruption at any moment,
and although an earthquake was liable
to open under their feet still the people
did not see it. They thought all was GO
ing well, and they gave To the Admins
tration and our Radical rulers the credit
9f the prosperity of the country, and in
doing that they overlooked the violations
OF the Constitution and of liberty the
ylOlationNOf the habits, feelings and in
stincts of the people, and the assumptions
of power and misconduct of tile Radical
party and the Radical rulers. They shut
their eyes to them. They did not like
them. They did not like to see the Con-
stituhon violated. They did not like to
seethe military set above the civil pow
er. They did not like to see martial law
proclaimed over eleven States of the
Union. But they shut their eyes and
said. "hme will redress this" The
country is prosperous. We will say moth
ing about these things, and redress them
in the future. But when the country
ceased to be prosperous, when the reality
ofsufferingand Indebtedness was brought
home to every mans door, then these
men who had closed Tn ir eyes to the
violation ofthe Constitution, and ofeyery
right of the American people, then these
men who had closed their eyes to the
persecution Of one-third of the United
States opened their eyes, and they gave
vent to their feelings, and the result has
been, my friends, what is now so often
called IA tidal Wave.P Whyyes, il is ID,
tidal wave. Let no man think, iii is an
ordinary earthquake. Let nd manthink
its effects will soon. pass away. No, my
friends, the foundations of the splendid
victories achieved this year were laid
last year. The foundation of the victory
obtained this year in Ohio was laid by
the thorough victory we obtained in the
hour of supreme need last year-(three
cheers for 0hiolTand the wave has only
acquired strength in 1874. But, my
friends, ii is not high tide yet-(Cheers)
not by good deal 1t is only a rise Of
about, six feet that i think is about
spring tide in Washington. In 1876 it
will be Bay of Fundy high tide of six
ty feet7-( -(cheers) my friends, and then
will this misrule under which these peo-
pie have been persecpted 80 long, II be-
heve5 and l trust God may grant, be-
swept away forever.
Atthis point Mr.. Thurman paused, and
,wGs about TO retire, when lohd inquiries
Were i6ade about the third terth. There
upon he resumed:
Ny friend up here in theyWhite House,
hasn't had the slightest idea Of the third
term, yet he is going TO fight it out on
that line If he takes 1t q year ahead.
Nowyit is my opinion that the third term
is such a sickly infant that it never had
any chance of being raised, and all the
milk bottles that my friend Gonklingand
some Others can get together to nurse
that infant, won't prevent it from dying
before 1876 lLaughter)
Now, my frieuds, that Gen. Grant has
desired tc'hage third term it's simply
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