The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-04-01
THE IMPORTANCE or PARTY or
GANIZa7I0Ns #H g#I

| THE IMPORTANCE on PARTX or
GANE&7I0NE H
There never has been atime in the
history ofour Government when it was
so important for the Conservative Demo-
cratic party to have its organization per-
feet as the present. in unity there is
strength. The Republican party has, by
its reckless course, its violations of the
Constitution, and its efforts to centrolize
all power in the Federal Government,
brought the Republic to the very verge
Of destruction. THIS fact was soapparent
that the sovereign people in the elections
last fall rose mp in their majesty and
made d clean sweep, beating the Repub-
cbns in nearly every State in the Union.
1t was Il glorious triumph for constitu-
tional liberty, That triumph, however
is worth nothingifthe party that achieved
it permits itself to become demoralized
and divided by the Vaccinations Of the
Radical leaders. 1t is an old saying,
"There are more ways to kill dog than
by choking him to death on butter"
This fact the Radical leaders understand,
and they believe there are more ways to
beat the Democrats than by simply out
numbering them, Their tactics will he
to beat the Democrats with Democratic
votes. To be able to do this they will
select soft Democrats and place them at
the head of their tickets, and in this way
divide and conquer. A true Democrat
can never vote for Democrat who has
accepted a nomination at the hands Of
the Radical leaders, for the moment he
does that he is a Radical, or, what is in
finitely worse, the tool of the Radicals.
Any Democrat who would run for Office
as the nominee of the Radical party is
worse than Judas IsCariot. He is q
traitor to all the principles upon which
the liberties of the people are based, and
is lending himself Ggnoranty, perhaps)
to that party who are working to buildup
a centralized despotism, with bonded
aristocracy to control and make the peo-
Pile hewers Of wood and drawers ofwater
for them.
There is great contest now going on
in this country between despotism on
the one hand and liberty on the other.
Grant and his henchmen evidently in
tend, if they can, to destroy our Govern
ment and build up a centralized despot-
ism on its ruins. The progress they have
made in accomplishing their purpose has
been very great. The Constitution, the
great chart Of liberty, has been violated
time and again by these upstarts in
power. No one doubts but Grant has
been influenced in his official acts by the
money power. His veto Of the bill to in
crease the volume Of currency when the
entire commerce of the country was
ruined for the want of currency to carry
it on was conclusive that the bondholders
and moneyed sharks had Grant by the /.
wrist. 1t is this moneyed power the peo-
pie must fight and bring under subjec-
tiun, or constitutional liberty on this con-
tinent will be thing of the past. The
order now is, all along the line, for Demo"
Gratis to stand by their guns, and neither
give nor take quarter. If the line is
broken anywhere it may produce gen.
eral route, and result in a victory for the
Radical destruction party in 1875. If so,
then farewell to republican liberty on
the American continent, now and for
ever. Politics must enter into our mu-
nicipal elections it cannot be avoided.
The loss of the pending municipal elec-
ton in Cincinnati may lose Ohio to the
Democracy in the Governors election
and the loss of Ohio in that election may
lose us the President in 1876; and with
that loss goes the liberties of the people.
To your tents, oh, Israel and let every
Democrat work for the success of the
ticket as if his life depended on his exer
tions; for more than life may depend on
them. Human freedom may depend on
them. We say to the Democrats of Gin
cinnati, the eyes of the nation are upon
you; it is now your time to prove your
selves worthy to belong to thst great
army of patriots who are battling for hu-
man freedom. Will you prove recreant
in this hour of your country's peril and
disappoint the earnest hopes of your fel.
low Democrats all over this broad land !
We believe every true patriotic Demo-
crat in Cincinnati will in emphatic tones
answer, We are ready for the contest.
Il Gin. Enquirer.
BAScOM of course ioined Louschaefer