The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-09-02
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Have / not proven that Aliens Adj
ministration has been honest and eco
nomical2 Has il not reduced taxes--re-
duced expenditures Look at any de- |
partment; turn the figures as you will;
economy and retrenchment meet you on
every hand. Applause. "Yes," "yes."l
General Hayes says the taxes for 1874 |
were larger than ever collected in Ohio.
do not know whether this is true. Sup.
pose it is. Where is the increase2 Not
in the State levy, where the Democrats
have power, for haye shown that was
reduced more than $4,000. If there was
any increase it will be found in thetown-
ship and city levies, and where the Re-
publicans have power.
General Hayes for answer to all this
says that in 1867 complained that the
taxes collected in the State were sixteen
millions of dollars and now they are
twenty.seven millions. l did complain
then, | do complain now. Who has in
creased these taxes so enormously The
Republican party has had possession of
the State for twenty years. They have
had the Executive Department in all its
branches-the charitable institutions,
the Sinking Fund Commission, the Leg
| islature, except for one or two terms,
and extravagantly, wantonly they in
creased the expendituer from eight mil
| lions in 1855 to sixteen millions in 1867,
and since then, as Gen. Hayes would
now seem almost to boast, they have
increased it to twenty-seven millions in
1873.
The Republican party is responsible
tor this enormous increase; and no one
man is more responsible than General
Hayes; for OF these six years in which
the increase of eleven millions was made
he was Governor four years.
He drew from the Treasury for his con-
tingent fund, in those four years, more
than thirty-five hundred dollars a year,
while Governor Allen has drawn less
than four hundred a year. Applause
General Hayes is again candidate.
These figures concern him and his former
administrations. commend them to
his consideration. Gwen ask him."]
And when We charge this extrava-
gance on these Republicans, we are told
that an attack is being made or will be
made on our School System. deny it
utterly. When? where2 how? and by
whom2 The limits which l impose on
myself in public discussion forbid me to
speak of 1t as honestly think it de-
serves. 1t is a cruel and wicked effort to
excite the most baleful passions of the
human heart for mere partisan purposes.
l had thought this part of the canvass
was to be left to the unknown and ire
sponsible buckswashlers of politics; but,
in their desperation, the more reputable
men resort to it, General Hayes and Mr..
Taft, / am sorry to say, among others.
Admitting the Geghan bill is harmless
and defensible; that it only executes
plain provision of the Constitution, they
make 1.-THE groundwork of charge that
the Catholic Democrats are attacking
the school system, and would divide the
School Fund. Their fears are feigned.
Their alarm is simulated. They know
that Democrats established and perfected
the school system. They know the
Democrats made and adopted the Consti-
tuition and declared the School Fund for
ever indivisible. They know that in the
recent Convention every member of both
parties save one voted against proposed
change in this respect. They know that
Democratic party has always believed
and acted on the belief Of equality of all
religions before the law and 0ntangling
alliance with none. Who commenced
this agitation asks General Hayes in
his first speech. He did as his party did
no one else thought of it. An obscure
newspaper commenced it. Others have
taken it up, and evory speaker and can
didate and newspaper are ringing the
changes on it, in order to divert public
attention from the true questions of the
canvass. We have beaten them on the
currency question; beaten them on the
questions of State administration. They
fear to risk the fight on these questions,
and now they seek to make an issue
which is no issue, and to drive you from
considerations of interest by appeals to
prejudice or bigotry or honest difference
in religion. Loud applause.
My good friends, Judge Taft, during
two long hours, tells us how and why
his fearful soul has been disturbed by an
apprehended attack upon the school sys-
TEN. Laughter.] l had thought he
was sleeping on the heights of Mt. Au-
burn, and enjoying that repose which
his robust health and cheerful face be-
token; but it appears that he was lying
awake of nights, keeping watch and ward
lest III an hour when he thought not, the
Democratic party and Archbishop Pur-
cell, led by the Pope and stimulated by
the Devil, should execute their grand
conspiracy against good government,
sound morals and religion, and bring free
government and the school system in
ruin on his head. l have read that
speech carefully. There is an order of
the Catholic priesthood-into whose
hands fell for so many years the instruc-
lion and counselling of princes and rulers
so noted for the eloquence and address
of ilsmembers, their plausible arguments
and devious and even contradictory ways
Of reaching a predetermined point, that
1T has lent its name, in vulgar parlance,
to any system of reasoning or of action,
which under the mask of candor and
fairness and justice and even inactivity,
cloak secret designs and constant effort;
and when | read Judge Taft's speech |
felt that ifthst vulgar opinion were cor
rect he would do credit to the highest
education of the Propaganda, and when
l remembered tie was born in New Eng
land and lived all his life in Ohio, felt
that all the Jesuls are not in Rome.
Judge Taft is an able, clear-headed,
Practical man, always honest Voice
rom tie crowd-"Not ALWAYS hUnpst.p