The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-09-23

,nce of the financial question under dis
,ussion, nor have | the least desire to
withdraw the proper share of your atten-
ton from that subject. But 1t seems to
me that the Democratic psrty of Ohio in
this caavaS have accepted certain
False INTERPRETATIONS
which their opponents have put upon
their attitude, and that have, to some ex-
tent, atleast, allowed the common enemy
of us all to select the field and dictate
the order of battle, You must have no
ticed the peculiar eagerness with which
the Republican managers ut the outset OF
this canysss sought TO inaugurate a sys-
tenn of purely aggressive tactics, and the
painful soititude they manifested lest
they should be forced into a defensive
campaign. The Democraticplatlorm and
ticket were both strikingly deficient IN
salient points for attack but the Repub,
licaus managed finally, by sheer force OF
inphdent misrepresentation and adroit
mismterpretation, 20 transform the cur
rendy plank in your platform into the
Object of assault which they required. In
an evil moment, as it seems to me, some
ofyoIr representative men accepted the
gage as thrown down by your adyersas
fies, and the latter following up with re-
parkable allcrity and yigUr the vantage
thus afforded, hsvUnp to this time sue
ceededi inconfuiDttht campaign within
the limits set by themseiyea.
ooK L RADICAL IMlUDENcE
IN this systCn, of tactics, the adroit-
ntssi Of winch we must admire, even
Wliile We despise its iuipudence, the at
lGDlon of the people Of Ohio, and ofthe
nation at large, for that matter, has been
distracted from many important points
which are at issue as much now as ever
LARGELY TO the benefit of the Republican
and to the detriment of the Democratic
cause. The Democratic policy has been
heralded the length and breadth of the
land as a policy of reputation. The Re-
publican party sets itself up as the espe-
cial and only conseryator of the faith of
the nation The Republican party sets
up for the only and original advocate Of
specie payments and arraigns the De-
mocmcy as the party Of initiation. Moth
ing could be more absurdly fraudulent
than these pretcosions of the Republican
party, and it Would be difficult for in
genuity developed in any other than the
Republican school to concoCt system Of
more extravagantly impudent falsehoods
than are these imputations upon the
Democratic party. Ofcoursethe sole OBJ
iect of the Republicans is to retain in
the egoyernment of the nation that control
which for some time has been gradually
slipping from their hands. CONSCIOUS
that they have forfeited the confidence
of the people, the Republican leaders
now seek to impose upon their Credulti-
ty. Taught by the overwhelmingdefeat
Of last fall that their old cant and hypOc.
risy and old pretensions have lost etil-
caCy, they have invented new cant and
new hypocrisy and new pretensions. Let
US briefly analYze the present position OF
the Republican party rs compared with
the position from which it was so sig
naly routed last fall And before we
enter upon this comparative analysis, let
us refresh our memories with the fact
that this Republican party which CON
fronts us in Ohio to-day lis the legal and
logical representative in this State Of
the National Republican party, my able
and independent friend, MIR. Murat Hal
stead. to the contrary Notwithstanding;
that it is part and parcel iof that
SAME OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY
upon whose infamous head descended
the wthering bolts of your long-chal-
lenged wrath last fall; that it is the same
old Republican party which carried the
election of 1872 by force in one section
of the country, and by open, fragrant
purchase in another; that it is the same
old Republican party which, for years,
has trodden upon law and brushed aside
the Constitution like a cobweb in its
path, whenever these restrrints inter.
posed between itand its objects; that it
is the party of Credit Mobilliers, the par
ty of the Indian Ring, the party of the
Whisky Ring, the party of Boss Shep-
herds. Ring, the party of the Strawbid
Ring in mail contracts, the party of the
Jayne and Sanborn moiety swindles, the
party of Pomeroy, the party OF $1,000
Harlan the party of Colfax, the party of
Landauet and Outrage Williams, the
party of Delano and his son John, the
party of Mr.. Richard Safe-Burglary Har-
rington, the party of De Gollyer and Nc
Lellan's 5000 Garfield, the party of Jay
Cooke and of his silent partner in the
Finance Committee of the Senate, John
Sherman; the party of the Force Bill,
the party of Kellogg, Of Packard and of
Casey, Of Clayton, Of Dorsey and of Spen-
Ger; the party of Durell and Busteed and
CharlesT Sheman-types of infamy in
the annals of American judiciary-the
party of Moses in South Carolina, and of
Ames in Mississippi. In fine; that it is
the same old Republican party which
years ago invented the science of public
pIunder and made official theft fashiona-
BILE; the same old Republican party that
has degraded the science Of government
into the systematization of plumber and
elevated the art of stealing to place in
the schools of political economy.
These, fellow.citizens of Ohio, are
"a. THE TERRIFIC TRUTHS
from whose hideousness the Republican
managers are now straining every nerve
to divertyour attention, these, my fr. ends,
are the fierce facts which the Republican
leaders, from John Sherman, with the
unappeased specter of poor, murdered
Dickinson and the unquiet ghost of the
HUI It records, haunting his dreams and
dogging his waking footsteps; to poor,
disappointed Morton, with his Senatorial
record; like Joseph's coat, upon his
shoulders, and his tattered and Worn-out
old bloody shirt futtenng drearily at
half-mast in distress are striving to howl
out your memories by their frantic cant
about the public schools and by their
hypocritical clap-trap about the finances.
And, some of your representative Demo-
Gratis have been lgood-natlired enough to
forget, or at least to ignore, the foul re-
cords of these men and to meet them
upon an equal footing in the discussion
oi new issues, so-called, and in contrO.
yersy upon abstruse questions. For my
part cannot agree to any such arrange