The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
A Calm and Impartial Review
of the Condition Of
the Country.
A CHANGE is NECESSARY


We rejoice in the assurance these cleo
tons convery that your ballots will bestow,
decisive maiorities to the allied forces OF
Democracy and reform in the November
election throughout the Union. But we
rejoice not as partisans. We rejoice with
YOU as fellow citizens. And when the
decision this week Of one million voters
along the valley ofthe Ohio shall be ratl
fed next month by the fiat Of eight mil
lion voters throughout the whole republic,
we shall still rejoice, chiefly for the rea-
son that not one of its citizens can miss
of an equal share with us who are Dem.
ocrats in the political peace and good
will which will then and there be estab-
lished among all sections, races, classes
and conditions of men, and in the pros
perty of which political peace based on
equal rights and fraternal good will is
the first condition.
Upon three states, West Virginia, Ohio
and Indiana were concentrated all the
influences ofthe administration-all their
efforts and all the vast sums of money
forced from one hundred thousand office
holders of the party in power. These
were fearful odds, not again to be con-
tended against so concentrated, for in the
November elections the contest will be
in every one of the thirty eight states
upon the same day. Nevertheless,
against these odds the Democrats and
Reformers Of West Virginia and Indiana
have been victorious, and in Ohio they
have all but rescued the state. hitherto
deemed hopeless, and have created an
assurance of victory in November.
Ifit falls to our lot as the national
Democratic committee to congratulate
the people of the Union upon this victory
in the first battle of the reform campaign,
it is only because as Democrats we have
been honored to be the leaders of the
people in the work of national regener-
alton. Victory won and victory still to
be won will be delivered as much to Re-
publicans as Democrats. The patriotic
masses ofthe Republican party may be
thankful that the misdeeds of their un-
worthy leaders have been rebuked. and
are to be arrested. The suffering whites
of the South may lift up their heads to
greet the dawn of better day for them
as well as the nation at large. The col
ored citizen may share the generally JOY
that he will soon cease to be the stock in
trade of corrupt politicians, but shall en-
joy his rghtful liberties and his equality
before the law amid universal good will.
As for the Reform Democracy, to whose
standards victory has been tied with all
her garlands on, it only remains for
them to welcome every ally, every friend
close up the ranks and press on shoulder
to shoulder under the banner and with
one watchword-
REFORM!
Fellow citizens: Peace between all
sections; prosperity in all our homes-of
these you have been for years deprived
by the mistaken solicitudes Of patriotic
Republicans, played upon by selfish and
corrupt leaders, who have kept tanning
the dying embers Of civil strife in order to
escape the inspection oftrusts which they
have betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. AT no time have you
had the substance ofpeace. Inlieu there
of you have had the grinding taxation
and wasteiul expenditure ofwar. Just be"
fore every election, every year, you have
had the preaching Of a new crusade
against section utterly defeated in war
and anxious only to be completely re-
conciled in peace,
For eleven years the power OF the men
who have seized away the control oftheir
party from the hands of its statesmen
and founders has been supreme in al
most every department Of the federal
government. Discarding the hope Of
prologing their domination by benefcent
public measures, they have created and
traficked upon public calamities. The
policy they adopted has been worked
out. Its failure has been absolute. In
place of past performances these same
corrupt and selfish leaders now proffer
promises already broken as their titles
to further trust. Having prostrated our
manifold industries by vast aggregates
and the worst methods of federal taxa
ton, they now again solicit your conf
dence as instruments of retrenchment
and reform. Having debauched the pub
lie service and having just now, in the
face of open day, assessed their army of
a hundred thousand Office holders 1.-THE
peoples servants) paid by the people S
taxes, in order to create immense cor
ruption,fundsto Illustrate the peoples will.
they now profess to be the champions Of
civil service reform, Having imposed
upon the southern states, rapacity fraud
and plunder, carpet bag governments
having almost ruined the prosperity of
the north by destroying the prosperity Of
the south-having created terror, uncer-
tainty and confusion in all the prodt Give
industries OF the South which furnl> h
most ofthe exports of our whole country,
keep in motion the commerce and manu-
factures Of the North and East. and fur
nish market for the agricultural pro
ducts of the West--they now purpose,
by renewal Of the same fatal policy to
prolong their own power in the hope OF
conceaiing their misdeeds, and for this
purpose they do nothesitate to renew the
cry OF intolerance, to revive the dying
memories of fraternal strife and to appeal
to the fears and prejudices Of the timid
and ignorant p ~ 80
Fellow citizens: These men and their
measures have,been completely tried and
have completely failed. Oppressive tax