The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-23
POLITICAL NOTES,

BelKnhpS HlbdnSSs bWiuuiS W"o 49,
nishing headstones for soldiers graves
inferior to those contracted for.
New Hampshire last year gave the
Democrats 39,l2l; Republicans, 39,29S;
Prohibition, 1872; Republican plurality,
172.
The Cleveland radical organs have
nothing to say on Fremont's article, IN
which is given ex. Congressman Parsons
letter as to the Texas Pacific railroad,
showing his corrupt connection there
with.
The Republican M. C.'s at Washington
prefer to abuse the South and getnp reso-
iutions with filings in them. This chaf
is intended to offset the Belknap, Bah
cock and other swindles. 1t won't SUI
fee.
Belknap is his own worst witness. He
admits he sold offices for pay, and yet
Republican leaders and journals are only
blaming Marsh and the Democrats II
the force bill were law Grant would
put Clymer in Fort Lafayette.
st. Louis Times! "Let no man resign
under fire." said Grant upon a certain
occasion; and now he is trying very hard
to make the people believe that he didn't
think Belknap was under fire" the other
day when he came boo-hooing into the
White House.
N. Y Evening Post: The efforts of the
administration -mongers at Washington
to convince the country that the Demo,
cratic committee Of the House aided
Marsh to escape in order to save Belknap
from punishment are futile. What OBJ
ect would it have had? The people can
not be blinded by the dust of the desper-
ate politicians who are endeavoring to
hold their grasp upon the treasury.
The Nation! The crisis came when an
ignorant soldier, coarse in his tastes, and
blunt in his perceptions, fond of money
and material enjoyment, and of low com
pany, was put in the Presidential chair.
His real character as a civilian began to
appear very early in his administration.
1t is a mistake in which he has been con-
firmed by the timidity and slavishess of
his own party, and now that its conse-
quences are coming to light, the party
realize how much damage it has done
them too late to make change without
complete poiticalrevolution and great
national disgrace.
Some good results may grow out of the
Belknap exposure 1t will save a great
deal in fuel for the White House, for in
stance: 1t is even possible that Presi-
dent Grant himself may see the necessity
for retrenchment, ana get along during
the next year with a thousand or two
fewer tons of coal. From present appear
ances it will be made so warm for him
during the remainder of his term that
the annual appropriation for ordinary
fuel for the Executive Mansion may safe
ly be reduced at least five or six thou
sand dollars without the slightest danger
that any of its distinguished occupants
will freeze on account of such economy.
Fred Grant has been ordered west. Os-
tensibIy, to fight the Indians; probably,
to escape the summons of the Congress
sional investigating committee.
Major Gordon, one of the candidates
on the Republican State ticket in Indi-
ana, has refused to pay the assessment
for campaign purposes demanded of him,
and will decline to be a candidate, if the
assessment plan is carried out. The no.
ton of an assessment, the gentleman
says, is repugnant to all his conceptions
of right, and he cannot countenance it.
All of the Republican State and county
officers in Indiana, have been taxed as
usua! five per centum of their salaries for
the support of the Republican canvass,
and this refusal to pay is the first that the
State committee has received.
The election of Democratic House OF
Representatives in 1874, says the Herald
now proves to be national blessing Not
that the Democratic party is the custo-
dian of the honor of the country, but
that the existence of a powerful opposi-
ton in Congress is necessary to honest
administration. Would Republican
House have investigated the corruptions
of the War Department? Never Party
pride prohibited the admission that in
quiry was needed.