The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-02-17

disnlaved as was eyinced in Hamilton,
the State would have been as gloriously
carried in October as this county was.
The materials existed everywhere taayora-
bly, but the trouble was That our Jr1end.S3
either did not knoU hoW, or Woutd not a0deS
themselves Of them"
On this subject, in another editorial,
the Enquirer said:
"In Hamilton county, where we are
located and more generally read than
anywhere else, we met with very good
success-better, indeed, than the GENTLE
men who considered it a duty TO rail-
at u.s."
The eighth resolution af the Demo-
cratic Greeley Platform that year was IN
these words
"a speedy return to specie payments
is demanded alike by the highest consld-
erations of commercial morality and hon
est government"
Gen. Wiey's majority for Secretary OF
State, in Hamilton county, In 1877, on
the platform containing this resolution,
was 56SS, while General Hayes'N ma
iority in 1875, three years later, was
1896.
Will the Enquirer please explain why
il was that Gen. Wiley received ma
iority of 1888 in Hamilton county on
platform it claims is the platform OF the
money power, and why it is that Gov
Allen at the late election, on the plat
form of the people, as it claims, was beat
en- l,295 in Hamilton countyP
In 1872, the Enquirer told us that had
the Democrats of Wayne and other coun-
ties rallied to the support of Greeley and
his hard money platform as did the
Democrats of Hamilton county, ONO
would have been carried for him trl-
umphantly, and it took great credit to
itself for the excellent work 1t had done
in that campaign in the county OF liam,
iton. 1t said here 1--WE are located, and
more generally read than anywhere
else" Is not the Enquirer "located" IN
Hamilton county now, land more read
there" "than anywhere else" as it was
| in 1872? If this is SO, how comes it that
on a platform to its full liking, embody-
ing, as it claims, the will Of the people,
and in which there is to them the ilnspl,,
ration to great enthusiasm, it allowed
Gen. Hayes to carry the county by ma
iority of /, ,295, on platform which it in
sists is in antagonism to the will and in
terests of the peopleP Is this "attributa-
BILE to the platform of the Ohio Democ-
racy or to Senator Thurman's opposition
to it"
Because Senator Thurman has not at
the bidding of the Enquirer abandoned
the eighth resolution of the Democratic
Greeley National Platform of 1872, on
which at the October election that year
Hamilton county gave Democratic ma
ority of 1888, it has lost no occasion to
throw editorial garbage at him. 1t has
occurred to us as strange that the papers
in three of the counties which did so
badly at the late election on their I'M
proved platform should be so intensely
opposed to Senator Thurman, while the
PAPERS in ten counties that did so well
should express themselves in favor OF
the nomination of Senator Thurman for
the Presidency; and it has, likewise, oc-
Cured to lis that the counties that did so
well should have at least as much voice
in naming their choice for the Presi-
dency, as the counties that did so badly
in assailing that choice of theirs. If they
have not such right, will the Enquirer ex-
plain why Wayne County Democrat