The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

D. P. ON THE SITUAT TON
MACAO EEK, Nov. IA, 1875,

idept of the United States Commander
in.Chief of the Army and Navy, sends
the first on the eve of sn exciting and
close election into State, on the ques-
tionable request of a Governor, to guard
the polls and see that order is preserved
Following this comes another military
move into State after the election is
over, and when the returns are in dis
pate, without demand from Governors
Oy Legislatures, again to see that order
is preserved,
From what source the President gets
his legal authority for this use of the
army in possessing himself of the polls
no man pretends to say, 1t is common,
know, for men to sneer at the Consti-
tation. They sneer at all law which at
tempts to limit or control popular i'm
pulse. The gentlemen forget, however,
that their day is passed. The late cleo
tions prove, let the Electoral College be
what it may, that the majority of the
people now favor, respect and believe in
sustaining the constitutional law these
gentlemen have heretofore laughed at
and abused. The fact that made their
sneers and usurpations safe for the last
ten years now make such conduct very
dangerous. Unless l greatly mistake
the significance ofthe late popular vote,
and the alarm of many, and the indigna-
tion of all, it is not prudent in these ad-
vocates of Granlism to continue the line
OF conduct that has made them marked
men for years A popular tumult would
now have the moral strength that comes
Ofa support of law, and would be fierce
and vindictive from the sense of wrong
and insult the minority has so long suf-
fered in the violation of the Constitution
enacted for its protection The indepen-
dent editor would no longer wax fat and |
rich selling the earliest accounts of bat.
ties afar off. The battle would be about
his own office. with an objective point in t
the lamp-pOst disagreeably near The {
war would not be at the South, ut wher- ,
ever number Of indignant citizens un- /
covered Grant hound, be he editor or +
official agent. |
God send that we be spared any such r
civil strife, but warn my Radical friends o
that an acquiesCeuce in Grants infamous s
orders, and sneers at people who oppose h
them, is not the better way to avert what :
they have the most reason to dread. b
| see that orator Halstead has taken G.
alarm. Well he may. Not only has his ft
pa Jer for the last four years warned the h
people against the dishonest and inso- t
lent usnrpatiOn in the South of thieving o
carpet baggers, but it has taught, in "
gay, reckless manner, that very disregard 81
of law as found in its highest form in P
Constitution which would now make a OF
Lynch Court acceptable. Such a sudden
change as be has made opens the way to tE
most uncharl able suspicious that in his
iaVorlle' popular court pass so frequent hi
" ior evidence me queslloh Is NOT III
wbaC meats mas tl'IS caesar leu upon
put "naL e"r'iiiy consideration so sud III
1eIly lnHuenCeu ms conuuc'' "
zee thaG Vrah'' III la'e interview, " "
9Nys 'llat 'lIe use VI ,IooPs SEM 0ou'l, 'I pI
vas meant Vlily ~ NeeP .he peace' anu
" man peha!eu lIulselI ne liau no Iea- w w
9oll W ieaI tneIl lnlelieIeIce' anu 0neI- C' c'
nan, aIsV lntel'iemeu, taAeS conlIorI 10 ~
a ilnlsel' Iilal ms olNcerS were slcH gen
leEieh ~ vnaC Ao man CON nlplalleu VI IHeul we
VOW, slhce wnen @ nave nave Cnese ePaulet1 ~
eu SGn.einen oeon niaIo Gui suaiulalioI :. 80
a ana now gracious sounds tnelr assurance IL IL,
nat II we DehaVe ourselves we nave no IL
,eason to fear There was time IN our fol
history Wnei sne @ cl'iIef fl,t Was Fan aliSWeraDie ~
'nIy W the Jaw, anu leIl SllaG no nan ue
ouiu ihole'v " I'm ti - VIC i'
Ie 10 nave measures oI Enls sort let us s!L i
ooA aoou' us Ir seio W Europe anu Sc nv
ecG nlah' sucl as uarlpalui, DlsinaIck W W
u Won Moitke, "nC' W soluieriy aohlIy, Cn,
'Sus y solne lnloIIlaV!on, II noC statesman
'hlP' Al plaoe VI tiiIS niah Mhooe lghoi- 9al M
Ace "lohe saves hln iIoni lIlpeachnenV' w,
OUR STANDING ARMY cal
If there is any one fear more than an Oe
ther that haunted the founders of our r@C
government, it was standing army
his dread runs through all their speech. Ca
s, letters, essays, constitutional provis- ha
ons and other legal enactments. 1t rests an,
Ike shadow upon Washington's Fare me
yell Address. and more than one cleo me
ion in an early day turned on the fear see
such an armed power. We knew of ha
10 and Van Buren's standing army, as it DIP
vas charged, but realizes the memory of ant
great fear, that until then left us by col
he fathers, fell down upon the hearts of hlr
he people. ton
And we'll might there be such a dread, the
he bayonet has ever in the past been ing
n the side of despotsm, unless, indeed, Jus
9 sometimes happened in France, the hin
ayonet has been taught to think and the
Ontinues to feel. we,
We cannot hope for this in our army. fac
t is alive in all its parts. Modelled after say
hat of Great Britain, its officers, trained Tai
, blind obedience, boast of their polit- kic
,al ignorance, and, being without SYM not
aty for the people, are without patriot. any