The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-20
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION,
A Free Talk with Christian Voters
and Political Managers.
New York Observer. |

II vvos verv rerreshino and rather ANIL
oinn ~ rood tbe admirable resolutions
ronentIv aJontad hv the Tnion T,eaone
CInb of this Civ looking TO reform in the
mode of mskiGg nominations TO nubIic
Office Those manly, patriotic and sensi-
HE resolves str1ck a powerful blow at
tbe maninuIation of nominating conven-
tions hv Office holders and professional
noliticicns and thew set forth in emnhat.
ir terms fhe necessity and duty of the
nerformance Of that particular service of
The Ineonlen y as a distinct race of beings
from The class of men info whose hands
tbis business is now committed
We saw These sentiments are refresb;no
81 far has the Gbodv noliticn gone info
corrrntion and 50 deem the coma into
which the nation has sunk. il is like a
gaIa of nnIe air in a dungeon, or a stream
of light in its pitch darkness, to hear from
anv intellipent and influential body of
cit;zens sncR n nrotest and appeal We
are assured. when such a hail is heard
from the shin of State. that all on board
are not insensible to her danger. and that
She is not going down without making at
least a sion,
Il is amusing also. Such resolutions
are not new. They have been in sub
stance made and reiterated and published
annually bv reforming committees and
conventions and clubs, and what good
have thew doneP While thew are in pro-
cess Of adontion. and tbe eIoouence of
snpeches in their support is vet vibrating
on the air. the men whom those resolves
are intended TO extinpuish. are quietly
holding their "primary meetings.h mt |
fine in nomination the regular partv can.
didates. the coming convention, and law
inc the rails ON which the trading poIi- |
ticians exnect to run their men into of
flee .at the ensuing election. The men.
the intelIigent honest patriotic Christian
citizens who ought to be at work at the
urinary meetings, are passing patriotic
resolves at the Gibbs. or toasting their
feet in their snug chimney corners at
home
Bnt the time has come for action and
the time for talk has passed bv This
country. our form of Government. the |
ark of Repnblican freedom, is in greater
danger of total destruction now fhan il
was in 1890 The DANCER ia the Greater
now because il is a moral ruin that i'm.
nends War even civil war NAV sween
over the land and cover the harvest fields
with the homes of onr first horn, And
the flowers will bloom again over the
graves of the dead and haryests be in
Creased by the fertilizing blood of citizens.
But for national moral corruption there
isno resurrection. Nations that sink in
their own rottenness 90 down into ever
lasting shame and CONTEMPT living only
in history as warning lessons TO succeed.
inc aces.
He must be blind and deaf who does
not know that we, as a people. have now
reached the verge of that precipice over
which no oa,ion ever fell and rose again.
II NAV he exapgeration to apply the Ian
guage of the nrophet to the American
9ation "Tbe whole head is sick and
tbe whole heart faint from the sole of
the foot even to the head there is no
soundness in it,"
But it is as safe as it is sad to saw that
the pa-ty politics of the country are cor
rupt beyond the possibility of exaooera.
ton. There is do need of any yerV nice
determinations as to who or ,yhdtis most
in the slouph. One points to the other
with the finger of shame, and it is but a
question of Opportunity. "The Washing.
fon Rings beat the Tweed Rings ont of
sioht y is the sententious confession and
refort bv which corrupt men in the two
great nart,es are stipmatized in the same
line II Is not imnortant To make nolit~
ical capital ont of stock in which the hold
had men of all narties trade and viii
trade tntil thew are driven to their hiding
nlaces and nr;:ons The most disLeo,ts
enin0 feature in the whole case ia the
nnwillingness of the people 10 regard it