The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-09-27
SENATOR THURMAN.
His Opening Speech in the Ohio
Campaign.
No Forced Resumption and RemOnetlza.
ton of Silver.

Marion, o., Sept. 22.-Hon. Allen G,
Thurman made his speech in the Ohio
campaign at Marion this evening. Great
interest was manifested, and large au-
dience of representative Democrats and
many Republicans were in attendance.
Senator Thurman spoke two hours His
remarks covered three questions:
First, relative to the disputed Presiden-
tial election. Mr.. Thurman claimed the
fair and undoubted election of Samuel j.
Tildcn to the Presidency; that the count
by the Returning Boards of Louisiana
and Florida was fraudulent and the meth
ods by which the final results were arriv-
ed at in those States, clearly illegal under
the law which created the Returning
Boards, to say nothing of the unconstitu-
tionality of the act itself. He claimed
that the Electoral Commission, in refus-
ing to hear the evidence of the want of
jurisdiction in the Returning Boards of
Louisiana and Florida were clearly in er.
ror. He warned the people of closely
contested elections if such proceedings
did not receive their severe and immedi-
ate condemnation.
Second-.Senator Thurm an claimed
that the policy of President Hayes was
precisely that which he, the Senator, ha d
contended for during the past ten years.
He Contrasted this policy with the speech
es of Republican paTtisaDs last year
and drew the conclusion that the De-
mocracy were right as the South had
proven.
Third-He showed the necessity ofre.
form in the administration of the Gov
eminent and called upon the speech of
Hon. John Sherman in evidence, show
ing by his speech that an array of useless
relatives had fed npon the Government
for years, drawing pay for no service
whatever, to the amount of near two mill
lion dollars, in portion of the customs
service and treasury departments, and
claimed that this indicated extravaganza
in all departments of the Government,
nd that reform in the fullest sense of
the word could only be secured by
complete change of administration, and
in all departments and subordinate posi-
tions, by placing men who had no inter
est in Concealing and converting up the
wrong doings of the past.
Financial Matters,
In reference to the suppression of busi-
ness and the want of employment of la
Dor, the Senator said that, without refer
ring to the destruction Of property in the
civil war, and the peculiar circumstances
TO which the war gave rise, there were
three great causes that deserved notice:
First-The effect of improved labor
saving machinery.
Second-Of exorbitant taxation.
Third-Of the appreciation in value of
the currency that is the purchasing
power of the dollar.
He spoke at some length of the effect
of each of these causes, and in reference
to the last said that, however desirable
return to a sound basis for our currency
might be, it could not be denied that it
was severe operation upon people or
Governments in debt, and that expert
enCe showed that we were reaching the
specie basis as fast as a just regard to the
interest of the country would permit and
that to force resumption was neither just
or polite. He feared that forced re.
sumption could not be maintained, but
thought thatresumption would take place
in comparatively short time and would
be maintained. He explained the acts of
Congress demonetizing silver, and advo-
Gated the reconciliation ofthe dollars of
the fathers as an act of simple justice as
well as of good policy.