The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-09-06

confess the charge, and will tell you how
itall happened" Read the declaration.
Yon will Rid no condemnation of the re-
sumption policy. no demand for the re-
monetization OF the silver dollar, nothing
In approval of the Presidents adoption
of the Democ. attic plan for the paclica-
tion of the States, nothing in approval of
his measures of Civil Service Reform.
Read the declaration:
"The Republicans Of Ohio congratulate
the people that tEeir management OF To-
cal affairs has been true to the moral and
industrial interests of the people, and
chat in National affairs they have exhib'
tied the same fidelity to right principles
and practices"
Congratulate you, my fellow'citizensI
felicitate you! rejoice with you, and ask
YOU TO rejoice with them at this wonder.
full achievement of Republican policyll-
"true to the moral and industrial inter
estsl w Do you not feel that your moral
nature has been elevated, and yonr pock-
cts filed to plethora by this hdelityY
And this boast--no, this taunt-in Ohio,
at the very moment troops were needed
to move the accumulated trains and the
workmen in the mines of the Hooking
and Mahoning, and in the workshops of
your city were demanding more wages,
that they might have more bread!
ave reaflirm confidence in Rutherford
B. Hayes as statesman, patriot and Re-
publican"
Not word in favor of his admnistra-
ton, of his specific acts, of his withdraw
al oftroops from the State houses of Lou
isiana and South Carolina, Of his deClar-
alton that Office holders should not run
the machine" of partizan organization.
On the contrary, the nominee for Cover
nor, in accepting before the convention
the result of the ballot, damned it with
faint praise" by saying he would give
"our present Administration a fair trial
and thorough test"
ave reaffirm our unalterable purpose
to maintain and enforce the amendments
to the Federal Constitution"
Goodl The Democratic convention,
week before, had affirmed the same un-
alterable purpose. On this point we
may have peace, provided they can per-
suade Packard, Chamberlain, Blaine and
Beatty.
eve are in favor of both silver and |
gold as money; that both shall be legal
tender IN the payment of all debt, except |
as otherwise provided by law, with coin.
ing and valuation 80 regulated that our
people shall not suffer disadvantage in |
trade with foreign nations, and that both |
metals shall be keptin circulation as the |
money of the nation, as Contemp plated by |
the Constitution, and we therefore de-
mand the reconciliation of silver"
Wonderful No restoration of the sill
yer dollarl No unlimited legal tenders!
No righting the wrong of 1873. A new
Coinsgel new valuationl and even that |
reconciliation only on conditions which
cannot be determined in advance. lie
gal tender except where otherwise pro-
Vided by law" Silver is legal tender
now except as otherwise provided by law
and this declaration through all its Jug
glery of words demands nothing else.
For ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain," even the heather Chine-e
would be put to the blush.
"We view with alarm the present dis
turbed condition of the country"
Disturbed condition. Disturbed by
what? Their policy, they say, has been
always true to the industrial interests of
the people," Disturbed condition."
The country has been rent by discord;
the railroads have been prevented run
ming; the mines and shops have been
closed; three millions of men are out of
employment, and this declaration deli.
iCAteiy speaks Of disturbed condition"
and hints that it excites alarm.
eve earnestly sympathize with the
honest and industrious laborers who are
willing to work, and remain unempoy.
ed" Sympathizs with them! Why not
relieve them2 Why depress all indus
tries2 Why persist in this resumption
policy, which has, in fact as was foreseen
and predicted, destroyed all business and
deprived labor Of all employment Their
policy has increased all public as we'll as
private indebtedness; ii has reduced the
currency; it threatens to still reduce it;
it has made all the future uncertain; it
prOclaims as its avowed purpose that all !!
debts now incurred shall, within eighteen !
months, be increased per cent and, if !
they persist in boarding gold, perhaps so
per cent; that all the circulating money
shall be increased in value in the same
proportion; that all the products of labor
shall be deprecated to the same extent;
and in the face of the inevitable paralysis
ofenterprise and the ideness of laborers,
they refuse to change this policy, and I
yet express sympathy for unemployed ,
Workmenl \
And as an earnest of this sympathy, as y
q remedy for these evils; as a preventive L
of all strikes and cure for the causes q
which produce them, the Republican :
convention demands Bureau of Indus. /
try"-Congressional Intervention to Sc. 6
cure fair returns on capital, fair wages to G
iabOrers, to prevent mismaDagement, :
wrong determinations, and dishonesty T.
in officials. and to establish statutory ar. v
bitratiOn between employers and en- u
ployes. A National Bureau of Indus o
try" to be of the least use, must be much u
better managed than any bureau we ever -
had. We have had Bureau of Agricul. u
ture, and the chief good it has ever done e
has been to distribute dried seeds, some. n
times weavil wheat, and to publish re- a
port, which attentive members of Con- u
gress may send as a compliment to their e.
constituents. n
The Republican Remedy. ., y
1t is in the power of Congress to effect y
all this relief to labor, but not according u
to this Republican plan. l will point out
the Democratic plan hereafter Congress
sional Intervention to secure "fair returns 81
on capital, fair wages to laborers, good st
management of railroads. Whence does al
Congress derive this power? Where is d
the grant in the Constitution? 1t is no. tc
where to be fOund this action is utterly it
beyond the scope of the powers or the IL
functions of the Federal Government. tt
"All powers not granted are reserved" q
No man can point out this grant. IfCon. Il
gress may intervene to this extent in the ci
case Of a railroad, it may intervene also oi
in the case of every machine shop, and ca
and manufacturing establish az
ment in the land, If it may secure fair vi
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