The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-11-01
NEMESIS.
(For the St. Louis Republican,

NfNNaAJ
Ohio repeats the verdict Of California
upon the great Republican fraud OF last
year. There is no reason to doubt that
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Wiscon'
sin emphasize that verdict In November
There will be presented to this country
the singular spectacle Of new admnis-
tration repudiatCd in the first year of ms
existence by the very party that gave II
birth. New York, New Jersey, Connect
lent, Indiana, Ohio and California are to
day Democratic aud Of their welve SEN
ators but four are Republicans, and all OF
these are doubtless destined TO he re-
placed by Democrats al the next election
In Ohio and California, Stanley Mat
thews and Sargent's places are certain to
be filed by Democrats, Conkling, III
New York, and Morton in Indiana, are
nearly ut the end of their tether. Booth
of California, was elected IN an "lnde'
pendent" Thus Crumhles to ashes the
very citadel of RepubliCanism m-the send'
torial majority If the Senate, possessed
by them ever since the secession OF the
Southern Senators in 1861, That fanati-
cal organization of sectionAlists (who will
now pass into history on level with the
canting and hypocritical parliament ban
ished from power by Oliver Cromwell)-
hitherto known as the Republican" par
ty have received its coup de grGCel 1t
could not have survived the next four
years in any event, but the hideous inta'
my leading tn it's self-destructiOn can n
ly be regarded as the consistent culmina
ton of its entire career Graded in big
oted intolerance and baptised in the best
blood of the nation, it has done more In
the long sixteen years of its supremacy
to bring republican institutions into de
served dscredt than all the centuries,
perhaps, can redeem.
Children yet unborn shall be taught in
the good time coming that the precious
gift Of freedom and independence, wrung
by our self-sacrifcing Revolutionary an
cestors from the iron grasp OF British
tyranny, was placed in deadliest jeopardy
by the wicked men who under the guise
of national reformers, pundered the tax
PAYERS of unnumbered millions OF dollars
beuneathed mOunlain-load OF debt to
our remotest pOsterity, slaughtered
million of their fellow .COuntIymen ana
reduced this once proud aud prosperous
America Union of States to the pit
ful condition in which it now finds IT.
self
The Republican party found lis unit.
ed, happy and wealthy people, honoored
and respected in foreign lands, free from
the caste-ds motions of other countries
and the refuge of the oppressed OF all
nations, in which every labOring man
could be sure Of sufficient wor to pro-
vide him with present bread and atuture
home
It leaves us in a situation almost too
deplorable for accurate description. There
is neither safety for the accumulated say
lngs of honest industry, nor work for the
idle nor bread for the hungry. On every
side grim speCtres of communism, bank
ruptcy. theft, dishonor, reputation, loss
of confidence, broken banks and lnsolV-
ent insurance companies, embezzIement
by the trusted aud robbery by the fear
ed. These are the first fruits of the SIX
teen wears of PharisaiCal rule to which
the United States have too tamely sub
mitted, for it must not be forgotten that
1t W always the rule of an unscrupul-
GUS minority. The great mass OF the
good citizens were neUer nsympatAy with
Radlcallsm but have been constantly de-
frauded of their own.
And now the party that would have
willingly dishonOred even the name OF
the salnted Washington, because he was
once stakeholder, goes down tOits grave
in fitting guise. 1t has lived to see It's
founders, one after another, drop OF into
welcome oblivion Lincoln assasslnated
Sumner repudiated by his own State;
Greeley reduced to insanity by the heart
less taunts of former friends Chase bro
ken. hearted; Seward repudlated by his
party Stanton said to have committed
suicide to escape the haunting ghosts OF
the Union soldiers starved to death by
his cold blooded policy; Morton dying by
inches Of disappointed ambition; ConK-
ling, with consuming envy at his heart
dragging down the temple he had helped
to erect. Blaine. Colfax, Dawes and
Rollins, staggering under the reputation
of Credit Mobllier and similar schemes
to enrich themselves at the expense OF
the community; that party which former
ly boasted of such names as Summer, Pitt
Fessenden, John A BE-. Andrews and Horace
Greeley, reduced so low as to follow the
leadership of Zach Chandler What is
there wanting OF shame and iguOminy to
point the moral?
ALBERT WARREN KELSEY.
St. Louis, Oct 10