The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-07
qs shh qog democrat Canton Q1o &amsd9n ghre ? 1871
THE BEA UT1FUL CONCORD.

We transfer the following to our col>
umns from the Cincinnati Times, Of the
18TH instant, as showing the beautiful
state Of feeling that is growing up in the
Republican party of Ohio;
In the last Presidential campaign, the
Republicans selected as their candid te
one who has been fully identified with
the Republican patty from its first organ
ization. He had never run off with Lib>
eral Republicans or Independents. Ele
was a Republican from conviction, a
radical Republican, who had put on
record, in a speech re-published atlength
in one of his biographies, circulated
during the campaign, the most emphatic
condemnation Of the course of Andrew
Johnson He rendered effective service
in the canvass Of 1872, in opposition to
Horace Greeley and the Liberal plat>
form. He was outspoken. last summer,
in vindication Of the rights of white and
black men, both and equally, at the
South" The cardinal doctrines and the
controlling spirit Of the whole canvass
related to the dangers Of a "Solid South,
to the maintenance Of the pledges of the
last three Constitutional Amendments
and of the Legislation under them, and
to the security of the free ballot and the
free enjoyment of every legal right by
citizens Of every class. These were the
uppermost and essential issues which Sc
cured to president Hayes the vote of
every Northern State but four, aud Of
three Southern States without each one
of which he would have been defeated.
Now, there are many Republicans
who think the course of the "President"
since he came into office is utterly at
variance with the avowed principles and
purposes of the Republican party, and
with its professings made throughout the
canvass that he has practically done
whatke bOiNtedly c0naemHe9M AHare7O
10hnSoN ), that he has gone further in
surrendering to the irreconciliable Bour~
bons of the South than even Horace
Greeley would have gone, had he taken
the Presidential chair in 1873. And the
answer which is most oficious supports
ers make to this, is in effect, "Well, what
"then? What will you do about it p
1t is our opinion that the occasion calls
for something different from this style of
argument. The first unfavorable inn
preston in the minds OF honest and arr
dent Republicans are not natural, and
they deserve candid and respective
treatment. We are to haze an import
ant State CanVaSS in Ohio this year, on
the result of qOhtcA debenaS tile question
7VAethey 9Oe are 10 retain or lose Tie one
Rsbn6hcaN Senator nO7O LetfnS in Con-
eyeSS. Further than this-while we must
decline to accept Ohio as perpetually
"the battle field of the Nation" in poll
tics--it is not to be denied that on our
October election depends, to some ex-
tent, the still more important question
whether the "President" chosen from our
own State is to have the confidence and
support of the party that elected him.
Ne can assure the 4r0bhetS of smooth
thing that affairs are not gro7Ofhg any
better here, in this region during the last
tS7O WeekS, On the contrary, events at
the South have tended to make them
still worse. To this new source of dis
content we may add the supercilious and
sneering tone of the more influential of
the Aunky press--the two Ti6nneS, for
example-utterly abandoning the prin-
ciples an which the Republicans con-
Quoted their last canvass, and cracking
the Liberal" whip over those whom
they think it very funny to call "stal-
warth Republicans" These papers want
the Republican party destroyed. They
scarcely attempt any longer to keep this
secret. Their policy is to let the Dem.
ocratic party, nominated by the Solid
South, have free course and be glori-
fed,