The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
A WORD WITH THE REPOSITORY.

A WORD WITH THE REPOSITORY.
The Repository regards it quite "incon-
slstent" Tor the Democracy of the 10th
dirtrict to nominate for Congress "a Brig
adler General Of the Union army in the
late rebellion" 1t is consistent, how
ever, for the Hayes party to place in high
position, as Postmaster General, &c, Con-
federate Brigadiers. According to the
Repository code, all this is lovely and en-
tirely consistent in the Hayes-fraud'John
Sherman Administration. Gen. Wiley's
nomination troubles the Postofice Re-
poSitory ring immensely. Iti terrible on
them. The Majors military glory is
thrown in the ade-collapsed entirely,
The Repository stock of ammunition is
all spoiled. They get little relief by
pitching into McGregor and his war rec
ord. But all this don't help the Major,
and will not. These youthful editors,
like an overgrown boy when he first gets
out of petticoats and gets into pants,
know not how to behave, nor what to
say 80 as to be judicious and effective.
But, seriously, it is now thirteen years
since the war closed. The question pre-
sented to the American people is, honest
constitutional government, or govern
ment OF fraud, force and knavery Since
1874 the people of the United States
have, at every election, decided in favor
of honest, Constitutional rule. They
have voted out the shoddy knaves and
carpet.bag wretches South, and their
friends in the North True, fraud per-
petuates their rule, though hedged in
and throttled by Democratic House,
soon to be assisted by Democratic SEN
ale. The war, then, is over None but
radical knayes want to fight it over again.
None but fools or knaves would perpet'
uate the old animosities and hates of the
war and prior thereto. None but boy
fools; or pitful, unprinCipled scalawags
will harp upon the violations of law and
decency perpetrated during the war.
The silly galoots that throw out their
stuff through the columns of the RepO8i-
tory, no doubt enjoy their references to
the mobbing at Massillon, to the impris-
onment at Camp Mansfield, and to the
destruction of a Democratic printing Of
fee in Canton, No doubt this is sport to
such as they, and affords them huge en-.
ioyment We can tell them and their
masters, however, that those days are
past, and that these references will not
bring vOtes to William Mckinley, nor to
any other Hayes,Sherman satellite.
Just mark this
The noblest gem in the chaplet that
enCircles Charles Summers brow, is that
wherein he wanted put out of sight all
mementos of our late civil war. He de.
sired the whole thing sunk in obliYion
as soon as possible, that all might feel
we were brethren of a common country,
with a common destiny. The little sCav-
engers that get their feeble blather be-
fore the public, in the columns of the
Repository, possess no such souls, They
rejoice at the midnight destruction of
Democratic printing Office in Canton
They laugh at the mobbing of a peacea-
BILE citizen of Canton at Massillon in 1861
They enjoy, with joy unspeakable, the
illegal and arbitrary arrest and impris-
onment of American citizens during the
late war period
The Repository scribblers are nameless,
not even worthy of naming in that jour.
nal, and really, they seem to be brain
less, or at least destitute of good sense
as of good journalistic manners. The
Vance head is in Washington, and Tom
Saxton is not worth naming in this con.
neCtion. Tom may do to instigate the
boys to mob a Democratic print
ing Office at midnight, and that is about
the extent of his capacity for political
argument. The Rep. then, poor thing,
is without a head-that has brains.
"Tlme was when brains were out, the man would
die,
But not so now"
Congressman Mckinley is peculiarly
unfortunate in his home PostoffiCe organ.
But again, this thing of getting fun
out of the mob doings of sixteen or sew
enteen years ago is going far back. We
can cite cases nearer the present time,
and we can refer to certain signs of un-
easiness that indicate danger. They
that sowed the wind, may reap the whirl-
wind, Only the other day in Washing.
ton city was little evidence of the un-
easiness and danger referred to. And
about year ago, in the "loyal" Repub-
lican city of Pittsburgh, there was fright |
full destruction of railway and other prop
erty, as well as loss of life. Cannot the
Repository galoots laugh at this as well as
at the outrages against the rights of per-
son and property in 1861 and 1862?
If William Mckinley jr., imagines
such course of conduct on the part of
his home, Postofice organ will send him
to Congress from this district, he will
find himself. mistaken by at least two
thousand votes
THE Potter Committee have suspended