The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-03-21

And this fraud by the commission is
the more intolerable because, while sub
verting the highest State authority, it
mocked and derided it by pretending TO
regard State rights in giving effect to
frauds by subordinates, which have made
them infamous, and consigned them to
the felon's cell.
But il is said we must submit to the ex-
listing usurpation of the Presidency, lest
unseating the incumbent by due process
of law should lead to renewed sectional
STRIFE This was the ostensible ground
upon which the subsidy men Connived
at the usurpation, and which spokesman
Brown has since admitted to have been
a false pretence. They succeeded for a
time in deludiDg many honest men. But
since Browns acknowledgment that the
count was allowed to 60 on under bar
gain, and not for submission, to the Elec'
toral Commission, as he pretended at the
time and it has become known that the
Senate would not have allowed its Presi-
dent to count Hayes in if the House had
been firm, and especially since our oppo-
nents now invite us to claim the Office
for Tilden, no one can apprehend any
Commotion, or expect any other than
good to the country, from our doing 80.
There is, however, good reason for ap.
pretending disturbance in the country
if we do u0t install the President elected
by the people; not from renewal ofsec'
tional strife, but from strife between
classes The riots of last summer point
to real danger, and | have showed that
it is due to the expressions to which the
people have been subjected by the pre-
datory classes, by whose fraud and vio'
lence the present incumbent of the Pres.
idency was installed in office, to continue
them,
Hence those who cooperate in Contin-
uing him in Office are the men who en-
danger the peace of the country, and
those who sGek to maintain the law are
the men who try to keep the peace, and
restore the prosperity of the country,
Loud denunciation of Communism by
the press in the pay of the predatory
classes will not stop it. Communism
here as in France, is born OF oppression,
and will die only when the Government
is restored to the people, and is admins
tered for their benefit, and not as it has
been, and now is, solely in the interest
of their oppressors
The South, though desolated by war,
has, escaped the far worse calamity of
having its people enslaved by the money
classes, and hence is not filled with
tramps, and does not dread an outbreak,
But in the North, where, during and
since the war, the whole power of the
Government has been directed to enrich
the few and impoverish the many, until
the process has ended in aCCumulating
all property in the hands OF few, thus
bringing the many to the verge of star
walton, none but the most careless can
fail to see the danger and wiCkedness Of
continuing the power of the Government
in the hands of those who have produced
it, 1t is not Mr. Blaine's or Conklings
quarrel with Hayes, but the instinct OF
self preservation at work among the peo-
pie of the North, which gives rise to the
universal desire now felt there, to see
the man that was chosen by the people
to tide them over the great emergency
put in place. 1t has to be confessed even
by the press of the predatory classes,
that this ghost will not down at their
bidding.
Mr.. Garfield was right when he said,
recently, on the floor of the House, that
the prosecution of Anderson and Wells
was an assault upon Hayess title to the
Presidency; and the whole country is
profoundly moved and eXultant at the
conviction of Anderson, not because they
want the instruments of the great fraud
punished, but because they desire to get
its Contrivers, who are dispensing and
enjoying the fruit of it at Washington.
The people of Maryland sympathize
profoundly in this feeling. Will this
House respond to them, and aid in Civ
ing effect to their wishes by voting for
the resolutions before it?
The resolutions do not prescribe a
mode of effeCting their object. They in
dicate only that it is the wish of the peo-
pie that this fraud should not be submit
ted to if peaceable remedy can be de-
vised. This is in accordance with the
terms of the Electoral bill ITSELF Hence
those who promoted the adoption of that
measure, and feel themselves bound to
acquiesce in the action taken under it,
are especially bound to facilitate the ad-
option of such measure. And it is the
strongest proof of the bad faith in which
the Electoral Commission was conceived,
that its most active friends now decry
all efforts to procure the judicial review
of its proceedings contemplated by the
bill as tending to disturb the country, al.
though such a review was contemplated
by the bill ITSELF This fact fully con-
firms the authentic statement of the Bal
timore Sun of Jan. 18th, that the major
ity of Democrats in Congress are "Hayes
Democrats" and keep Hayes in office,
not because they cannot get him out in
sixty days without the least commotioD,
but because they prefer him as President
to Tilden, who was elected oy the people
they represent. This is a betrayal of the
most sacred rights of the people, con-
dones the greatest crime, accepts the
fruits of it, and upholds the title of Hayes
to the Presidency, while they dare not
say that the men who put him there
have not been justly consigned to the
penitentiary.
Are not those by whose influence this
toleratlon OF the great fraud IS secured
the most effective aCcomplices in the
work? But the fraud has stood for one
year; why not let it stand for the three
years more? say the mercantile class,
whose feelings find vent in the city pa
pers. This Verifes what Lord Bacon
says of this class, viz: That it is the least
capable of large and sound political views
because it regards only what it deems
the immediate interests of trade, thus
mistaking those interests, as it did in
Jackson's tune, when it sided with the
monopolists, who destroyed their bust.
ness as they have now. 1t was to the
workingmen in the fields and shops that
Jefferson and Jackson chiefly looked for
the defence of the great principle of our
Government-upon which the prosperity
of all classes depend. They see that it
is vital to the interests of all classes that