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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11
ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF OUR
GOVERNMENTS

The general principles, but not all it's
limitations, as laid DOM by Thomas JEFF
ferson in his inaugural address, March
4th, 1901:
Equal and exact justice to all men, of
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political.
Peace, commerce and honest friend.
ship with all nations, entangling allianc-
es with none.
The support of the State governments
in all their rights, as the most competent
administration for our domestic concerns,
and the surest bulwarks against anti-Re.
publican tendencies.
The preservation of the general gov
ernment in its whole constitutional vig-
or, as the sheet anchor of our peace at
home and safety abroad.
A jealous care of the rights of election
by the people.
A mild and safe corrective of abuses
which are Topped by the sword of revo-
luton, where peaCeable remedies are
unprovided.
Absolute acquiesCence in the decisions
of the majority, the vital principle of re-
publics, from which is no appeal but to
force, the vital principle and immediate
parent Of despotism.
A we'll disciplined militia our best re.
lance in peace, and for the first mo-
ments of war, till regulars may relieve
them.
The supremacy of the civil over the
military authority.
Economy in the public expense, that
labor may be lightly burdened.
The honest payment of our debts and
sacred preservation of the public faith.
Encouragement of agriculture and of
commerce as its handmade.
The diffusion of information, and ar
raignment of all abuses at the bar of
public reason.
Freedom of the Press, and freedom of
the person under the protection of the
habeas corpus and trial by juries impair
TALLY selected.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11
nusINEss MEN AND ApYERTIsERs.

THE DEMOCRAT has he largest circulation uny
paper IN NE county and iOh Us very moderate rates Qf
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regards position or location Of advertisements.
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t,iserJed for LGss than three dollars per yed,
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N reading matter, hOeUty cents per- tne.
articles for The BENEFIT Of private dad personal bust
Usss interests iOil be admitted 10 he reading columns Of
THE DEMOCRAT, UsloectionaOe dt the rate Of tlOen-
" cents per line.
address aH communications 10
THE DEMOCRAT,
CditOn, OhiO
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

THE Louisiana branch of the Potter
committee is evidently doing good work
,at New Orleans. On Friday an unwill-
ing gwitness testified, F, A. WoolAey, Clerk
of the U. S, Circuit Court and Court
Commissioner. He had charge of the
intimidation affidavit and protest factory
in the Custom House during the Louisi-
ana count, and turned out evidence on
which to reject Democratic parishes to
order. Mr.. WoolAey produced great
bundles of his work, and among them
were found the Anderson. Weber protest
aginst counting West FeliCiana. Numer-
GUS irterlineations were in it in another
handwriting and different ink, made at
different times. 1t was apparent, too,
that part of the added matter had been
written over erasures Of the original pro-
test The witness admitted after sharp
questioning that such seemed to be the
fact. This confirms Anderson's story
that blanks were left in the protest to be
filled in after it was sworn to. The vii.
lains got their intimidation lies in, in
this way, and John Sherman used these
forgeries (for this is what they were) in
the same Senate speech he described
Eliza Pinkston as "a guileless child of
nature" and said old Wells was as hon
est and honorable a man as he (Sher.
man) was, (which nobody can deny"
Mr.. Woolhey also said that during the
Returning Board count he had fifteen to
twenty clerks employed in getting up af
fdavits and protests, and that John sher.
man had twenty soldiers of the regular
army detailed to make copies for him.
And of course the regular army should
be increased
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

SENATOR THURMAN told an interviewer
of tie New York Herald that he would
return to Washington for few days on
business, and would return to Ohio to
give his personal influence and energies
to the canvass, For" said he, Eve want
to and will carry Ohio this fall" He
said the Democratic party was never in
better condition for a contest. Their
record in Congress had been excellent,
and they had done much work, and of
that character which must be acceptable
tothe people. They had strengthened
their claims upon the peoples support
by The passage Of the silver bill, by stop,
ping the contraction Of greenbacks, which
was in effect the same as tue repeal of
the resumption act, and decreased the
expenses of the government. He was
satisfied the Potter investigation would
do the Democratic party great good, as
long as Hayes's title is not assailed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11
CANTON AT THE PARIS EXPosI-
TION,

| NAAN AVN al Il Alh Il IAlNlJ hALO9ls
TI0N.
Josiah Hartzell, Esqr., in attendance
at the Paris Exposition, and in charge Of
the exhibits of G. Aultman & Co., Of our
city, favorsus with a copy of the Ameri
can Register from which we extract as fol-
lows: ..,
"The arrangement of the exhibits In
the United States Agricultural Depart
ment may now be said TO be complete.
Though there are salient features in this
annex that render it open to criticism
notably in that portion of it furnished
and put in place by the Government au-
thorites it is, nevertheless, the most
satisfactory shoT made by our own coun-
try in any one general department The
harvesting machinery occupies one end
of the annex, and is most conspicuous
There are DO less than eight of the largest
platforms occupied hy the reaper men,
comprising houses of G. Aultman & Co.,
Mccormick & Co, Osborn & Co.. the
Champion Company, the Johnston Har-
vester Company, the Woods, and Adri-
ance Platt q Co, The reaper is acknowl-
lodged to be an American invention, and
the reputation gained by the superiority
of Americans is well sustained in this ex.
hibition.
"Our attention was specially arrested
by the exhibit of the Buckeye Harvest
ing machines, made by G. Aultman &
Co., of Canton, in the State of Ohio, said
to be the most extensive house of this
character in America. Their exhibit is
rendered attractive by the variety and
tasteful finish of their machines, as well
as by their novelty to French visitors.
One of these novelties is a sweeping la.
bor-saver. 1t is drawn by two horses
With it the driver cuts, rakes and binds
the grains at one operation. Another
harvester is the Miller Table Rake, which
differs essentially from all other reapers
in the Exhibition, and is much admired
for its great simplicity. Several other
light and trim models of reapers and
mowers are also exhibited. This house
is also engaged in the construction of
threshing machines and steam engines.
A specimen of the latter-of the vertical
portable model-dominates the exhibit
and sets it off handsomely. This is by
far the longest trip that any steam engine
has madein order to put in an appearance
at the Great Exhibition, and the audacity
OF western countrymen naturally chal-
Ienges much scrutiny, which is generally
conYerted into admiration by the thor
oughly practical shape of the engine as
well as by the noiseless operation. It
is in constant use in the propulsion of
G. Aultman & Co.'S harvesting machines.
"These machines are full ofinstruction,
showing, as they do, the methods by
which it has been made possible to har-
vest the crops of the grain. growing States
of the West, where they have found tLeir
chief market.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

WENDELL PHILLIPS is about at the end
of his string, for he recommends to the
Republican party that they take posses
sion of the greenbaCk movement, and
sail in for votes. That would not suit
John Sherman & Co., and they hold the
Republican fort. Gen. Benjamin F. But.
Ter grated on the 4th at Newburyport,
Massachusetts, and let himself out. He
is very "greenbaCkish," and is playing
for the workingmen's vote. He, how
ever discountenanCes strikes, which he
declares below the dignity of American
workmen. He concluded his speech by
declaring
Communist is a word of reproach to
workingmen who see wrong in exist
ing affairs, and believe in remedying
them, as Abolitionist was the word of
reproach hurled at the men who struck
for freedom in the earlier days of this
generation. The same men who called
reformers of other days Abolitionists are
to-day calling the reformers Commun-
lists. Every man should be an industri-
GUS laborer, rich as we'll as poor. There
is in New York a club called the Tally
Ho Club, and all they can find to do is
to play coachman day by day for the fun
of the thing. If l had my way, if l had
power in the city of New York as 1 had
once for short time, | would set that
class of men to doing exactly what they
have shown they are fit for, driving om-
nibusses from a. m., to 8 p m.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

RUSH FIELDS EsQ,, of Mansfield, Dem
ocratic nominee for Board of Public
Works, was present as a delegate to the
Congressional Convention held in this
city. Mr.. F. is gentleman of first class
qualifCations-socially, mentally, polit
iCally, and of fine physique. He capti-
Yates, without artifce, and wins the re.
spect of all with whom he becomes ac-
quainted.-New PhiIa Dem.
And Mr.. Fields, Col. Grail, Messrs
Burns and McCrary, all delegates, spent
a day and night in Canton on their way
home from the convention that did not
nominate, after balloting 900 times. The
gentlemen were guests of Esquire Piero,
and we learn were much pleased with
our town,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

FROM the evidence in the Louisiana
case, it is evident the purpose of John
Sherman in going to New Orleans was to
promise rewards for such returns as
should put Mr.. Hayes in. What views
the other visiting statesmen, or any of
them entertained, John Sherman was of
the opinion that the way to get thing
done was to offer consideration for it.
His letter was just this, He made such
offers, such assurances, and such promi-
ises all the time. The letter said in ink
what he was all the while saying orally.
1t is a very curious fact that even Mrs
jerks does not pretend that Sherman
never made the identical promises con.
tanned in the letter; all she says is that
she thought it unnecessary and disre
spectful to require him to put these prom.
ises in writing.
Mr.. E. L, Weber fully confirms the
previous evidence on this point. He
says John Sherman sent for him seen
him; and event directly to business"
"lf his brother was notsatis6ed he would
satisfy him. he would see that he vaa mot
only protected, b,d pr0uded for."
And John Sherman remains Secretary
of the Treasury
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

A PHILADELPHIA company recently
took the risk of sending American an.
thracite coal to Italy. Two cargoes were
sent, and, though the first put on the
market received no higher bid than %
francs, or 1926 per ton, the discovery by
the Italian dealers that it was good for
smelling purposes at once raised its val
ue to forty francs, or $7.72 ton. The
former price cannot cover freightage from
New York, but the latter covers cost and
freight, and leaves a very respectable
profit, The Italian iron founders have
heretofore used English coke. Ameri-
can anthracite answers their purpose in
every particular, and has the further ad-
vantage of costing 20 francs less per ton
than does the English article, the price
of the latter being SO francs, while that
of the former is but 40. The Mediterra.
mean basin consumes over 100000 tons
of coal annually, and, under existing cir.
cumstanCes there is no reason why the
United States should not, in course of
time, get nearly all of this great trade
into their own hands. It seems to be
England's commercial fate of late years
to be met at every turn by the irrepress.
ible Yankee with his cheaper or better
wares.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

THE Repository has some writer who
should have a lock or break put on him
He needs curbing, so as to prevent him
lying like a Louisiana or jerks fraud
For instance, in an article he says "The
"rebel States are determined the North
"shall pay their losses. They intend to
"have the damage inflicted upon them
"by federal armies made good to them
tout of the National Treasury" &c. 1t
would seem that the organs and support.
ers of Presidential fraud are seeking
aid from the father of lies" This yelp
failed to defeat Tilden and Hendricks in
1876 but the masters of fraud and for.
gerry were more successful. "The pur-
pose cropped out in speeches on the floor
of the House," says the Rep. Why not
name the man and quote him? No at
tempt at this is made, however, though
an extract not dated, is referred to from
the Vicksburg Herald, not a representa-
tive journal, and we believe, not now in
existence.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

THE Republican papers are making
jolly over the fact that E phi. Holland,
noted professor of the Cameron political
arithmetic in Cincinnati, has become
"disgusted with the Democracy" and
has gone over bag and baggage to the
party of moral ideas and corrupt practi-
ces. Eph's disgust is not to be wondered
at. He went to the Democratic State
Convention as delegate, but was refus-
ed seat-partly because his character
did not commend him to the gentlemen
of whom it was composed, and partly be-
carse it was understood he went there as
Republican agent, it being hoped he
would be admitted, to the disgust of the
public. Ephraim was recently pardoned
ont of the Penitentiary by Mr.. Hayes,
and it is in order for his Fraudulency to
ornament the civil service with him.
En-.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

THE California Constitutional Conven.
tion, to which delegates were recently
elected, is to meet at Sacramento Sept.
2S, and the session is limited to one hun
dred days. 1t will consist of one hund-
red and fifty.two members, whose pay is
limited to $40 day. fhe Constitution
adopted by the Convention will be sub
mitted to the people on the first We'd
nesday in May next, and accepted or re-
jected as whole. If ratified, the Con-
stitution will go into effect as soon as the
result of the popular vote is declared.
Late dispatches say that the Non. .parti.
san party will have a majority ofseven-
teen in the convention.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

The editors Of Ohio assembled in con.
vention yesterday and to day at Cleve-
land. Last evening they were addressed
by Gen. ]. A. Garfield. Senators Allen
G. Thurman, George H, Pendleton and
Stanley Matthews are in attendance
with them. Tbisafternoon they are en-
joying an excursion on the lake, with a
banquet, rendered by the citizens of
Cleveland. AT II o'clock to, night they
leave Cleveland for a trip to Philadel-
phia, Cape May and New York, on invi-
tation of the railway companies.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

TREASURY officials estimate that there
are now two millions of counterfeit coin
in circulation, and that the amount is
constantly increasing. The Scientific
american says that, besides the acts of
counterfeiting, filling" and Sweating"
are resorted to, by which as much as two
dollars can be taken from $40 gold
piece Another processis by Splitting"
in which from $40 to SIS can be taken
from a 500 gold piece. The two halves
are then followed out, and the hollow is
filled with an alloy of silver and plati-
mum, the parts being joined together
again by gold solder. Another ingeni-
GUS process consists in boring holes in
the edge. filling them with silver, and
covering with gold solder. The amonnt
of value thus abstracted from $50 piece
is from five to seven, and sometimes ten
dollars. There are counterfeit fives in
circulation worth only 500, and yet
having the full weight of the genuine
coin. 1t is composed of gold and silver,
and is little thicker than the genuine.
These styles of Counterfeiting are gener-
ally new and are supposed to have Chi
nese origin. 1t is believed even that
some of the innocent Cinnamon of the
nation are engaged in sending gold coin
back to the celestial kingdom to have
them manipulated in this way.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

THE Democrats of the sixth Congress
sional district, comprising Williams, De.
6ance, Henry, Fulton, Paulding, Putnam
Van Vert and Allen counties, in Conven-
ton last week, nominated Hon. W. D.
Hill for Congress. His principal rivals
for the nomination were Gen. A. V. Rice
the present member of Congress, and
Hon. 7, f. Cunningham. Mr.. Hill is
well known in this city, having served
for the past three years as State Super
intendent of Insurance, and also previous
to that time as a member of the General
Assembly. The district is largely Dem
oCratic, and Mr. Hills election in Octo-
ber is about as certain as anything can
be in this world.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11
THE NEW PRINCIPLE OF GOVERN
M1cNT

Sometimes II "a said that man cannot be trusted
with the government Of himself. Can he then be
trusted with the government ofothers? or have we
found angels In the forms Of kings to govern him
Let history answer the questlon-rHoMAs JEFFER-
SON, 1901.
About hundred years ago the Amer
lean people cut loose from the efTete ar
istocratical government Of Great Britain,
to which they had been an appendage,
and set up for themselves, claiming that
governmental arrangem ents were made
for the people and should be made by
the people; that in managing the pub
lies affairs, that public should have a
voice.
The truth is, the Americans had got
tired Of being governed by brainless ar
istoCrats from Great Britain, who knew
nothing of them nor of their wants, and
cared nothing. The king and the aris-
tocracy found the thirteen American col.
onies good spots to send their young
family sprouts, In this way they cared
for the rich and wellborn, and the Brit
ish government were astonished that the
Americans would not be quiet to be thus
robbed and plundered,
During the Cromwellian period, manu-
features and commerce were free to the
colonies as to the mother country, and
the colonists aourished. Under the Stu
art kings, however, the restrictive policy
was adopted, and manufacturing was
crippled and destroyed, and commerce
was allowed to be carried on only through
England. The tariff duties were high,
and smuggling Aourished. Indeed for
many years before 1861, most importa-
tions of goods and products we're SNUG
gled, and paid no tax. Prior to the
Revolution, tea was largely in e,amoun-
ting to near two millions of dollars a
year, and nine-tenths of it was smuggled
and paid no tax. The efforts of govern
ment to enforce these odious laws
brought on the Revolution.
The great and noble men of that time,
that tried mems souls, determined to es-
tablish government of the people, for
the people, by the people-"a govern
ment of equal and exact justice to all
men, of whatever state or persuasion,
religious or political" In government
by the people, the majority expression
must be acquiesCed in, otherwise there
is no binding rule, no moral force.
The old rule of government was and
is to care for the rich and wellborn; but
here the way to public favor is open to
all, and the youth of poverty and ster-
ling merit and qualification may, and
does frequently attain the highest places
of public trust. The aim of every patri-
OF should be to continue this system as
the safest and best. Mistakes
may be, nay are, made in our system,
but in countries governed by king or
emperor aud his aristoeracy, angels have
not and are not found, as all history
shows.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

THE late developments before the Pot
ter committee are startling. The points
of Weber's testimony may be briefly
stated In looking over his brothers
papers after his death, he found the
Sherman-Anderson guarantee; recogniz'
ed it to be the handwriting of Secretary
Sherman, with which he is familiar, and
destroyed it, because the widow Weber
was anxious to destroy everything asso-
ciated with her husbands political life.
He contradiCts the highty Mrs. jerks on
every important point, and Convicts her
of perjury. He shows John Sherman
was the chief conspirator in stealing the
vote of Louisiana; that Packard and Kel-
logg plotted to prevent Republicans vo
ting in Democratic parishes, so that they
could be thrown out of the count on the
ground of intimidation that the Repub-
lican visiting statesmen counseled in the
rascalties generally, and that they inter
viewed Cncluding Sherman) Eliza Pinks-
ton while she was being coached for her
part before the Returning Board. He
also testfes that after the election the
Louisiana Returning Board politicians
were inclined to give up the contest, so
certain was it that Tilden had carried the
State, but were persuaded by the visit
ing statesmen to- push their powers to
the utmost limits to count in Hayes. The
important point shown is that Marks,ap'
pointed to an important Office by Hayes
since the investigation began, has been
busy drumming up and attempting to in
Auence witnesses by promises of re-
wards; an attempt was also made to con-
troll Weber's evidence by intimations of
official rewards, should he unite with
other Louisiana witnesses in standing up
for the great fraud, And this within
the last week or two, and apparently by
John Sherman's agents.
Both at Washington and New Orleans
the testimony is important, and shows
up the villainous conspiracy that put
Hayes in the White House. The New
Orleans subcommittee is on the track of
evidence to show that $4,000 was paid
to member of the Returning Board in
Kellogg's room, before he would sign the
canvass declaring the Hayes electors
chosen.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-07-11

A New COUNTY TREAsURER.-5am S.
Geib Esq, of Lake township, was ap-
pointed on Saturday by the County Com.
missioners. Auditor and Probate Judge
as county treasurer. This is most ex
ceIlent appointment. Mr., Geib is a com.
petent gentleman and substantial citi.
zen himself, and is bailed by thirty two
solid farmers, all but two of his own
township. This speaks we'll for the
standing of Mr.. Geib at home, and this
confidence we are sure is not misplaced.
Mr.. Geib took charge of the office on
Monday, and since Tuesday the office
has been open for business.