The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-11-20
[a3tYER oARFIELD.

tv are mainly of that breed, and the real
chiefs were mostly born and raised IN
that region.
Congressman Mckinley himself was
horn and raised in Trumbull keounty'
And did not Representative e'elect l. u
SNYDER also immigrate from GarheId's
district to Stark but three or four years
apoP In fact, the distinguished leaders
and stumpers of the Republican party In
Stark are mainly from the Reserve, in
cluding the chief scribblers on the Re
pO8itOry.
Now, we commend the good judgment
of these radical gentlemen in leaving
that akim milk region, and locating IN
Stark county, where are fertile fields on
the surface and untold riches beneath,
and industry to develop. We find no
fault, either, that they do not aid much
in this industrial development, prefer
ring Office to honest labor. If they
would only leave behind some OF their
Yankee, Federal notions, it would show
good sense.
Yankee hatred of the South is inher'
tied since the days of Jefferson, when
he laid olt the old Federal party. Their
bitter hatred, also, of Gen. Jackson dat.
ed from his victory at New Orleans,
where he thrashed the British so un'
mercifnlly. and spoiled all the hopes of
the old Federal leaders for disunion
Jackson's overthrow of The United
States Bank, when President, was also
something they could not forgive
After the late war, when the adoption
of the XVIII amendment gave the ne
grces the right to vote, the Federal Re-
publican leaders thought they had
things secure. But to their great Chagrin
and disappointment, the Southern States
are solid against them and they are
now more venomous and savage than
ever against the South. The negro vote,
too, has only given the South more pow
er in Congress, and in the election of a
President. This is another cause of bit
terness and sectional malignity, and yet
the radical leaders have only themselves
to blame.
The fact that Mr.. Garfield was deep in
the Credit Mobiler scheme of bribery
and corruption; that he helped, as
chairman of the committee on appropri-
ations, to manipulate the De Gollyer
swindle; these, we say, and more
make him none the less acceptable to
the members from Stark county, We
have always regretted that as able a man
as Mr.. Garfield should get 30 badly
smrched in those Infamous robberies
during the Grant rule.
The following article, appeared in the
New York Sun a short time ago, and
puts down the points po,ntedly:
DE aoLLYER GARFIELD,
The recognized leader on the Republi.
can side Of the House of representatives,
| is a man who was proved before pack.
ed committee of his own party to have
accepted bribe in Credit Mvblier bonds
aud scrip from Oakes Ames, although he
swore positively that he never had the
remJtest interest in the j)b and who
also received S. 900 for obtaining large
contract from Boss Shepherd Ir laying
wood pavement, in return for which he
afterward carried through, as Chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations, an
appropriation of three and half mil
lion dollars for the Washington Ring.
This motor, Gus CorruptlOnist, whose
whole career in Congress is tainted with
venalty, and who Is not held in the
least respect for those qualities which
adorn manhood, and bring that conf
dence to public man without which
successful leadership is impossible, is
thrust forward by a faction and by his
own audacity to take the front place at
time Of all others when the highest
character and integrity are needed for
such a position. How can a party ex
peCt to gain popular favor, or to win
trust when a Professional jobber leads
the House. a Fraud is seated in the Pres
idental chair, and Vice Fraud presides
over the Senator
Whatever talents aud culture Mr.. Gar.
field may possess are degraded by the
absence of all moral worth, and only
make more conspicuous those dark traits
which have rendered bis name infam.
GUS in the annals of Congress. No re
election by partisan constituency,
blind in its adherence to regular nomin.
ations, no matter how procured, and big
oted in it's devotion to Republican can.
didates, can iE the least degree remove
the stain which rests upon him. No
whitewash, however strong can disinfect
and purify his reputation.
Since he has assumed the leadership,
Garfed's chief business has been to OBJ.
iect to every proper inquiry from the
Democratic side, which good policy
should have promptly accepted. The
only impression left by this course is,
that the Republicans are afraid to con-
front the demands of their adversaries.
He has blundered, either from timidity,
lreachery, or ignorance from the start,
SO that the Republicans have lost ground
every day.
II there are corrupt Republican off.
Cials, and investigation of their conduct
is proposed, common sense should die.
tate that the Republican should take
the lead in exposing them, and in cast
ing them off as a dead weight which no
party can afford to carry. Garfield OBJ
iected vigorously, when proper call
was made for the names and number OF
supervisors and deputy marshals EN-.
ployed at the fall elections. and the
amounts paid to them. On the eve of
adjournment, and after important dis
closures had been made 10 regard to the
public printing, Mr.. Finley, who is con.
ducting the investigation, asked leave to
sit during the recest, 80 as to expedite
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