The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-08-07

ling spies and Marshals. is fragrant, mca-
strous and intolerabIe usurpation. If State
officers may be so coerced and controlled by
the General Government, then the States
sink to the position OF mere dependencies OF
one great central Government of unlimited
political power.
Fellow-citizens, this assumption of power,
if recognized and established, tends, and
will, | believe, lead to the utter destruction
of the benefcient system of Government es-
tablished by our fathers. Under fRat sys-
tenn, formulated in the Constitution, n the
powers of the Federal Government We
strictly defined and limited, while the StafN>
and the people, reserving to themselves ali
powers not delegated to the General Gov
ernment, are sovereign in a far wider
sphere than In the General Government. /
speak in no spirit of parisanship, but IN
the candor of conviction, when l say
that the nhliteration of the reserved rights
of the States and the people, and the alb
sorption in the General Government of all
political lower, regardless of the Conshtu-
ton, has become the controlling tendency,
if not the fixed aim, of the Republican
party.
These policies of the Republican party
8y WHICH LllcY art luDOt01aS1lAS tksG
masses and absorbing unlimited power in
the General Government, are only steps to-
ward the ultimate. subversion of popular
Liberty and the establishment Of the rulef
money aristocracy. In every Government,
everywhere, there are two great opposing
forces forces proceeding openly from
and the forces proceeding secretly from the
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class rule. The one aims at Government
and for class The one at rule by man.
hood, the other by money.
In our Republic these opposing forces
have always been at work molding ard
controlling the action of parties. The Dem
ocratic party founded BY jefferson, the IN
spired apostle of liberty, has generally
throughout its history been the exponent
of the sentiments and the champion of the
interests of the masses; while the Federal
party strongly favored policies tending to
Capitalization, favoritism and class rule
But never In the history Of our Govern
ment have the principles and methods op
posed to true Democracy been so boldly
and powerfully maintained by tho Repub-
hcan party in the past twelve years Its
long and firm hold of lapidly expanding
power and the enormous growth of conc.-n-
hated wealth. have developed and npened
the forces infmic,l to popular government
until now, having reduced the laboring
masses almost to paupe1nm, having strip
ped the middle classes Of large share of
1heir wealth, having learned to exact enor-
NOUS tribute from corporations it has en-
riched by unjust legislation, it seeks by
corruption to bribe and bS force to over
awe the electors, and to perpetuate its
power in utter contempt of the Constitu-
ton and of the. free and unbought suf-
fraQes of the people
In this great contest we appeal to the
patriotism and the interests, not to- the
passions Of the people, We appeal to the
wsgemen, whose employment is made pre-
cartons by the lessening of all industrial
pursuits consequent ON the forced and pro-
racted depression of values; to debtors and
tax-payers whose burdens are doubled by
that depression; to all considerate men who
know that : change Of rule tends to reform
abuses, and teach respect for the authority
kdfI the people; to all who love our grand