The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-08-14

precondition, restoration of stable
standard Of value, and that resumption,
not redemption, was the point. All HE
preparations prove this, and besides that
he deceived himself as 10 the people.-
He believed them to be gold hungry, |
while they wanted only the specie stand.
ard. They wanted sterling dollar. a !
definite unit Of account and money. Not |
redemption, but redeemability, and is |
not otunder Sherman's difficulties, but with |
facilities Our population does not con-
sist of gold children, that want to hear it
Chink but of business folks. who want a
lawful money standard. Besides, Sher-
man misunderstood the people. He
gathered gold and is now astonished that
nobody wants it by the roundabout way
which he provides. He was educated in |
political economy in bank parlors, and
never had the courage to tell the many
he served to their faces You must re-
sumo with the Treasury or else resump'
ton is an illusion and the specie stand
ard an idle dream.
For the, same reason has he walked
and still walks devious ways, and turned
the whole thing into bond operation
instead of lasting regulation Of the
money standard. That 1t req1ired a coz
stitutional solution he overlooked, at
least concealed 1t. Such an old bankman
as he has a buttsagainst all straight
roads He does not feel secure, unless he
can cover himself behind some great
special interest, and that makes him an
intense partisan. He knows such bodies
are grSteful The press controls or
serves them, as the case may be! Phere
the praises are coined which are the
measure of value in parties.
Shermanshas always saved the banks;
indeed, he has subsidized them. The
whole burden of so.called resumption,
msgnified as 1t has been by him, has
been thrown upon the country's trade
He was sstounded when the ground
swell came that fifted everything, and
he would exclaim, with Schiller's "Di-
YER: ="
ut was for my safety, for it raised me
aloft." r''
Sherman still mistrusts things; he
throws out suspicious against others to
draw off the peoples eyes His misCar
ried candidacy for the Governship of
Ohio showed his mistrust, and Foster
has to fight the battle for which Sher-
man was too cowardly.
And, now, in conclusion, you must al
low me to say few words, why, in my
opinion, if have satisfied you that the
Republican party does not deserve your
support, 1t is right that you should co
operate with the Democratic party. You
know / would rather plead for an entire
ly party free country than for a party
rule of any kind but the necessity of
overthrowing the combination that now
rides the Republican party and the
country, and has ridden both saddle
sore, is so great that we must act with all
who agree on this point. do not regard
the Democratic party as a close corpora,
ton. 1t is now, as I think, the proper
rallying organ against those now in pow
err And being an opposition party, IL is
not bound to close it's ranks nor it's pro-
gramnaes. The party in power must
have as well as stand by definite meas
ures. and have. an expressed policy. 1t
is always exclusive, and often proscrip-
tive. The opposition, on the other hand,
while gathering and developing into an
organism, have an open mind for all sug
gestions, and it must try them literally
SO that it may eventually settle upon cor
rect final conclusions To cooperate in
such development binds, all who join
it to nothing more than this. n .i r.ea.
There is, however, an insuperable rea
son why the elaboration of definite
measures must be deferred until after
the victory is'won. If proposed before, it
would be intrusting their execution to
those that are opposed to them, who
would either strange them, or carry
them out effectively. The opposition in
England never introduces measures.
Jackson we'll said that if he thought his
right arm knew his intentions he would
cue it of and cast it into the FIRE. The
Republicans were an open party until
up to 1860 There is test, however, that
ought to be applied to opposition parties;
it ia, whether they are growing In ethics.
And think no one can read the Demo-
cratic platform of Ohio without being
satisfied that it is vastly superior to any
which we have had for years. The ten
dency ia clearly the one from local pref
udices to National intelligence, virtue
and wisdom. All Nationalism that does
not mean this tendency is not only nom
sense, but wickedness, even if every let.
ter in the world were written in Capi
tails. 1'9l alHF' ihr .i"
Our Gubernatorial candidate, General
Ewing, has correctly stated the situa.
ton. The Ohio election this fall is
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sance in force with a view te next years
Presidential contest The Eastern DEM
ocrats have taken q liberal view of our
action here. They wish US to win, and
concede to US, as we to them, that each
State must this year fight in its own way
the common enemy, And why common1
Because the whole Union needs the re-
moyal from power of a party and an Ad
ministration that is ever raising ques
tions and never settling any. Take Civil
Service reforms, our foreign relations,
onr Indian policy, our military oIganiza.
tions, our Judiciary, the publiclends, the
relations of the States to the Union, and
last, not least ourmoney and finance
Where isr there; "a definite solution
where is there even an open. avoWal r.
Clear and divided in nothing, it deals on
ly in false accusations against its oppo-
nents and hypocritical pretenses as to its
own virtue. -,,.., "a, .--sg r6..s,- Ia
I think have shown this in my argu-
ment on the special subject Of money
and finance. 1t is the only point on
which there are any exceptions taken to
the ground that the Democratic party
should be preferred to the Republican
party. And ] have heard of no reason for
this, except the one that the, Republi-
cans have at least done faithful work as
to resumption That this is untrue
have tried to prove to you. To me, who
have for nearly half.a century, both in
public and private, kept aloof, on the one
hand, from foolish bullionism, and on