The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-03

institutions are destroyed. Itis the foun-
dation OF our political fabric 1t 10 of
paramount importance, because without
a free ballot the Republic can not exist.
Shall our republican institutions be
preserved Shall the spirit brea'hed
forth in the Declaration of Independence
be maintained? Shall the Constitution,
the charter OF our liberties, be kept in
violate? Shall all our Government, es
tablished by our revolutionary fathers,
cemented with their blood, and preserv
ed by their patriotism, valor and perse-
verance of the soldiers Of the late war,
be permitted to perish forever from the
face of the esrthP Voice, Never" J
Shall fraud be triumphant and force pre-
vail? Shall the purse and the sword be
used for partisan purposes to control our
elections2 Shall the will OF one man
override the will of the great majority OF
the people of the country Shall CEN
tralz alton take placer These, my friends.
are some of the questions that will be
discussed before the people during the
coming campaign.
These are the questions that have been
discussed the past three months in Con-
grees: and all honor to the Democratic
msiority in both houses of Congress that
has dared to espouse the peoples cause
and maintain their right; and If they
have not been entirely successful in RI
peaing these obnoxious laws, which
provide that the army shall be used to
preserve the peace at the polls, and that
Supervisors of Elections and Deputy Mar
shals shall control elections, it is owing
TO partisan President issuing partisan
vetoes, A President not elected by the
people. Voice, Newell but holding
his place through fraud. say if Con-
gress has not been successful in repeal
ing these laws, we can congratulate the
country that they have at least, by one
of the severest Parliamentary struggles
that has ever been known in the history
of the country, been enabled to make
these laws imperative for the next fiscal
year. And, if it takes one, three or ten
years more, the Democracy will stand in
the interests of the people, and demand
that such obnoxious laws be wiped from
the statute books Applause The
contest which has been gOil 6 ON for the
past three months at Washington, be-
tween the representatives of the people
and the Executive, no longer represents
the cause of the people, of freedom, OF
self.government, and involves the very
life of the Republic.
Gen. Rice here spoke of Mr.. Foster as
"Cnizen Foster" which elected prolong.
ed laughter and applause. He then read
a portion of Mr.. Fosters Neil House
speech, and commented thereupon with
telling effect. He then continued:
There are other questions, but don't
wish to detain you with them TO night
The question of finance-and the lemo'
cratic party is. az it has always been on
this great question, for the people. We
denounce the Republican laws, passed
during and since the war, by which la
Dor has been pauperized, and all indus
trial and mechan cal interests have been
paraly zed, and the great bulk of the bu'
siness of the country has been bankrupt
ed, throwing out of employment milliont
of people who earn their daily bread ny
their daily toll. Aud for what? In or
der that domestic and foreign capitalists
and bonded wealth might be appreciate {
But wa congratulate the country that W
may, perhaps, see CLEAN OF hope; tina
the great pail which has hung over thu
country is in some degrees lifted, owinj
to the two laws passed bv the Forty ;fiftl
Congress the RECOMMENDATION of silver
giving back to it the debt paying qualit,
and stopping the contraction OF green
backs. We further demand that silve
shall be fully remonetized; that it sbai
again be made money metal, the same
as gold, the same as before its demoneti
cation in 1873. We declare for green
backs, and for their substitution gradu
allv for the National Bank notes of thu
country; and that hereafter they shal
he the sole currency of the United States
ICries Of Good" and applause W.
fuI ther say and believe that the right t
make money, whether paper or coin, in
heres in the Government alone; and it IL
prerogative that ought not and shoulC
not be delegated to any corporation Of
individual. And we commend in thu
highest possible degree the late 63l Gen
eral Assembly of Ohio, that has don'
more work, think, than any of its pre-
decessore; that Legislature has accom-
plished the vast labor of codifying thu
| laws of the State, making volume o
nearly four Thousand pages; and further
has saved to the lax burdened people q
this State over i'a predecessor nearly So
$50 QUO. IL is result If which the De
mocracy may well be proud, and which
will always vindicate itself.
And now, my friends, we must organ
ize for victory; ha, is, let it be the watch
word. Many there are who are opposed
to us on the old issues that are shoude
to shoulder now with US al present W.
cordially invite all who are with us OIL
the issues involved to come and vot
with us in the coming October. Let u
again bring into prestige and power th
Old Democratic party of Jefferson. lie
us ask all to join our ranks who love tal
dealing and honesty, who despise fraut
and corruption; all who love the sacred
ness of the ballot, and would not have
controlled it bayonets and supervisor
and deputy marshals; all who love OIL
institutions as founded by the fathers
and look forward with hope and courag
to the time when the burdens of TIL
General Government will ne as light q
it's blessings are benefcen.t, and whe
4 Lhe blessings of the Government. bot
Stale and National, shall be equal to Al
alike, and fall as gentle as the dews fror
heaven. The Democracy are united an
harmonious throughout the Sta,,e; an
being such, we are invincihle. and victC
| nv will be ours. [Cheers. Let MS Ste
to the front and fight the battle on th
aggressive. With a firm and decide
stand we can elect our entire State tirh
ct as we'll as majority of the Legislatul
With Ohio Democratic this fall we wi
sweep the whole country in the gra'
contest Of 1880 by such msjorities thi
no returning boards will again atteml
to count out the legallyelected Presiden