The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-19

must live together, and this great people
in their march Of progress cannot stop
for chickering's and quarrels. The genius
of our people is progress, business and
energetic life; and the party that stands
in their road will 90 down before the
march ofevents. General Hancock is a
representative of this unionism. The
Repu 3liCan party and its policy are the
exponents of the reverse. Their policy
destroys our control of the manufactur
ing interests of the Republic; takes from
the north that peculiar control which
has heretofore belonged to US; and plaCe5
factories, furnaces, rolling mills and
workshops by every river in the South,
The South has been agricultural; that is
it's natural sphere. LIS enormous pro
ducts from the soil have been and ought
to continue to be the most important ell
ement in her progress and prosperity,
Disunion, hate and persecution force
them to depend upon themselves. aud
thus deprive us of what is aud ought to
continue to be our natural market.
This is the language of their great lead
er, of their ex President. He recognizes
the fact that the time has come for the
absence of sectional doctrines, and thus
a palpable denial is given to the appeals
of his party. We say to the Republican
party, Take away your persecution, your
doctrine of hate, your envy ofthe bloody
shirt your assertion that the people of
that section do not love the flag; bring
hnoly IN lnntt;,o &c
with one destiny, and all will be WE'LL"
We must live together; we are bound to
continue as one. Why, then, should
this bitterness of seCtionalism continue?
tell you great people cannot, will not
stop for quarTels of this kind. We want
peace and prosperity in this country and
wew Will have it in spite of these bcker-
ings, this strife. We wanthusines9 pros.
perity, We are a people of energy;
people OF business, and we are determiu
ed to march on. NJ biCk erings con stop
us. The banner of peace and prosperity
is held aloft by a son of Montgomery
county. Cheers] He will lead us, and
we could noC have better leader. YOU
want market fJr your products. That
market exists iu the South, and we must
have it. Take away this cry of sectional,
ism, and their manufacturing industries
will progress, the smoke viii ascend from
their mills. All this can only come from
a restoration of harmony and peace, but
it will never come while disunion, hate
and sectionalism are preeChed.
WHAT "sTRoNG GyvERNMENT" MEANS.
Another thought-the plain issue is
between a strong government and gov
ernment of the people, between the
teachings of Jefferson and those of Ham.
ilton-is involved in this campaign. Gen.
eral Garfield in his place in the House
on the 26,h of January, 1865, said 81 be.
lieve that the fame of Jefferson is wan
ing and the fame of Hamilton waxing il
the estimation of the American people,
and that we are gravitating toward
stronger government. l an glad that we
are" Al the Fifth Avenue Hotel on
Friday last he paid a tribute to Alexan.
der Hamilton as the leader of American
thought. The conflict is here again
shaped between the rights of man as
such and of power and paternal govern
ment That was the issue the people of
Eastern Pennsylvania met in 1900, here
in this locality, and they turned from
power those who followed and believed
in the teachings of Mr.. Hamilton and
Mr.. Adams, and placed in power those
who followed and believed in the doc
trines of Mr. Jefferson. With us the in
dividual is the unit; we govern by indi-
viduality. All rights belong to the indi.
vidual save those which are vital to the
conduct Of the Government, and when
| those pass from the individual the eY
tent of the giant is to be measured with
jealousy, and its abuse curbed whenever
it occurs We want no strong govern
ment; we want government of the peo
Pile. by the people and for the people.
Our candidate voices this when he says,
This Union, comprising General Gov
ernment with general powers, and State
Governments with State powers for pur.
poses local to the States IS a policy the
foundations of which were laid in the
profoundest wisdom. This is the Union
which our fathers made, and which has
been 30 respected abroad and 30 benefc.
ent at home"
General Garf9ld and his party would
centralize the Government. The ten
denCy of their sysmen is to ignore the
individual as unit and to govern the
people from the top. Federal election
laws are but one of the evidences of this
tendency. They apply now to cities
alone; but conCede the power, and it
grows upon Whatit grasps and ultimately
finds full play in t. g control of elections
in the rural districts. SIN a republic all
men are equal; in centralized des s2otism
they are also all equal-in the former
because they are everything, in the lat
ter because they are nothing" We want
neither sectional hate, disunion nor pa
terna. government. We want no pater-
nal government. We KDow our rights
and we will guard them jealousy. We
want not strong government but an
equal government. Unionism against
sectionalism, aLtagonism to centraliza.
tion-these are the two leading thoughts
which should animate the Democracy.
Let us imagine an example of this cen
tralization. Suppose the Government
were to say: "We will have something
to do with your hoolsystem. We will
have a Bureau of Education at Washing
ton land, by the way, there is one there
already, and it shall control your
schools" Do you not think you would
suffer- Cannot you manage your wards
here better than if they were controlled
at Washington. If you have dishonest
official you could turn him out at the
first election, but under the centrajiza
tion system he could hold over in Wash
ington from one administration to au-
other. These are instances of centralizl-
ton. In the cities to-day the Federal
Government controls by means Of mar
shals, inspectors, supervisors. This is