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

W ldkt luGlL uhuuo Ou lublthN VI supporting lue
Republican party, would 1t have a ghost of
chance for success? Let us have prosperity but |
never at the expense Of liberty, never at the ex
pense of real self government and let US never
have government at Washington owing its re.
tention to the power Of the nillionslres rather
than to the will OF the millions,
THE ARGUMENT AGAINST CHANGE AN ARGUMENT
FOR A MONARCHY.
Point No is that the Democrats are terribly
hungry for place and that a change In the one
hundred thousand offices Of the country would be
calamty-wOuldl lin the language Of Mr., SChuIz, |
take the very machinery Of the government 10 |
pieces would be something dreadful TO contem'
plate, But this is direct argument in favor OF
permanent governmental perm nent office hold
ing dynasty. If we cannot afford 10 change the
ruling party because that meauS the change OF
one hundred Thousand office holders we shall
certainly be much less able to do so four eight or
twelve years hence when the power and number
Of these offices will be much greater In my Opin
ion a change OF administration does not imply |
change in every office in the country Nor
would such sweeping change be desirable. But
to hold that the country cannot afford to elect
Hancock simply because of the Office holders who
would lose their places is to give away spirit Of
our institutions, the character of representative
republic based upon government by political par
ties their accountability to the people and fire.
quent cha" ges. live cannot have change now
we can never have one. If Mr.. SChuTz's aTgu-
ment against change because 1t would put the
ins out and the outs In is good to-day It will be
still better In the future and we might as well set
tie down to the idea Of a permanent party Gy-
nasty as rremOvable and irresponsible as 1t is IT.
TepIoachable-the mOnarChial idea IN Republican
clothes.
REAL TRUTH AND FACTS ABOUT THE SOLID SOUTH
Point No. is the cry about the solid South
understand the Republican position to be this
that 1t Is great political crime for ten Southern
States to be all Democratic, but that it would be
the highest political virtue for twenty-five North
ern States to be all Republican. A solid South is
monstrous solid North sublime-aCCOrding to
Republican logic, Now, what Is there in all this
Cry? When the war closed every Southern State
was made Republican by force They we're put
under military rule Next they were put under
the rule Of thieving Carpet.baggers. To make Re.
publican rule permanent million negroes Just
emerged from slavery were made voters and mas
ters over the disfTanCbised whites. What eusued
you knOW-the most mOnstTOuS msgOVernmeut,
robbery and corruption probably the world ever
saw Then the South was solid for the Republic
ans. But reaction had to come. 1t came. Grad
ually these Southern States regained local self
government To them Republcanism meant rob.
berry, oppression and government from Washing
ton, government set up by bayOnets and kept up
by bribery. Democracy meant local self govern
ment There was no alternatve-lhey had to be-
come Democratic, There was no other place to
go to and the Republican party itself is alone re.
spOnsible for it, There Is not a single State In the
North that would not have done the same thing
under the same cirCums anCeS, The Republican
party had the South at its feet and could have
made out of ii what 1t pleased. Had itacted with
real craftsmanship and wisdom 1t could have
saved it. But in its anxiety to force the South TO
be Republican 1t employed and tolerated methods
20 gross and revolving that they produced a resc.
ton. If there is a solid South to-day the Repub.
lican party and leaders are responsible for It,
Now, what has the South done since 1868 when 1t
was Republican, you believe partisan lies, the
q 1y aUU I'd iTh hfrl1
doing, killing negroes, organizing another rebel
lion and general thriftlessness and depOpulation.
But the highest Republican authority prononces
this Infamous,
GENERAL GRANT,
retnrung from his last trip through the South
said this n his Bloomingto speechn about the per.
feet loyalty and patriotism of the Southern peo.
pie; 1t may be appropriate on this occasion to
re er to my trip through the Southern States and
to what have seen while travelling ] have been
gratifed at my reception In all the recently re.
bellious States. l passed from Philadelphia to
Florida on my way to Havana and on nay return
came via Texas from Mexico, thus passing thro'
all the rehellious States, and II will be agreeable
to all to know that hospitality was rendered me
at every city through which passed and accept.
ed In nearly all Of them by me. The same deco.
TatiOus were seen in every Stale that are seen
here tonight. The Union flag il0ated over us ev
eryWhere and the eyes of the people In those
look upon It as guaranteeing them all the rights
and privileges of free peoule without regard to
race color or previous condition Of serVitude. In
most of the States upon the'reception committees,
side by side, are men that wore the blue and men
that wore the gray and reception addresses were
made IN part by those who wore the blue and
those who wore the gray. We had no reason to
doubt that those who wore the gray will fulfill all
they have promised In loyalty to the flag and the
nation" So, even according to General Grant,
the South Is sincerely attached to the Union and
lhe common flag. Now, what deed or crime, |
ask, Las she committed since she ceased to be Re-
publican to deserve so much villlfcatiOn? will
Tell you In figures and facts taken from Repub
lican authorities Over one third Of our exports
are raised In and by the South. According to the
most eminent Republican statistloan in the cOun.
try, Edward Atkinson, of Boston, the value of the
last ten cotton crops alone was not less than So.
500 900 900 and probably $4,000 900 000 Two thirds
of this has been eXpOrted-which means that for
one single staple produced blythe rebels during
the last ten years this country has received the
enormous sum of two thousand millions in gold
or more than the entire national debt, from Eur
ope That this was largely due to the operations
Ofregained self government is shown by the sim.
pie fact that while the cotton produced in the
four years Of carpet bag rule Of 1866, e. '6S and
60 amounted to about S4620000 600 in the years
1876, II, 7S and TO- under Democratic rule, 1t
amounted to over S951 0O0000 or absolutely more
than twice as much, aud increase of over one
hundred per cent, an addition to the national
wealth IN four years alone from sing @ staple OF
$500 0OJ 900 as the difference between Republican.
ism and Democracy. II you will look at any Re-.
publican almanac you will see that of the 81 67S,-
100000 Of agricultural exports between 1875 and
1871 the products Of the South alone amounted 10
about 81 5i6 100000. IfyOu believe that eminent
Republican, Mr.. Atkinson the value of thFttbt,
ton crop of 1870-79 was as said before, about S3
900 000 Now, is all this the result OF BULLDOG
ing, the ku.klux and southern outrages and rebel
ruler Were these glorious rebel deeds committed
nu0pT Rpnuhlipnn haU ruln nr DnunnFany0
Can such results be due to the shotgun, the ku-
kluX or the tissue BALLOT Itse the country could
we'll afford to pay for much more OF this kind of
ku-kluxing. But 1t is not so. These extraordi
nary results could never have been obtained ex-
cept In profound peace and order, through per.
feet harmony of all classes Of the people by indus
try, thrift and hard work and under the workings
Of an honest and traly representative self govern
ment, This Is also shown by the census Just taken
by Republican appointees, according to which
the South has gained much more rapidly in pop
ulaton than many OF the Northern States II we
have prosperity and good times to day through a
favorable balance Of trade, who contributed to 1t
so largely as the truly solid South2 II the national
debt has been decreased, whose cotton brought
thousands of millions of foreign gold to this coun
try? tell you the South is the hen that lays the
golden eggs In this country and 1t is the most stu
pendOus sin to slander aud kick her when she is
doing such extraordinary work for the prosperity
Of the nation and only asks to be let alone. There
Is rot business man in Indiana or the North
who does not really owe whatever good times and
prosperity may prevail, not to the Republican
party, which claims all the credit, n, to John
Sherman but infinitely more to the toll and labor
of these much abused late rebels of the South
They have done nobly for the country and in.
stead Of deserving prosecution and villiAcation
they are entitled TO the highest praise for their
good sense, their patriotism, their Industry and
their liberal, progressive spirit. Yes liberal,
say for fom the last statistics 1t appears that In
1878 twelve O.these rebel States spent s6 0CO0 on
their public schools, there educating over six
hundred thousand eolored children free of ex.
pense. They say that the South caused the war
and the national debt Well, suppose she did. II
she is left alone to work and grow and develop at
the present rate II she is not put back under the
rule Of the bayonet II she is simply let alone her
own work and her own crops alone will pay off
the entire national debt soon enough in spite of
the million lies heaped upon her by vile partisan
tongues. But life is too short to answer all
REPUBLICAN LIES
and mus! close. The application Of a thousand
search warrants would not produce q single real
issue or living question Of principle or idea upon
which the Republican party was Of lganized which
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