The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05

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wit, the Executive, Legislature, and Judicial de-
partments, should be harmonious In their respeo'
tive spheres without the least encroachment one
upon the other.
REPUBLICAN PROMISES FALsIFIED,
Every promise and profession OF the Republi-
can party is ialsiaed by its public record. While
1t proclaims civil service reform, its candidate
for President repudiates the utterancesOfhi his par
TVS platform on this subject in his letter Of ac'
ceptance, and Its candidate for Vice President
was dismissed from Office by Mr., Hayes's Admin
%istration, because Of his conspicuous ineticiency
and quesiionable-if not worse-public official
acts.
1t holds office to-day by the most open defiance
of the popular will, and by acts which were sub,
veIsive to the votes of the people, and yet II
claims 1t Is the only friend OF free and fair cleo,
tons. The President tells how sincere and de,
voted he is to election entirely free from inter,
meddlirg Of CficehOldeGs, and yet sees his Cabi,
net officers using their power over their subordi.
mates to compel submission at the polls, and "a
pay out their percentages upon their salaries as
an election fund. But we need not be surprised
1t is the same party and the same President
which paid from the public treasury the reward
of the CoDspiTatOIs who had helped them TO steal
the Presidency. This is neither civil service re.
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duet of its administration,
The truth is the Republican party has been in
power so long that its misgovernment and arbi'
traTy acts have become chronic. Its followers
begin to believe the Government and Its patron
age belong to them. We have already seen In
our country, which has been taught so plainly
In the lessons of history, that lOng.cOntinued
Observation-Disclosures, reckless extravaganza, and
shameless corruption soon engender contempt OF
the people S will, and a craving for larger and
more absolute power. Imperialism was not a
myth even according to Republican authority
Justice and honor demand a change, that pun
ishment may be meted out TO fraud upon the
people: that disagreement and exercise OF ar
bitraTy power may cease; that corruption In office
may end; that economy OF expenses may tighten
the burden Of taxation: that harmony may pre-
vail between all sections that industry may
thrive, and that our sails may Whiten every sea-
these blessings will come upon a free people, by
the long deferred but required change Of admin.
i~stration.
GEN. HAECoCK's RECORD.
In Gen. Hancock we have a leader fashioned
by the Democratic t~eachiRgs ofthe fathers OF our
Government, soldier in war and In peace en-.
dowed with the capacity Of the statesman. He is
free from all faint Of official dishonor. He bows
in absolute obedience to the Federal Constitu.
ton and the laws which it ordains. The will of
the people is to him the mandate OF the sover.
eighty in republics.
When Washington. laid down his commission,
Dec. %, 1888, In the presence Of Congress at An.
napolis, alter having brought the war OF the Rev.
olution to q successful conclusion and achieved
our independence, the President of Congress,
Thomas Mifiin, a citizen OF Pennsylvania, ad-
dressing Washington, who was regarded as FIRST
In war, first In peace, and first In the hearts of
his countrymen," paid him the highest eulogy
in these words:
you have conducted the great military con.
test with wisdom and fortitHde, invariably re.
garding the rights Of the civil power through all
disasters and changes" This is the Democratic
salutation to Gen. Hancock. He, too, mas ibva.
riably regarded the rights of the civil power
through all disasters and changes. He is honest,
capable and worthy. He will be chosen, ana
there is a bright prospect ahead for an entire
country and all Its Inhabitants,
GENERAL EwING's SPEECH.
Gen, Ewing said that this demonstration is net
the voice Of Tammany or of Irving Hall. 1t is the
trumpet tongue OF the reunited Democracy of
New York, calling to their brethren everywhere
to rally for the fight.
A decided majority of the people in nearly all
the States are sick and tired Of the Republican
party. That party elected Grant in 1868, by a pop.
ular majority Of over half a million. Eight years
of Republican rule followed, and on a much lar.
ger popular vote in 1876, the Republican party
was defeated by a quarter of a million majority.
Though through fraud and bribery 1t has since
held on to power, its thinned ranks have never
been recruited and two years ago II held a popu
lar majority In only six States of the Union, And
now comes another Presidential election. Has
the Republican party done aught to win a new
lease of power Does its rape OF the Presidency
and its reward Of every accomplice in the crime
commend it to public faVoIY On the contrary has
it not, by its desperate resorts to retain power,
sufficiently warned the people that their safety
demands that 1t retain it no longer
For three sessions Of Congress the Democrats
have had a desperate struggle with the Republi-
can party to keep bayonets from the polls to Keep
msrshsls from using the common treas
ure 70 bully and bribe voters to keep elections
where they have been from the foundation Of our
down to 1872, under the exclusive
Of our State Governments. We have, In
short, been fighting the Republican party to pre-.
serve from It's assaults the ancient liberty of our
race and the essential ard immemorial methods
of our perfect system of Government. The Re
publican leaders are driven 10 these desperate
measures, not so much by a wish to change our
free institutions, as by extreme love and long
habit OF power. Twenty years OF absolute con.
troll OF the general Government and of its vast
patronage, measured, as that patronage is, BY
Of millions annually, is something to
fight for. See the multitude of men who, since
1860, have risen to fortune and position by it, Half
the wars great wars which have drenehed the
earth with blood were fought to win less treasure
than annually falls within the disposal Of the
ruling party in the United States.
Aside from considerations of public virtue, con.
Of economy demand II change OF ad.
In March, 1875, after fifteen years
Of complete control by the Republican party of
The Executive departments and both branches of
Congress, the Democratic House of Representa-.
was installed. In the FIVE years that follow.
ed the Democracy reduced the expenses of Gov
eminent, including pensions, on an average. owe
w, OOO,OOO q year as compared with FIVE years pre
ceding.
But here our economi zing must stop. We can
20 no further. The expenses of the Government
OF pensions and public debt, are still
s29 600, 900 in excess Of the like expenses, in pro,
portion to population, In Buchanan's day. can
zee no reason why that additional 500, 900 900 can.
not be saved each year.
There is another and q stronger reason for A
vi dumlulhtIhtlOu, Oh winch 4 could talk
by the hour. Such a change is essential to he
restoration Of harmony between North and South,
The chief stock in trade of the Republican party
las been and is, distrust and hate Of the South.
That party will never do, or suffer to be done,
to impair its capital. Now that he
grave has closed on half the actors In our unhan.
py tragedy, 1t is time its resentments were buried
The p%retence that the South meditates a
disturbance Of the settlem entsO OF the war, or com.
for all or IN any part Of their losses by
l believe to be utterly and fiagitiously false.
Yet that charge, reiterated a million times In
every campaign in the North, has created appre.
OF danger from Southern influence In
our politics, behind which the Republican party
has lodged and escaped condt mnaIion for It's own
Sound policy demands that these par |
tisan accusations be put to the test. Ifthey should
prove true, which | am sure they will moi. me
overwhelming numbers and sentiment of Inc
North will overthrow the party responsible Tor
such schemes. II they prove false. as am sure
they will, the administration Of Hancock will
that South and North are In factone
10 devotion TO our country and It's laws, and will
bring on an era Of good feeling and prosperous
between the sections, which will give
a new impulse to our already marvellous develop