The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02
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PAGAN BOB VS.. SHILLSON HUTCHINS

Hon. Stillson Hutchins, editor OF the
Post, replied in his next days Issue to
Ingersoll. We give few extracts from
both:
WHAT INGER5oLL sAYs.
IL think the nomination Of English
was very unfortunate, Indiana being
an October state, the best man in that
state should have been nominated either
or President or Vice President. Per-
sonally l know nothing Of Mr.. English;
but have the right to say he was very
unpopular This was mistake number
one.
Mistake number two was putting a
plank in the platform insisting upon
tariff for revenue only. That little word
"only" was one of the most serious mis-.
takes ever made by political party. II
was a milestone around the neck Of the
entire campaign.
''The third mistake was HanCoCk's
definition Of the tariff. 1t was very un'
fortunate, very laughable, and came just
in the nick of time.
"The fourth mistake was the speech Of
Wade Hampton-I mean the speech
the Republican papers claim be made.
OF course, don't know, personally,
whether it was made or not. If made,
it was serious mistake.
mistake number five was made in AL
ALBANIA, when they refused free speech
to a Greenbacker. That lost the Demo
Gratis enough Greenbackers to turn the
scale in Maine, and enough in Indiana
to change that election,
"Mistake number six was in the char
ges made against Garfield. They we're
insisted upon, magni6ed and multiplied;
until at last the whole thing assumed
the proportions of malicious libel. This
was a great mistake, for the reason that
number of Democrats in the United
States had most heartily and cordially
indorsed Mr.. Garfield as a man of integ-
rity and great ability. Such indor5e-
ments had been made by the leading
Democrats of the North and South, and
among them Gov. Hendricks, the editor
of the World, and many others l could
name. Jere Black had also certified to
the integrity and intellectual grandeur
Of Gen. Garfield, and when afterward,
he certified to the exact contrary, the
people be ieved it was a persecution.
Mistake number seven was the Chi
nese letter. While it lost GA field Cali.
fOrnia, Nevada, and probably New Jer-
sey, it did him good in New York. This
letter was the great mistake made, be.
cause a crime is greater than mistake,
REPLY OF Mr.. HUTCHINs.
~ If it be true that all the glo.
rious results you picture are sure to fol-
low the Inauguration of Gen. Garfield,
you will be obliged to admit we lave
been skating on very thin ice for the
last three weeks.
Be good enough to remember, Col. In
gersoll, that less than ten thousand men
in the city or state of New York could
have changed all this; that a rainy day,
half dozen fires, small riot, or the
exercise of little more vigilance on the
part of dozen men in the city of New
York, would have sent Gen. Hancock to
the White House at the head of this
now very dead Democratic party; that in.
stead of praising Mr.. Jewell as a great
taCtiCian, you might hav9 been damning
him as a fool. In political matters, at
least, you will be forced to ponder with
nae,
"On what slender thread
Hang everlasting things"
But, after all, i: it not possible that the
Republican party is unworthy of the
praise you give it, and may it not be just
possible the Democratic party is entitled
to more2 You say if were to start a
new party, the first thing would proba-
bly, do would be to leave out of it hun.
dred Democrats now prominent as such.
Undoubtedly, But even if you were
commissioned to fill their places, there
are as many Republicans whom you
would go lowell, say India-to avoid.
/ am sure the first man you would not
take, is that vulgar fraud and nauseating
hypoCrite, who for four years has been
diligently proving that such a montros.
ity as Pecksnif is not an possibility
R. B. Hayes. 1t is some compensation
to belong to the Democratic party, even
if one aCComplishes nothing more by it
than to get rid Of any association with
him.
PRINCIPLE RATHER THAN SUCCESS.
The stronger the party, the more it
has to give, the meaner It's membership.
Please tell me, if you can, what induce.
ments there have been to attach a man
to the Democratic party for the last
twenty years-other than its principea2
Not to be egotistical, take my case for
example. For twenty years l have ad.
voCated its doctrines and voted for it's
candidates. Profit it has not given me,
preferment it could not give me. There
Is no Office at the disposal of any Chief
Magistrate it could have elected, ever
wanted or would take. Why, then, have
been a Democrat Th0 organization
seemed dead enough in 1870 2 to satisfy
anybody but cannibal. 1t could hard.
ly elect justice Of the peace, if public
notice had to be given Of the intention.
The Republican party had drawn to its
fold nearly all the wealth and activity of
the country. Like individuals suddenly
made prosperous, it arrogated to itself
all the deCenCy and intelligence extant
To be Democrat, in many places, was
to be an outcast. You, who are 80 fond
Of liberty and humanity Of grand"
ORDER tell me, If you can, why man,
not born into idioCy or overtaken by it,
should have remained a Democrat twen-
fOur-yearsP
1t was so easy and 30 profitable, too,
to change. Like the gates of that place
you decline to take stock in, the gatNs of
the Republican party stood open night
and day. There was no Democrat so
mean as to lack welcome. His sins,
though scarlet, were instantly oblitera.
ted and forgotten. And yet you
thoughtlessly, must believe-taIk about
the final collapse of an organization
which, without power, patronage, or a
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