The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

3remacv in the lower House it hasn't
,ouched 80 much as the hem OF the tar
IF garment You know that it is per
ieCtly to be depended On to meet the
Federal debt and it's interest and to pay
the last dollar, and literally, the Federal
pension roll. You know all OF these
things, for you are student and observ'
er and yet you saw the Democratic par
ty battered almost beyond recognition
in such tariff States as Pennsylvania
Connecticut and New Hampshire on. a
false cry of stop thief You know that
a prohibitory tariff can be made as cruel
an iruuisition as any of those of he
dark ages which you describe with such
a wealth of language and denounce With
30 much fervor. You know that every
who has ten mouths to
feed, suffers under an urjust tariff as
much more than Vanderbilt or Gould, as
ten mouths and ten stomachs are more
than one. You know that a tariff which
will permit Philadelphia firm to amass
a fortune of ten millions OF dollars on
the manufacture Of quinine-at the ex'
pense of suffering humanity-is too In
famous to be enacted by Patagonlans'
And vet, because the Democratic party
announced that 1t was COM
mitted to a modification of the excesses
of this legislative hydra, you permitted
it to be slandered without stint do not
say that you contributed to the deluge,
but | have no doubt you are candid
enough to admit that you consented
to it.
LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE STATES
You, it seems to me, of all men, who
demand 30 much individual liberty
should be the stoutest to defend the lib
critics and rights Of the States, When
you once Concede that every citizen is
entitled to the Federal protection, that
Mr.. Gar6eld-or the mass of bonny'
clabber you now recognize as the Chief
Executive--can stretch his arm across
States to redress an assumed wrong to
the citizens of distinct political auto.
nomy, you have made the door wide
enough and high enough for a despot to
walk through. 1t will not do to say that
the people Of this nation will never toll
crate a despot--that they will throttle
him in his cradle, and all such patriotic
gush as chat. The men who begged Mr..
Tilden not to take his seat because it
would disturb business and might depre.
ciate the value of their bonds, the men
who, while believing in,the principles OF
the Democratic party, sent money out to
in October, with which to cor.
rupt Democratic votes, in order that
stock might not drop two or three
points, the men, who to-day would
sign a petition to Congress TO count the
vote Of New York for Garfield, even
though the proof of twenty thousand
illegal or bought votes lacked no jot or
title of confirmation, are the very men
who would contribute to a fund to ex-
terminate the rash zealots, who were so
of "the demands of trade"
as to want to tumble an usurper of the
White House.
THE SLAVERY OF TO-DAY.
Do you not know, or do you care to
know, that if Mr.. Garfield enters the
Presidential Office on The 4th of next
March, he does 80 as the representative,
the perfect flower and creation, of a sys'
tenn of slavery much more odious than
that destroyed by the war-of white
slavery whose chains are
forged out of fearP
can say to you in perfect sincerity,
and what is better l can prove it-that
however rapid has been the growth of
intellectual liberty in this country
there never has been an election within
my knowledge in which the votes Of 30
many men we're cast by their masters as
at the one Just past. There is not a New
England or a manufacturing village in
the North where majority of the
workiDgmen were not forced to vote as
their employers dictated. There was
not village or city in the North where
money was not used to purchase the
votes of men whose necessities were
pressing, or whose estimate of the value
Of their franchise was low. So far as
the electoral votes Of Connecticut or
New Hampshire are conCerned--both Of
which will be given to Mr.. Garfield
they simply represent white instead of
African slave.pens. So far as the vote
of New York is concerned, if given to
Mr.. Garfield, it represents merely mo.
rality a. low as any as ever attached to
the auction block.
Our party made no mistake in the
of General Hancock. While
suggesting the ticket of Seymour and
Mcdonald l am frank enough to admit
that that of Hancock and English was
stronger in all respects. General Han.
cocks record was impeaChable. He had
been a brave and successful soldier,
wise and tolerant civil administrator and
q gentleman, always. Nothing that be
had ever done called for apology or de-
fense. Whoever voted agains him
would have voted against Elijah or either
of the prophets, if nominated at Cincin-
natl. The voter who was bought for
did not ask whom he was
bought to vote against.
If all the glorious results you describe
5DIluR lIUu IOus NdIuOlu . duullnlolAd-
ton do not confound the impulse or
cause with them. Your beautiful fewer
will have been raj ed on a dungeon heap
Bribery, etc., the conjunction Of such
apparently adverse forces as BeeCherism
and "The Allenism," have made it pos
sible for the electoral vote of New York
to be added to those Connecticut and
New Hampshire, and elect Gen. Garfield
Practically, Col, Ingersoll, nine mill
lions Of people, equally divided, stood
still, in order to see whether the vast
sums of money contributed by stock
brokers and other moneyed corporations
and tariff benefCiaries, could be success
fully used in New York city to hire ten
thousand Democrats to vote for Garfield,
or possibly to pay repeaters to defeat
the fairly expressed will Of the honest
electors of New York.
It having been decided that it could,
you straightway concluded that the
Democratic party is dead; that Gen. Gar
field, unpurged of single accusation
made against him by his own associates
uncleansed of a single stain which in
earlier days would have driven a man to
suicide-will be the apostle Of new po'