The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-23
POLITICAL ITEMS,

represented by Butterworth and Young.
We do not want any votes from THE REBEL
DEMOCRATS, they are TRAITORS to their coun.
try, and we have no use for them, we can get
along Without them.-[ Republican County Con.
Vention Of Perry County, Ohio, July 7th, 1880.
Why don't the Plain Dealer defend the policy
OF having low tariff and low wages? Why
keep silent?-Leader. Nobody proposes suoh a
policy But is not Garfield member of the Cob
den Gree trade) Clubi Did he not vote to take
the duty off woolH Why keep silent-Platn
Dealer.
The Democratic campaign stock is evidently
made up OF lies, lies, lies, lies.-Abqnv Journal,
This is rough on the authors of the Poland re-.
port and the Republican papers, including the
New York Times and Tribune and the Concord
Monitor, which declared Garfield to be rascal
Boston Post.
The Chicago Journals Little Rock special says
The amendment to the State Constitution of Ar.
kansas, which provides for the reputation Of a
portion OF the State debt is adopted by several
thousand majority. 1t also says the majoritiea
for the Democratic candidates for State officers
range from $4,000 upwards.
If the South is solldly Democratic now, the
change is due to Republican misrule in that sec
tion and to the great political error which that
party committed In endeaVoring to confirm and
perpetuate Its control Of those States by banding
the freedmen together against their former mas.
ters, instead Of seeking to hsrmonize the new re.
lations between the two races Baltimore Sun
(Ind) Sept s.
A dispatch from Indianapolis says: 1.-THE De.
mocracy is everywhere jubilant and confident,
and all the indications point to certain victory
both in october and November. 1t is fact that
a wealthy Democrat has had bet of Sc, 900 await.
ing taker at the rooms Of the Republican State
Central Committee He offered to bet this amount
that Landers will be elected Governor. The offer
has been open for two weeks and no Republican
has yet been found with sufficient nerve to meet
the amount"
The testimony from New York, Cincinnati, In.
dianapolis and st, Louis Is unanimous In ascrib.
ing to the Southern people wonderful degree Of
prosperity and comm ercial activity, and a readi.
ness both to trade and to pay which exhibits all
the evidences Of a well settled, well governed
community. The lea that such community ia
on the verge Of anarchy, deliberately plotting to
overthrow the Government, doubling the nation.
al debt, depreciating and destroying the national
credit, would not for a moment be tolerated by
any rational being not intoxicated with political
animosity y.-DetroH Free Press (Den,.) Sept 7.
Gen. Manson has procured all the stones that
were thrown at him at his First Ward meeting
Friday night, and will put them on exhibition as
proof Of Republican Yszooism.
One day last week two Democratic colored ora.
lors were urgently requested by their colored
brothers to depart from the Republican soil Of
Noblesville, They had gone there with the in
tention OF speaking, but their appearance caused
the immediate organization of a committee of
intimidation, who persuaded the orators that
their services as well as their persons would be
of more avail in other localities, indianapolis
NOS (lnd) Sept6 G.
The Republican party recognized few years
ago that 1t was altogether too corrupt to live in
land of popular suffrage so it set about to correct
Its habits and promised great things to the peo.
pleIt undertook the work of civil service reform,
but by the time they had overhauled the New
York Custom House and discharged their present
nominee for Vice Presid't the machine" smashed
the reform movement, and the old rule came
again in vogue which allows the bosses to farm
out the Government appointments. There is but
one way to purify corrupt political party, and
that Is to beat 1t at the polls Chicago Telegraph
Dem sept G.,
Extract from Oakes Ames' memoranda:
James A. Garfield, In account with
Oakes Ames- DR..
To 81 900 Credit MObilier stock 81 900 90
To interest carrying same................,.. AZ 90
70 check on Sergeant'at Arms.....,....".." 329 90
1886 90
Or,
By 50 per cent. dividend in bonds, $500,
soi1 al " per cen l76 90
By 60 per cent cash 600 90
1886 90
Seven months after the battle Of Gettysburg
when the memory Of that great battle was still
fresh, the Boston Transcript, Republican, in its
issue OF February r. 1864, expressed this opinion
Of the present Democratic nominee for President:
This brave and accomplished officer General
HancOCk) succeeded the lamented General Sum-
ner in the command of the Second Corps, and at
the battle Of Gettysburg, 1t has been well said,
astoniehed his subordinate officers by his origin
ality, his quickness or thought in emergencies,
and by all qualities essential TO mastery leader To
his advice General Meade was much indebted in
the conduct OF the entire battle" The Repository
Davids have grave doubts whether Hancock was
OF Gettysburg, at any rate thinks the victory due
to captain of artillery refusing to obey his or.
ders.
Aunt Sally" as she is famllarly called, is
frequently visited by members OF the clan. bake
parties which frequent that neighborhood, and
few days ago, delegation Of clam baking Re.
publicans thought they would interview her on
political subjects. This Is what they got accord.
ing to report in the New York Star;
well, boys, l don't know what you are, but
am Democrat, not in name but in principle. l
learned Democracy from the Constitution; 1t
gives us liberty, and revere the memory of the
good men who made It, Only read the history
of the country for the past twenty years, and
what is 1t but reign ofrascality never equalledW
[Sensauon
A Garfield man interrupted the old lady to
ask her about the old Whig party. Aunt Sally
replied:
"Why the old Wings we're a set Of mOngrels. |
love Democracy: Look at the way hr. Tilden was
robbed OF the office the people elected him to-
My Cod what kind OF conscience must the man
have who stole the Presidency [SensRtiOn.l I
don't know Gen. Hancock, but they tell me he
was fighting for his country on the battle field
while the other fellow was making money'on the
young man OF the party interrupted Aunt
Sally, when she replied: well, George, we don't
agree In politics, but l am in hopes before elec.
tion you will have the scales removed from your
eyes and you'll vote for Gen. Hancock"
Aunt Sally" has been free from Republican
callers ever since,
The desperation Of the Republicans, as we'll aa
their revolutionary spirit, is strikingly manifest
ed In speech made by q Republican orator in
Maine recently wherein he declared that the
Republicans never will submit to the rule Of a
Democratic President, but that Ga field shall be
next President by virtue OF Republican ballots
or, II these fail, of Republican bullets" Another
one said that If Hancock could be elected he