The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-30

bullets, death and disease were In the
way, and we will send you now to the
front in Congress. The Republican party
send everybody there with a very few
exceptions, but the soldiers who went to
the front. There are FIVE Republican, Ci-
villains to every Republican soldierthere,
or any other soldier from the North, and
more than that when they pick out any,
they generally pick out a man that serv'
ed on some Generals staff, not one that
went to the front Laughter All, but
says Republican, will you turn over
negro to his enemiesP No, you have
done that If the Southern men are his
enemies; Hayes did that to get counted
in, everybody knows that. You say you
can't do anything in the South; that is
true, you did not protect anybody
There has not been any cared for in the
South by Hayes's administration except
those rasCally Returning Boards and
false counters down there, and they all
have ueen appointed to Office. Why not
only that, but the Republican party in
1875 and in 1880 won't send anybody
down to the South to tell them how to
vote, to speak to them, to discuss with
them, to talk with them and show those
men how they ought to vote.
Is it danger us2 l don't believe it is.
l will tell you why in a moment. 1 have
no doubt but that good many of them
are little afraid, but that don't prove
the danger. Is it dangerous2 Not at all (;
for didn't they send them down in 1875
Was it dangerous? No; because as the
voting was over the Republican party
sent delegations of their statesmen down
to all those States to teach the negroes
how to count. [Cries of "hear," "hear,"
and cheers Nov they complain the
Democrats down there have taken leaf
out of their books-lesrned to count too
we'll. Oh, this Counting have heard
objections to universal suffrage, that
men did not know enough to vote unless
they had education; that man must be
able to read and write to know how to
vote, that man must have some quail
6cstion, that he must pay taxes or own
jaC&ass in order to vote. ! am against
all that; that is anti Democratic doctrine
the Democratic doctrine that came
fresh from the lips of Jefferson. "All
men are created equal with equal rights"
[Cheers. believe in manhood suffrage;
the right of man to vote because he is
a man, and for no other reason whatev-
er. l see no bad results from any vote of
the masses. The masses always vote
right, or nearly right.
But what is the complaint now in the
worst places. New York city has gener.
ally been Democratic in the last twenty
years. In Philadelphia the men in
Office have generally been Republicans.
THE COUNTING PROCESS.
What is the complaint Of both parties
that the masses in those cities don't
vote right? Oh, no; but that the intelli-
gent few won't count right You cannot
get fair count in this country, No eleC-
tion can have fair count
When the count between Tilden and
Hayes came up, in order to have fair
count, we had an Electoral Commission,
consisting of FIVE Democrats of the high
est position and five Republicans of the
highest position, and then we went to
the Supreme Court and we took five of
the Judges of that Court. Now, we said,
we are going to have fair count; moth
ing but the sublimest justice shall we
get now. What happened? To those fif
teen men were presented great questions
of constitution law. What sort Of judg.
ment did we get-I don't care which was
right or which was wroDg-but we got
verdict of eight to seven according to the
political prejudiCes Of the men that
counted, not otherwise and no different,
although these were the greatest and
best men we had, suppose we had taken
the same question and submitted it to 8
Republicans and 7 Democrats in New
York, wouldn't you have gotten exactly
the same decision You would, so that /
am not troubled with the voting of the
men, it is the counting.