The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-23
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homesP Let the Republican party an
swer these questions before claiming
credit for return to sound surrency anC
better times. And let the people remem
Der that it was not till the Democratic
party got control of the House OF Repre-
sentatives and checked the wasteful ex
travaganCe of Republican Administra
ton that returning prosperity began tt
appear.
| think have shown by an impartia
statement Of facts that the Republican
party. as now organized and controlled
is not the representative OF the princi
Piles which governed it at its birth thai
it is now party Of false pretences, seek
ing to maintain it's asCendency on past
glOries to which it is not entitled, and
by an election machinery devised to en-.
able it to fill every election precinct in
the land with its active partisans at the
public expense.
CAN REPUBLICAN CONSISTENTLY VOTE THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET?
1t seems to me that no original Re.
publican who prefers principle to party
right to wrong, and fairness to dishon.
esty, can longer act with such an organ.
ization. Where, then, shall he go? Can
he consistently vote the Democratic
tiCketH That party has been out of power
twenty years. More than half its voters
aR we'll as those Of the Republican party,
have beCom such since 1860. 1t ls not
therefore, composed Of the same persons
as were in power at the commencement
of the war of the rebellion. 1t is to day
the open and avowed advocate of the
principles and policy declared in the
fourth and sixth resolutions of the Re.
publican platform of 1860 One of the
fundamental articles of its creed is "the
right of each State to order and control
it's own domestic institutions according
to its own judgment" This does not
mean the right of State to secede from
the Union any more than it did when
embodied in the Republican platform oil
1860; but it means just what it says; The
right Of the State to control its domestic
affairs without interference by the Fed
eral Government in its elections by Fed
eral officials or lawless, armed force un.
der any pretext whatever. Applause. |
The Democratic party as such was never
a secession party, though some of it's
members, as well as mem bers of the old
Wing and old Abolition party, were nul.
litiers and seCessionist5. Some of the
Aboitionists were accustomed to de.
nounCe the Constitution of the United
States as "a league with the devil and a
covenant with hell" 1t was Gen. Jack
son, the leader of the Democracy, who
so effeCtually crushed out the doctrines
of notification and secession in 1882 that
it did not again show its head ill 1860
when the war followed, and buried it
forever beyond the power ofresurreCtion
[Applause. Neither secession nor Afri.
can slavery will ever trouble us more
The charge that "the pledge to the con.
stitutional doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party, as illustrated by the
teachings and example of long line ol
Democratic statesmen and patriots,
means pledge to the doctrine of seCes.
sion, is as far from the truth as it would
be to charge the Republicans of 1856 with
being gseCessionists because they favored
restoring the action Of the Federal Gov.
ernment to the principles of Washing.
ton and Jefferson. II is only to the con.
stitutional doctrines of the fathers thai
the Democracy pledges itself, and, un'
less Republicans believe that success is
a constitutional doctrine, how can they
charge that pledge to mean secession
[Cheers.]
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES
COMPARED.
The doctrine of the Democratic party
as to the rights of the States and the Ma.
ton, respectively, is simple, and easily
understood by all who do not wish to
obscure it. 1t is this: That the people
are supreme and the source of all power
under our form of Government; that
they have delegated to a federal govern.
ment the exercise of certain powers,
chiefly of a national character, in the ex.
ercise of which it is sovereign; that all
powers not so delegated by the United
States Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the States, "are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the PEOPLE" The
United States are sovereign as to all
powers granted and the States as to all
powers not granted, and from the exer.
else of which they are not prohibited
Each is sovereign within its own sphere.
The United States can alone make trea
ties, regulate commerce with foreign ma
tions, and 80 on, but it has no power to
prescribe the qualifications of voter for
even member of Congress, though it
may prevent discrimination between
voters on account of race or color. The
Federal Government cannot determine
when man or woman shall become Of
lawful age in any State of the Uaion, the
mode of conveying property, what shall
constitute legal marriage, or cause Tor
divorce. In these matters, and all 9TH
ers of domestic nature, it is as power
less to interfere as the Grand Mogul,
while the State possesses sovereign power
as to them all.
The difference between parties in this
respect is this; The Democratic party
believes that both the National and State
Governments are sovereign within their
respective 8. heres, and that the confn
ing of each to the ex>rCise of the power
properly belonging to it is essential to
that balance of power on which the en-
durance of our political fabric depends
The Republican party, on the contrary,
magnfes the sovereignty of the United
states, and is constantly drawing to ii
more and more control over domestic
concerns. In fact, some of the advocates
of Republication have gone 80 far as to
Jany IN q aovaraiontv OF tho ltataa in anU.