The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-04

I 0dOro rfeunRnuYboni inc lllusIrlouS
New Jerseyman. ON the same ticket with
Henry Clay, was called "vinegar-faced
Presbyterian" although no more geuial
man. ever lived. Daniel Webster, under
political assault and neglect, died of a
broken heart, at Marshfield. At his
nomination for the Presidency, the de.
risive cry was "Who isJames K. Polk?'
Although he had been long while in
the councils of the nation and Speaker
of the House of Representatives tell
you now who he was-the man who
added Texas, in some respects the rich
est Of all the States in the Union, and
did more than any other man in this
country to open our way to the posses
sion of every thing clear to the Pacific
Coast. Yet there were millions of peo
pie ho, during his administration, ne7.
er mentioned his name without sDeer
of contempt There is not a man in mid
life who does not remember the fact
that all the terms of ohloqny were
heaped upon Abraham Lincoln. All
these men have taken places in history
honorable and radiant, But we are still
at the old business of base tIavesty. We
have our dictionaries out hunting up
more terms of political damnation Two
men are set up for the candidacy, both
eminentr-one in the field, the other in
the councils of the naticn-an4 both, l
believe, good men. Yet what do hear
in regard to them2 Ozone l am told he
unjusJly and gladly hung Mrs. Surratt
that he is ignorant of public affairs; that
crossing the ti9d of battle once with an
cath he neglected wounded soldiers ;
that he was engaged in an oil swindle
tn 1t he is weak and ambitious for the
Presidency, and will do anything un-
prinCipled to gain it; has o bee in his
bonnet, and 20 on, and 80 on. am told
of the other that he took council fee
which he ought not to have received
that he took stock in Credit Mobilier,
knowing it to be national sWindle and
on doorsteps and the side of houses
see written in chalk the amount he is
said to have acquired by the knavery to
be 1929 Now, / would like to gather all
the first class anathema into one grave,
and ON the monument above it / would
put the eptaph, Here rest the family
of Republican lies. Requie8cat in pace -
And into another grave | would like to
gather the other claes of anathema, and
upon the monument above l would put
the epitaph, Here rest the family of
Democratic lies. Reguie8cdt IN pace r
Have you any idea that the slander of
the opposing candidates will in any way
forward your party? l tell you nay.
There is something in human nature
that puts it in sympathy with the ira
duced. Falsehoods rebound and hurt
those who utter them mora than those
against whom they are uttered. If | had
scale delicate enough to weigh defama
ton. l would to- you in one minute who
will be the next President of the United
States. | would put all the scurriity
against Hancock on oneside of the scale,
and all the sCurrility against Garfield on
the other side of the scale, and the man
most abused would be the next Presi
dent. 1t seems that as soon as man is
put up for Office, city, State or National
he is be made the target. The fact
that be is up seems to be proof positive
that he ought to be brought down. His
private life as we'll as his public IS put
under scrutiny, and all the electric lights
turned on, and if there can be any thing
that can be twisted into eming wrong,
mutitudes of people rejoice over it as
though they had discovered new star
or found nev invention.
And here let me say that some of the
newspaper pre-, ses of the country are
mistaking wild license for liberty. There
are newspapers whose entire business is
calumny. Their columns are stuffed
with it. Their editorials reek with it.
Their reportorial corps are chargt d to
bring home nothing but putrefaGtion.
They will pay more for one quill full of
filth than for hogshead of healthy pro.
dnct. They tip the end of the city sew.
ers into their editorial inkstand. They
breakfast and dine and sup on indecen-
cy. They roll in it, like swine in the
mire unc can literary wretCbes; the
quill they write with was plucked neith-
er from goose nor from an eagle, but
from the turkey-buzz lrd. Ghouls /!
Ghouls The alleviating fact in regard
to all this is that they make recoiI in
behalf of righteousness. There are pa
pers in New York 80 vile that their de.
nunCiatiou amounts to first class eulogy.
want no better Commendation OF pub
lie men than that certain journals assail
them. Such papers, bad enough at uth
er times, quadruple their wickednesS
during the Presidential election. TIE
time will come when decent people will
refuse to patronize such newspapers, or
be seen with them in their hand; and
when literary and political sin does not
pay such publications will cease. Have
nothing to do, pen, type or tongue, with
the destruction Of public menl Can it
be that you have so little vision that you
can not see that in this National can.
vsss there are tremendous principles to
disCuss2
1 would call your attention from the
work Of the political scavenger to the
work Of the Christian politician. There
is this autumn one question that is as
high above all others as Mount Blanc is
above an ant hill-the question of CON.
mon schools, as compared with it, moth
ing; the tariff question, as compared
with it, nothing; the Chinese question,
as compared witt it, nothing and that
is, how to turn the solid South and the
solid North into a solid National unity.
You may as we'll have a solid E ,st
against solid West, as solid North
against solid South. The Republican
party says, ELECT our man and the sec.
tional strife will be over" The Demo.
cratic party says, "Elect our man and the
sectional strife will be over" Now, /
call you out from the work of mean and
base personalities to settle that one CEN
tral questiol on the first Tuesday in No
vember Discuss it; pray over it vote
with reference to it. 1t is high time that
this sectional strife ended. Massachu.
sets and Alabama, after long divorce,
need to be remarked. The Penobscot
and the Apalachicola need to find out
that they are sisters. For the sake Of
civilization and religion, and the fnau