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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02
A P1rrsBUReH Sunday naner that vool

A PITTSBURGH Sunday paper that zeal
ously supported Garfield SAYS of him
that the wine men of Washington are
jubilant over the fact that the coming
President drinks wine; that he is a de-
votee of the noble game of poker; that
he says no grace at the table and has no
family prayers, and intimates that if it
were not for the unreserved endorse
ment of the Rev. King that one would be
tempted to suspect that he was Chris
tan after Bob Ingersoll's own heart A
correspondent of the same paper saws
that when Garfield goes to church at ali
he attends the Unitarian church on Fonr.
teenth street, Garfeld's success is no
longer wonder. Providentially nomi-
mated at Chicago, endorsed by the elect
and extolled by representative pagans:
an ardent protectionist in one section
and a member of the Golden Club in
another; eighty thousand officeholders
garroted and thousand, millionaires
wheedIed to furnish funds; the gullible
eajoled into belief of impending ruin
If Hancock was elected, leave the i'm
preston that God works in mvsterious
way if he directed the nomination and
election of Garfield, in preference to the
most splendid character ever presented
by any party.-PitSburgh Post Warren, O.,
Correspondence.
The above will show General Garfield
in new light to the faithful hereabouts.
If this be true the fact of Bob Ingersoll
meeting hin. at the Washington depot
on his arrival there need not surprise
any one. We have often heard it would
be difficult for saint to withstand the
temptations of Washington. The public
man there who does not take his whisky
is of little account, and the noble game
of poker" is favorite. AS to grace at
meal and family prayers, the politicians
there generally have other things to
think about, especially the Credit Mobi.
lier-DeGolyer patriots.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

REPUBLICAN off cials at Columbus
seem to be busy "reaping the fruits Of
the war;" but got in their work on the
State Treasury, Steward Miller, of the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, secured $500
more than the law allowed, but was
found out last week and obliged to re-.
fund. Also Steward Mccarthy of the
Blind Asylum, was conveniently rob.
bed" of 81, $50 Asylum funds three weeks
age, but he was not fully believed, was
removed from Office, and had the money
to pay all the same. He is brother.in
law to flaming, the f)pper to the Re.
publican party, who was also compelled
about the same time to disgorge to the
State Treasury over So 900 illegally drawn
from it by him as Clerk Of the Supreme
Court. 1t is further said that State Au.
ditor Oglevee will be prosecuted for issu-
ing illegal warrants on the State Treas.
ury. And yet, "all these are honorable
men," while two of them, Miller and
Tanning, are hlppers to the Republican
party because, as they say, that party
more nearly represents their views and
feelings"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

GENERAL WEAVER was a private Re-
publican candidate for the Presidency,
and has issued a fervid address to the
deluded Greenbackers who supported
his candidacy for President this year, in
which he warns them that we are max
ing Fearful strides towards "the es-
tablishment Of naughty moneyed aris-
tocracy upon the ruins of the broad and
humane republic bequeathed to us by
our fathers" The election is now over
and as General Weaver will never be
elected to Congress or run for President,
why shouldn't he give the people a rest :
If evidence is to be trusted, the General
conducted the late campaign as a Green
back candidate, the greenbacks being
furnished by Mr.. Jewell and the Repub.
lican managers. He is no doubt worthy
of Consulship in some warm climate.
But now that election is over his below
ing ought to cease.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE acts and representative men OF
political parties are the means by which
to Judge of their respective merits and
worth. Indeed the men a political
party honors and elevates to their high
est positions of public trust may be
taken as true index of the character of
the party. By these we may judge OF
the party's regard for right and purity
and of its standard of morality.
Applying this standard to the Repub-
lican party, one cannot but perceive the
low condition of its moral status The
eight years of Grant with its drunken
ness and corruption; the four years of
fraud with Hayes and the hypocritical
and false character of his administration,
do not seem to have affected iniuriously
the Republican party. With such in
fanny, either of them, the Democratic
party would have been ruined utterly
and irremediably.
The late campaign is only another in
stance in the same unworthy career. 1t
is a piece of continuous history for Gar
field is intimately connected with the
Grant corruption rule and the Hayes
fraud. Of the latter he was chief part,
serving on the Electoral Commission as
one of the eight perjurers, and previously
had acted the Christian statesman at
New Orleans in fixing up that forgery.
1t was under the Grant administration
that the Credit Mobilier and DeGolyer
developments occurred, seriously lace
rating the character of General Gar
field. Leading Republican journals
spoke freely at that time as to him and
others who had "the political smallpox" F"
and who were unworthy Of honorable
consideration.
The standard that prevails in the Re-
publican party in regard to their public
men may thus be seen. No Republican
speaker or journal denied the Credit
Mobilier or DeGolyer infamy; nor at
tempted refutation or explanation Yet
notwithstanding all this, General Gar
field was quite acceptable to his party,
they even adopting 329 as their sacred
number! They gloried in that which
should have been his shame and his dis
grace in their eyes, Can such a party
continue to rule a great country? Can
the people of this great country afford
much longer to disregard those princi-
pies of honest administration that were
the pride of our forefathers? The mass
of the Republican party ought to feel as
much interest in the welfare of the coun-
try as Democrats. And surely, men of
acknowledged purity and integrity
should be chosen to fill high public posi-,
tions.
Patriots may well weep for their coun-
try when they see man like Grant pre-
ferred to Horatio Seymour and Horace
Greeley; man like Hayes counted in
by fraud over such man, honestly and
fairly elected, as Samuel ]. Tilden; and
when we see a man so smirched as Gar
field preferred to man Of Hancock's s
| purity,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE Pittsburgh Dispatch. a tariff paper,
claims tn It in consequence of the tariff
on tin plate not being sufficiently high,
25OOO men are out Of employment, and
25,0OO tons Of pig iron are not manufaC-
tured in this country that should be.
Well, the present tariff on tin plate. and
on everything else, is a tariff made by
the Republican party. That party has
been in power for twenty years, made all
the tariff laws now in force, and the
Democrats have not attempted to change
them in any particular since they had
Congress. The DiSpatch's article really
amounts to an accusation Of the Repub.
liCan party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE manufactures of Philadelphia, ac-
cording to the census, number 9050 sep
arate establishments, engaged in nearly
two hundred different branches of manu-
factures, The capital invested in these
establishments amounts to the enormous
sum of $1SS,6S6,934 They employ 1877
964 hands, and pay them wages amount
ing to over sixty-three millions of dol
lars in year. They use materials of the
value of $2O2, ,5O6,644 every year and turn
out manufactured produces of the value of
$322,904, ,46l, The value added to the
raw materials in the process of manufac-
ture thus appears to be about one hun
dred and twenty millions, of which
something over one-half goes to the en-
ployes in wages and the remainder sup
plies the increase of capital and the pro-
fit on that invested.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

IT is interesting to be informed on
good Republican authority that if the
Republicans succeed in organizing the
next House they will proceed to steal it
bodily by the simple and easy process of
ousting fourteen lawfully elected Demo
cratic Congressman from Southern con-
stituenCles. Of course from business
point of view this would be direct invi.
tation to the Democrats to oust Mr.. Kel-
logg from the Senate. Yet the very same
Republican papers which thus assume
that of the one hundred and forty-odd
Republican Representatives in the next
House not one will be found who will
not vote with his party, right or wrong,
announce that no less than five of the
forty-three Democratic Senators would
refuse to act with the party should its
caucus favor the unSeating of Mr.. Kel-
logg .-Erchange
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

IT seems a committee of the Tennessee
bondholders has issued an address, con-
graduating the bondholders upon the
result of the recent election in Tennes-
see. Democratic Tennessee, like Demo-
cratic Arkansas, has repudiated repudia-
tion at the polls. No holder of Mime
sofa bonds has yet congratulated his
Observation-Disclosures upon the result of
the late election in that Northern Re-
publican State, which repudiates its
guaranteed railroad bonds in the face of
the earnest protest of its last Democratic
Chief Magistrate, Ex-Governor Sibley.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02
nru11- srnvICE REFORM.

CIVIL SERVlCh hhP ONs"'
Horace White and other leading inde-
pendent Republicans have addressed
Garfield respectful communication on
the subject of civil service reform, in
which they state:
The dangers to our political institu
tions arising from the savage contest eV-
cry four years, extending over the en-
tir, continent aud penetrating all ranks
of society. respecting the distribution Of
Federal offices, seems to US extremely
grave. History teaches that the things
most to be guarded against in republic
is excess of party rage, This spirit, al
ways sufficiently active under free gov
ernment, is stimulated and augmented
10 an alarming degree by the spoils sys-
tenn, which regards all tie Federal Off
ces as the prizes of the majority, and
which would have snatChed from the
whole body of present incumbents their
means of livelihood, if a few thousand
votes in this state, which were cast for
yourself, had been cast for Gen Han.
cock. Is it not apparent that the greed
and terror inspired by such a system
must add largely to the heat and fury
and attendant dangers of our national
elections, and increasingly as the coun,
try grows in population, and Federal
patronage beco mes more extensiver NO
other civilized Government exposes its
public servants to the danger of beggary
upon the hazard ofan election, or would
expect good service from them under
such conditions.
Why do not these "patriots" talk about
the necessity of honest government
About reform, that would dispense with
thirty thousand officials, more or lesai
Our government is run in the interest o,
m nopoly-is the instrument of knavet
to help them rob the people. Republic
can "proteCtion" is of this Character-iI
fact is robbery.
The Republican party has been in
power twenty years, and under thei1
management the off 3ial army has in
creased beyond all reason. Proflgatt
expenditure of money and corrupt use
of power have also become serious anC
dangerous under Republican rule.
Of course the party in power woulC
like to devise a scheme by which they
could hold on to Office, even if the De il
ocrats should change the administration
Their friends are in the federal Offices
and they don't want them turned out
Mr.. Garfield ia reply assured the gen
tlemen who politely informed him G
the necessity Of retaining the presen
able assistants in running the machine
thst he hoped to have the cooperation
of Congress in establishing a legal basil
for all routine appointments, so that i
would not be in the power of the Presi
dent or anybody else to remove capa
BILE and faithful employe, That meanI
if they were Republicans, not otherwise
If they were Democrats they would mo-
be capable and faithful employees" ant
would have to walk. This is the rule ir
Stark county, under Republican sway
both male and female.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The cold snap has been general over
this country, the South catching it as well
as the North. At San Antonia, Texas,
the thermometer indicated II degrees
above zero, while in some parts of the
Northwest it was reported last week at
~ degs. below zero, The Upper Miqsis-
sippiis frozen over, and the whole chain
Of waters on the northern frontier is
blocked with ice, imprisoning fleets of
laden vessels, which, not expecting so
early winter, were caught in transit on
lake. river and canal. Rivers in tie
North, which last winter yielded little
or no ice, are now frozen several inches
thick, and the ice harvest has already
begun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE twin organs of the F. +. G. take
all the credit to themselves of the result
of the election in this district. We know
not how they will divide the honors,
for really the love between Joseph of the
Revier and Thomas of the Rep. is not
that of David and Jonathan, When the
old fellow comes along to harvest them,
we hope he will touch them easy. By
and bye they will be "twin relics"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

News from Columbus is that Hon.
John G. Thompson has purchased half
interest in the Columbus Daily Times,
on basis Of $4,000. He will, as soon
as relieved from public duty at Wash
ington, give his whole attention to news.
paper work. In the meanwhile he will
give it such attention rom time to time
as other duties may permit. 1t is the
intention of the proprietors to make the
Times an organ Of state opinion, and thus
give it state circulation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE Alliance ReUie,O has no opinion to
express on the subject of raising the
Court House but trusts that the good
judgment of the Commissioners will see
to it, that enterprises looking only to the
benefit of Canton are not saddled on the
county"
The County Commissioners are men
who have no pecuniary interest in Can
ton whatever. They all reside miles
away from our city, one, Mr.. Hazen, liv-
ing near Alliance.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

WHAT does Dom Piatt mean when
he reminds Gen. Carried of that dark
est hour Of your (Garfeld's) life, when
life itself seemed so horrible that an es.
cape from it was a temptation2" Piatt's
letter was in the DEMOCRAT of last week.
Does Piatt's reference mean that Gen.
Garfield contemplated suicide7
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

Mr.. KAssoN, Of Iowa, a strong free
trader, is urged for Speaker of the next
House, by the New York Tribune. If
Speaker he would select the Ways and
Means Committee, which is the tariff
committee. Allison, of Iowa, another
freetrader, is a candidate for Secretary of
the Treasury, all showing little more
consistency in the Republican party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

If Governor Foster could induce Andy
Hickenlooper to step down and out of
the Lieutenant Governorship, and there
by lose his chance of the succession, the
prospects of the former, in the Senatorial
race would be measureably improved.
There appears to be prejudice in the
minds ofmany of the Republicans of the
Legislature to our able and efficient
Lieutenant Governor. His course last
winter did not make favorable impress
sion.- Columbus Dispatch (Rep)
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

GOVERNOR FOSTER and John Sherman
are waging personal warfare over the
senatorship. Sherman is charged with
meanness in refusing to pay hotel bill
incurred by the Ohio delegation at Chi
cago when Sherman was candidate for
the nomination Of President The story
goes that Foster paid it and it amounted
to twenty-eight hundred dollars The
Foster organs give this as an example of
Sherman's cold and icy meanness.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

BOB INGERsoLL was on hand at Wash
ington to meet and greet Gen. Garfield
last week, They were Closeted together
in full and free communion. This re-
minds us of the old story Of the devil
and Tom Walker. Wonder if Bob is one
of the mortgages along with Conkling,
Cameron and Grant.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

In 1918 the entire consumption of coal
in Cincinnati was but $4,000 bushels,
Louisville 10000, Maysville 10000, and
Madison 10000, making the entire con-
sumption between Pomeroy and the Falls
10000 bushels, all Of which could now
be brought in ten barges of the usual
size. Pittsburgh coal sold on an average
at 20 cents per bushel, and other kinds
at 16 to 1S cents. During the past year
the receipts of coal in Cincinnati alone
amounted to 4S,19S, ,246 bushels.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

A STATUE of Alexander Hamilton. the
old Federalist leader, was set up in Cen.
tral Park, New York, week or two ago.
There is no statue there to Thomas Jei-
ferson, author of the Declaration Of In.
dependence, and of the statutes of Vir-
ginia for religious liberty. What did
Hamilton ever do compared with theseP
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE two leading figures are Governor
Charles Foster and Secretary Of the
Treasury John Sherman, for the Sena.
torship. Some members of the Legisla-
ture think Charley is the darling, while
others think John is the startling.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

TIE wit of the Alliance RewsV is ae-
we're, No one but a graduate of Mt. Un.
ion could get off such excruCiating stuff.
Our friend probably got it by inoCula-
tlon from the Hartshorns. How is that
small pox hospital at Alliance getting
along, now that election is over.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

0'BRrEN, alias Lindsey, pleaded guilty
to the charge of perjury in the Morey
Chinese letter inquiry, and was taken
into court last Friday for sentence; but
for some reason or other was not sem
fenced. He was returned TO Jail.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The report Of the Comptroller Of Cur
rency, just issued, shows the total num-
Der of banks in the country to be 6532,
with total banking capital of $65O,O49.
800, and total deposits Of $2,2l9. 1888 200.
There was an increase of deposits dur
ing the year of 1926 356,8l5
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

FISHER, the young gentleman in Gin.
Cinnati, who served his party as United
States Supervisor of elections in October,
by dropping Republican tickets and hav-
ing them counted, is bound over, The
United States Court will take care of
him no doubt.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02
TUE DEMOCRAT.

,i,hed TO s,lbscrbers, postage paid, dtt2 per year.
for rtr months Jty cents for hree months tVaFta
tn advance. n q also delivered TO any part OF H'e
Gvat the same rates. ..,,..,,,
Correspondence containing tnportdH ne'0'' 'oe'cSen
rom dll pTs Of the county, WiReS name oa u''I, os'
roqtItred on every communication as P'V''' V"''o'
Oeof good Jdtth.
InV psr,on sending tu Club Of FoUa CASH YEAR
ET sURscRIRERs ,oiI b entitled TO : copy Of THE
DAMOCRAT fres for one year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The subsidists are rallying in force at
Washington. The session will be too
short to give much opportunity for their
maneuvres, and they must look forward
more hopefully to the next Congress and
to Garfield. They no doubt hope to slip
through some little jobs.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The amount of appropriations estima-
ted for all the departments Of the Gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1882, aggregates $298 POP .722 The
appropriations made for the same in 1881
amounted to $29S ,O55,097.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

HAYES ran as a peace maker; Garfield as
an executor of the war spirit, There
will be no essential difference, however,
in their administrations-both alike par
tisan and diaboliCal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

REPUBLICAN saints are in disturbed
state because of the alleged bribery by
which Fair, Democrat, carried the Ne
vada Legislature over Sharon, Republi'
can, for United States Senator.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

When the total official returns are
counted and reported, we think Han.
;oCk will be found to have small ma.
jority over Garfield
Republicans talk as if they we've the
owners of the entire country, yet, accor-
ding TO the Tribune figures, they have
only plurality of g, 4Ol over the Demo-
Gratis, and are in minority in the couu.
try over 300 900 votes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The Chicago Times is about to intro
duce type-setting machines, the same as
used on the London Times, where they
have been pronounced a success. They
are warranted not to get drunk.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

SOME of the objections urged by an
cient and modern inhdelity against
Christianity, are answered by DR.. Tai
mage in a sermon, published in this
number of the DEMOCRAT. Read it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

WE would much rather live under the
administration of a perjured Credit Mo.
bilier, DeGolyer man, lawfully elected,
than under a President counted in by
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

Gro. P. RowELL, Of advertising agen-
cy reputation, says the New York Trib
une is doing stupendous lying in relation
to its circulation, and George might have
added, about the Democratic party too.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The Jesuits are chased out of some
countries, and the Jews out Of others.
In this happy land they can all come
and stay,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

THE vote of Indiana has finally been
announced. Claude Mathews, Marshal
Of the Eighth Congressional district, was
directed by the law, as were other Mar.
shals also, to make his returns on the
fourth Monday of November. Mr..
Mathews went on the assumption that
the last was the fourth Moncay in this
month, and did not learn of his error
until he read that the other Marshals
had canvassed the vote of their district.
But here is the total vote:
November. October.
For Garheld..""282164 For Porter........281 4O5
For Hancock""".225 522 For Landers.., .224 452
For Wesver....".. l2 9S6 For Gregg....., 1881
Garheld's plur,"~, 6,642 POrters plur.... 695S
1t was held by many leading polite.
ians that Gen. Hancock was many thou.
sands of votes stronger in Indiana than
Mr.. Landers; but it was etfeCtually explo.
ded on the second day of November. The
figures show that Mr.. Landers was a
very greatly abused man when the en-.
tire Democratic party of the country laid
the October defeat at his door. General
Hancock polled 1919 more votes than
Mr. Landers and Gov. Porter, who was
said to be an exceptionally strong Re-
ublican candidate, run 759 votes be.
hind Mr.. Garfield. Too many Republi.
can voters was the trouble in Indiana,
both in October and November.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

"CAuco" Charley is too light weight
to buck against John Sherman success
fully.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-02

The Democrats of Indiana refuse to
claim an elector got by blunder We
recommend this example for Republi-
can consideration.