The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-19

try in It's grasp. AS people IL ID tlno
for us to return to questions graver and
more important than those of hate, OF
sectioualism and disunion. The ques'
tions which really concern us as a peo'
pie relate to our returning prosperity, to
our business interests, to our progress as
nation, to the elevation of our people
in an intellectual and business sense
This is the question which appeals to us
in this crisis Let us do away with sec
tionalism and hate, and plank ourselves
on the one issue which was decided by
the war of the rebellion-that this is one
country, one Union.
A CAMPAIGN OF HATE.
The campaign of the Republican or
ganztion is inaugurated upon the
old sectional issues Hate is their ami
mating idea. Their party policy com
mands them to forsake their old party
associates in the South, and they unhes
itatingly obey, They have abandoned
that region. They have revived the
bitterness of the war, and they come to
the North and ask that this be perpetu'
ated. But the people will not have it,
They would rather abandol these ideas
and devote themselves to their business
interests. The Republican party would
be unable to point to solid South" to
talk of Southern outrages," to falsify
the record and to preach gospel of hate,
if they would admit and recognize the
fact that it was possible for them to carry
Southern State for their organization,
This fact they make the basis of their
party policy, and they utterly abandon
their party associates South. Do over
state the faCi? For what did they for
sake Alabama? Why did they hide be.
hind the Greenbacker and fight beneath
his flag? Why in Virginia did they pro
perly cover themselv 8 beneath the ban.
ner of reputation and readjnstment-
try and carry the State through Malone
and practically ignore the ideas which
belong to great people-the national
credit and State faith2 They clamor
that they have no votes in the South.
They do not want them, for if they had
them their vocation would be gone and
their teachings would be idle. They
would no longer be able to appeal to the
bitter passions of the North. No; they
prefer to continue as a one-sided and
sectional party. In all the States of the
South there are Republicans who have
fought for that party and are asking
why do you turn from us2 Why this
battle Of seCtionalism against unionism?
We want to get back from seCtonaism
to the administrative issues of the Coun.
try. Why are we abandoned?" The
answer is folded hands. The Republ!-
can party knows well that if it made an
issue IN the Sou h, State by State, it could
no longer sound its appeals Of hate to its
Northern followers.
Again, if it be true that these Southern
outrages which they paint are actual oc.
Currences, the inability to vote of which
they preach is true, whose fault is il?
For fifteen long years since the war Was
ended the Republicans had control of
the executive Offices of the administra-
ton. Who, then, is responsible for this
failure in the government Of the country?
Have they not utterly rallied to restore
the Union2 They have not attempted it.,
1t was not their interest to produce it.
Their interest and their policy have run
in different direction, and they have
pursued the path of hate and sectional
ism instead of that of peace and harmony.
Applause
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY rs.
The Republican party has ceased to be
national, if it ever was such. II is sec
tional party. That is the vice of its or
ganzation. 1t is like the old giant in the
fable who only had one eye, and that
one in the back of the head, and while
he was snorting around he tramped
down everything and everybody on his
blind side. [R)ars Of laughter So the
Republican party has its blind eye to the
South. While the nation is progressing
while business energy is reviying, while
prosperity crowns us in every section,
this fgreat giant Polyphemus, with the
eye in the back part of the head, can see
but one section of the country, and will
not recognize the inevitable march of
events. But the Republican organiza
ton will be hopeless in all its attempts
to carry the country with its Northern
appeals to hate, dishonor and sectional
ism.
What says our standard.bearer: "The
war for the Union was successfully clos
ed more than fifteen years ago. All
classes of our people must share alike the
| blessings of the Union, and are equally
concerned in its perpetuity and the pro-
per administration of public affairs We
are in state Of profound peace; as one
people we have common interests"
These are the words, this is the language
Of statesman, of patriot, of a man who
shed his blood for the Union-Wintield
S. Hancock, Prolonged Cheeringl.
These are the teachings that best fit the
situation of this great people now. What
good can come from the success OF the
Republican organization but continue
ton of hate, ,ofsectionalism and di union2
What can come from ours but the resto-
ration of the Union, the settlement of
all questions Of sectioDalism, and the re-
turn in every State to those questions of
administration, ofinternal improvement,
of tariff, or Of an economical administra
ton, which properly belong to the sphere
OF government Their policy is contin'
ued disuAion, increased Late and the
perpetuation of bitterness; ours is union.
ism, progress and the restoration of bust
ness life in every section Of the Rspub-
lie.
People are asking, Suppose the Re.
publicans are successful, is this sectional
policy to continued Is there to be no
test of loyalty except loyalty to the Re-
publican party2" What is loyalty? De-
votion to q united country, with the
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