The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05

mlsrule of the last sixteen years, this
people in 1875 called the Democratic
party again to power in the person of
Samuel J. Tilden, and fraud and force
were used to prevent the party from ex'
ercising the power which the people had
confded to it; and then the party, with
sublime abnegation never before witness.
ed, peaCeably, silently waited its appeal
again to the people, to right this foul
wrong which had been done to the cleo
toral franchise; and now, to-day, this
party stands appealing to it to right this
great wrong upon popular government.
The attitude of the Democratic party
to-day is that there shall be peace at the
polls, and not military power to preserve
that peace; that there shall be a free
ballot to every citizen in the land, black
or white, without either marshalls to
e~leCtioneer with him or supervisors to
intimidate him. 1t is the very symbol
and SYNONYM that we must have fair
elections and peace; it is the very syno'
MIN of honesty and frugality and sim
plicity of government, and of holdiEg
aloft that very doctrine essential to our
republic, that all powers not granted by
the constitution are reserved to the states
and to the people.
Who is it makes this charge that the
Democratic party cannot be trusted2 A
mushroom growth of yesterday; a party
that was born and begottonin the hatred
of one section; a party that was fed in its
youth upon the terrors and horrors of
war; a party which has never since won
a single battle, except under the tattered
and disgraCed "bloody shirt" a party
that to-day appeals as to its high reason
for the support of the people, that we
must keep alive sectional differences and
sectional hate. What has this party
done to entitle it to our Conf1enCeP
What has it done in the way of civil ad.
ministration, that it should be continued
in power againP They tell you they have
built these great roads to the Pa
ci6C. They have done it 10 make Credit
Mobiliers, and subsidized with the best
land of the republic the most oVergrown
rapaCious corporations that we ever had.
They tell us they have resumed specie
payments, but they take no account that
the good God gave us harvests when he
gave other nations famine; that he inn
planted upon this continent, and within
the limits of the United States, the hardi-
est, bravest, most industrious and ener-
getiC race of men the world ever saw,
with brave hearts aCtuating their strong
arms, they dug from the earth means by
which specie payments could be resum.
ed. If they claim for themselves the
credit Of resuming specie payments, let
me ask who it was abandoned specie
paymentsP They have granted $4,000.
900 acres of land tn one railroad, and 30
100000 to another road, and go on, 80
that if they 60 on, there will not be an
acre left for the actual settler; and these
are the men, controlling that party, who
affect to say the Democratic party is not
to be trusted, although we have a good
candidate; but they say we have a very
bad party behind him. You will soon
haveto decide which party you will trust,
aud l appeal to your goo1 sense and your
patriotism. | commend to your love of
liberty, and to ~perpetuate our free insti.
tutions in the land, that you shall care.
fully see to it whether you shall again
trust the Democratic party with it's glo-
rious history, and bright traditions, and
good promises and their honest fulfill
ment; or whether you will trust the par.
ty which is in deed and in fact like the
whitened sepulchre, fair without, but
within full of dead mems bones and un.
cleanness Gentlemen, l thank you for
the attention you have given me, and l
make way for gentlemen who can teach
you better than l can. (Applause.)
Mr.. Pendleton was frequently cheered,
and at the close of his able speech vas
loudly applauded.