The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
mans nAn1oAL ANIMus.

II there was any meaning at all in Ma
ior Mckinley CORY %harangue in the
late Republican state convention If 1t
were not mere political rant and foolish
burcombe-it is that the policy Of the
Republican party should be to overfun
the Southern states with federal troops,
set up carpet-bag governments again and
prop them up with federal bayonfts. 1t
means that the peace and prosperity
that have reigned in the Southern states
since the people there have been allow
ed to manage their own affairs, should
be destroyed, and the old regime be in
troduced, the people robbed and plum
dered. Instead Of the just, intelligent
and economical administration of az
fairs, as now prevail, and under which
Gen. Grant says the people are prosper
ing, the government should be in the
hands of ignorant and worthless negro
politicians.
This is the Republican policy as it was
under Grant, which made Republican
government in the South a hiss and a
by,word; which covered the Republican
party with odium aud almost destroyed
its power in the country. If McKinley'r
speech means anything, it is that the
same thing is to be established again. So
far as Democrats are concerned they
welcome hat issue and are ready to
meet it. The Republicans naturally de-
sire a return of the old time. They can
| never hope to succeed under any normal
state of politics. They cannot retain
power except bydownright criminal agen'
cies. In the last Presidential canvass
all sorts of yillainies had 80 far run their
course that the Southern people were
able to act virtually untrammeled. The
result was the overthrow of the Oarty
that had oppressed them. True, the
Republicans have had the President fol
the past four years, but only because
their conspiracy with professional Grim,
inals was successful. The most damninp
fact against that party is that it must de-
pend upon such agencies for success. II
is forever laboring, in and out of Com
gress, to secure the right to use soldiers
at the polls, under the direction solely Of
its own agents, and to get into its hands
every extraordinary weapon that will
permit it to CoerCe success when success
will not come by regular means. Grant
is wanted because he can be depended
upon. The Republicans, of course, are
determined to force their candidate into
the Presidency again, They know they
| do not stand 70 good a chance to carry
the country as they did in 1876, and il
fraud was necessary then, it is doubly
necessary now. They latter themselves
that he supineness which characterized
the country in the early winter Of 1876
and spring of 1877 will be repeated this
year and the beginning Of next, and all
they need do is to keep up a bold front
II they nominate Grant they will feel
that half t 9 trouble is past, because
they will count on his going right into
the White House whether he is elected
or not. A legitimate Republican success
means the restoration of the "strone
government" that obtained down to "a
The South wolld be arbitrarily regulated
to the position of rebellious provinces,
and the army satrap restored in all biz
glory. This is the Republican progam.
and the meaning of the Grant boom, as
well as the revival of the bloody shirt
But the Republicans must win this year
in the legitimate sense if they expect to
resume the executive reins. Neither
Grant nor any other brazen or bthatter.
ell man on horseback will be permitted
to take possession of the White House
unless The people have given him a good
ti5le,-Flajn Dealer.