The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29
THE GUIrEAU PARTY.

According to Republican clap-trap,
their party has all the intelligence and
all the morality. The old Federal
party in the days of jefferson and Madi-
son, set up the same claim and hOwled
about the low and vulgar Democrats.
The Tory aristOcraey of Great Britain
always put on such airs. During the
long contest in Parliament that culmin-
ated in civil war in 1913, the Kings
party turned up their noses at the Com
mons, called them ignorant and all
that and claimed the King could do no
wrong for God was on their side. Be-
fore they got through, King Charles and
his Lords found that the sword of the
Lord and of Gideon were on the side of
the Commons and Cromwell.
Reading Colonel John Hays speech to
the Young Mems Republican Club of
Cleveland" turned our thoughts into
this channel. According to Colonel
Hay, the Republican party contains
"all the intelligence and all the moral
ity." He glOwing!y speaks Of the
splendid management Of the Govern
ment" by the Republican party. Of
course he included Credit MObilier and
Star Route management"
Colonel Hay claimed that literary
men, poets especially, 1.-The great
preachers, the great instructors, the
men who have founded our most inn
"pOrtant public institutions and public
works, were Republicans. Only the
"Penitentiaries show a Democratic ma
'jority."
This man is another Guiteau in con-
ceit and assumption. According to
him the Republican party never has
done wTOng-can do no wrong. In all
this it is the old British Tory party.
With them the King could do no wrong.
God inspires Guiteau and inspires the
party. 1t is governed by the higher
law" If they commit murder-God did
it. If an innocent woman is hung to
appease party vengeance-if Guiteau
shoots down Garfield in cold blood-the
claim is that God did it!
All this is in full accord with Repub-
lican party reasoning. Crime is all
right when the party requires it to
maintain power. Forgery, perjury and
fraud were approved when needed to
count in Mr. Hayes as President, after
he had been defeated at the polls.
Right and justice are not words to be
found in the Republican Vocabulary.
The only question seems to be: What is
necessary to maintain power and plunder
the people?
In old despOtisms are privileged
classes; and the laboring classes are
thus deprived of their just and unalien-
able rights. The Republican party here
is the party of privilege calling it "pro-
tectiOn." 1t is the party of schemes,
Star route, etc, etc; and in this way
unprincipled party leaders have money
to carry elections by fraud or otherwise.
We say to Mr.. Hay, Guiteau and com
pany, that wrong is not right, even if
that wrong is called ''higher law;" nor
is hanging an innocent woman, even
under the forms of law, or assassinat-
ing an innocent man, anything but
murder most foul"
We take no stock then in the claim of
infallibility set up by the Republican
leaders. They wholly disregard the in
junction.. 'Do not evil that good may
come" All who worship "the mammOn
of righteousness" as these men do;
all given over to grasping wOrldliness,
seem to believe that a bad tree can
bring forth good fruit, and that they
can cultivate that evil tree, gather and
eat it's fruit, and yet serve God. History
and observation show all this to be not
among the possibilities. Only right
and justice are approved of God.