The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-15
A MODEL REPUBLICAN.


member of the Republican party.
( He can not do wrong, His muir
der of Garfield was not murder,
and he was quite indignant at'Judge
Porter, in his cross examination, refer
ring to his shooting of Garfield as muir
der The lofty pretensions of this spec
linen of vanity were at times quite dra-
matte. ..# #...
According to Guiteau, his murder of
Garfield was inspired by Deity; and was
not murder at all; but merely re-
movai. In these respects he is a model
Republican. His party is one of enOr-
nous pretensiOns and presumption. 1t
never does wrong. 1t can, through per-
jury, forgery and fraud, steal the Presi-
dency, and claim it all right and proper.
Credit MObilier, whisky rings, star
Route millionaire thieves among the
party leaders, and by means of whom
political victories are secured, are all
right in this party of great moral
ideas p 90.
Guiteau'S pretensiOns and presump-
tiOn are leading traits in the Republic
can party. They are party peculiarities.
They do not call things by their right
names, any more than Guiteau does
Robbery of the people by means of in
iquitous tariff exactions they call ''pro-
tectiOn." Their National banking sys-
tenn is scheme of the same kind. The
party journals and cranky leaders claim
great things for their schemes of pub
! lie robbery. These schemes of plunder
were in full blast in 1873 when panic,
ruin and bankruptcy set in. And now
they have the effrOnteTy, Guiteau-like,
| to claim the present prosperity as
wholly owing to their rObber policy.
When the next panic and bankruptcy
comes, they will again claim it was
not their policy at all that caused it.
| Oh, no, their party never does wrong
1t is the Deity that inspires them all,
from saint Beecher, Hayes and Sher-
man to Mckinley, Tom Saxton and
Guiteau.
Guiteau is a pupil of the Republican
party, and has been taught to claim
God does ali, even to the committing of
murder. This is the plan in mOnarchi-
cal countries. In such lands of course
they have an established church and the
established clergy supported by the
Government, teach that the "King can
do no wrong" In those lands, the
privileged classes, royal family, aristO-
cracy, clergy, &C.. claim to be the favor
ties of the Deity, and hence, the tOiling
millions, the Common people," have
nothing to do but to obey and toll on.
These privileged and ruling classes
wonder sometimes at the restlessness of
the common people when they kick up,
as they are doing in Ireland now, and
as they did in starving France a hun
dred years ago.
Guiteau is man of special privilege
privileged to commit murder The
Republican party is the party of
privilege-privileged to steal the Presi- |
dency, to have whisky ring and star route
thieves give them political victories, and
then privileged to claim that they are
all saints and that the party is one of
great moral ideas
rr.vileging over two thousa.. d national
banks, also privileging monopoly in
various lines; and they teach, as in other
lands Of priYilc yed classes, that the toll
ing millions ought to be happy in the
privilege of thus toiling for the benefit
of those happy few who are so favored
of GOdl !
Now, in all this nonsense and stuff, |
Democrats do not believe. As indiyid- |
uals, so in government, right and not
wrong should be the rule; justice, not
injustice, the policy. Justice includes
equality; and legislation, to protect
that is bestOw bOUnties upon few, is |
not justice nor equality of rights. The |
business ruin and bankruptcy of few |
years ago occurred under the Republican |
tariff for protection" and while the |
national banking system was in full
bloom. The fact is, productive labor is
the only real basis of prosperity, and the |
fewer DOn-prOducers in a country, the |
better. We deprecate that unfair pub
lie policy which makes millionaires and
builds up monopoly.
At all events, we do not believe in the |
Guiteau nonsense that the Almighty
murder; nor, in the pretension
and presumption of the Republican
party leaders and journals, that the
party does no wrong, even when they
steal the Presidency or when they ''re-
move" millions by star route legerde-
main from the Government Treasury
into their own pockets, by means of
which they enrich themselves and carry
elections.
In fact, the old abolition John Brown
disuniOn party always claimed they
were governed by a "higher law" than
the Constitution. Their offspring, the
Republican party, claims the same thing.
Guiteau was educated in this school of
higher law" deviltry; and it seems, was
an apt scholar. OF course this "higher
law" God and morality Republican
party never does wrong. In short, all
they do is right, and their only measure
IF right is what the party requires to
retain power and enrich the favored and