The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-27
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

In his speech congTatulatlng the Ohio Leghla'
ture on the election Of so good man as himself
To the United States Senate, Secretary Sherman
said 1t Is settled that the people Of the United
States by their agents will enforce in every part
Of our country any law which shall receive the
sanction and judgment OF the Supreme Court OF
the United States" This is not quite true. There
Is the law against polygamy, for inHtance'-PhtlG
Chronicle, Ind.
John Sherman could not resist making allusion
to himself ss the founder and fnisher" Of re-
sumption. John had probably forgotten the time
when he hitched up his euspenders and took a
square leap into the GreenbaCk camp, from
which he was extricated by his hard money
friends, with goOd.deal Of dificulty.- Columbus
Tines Dem.
The colored Republicans throughout the coun.
try do not seem to sense" the refusal Of their de
mands which has been substantially embodied In
Mr.. Garfeld's two responses to delegations. They
continue TO hold meetings for the adoption OF
resolutions and the appointment Of delegates TO
visit him. Their persistence may yetsecure them
the recognition in the distribution Of the spoils'
which they demand and which certainly seems
to be their right. They should by all means keep
up the sgitatlon.- Bridgeport Conn ,Fdrntr, Dem
Secretary Sherman, 1t is said, has predicted that
another great financial crash, like that OF 1873 is
one of the possibilities Of the next year or two. 1t
is true that all sorts OF business is good but It
needs to be good beyond all precedent to stand
the strain of gambling and extraysgance that Is
placed upon 1t, Enormous as our exports are In
volume and value, the imports are almost equally
enormous, and II next year, owing 10 the severity
Of the present winter, the couLtIy should have a
| crop failure, financial crisis would be almost
certain to result. A short crop Of wheat alone,
leaving little or none for export would reverse
the figures Of expectation and importation. Phil
adelphtd Inquirer, Rep.
Two Of the retiring Senators are calculated by
taste, parts and experience for the work Of judic
| Isl legislation imposed on the Senste-Thurman
| Of Ohio, and Herman Of New York. Their places
have not been adequa tely filed for they are men
capable OF contributing original thought to the
existing stores OF political science. Not man
has been thus far sent to the Senate who can from
previous study, experience or natural parts add
scintilla to the available fund Of political or
economical knowledge. When the Senate assem-
bles, after the 4th Of March, there will not be
single man among the new batch Of recruits by
education, taste or training able to deal with the
new class Of questions which our enormous
strides in industrial development urgently de-
msnd.- Philadelphia Times, Ind
Dlstrust Of Cox's Apportionment bill comes witt
singularly bad grace from the Republican journals
OF New York. That State is the mort shsmelesSly
gerrymandred In the Union. To perpetuate the
Republican dynasty quite q million Of people
have been for ten years virtually voiceess In the
Legislature and that by the consent Of the very
presses which now inslnuate that the Teappor.
tioAment Of the Congress districts should be de-.
layed until the next Congress, when the New York
plan may be applied to the national representa-
tIon. II the legislative voice Of New York had
lis constitutional expression neitherConkling nor
Plat would be the Senators Of that State They
no more represent the political sentiment Of Its
people than Spencer, Kellogg and West represent.
ed the dlsfranchised South from 1868 to 1876
Philadelphia Times, Ind.
The characters Of R. B. Elliot, Samuel Lee and
8. D. straker, three colored men who were at the
head Of the committee who called on General
Garfield on Friday, can hardly be unknown 10 so
we'll informed and observant public man as the
President elect They belong to the small class
Of keen and instructed negro politicians, who, by
their superior smartness, became the leaders Of
the colOred people and did with the mass Of dusky
voters as they would. How Elliot, Lee and the
rest used the power they acquired is notorious In
every part Of the Union. They brought disgrace
on the colored people by their own shameless ras.
cality; they inoculated Southern Republicanism
with the poison that killed It, Elliot himself liV.
ed on public plunder and fattened on corruption.
As long as Eliot & Co, get recognition and Office
the white people can show no quarter in political
conflicts. 1t ls life and death struggle, for
wherever the black demagOgues have auy sway
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