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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
THE BLACKMAILING PARTY.

The Republican papers generally are
either silent about Hubbell's blackmail-
ing system or else openly approve, and
justify by saying that the Democrats
did the same under Jackson, sc. This
is the old plan, of justification by
you're another"
If they would read history with care
they would find this blackmailing busi-
ness began with the formation of parties
during the administration of John
Adams. But the systematic extOrtiOn of
all government employees now, is what
is arOusing indignation and disgust
among all honest people everywhere.
A reliable nOn-partisan Washington
correspondent thus states it, and shows
the results under Hubbell's party man
agement:
The principle that all government
employees must voluntarily contribute
two per cent. of their salaries is now Of
ficially sanctioned by the law officer of
the Government and is accepted by the
army of officehOlders with scarcely an
exception. The work of corresponding
with 100000 OfficehOlders, of keeping
their accounts with the Government and
checking their names from the list,
must be very considerable. Then again,
the work involved in sending vast guam
titles of documents all over the country
requires the services of many Jealous
clerks. The contributions that have
come to the committee since it began
operations this campaign already ex-
ceed $1,OOO,OOO in hard cash, and the
amount is being increased daily. There
are about 100000 OfficehOlders in the
United States. Probably their average
compensation is $1,000 year. The sal
aries paid by the Government therefore
yearly aggregate about $100,000,000.
Two per cent. of this sum is $2,0OO,OO0.
Hubbell has already extOrted, accord
ing to this statement, over one million
of dollars from the weakness, fears and
ambition of the Government employees.
1t should not be forgotten that there
is an act of Congress fOrbidding this
blackmailing by Government officer.
Curtis, a Government official in New
York was fined one thousand dollars
few weeks ago for assessing the en-
ployes under him, as Hubbell does. The
decisiOnis that Hubbell is not Gov
ernment official, though he is a mem
ber of Congress and Chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
The Cameron organs in Pennsylvania
approve openly OF Hubbell's blackmail
ing infamy. This is to be expected, for
Cameronism is bold, audaciOus, cOnsort-
ing with robbers and murderers to in
sure victory is nothing new to them.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

The five persons chosen as letter
carriers for Canton have been getting
ready to commence their work on Sep
tember 1st, and have been around in
their respective districts listing the
names of citizens and getting their resi-
dence numbers. 1t seems they have been
taking the enumeration as they went
along, so as to ascertain the population
of our town. This was good idea. and
we learn, as they went along, they also
recorded the political complexion. If
people would always vote their honest
political sentiments at election there
would be less variation. For example,
we know people who are always Demo
cratic all the year round except on elec-
tion day-and that's what's the matter,
sometimes. This year hereabOuts, we
think voting will be straight, and may
surprise some people as badly as Blaine
was with Maine two years ago, when he
carried that State in advance by 5000
majority, but after election found he
was only mistaken by SPOOL
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
THE OUTRAGE CoNsUsI0rArED.


The Opera outrage has been con-
summated, Mayor PierO having issued
the annual license in accordance with
the ordinance passed on the 7th inst by
the City Council, illegally and in VIOLA
tiOn of their own printed rules.
We are, for the present, about through
with this question in the DEMOCRAT, but
had we been Mayor, under the circum-
stances, there would have been no
license issued.
Mayor PierO recommended the dis
elimination that was adopted in the
amusement exhibition ordinance passed
February 18th last. The DEMOCRAT ap-
proved and defended the measure, the
Mayor and the City Council then from
the vituperative assaults OF the Opera
man in his meetings and through his
organ, the Repository.
All this was just prior to the April
election. In fact, it was the live issue
then. Every Democrat in the old Coun-
ell, four of whom are members of this;
and the seven Democrats elected last
April, approved of our position and
course then on the amusement question.
Five of these gentlemen with the three
Republicans made up the 8 who forced
through the late job.
The readers of the DEMOCRAT may see
by the foregoing that we have good rea-
son for denouncing such conduct. In it
is neither fairness nor consistency, and
consistency is a jewel of value for one
who is true, earnest and straightforward.
CIf our position and course last spring
were right, we are right now; and our
friends who have so singularly Topped
over and Joined Billy Wyant, Fawcett s.
Co., to serve the selfish man of the Opera,
who abused and opposed them then, may
reconcile their conduct, if they can.
This question is by no means settled.
The privilege, or license, is granted for
one year only, and will come up again
for REPEAL. privilege must have an
end; but the rights of the people are
eternal"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
REPUnEIoAN TREASON.

The Chicago Tribune is the organ of
the Republican party in the Northwest,
and speaks for the great agriculturalre-
giOn tributary to that center. 1t is the
most voeiferOus free trade journal in
the country, and concludes an editorial
on the subject as follows:
Naturally. the Iowa or Michigan man
answers that he will make the exchange
with the Englishman, but is Informed
that he will, in order to bring in his
English goods, have to pay into the
United States Treasury $4,000 tax, that
tax being to support the Government.
What, therefore, he will next inquire,
is the $1,000 for which the Boston man
ufacturer proposes TO take? Is that also
for the support of the Government?
And he will be answered: THAT $4,000,
which is taken from the $4,000 earn
1ngs of your farm, or the 1000 bushels
of wheat taken from your crop, Is taken
from you who earned il by your labor,
and given as a donation and bounty by
the Government to the respectable but
needy gentleman who is the proprietor
of an infant industry, and who must
be supported at the public cost, whether
crops grow or fail, and who must have
his dividends to enable him to spend his
money literally in Paris every year." If
the incredulouS farmer asks by what
right his hard-earned money be taken
and given to another, he will be an
swered that protection is the new reli-
giOn that has superseded truth, honesty,
and Christianity-whOsep precept is that
those who toll must support those who
do not.
If the Iowa or Michigan farmer asks
who made that law he must be told it
was made by Congress, and that the
member from his district, for whom he
intends to vote this fall, not only advO-
Gated that law, but has resisted its
repeal, and within the last thirty
days boldly and detiantly voted in
Congress against, and defeated, a bill
limiting the amount taken as bounty or
gift by the manufactures to sixty per
cent.
Now, if the farmers of Iowa and Mich
igan had, during the last twenty years,
been allowed to possess what they had
earned; if they had not been compelled
to give up forty out of every 100 BUSH
els of wheat, corn oats, rye, and other
grains; forty out of every 100 bushels of
potatoes; forty out of every 100 hogs,
sheep, COWS, cattle, and horses; forty out
of every 100 tons of hay; forty cut of
every 100 bushels of fruit; in fact, $40
out of every 800 dollars which, during
these twenty years, they had earned by
their labor, and which has been merci-
lessly taken away from them without
compensation in any form; if they had
reaped these profits of their own toll,
the result would have been visible in
the improved condition of their farms,
in the accumulated earnings of these
years, and in the solid wealth and sub
stantial comforts by which they would
be surrounded. These cOnfscated earn
ings of the farm-yards are now repre-
sented in the stocks and bonds of the
manufacturing companies of New Eng
land and other similarly protected States.
How long are the farmers to submit to
this?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
A. TALE OF THE EXODUS.

Republican papers were cheerful few
years ago by the exodus of negroes from
Louisiana and Mississippi to Kansas. 1t
was not that such immigration helped
Kansas, but it was a blow at the pros
perity of the cotton belt in busy sea-
son.
We get the secret of this negro exo-
dus to Kansas in the story told in New
York, by Judge James De Long, prOmi-
nent citizen of that State, who is max
ing a progress through the eastern
States collecting funds to aid the col
Ored refugees" in Kansas. He gives
sorry account of their condition. He
estimates that $4,000 of these refugees
invaded Kansas in their exodus from
the South several years ago, OF whom
5000 returned to their southern homes.
Of the remaining 81, 900 at least 10000
are represented as being "in various
stages of destitutiOn, some literally
starving" In one county over two hum
dred families are living in "dug-Outs"
unfit for dogs to inhabit, on fOTty-three
tracts of Government land, but utterly
destitute of teams, implements, or seeds
for the cultivation of their farms. Judge
De Long knows of at least i've persons
who died from eating poisonous weeds
in the extremity of their hunger. He
saws the county poOr-hOuses of Kansas
are closed against the sufferers, and that
aid is required to 'keep these people
from dying dreadful deaths in the COM
ing winter"
The bare recital of these facts, fur
nished from a responsible source, is the
strongest proof possible Of the fatal
mistake made by those cOlOred people in
deserting their southern homes to seek
homes in an inhOspitable climate and
among an unsympathizing population.
Fortunately the abundant crOpS of the
South for the past two years and the
comparative release from political ex-
citement has pretty effectually stopped
the cOlOred exodus; at least until 1T be-
comes necessary to renew 1t again, for
partisan purpose. The Legrees of the
North, engaged in this business, care no
more for the life of black man than
their prototype in Mrs. Stoves "Uncle
Tom" They work the negro for all that
is in him, whether in the cotton field or
as a political Pittsburgh
Post,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
N BRO.Y PHTLADELPHIA CLOTHlNG HOUSE,
12 East Tuscarawas Street, Canton o.

acceptable to everybody because of their
holy life and their consecrated behavior.
The Lord is going to save you. Your
home has got to be rebuilt. Your physi-
cal health has got to be restored. Your
worldly business has got to be recon-
structed. The Church of God is going
to rejoice over your discipleship. "Other
sheep have which are not of this fold"
While L have hope for all prOdigals,
lost. l mean those who have been
church-goers all their life, who have
maintained outward morality, but who,
notw outstanding twenty, thirty, forty
years of Christian advantages, have
never yielded their heart to Christ.
They are GoSpal-hardened. A sermon
has no more effect upon them than the
shining of the moon upon the city
pavement. As Christ says: "The publi-
dom of God before them." They have
resisted all the importantly of Divine
mercy, and have gone during these
thirty years through most powerful
earthquakes of religious feeling, and
they are further away from God than
ever. After a while they will lie down
sick, and some day it will be told that
they are dead. No hope! But L turn to
outsiders with a hope that thrills
GuTOuBu my UUuy anu oOul. CehOh
sheep have which are not of this fold"
You are not GOspel-hardened. You have
not heard nor read many sermons dur
ing the last few years. As you enter
church every thing is novel, and all the
services are suggestive of your early
days. How sweet the opening hymn
sounds in your ears! how blessed it is!
Every thing is suggestive Of heaven.
You do not weep, but the shower is not
far off. You sigh. You have noticed
that there is always a sigh in the wind
before the rain falls. There are those
who would give any thing if they could
find relief in tears. They say: "Oh, my
wasted life Oh, the bitter past! oh,
the graves over which l have stumbled
Whittier shall fly? Alas for the futurel
Every thing is dark-sO dark, so dark.
God help mel God pity meP' Thank
the Lord for that last utterance. You
have begun to pray. and when man be-
gins to petition that sets all heaven
flying this way, and God steps in and
beats back the hounds Of temptation to
their kennel and around about the poor,
wounded soul puts the covert of His
pardoning mercy. Harkl hear some
thing fall. What was that? 1t is Sthe
bars of the fence around the sheep-fold.
The Shepherd let's them down, and the
hunted sheep of the mountains bound
in, some of them their heeces torn with
the brambles, some of them their feet
famed by the dogs, but bounding in.
Thank GOdl "Other sheep have which
are not of this fold"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

A wIDE-AwAKE gentleman interviewed
at Cincinnati the other day-Charles W.
Baker, who is named for Congress
boiled down the issue in Ohio this fall
after the following fashion:
The truth is, by hasty and illy-digested
legislation, the Republican party has
alfenated the liberal German element,
that has always heretofore been its
staunch and faithful ally, and Republi-
can leaders are seeking to repair the
loss by appealing to those Democrats in
the Reserve and elsewhere who are
temperate in their living and devout in
issue, which is, and can be in this cam
paign, no issue at all. The humorous
phase of this canvass is the spectacle of
half dozen Republican politicians,
with rubicund noses, drinking. gin
slings in corner gin-mill, and declar-
ing to each other that the liquor traffic
must be suppressed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
PREPARINe FOR TIE CAMpA1eN.

Senator George II. Pendleton, General
Durbin Ward, General George W. Morgan,
Hon. James W. Newman and other lead
ing Democratic Statesmen are billed for
speeches in different parts of the State
in advance of the formal opening of the
campaign, on the 5th of next month.
Newman will make speech at the NiHth
Congressional District Democratic Con-
ventiOn at Delaware on Thursday; Gen
eral Durbin Ward will speak at Bowling
Freen, Wood county, Saturday; Newman
at Youngstown, Saturday, and PendIe-
ton and Newman at Mt. GiIead, Morrow
county, next Monday.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

THE New York Sun makes the follow
ing crisp statement of the political situ-
alton in New York:
eff the Democrats act wisely this fall,
their chances for carrying the State are
about as good as when they elected Mr..
Tilden Governor in 1874.
"The Republican party in the State is
by bitter feuds. Its two factions are
bent upon destroying each other. The
party Is heavily weighed with the pro-
fligate record of Congress. The Repub-
Iicans controlled each House, and are
responsible for their misdeeds. The
party is seriously damaged by the pro-
ceedings in the Legislature last winter
and spring. The Cornell deal with
Tammany made this the most unpopular
Legislature of the past forty years.
Except in one OF two places, the
Democrats of the State are thoroughly
united. With harmony in their cOunsels
and strong ticket and full vote, they
can win a victory at the polls in Novem-
ber."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

THE Carroll Chronicle thus concludes
an obituary notice of the late Joseph
L. Rue:
After devOting the best years of his
life in the service of his country, having
been wounded, imprisoned and seriously
injured in health, deceased attended Mt.
Union College for a while, then removed
to CarTolltOn and studied law. He made
friends everywhere, and built up a re-
munerative practice. He left the Re-
publican party in 1872, and ever after
remained a steadfast Democrat. He held
the offices of Mayor and Justice of the
Peace almost continuously, possessing
eminent qualifications for these posi-
tions. His official record is without
blemish. As Mayor he was death on
jobbers and foolish extravaganza. When
he first assumed the Mayors Office the
Borough was some 81, 200 in debt, and at
the expiration of his term the debt was
paid and there was $500 in the treasury.
Socially, he was generous to a fault.
The large crowd that stood on Sunday
round the house of mourning, extending
almost to the public square, attested
warm friendships. The floral decOra-
tions were very rare, comprising selec-
tiOns from different points. Some of
the choicest flowers arrived from Cleye-
land too late for the funeral.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
A CHINESE MCKINLEY ORGAN.

The Carroll Free Press of last week, a
devoted Mckinley organ, representing
the Majors views, thus discusses on the
Chinese question:
All nations of Gods creation may now
find home in the United States, except
the Chinese alone. We concur with the
idea of Judge Taylor of the old Garfield
district, when he reminds 2the people of
this, now self-styled Democratic nation,
that by this act, it immOlates liberty
upon the very altar of freedom. This
distinguished disgrace upon American
laws, is only equaled by the leprosy Of
China itself. Our wise Christian Con-
gressmen should now pay largely, to
send some of their dear relatives, as
Christian Missionaries amongst that
heather people.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

GOVERNOR CORNELL, of New York, was
much embarrassed financially two years
ago, but helped himself by running a
blind pool, gambling stock arrange
ment in which the proprietor has every
advantage. Well-isn't Republican poll
tics all blind poolP Is itnot gambling
all the way through The gambling,
robber leaders counted out Tilden who
was elected, and counted in Hayes who
was not elected. The Star route gamblers
two years ago carried Indiana under the
lead of Dorsey; and with John Kelly's
help, captured New York for Garfield
and Arthur-and now we have an ad-
ministration through the Guiteau Stal
wart assassination policy. Blind pools
and knaves and fools have been running
this country for some time.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

The Chairman of the Congressional
Democratic Executive Committee, Gen.
ROsecrans, issues an address to the Dem
Ocracy of the country, commencing their
attention to the time-hOnOred principles
of the party and the necessities of the
country, but not whisper about money
or assessments; whilst the Chairman of
the Republican Committee has no word
of comfort for the faithful, but demands
cash-cash
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31
ALLEN o, MYERS SPEAKS IN CARROLL
COUNTY.

The eloquent Allen o. Myers, of Co
lumbus, will speak in Carroll county as
follows: Perrysville, Monday afternoon,
September 4th; Leesburg, Monday even
ing, September 4th; CarrOllton, Tuesday
afternoon, September 9Th; Dell Roy,
Tuesday evening, September 5th.
Mr.. Myers's reputation is Statewide as
a rich and raey writer, and as a talented
and entertaining speaker. Let the
young Democracy turn out and hear him.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

DOES anybody doubt, in view of the
testimony in the Star route case, that
Dorsey did not purchase with money the
majority for Garfield in. Indiana, or that
he is now in possession of a large sum
in cash, which belongs tOthe Treasury,
which he will not be required to refund
by the jury now. sitting? The honest
voters in Indiana are encouraged by the
enforced absence of this mail robber,
and look upon it as an off year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

"THE people of Ohio are to determine
at the October election whether their
laws are to be framed at the dictatiOn of
the Brewers and Saloon-keepers' AssO-
citation. This is the sole issue before us"
Cleveland Leader.
There is no manner of doubt that the
people of Ohio would prefer that their
laws should be framed by the brewers
and saloon-keepers rather than by Re-
publican Legislature such as they had
last winter. This Legislature was co..
rupt from center to circumference.
Brewers and saloon. keepers are not
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

MCSwEENEY astonished the natives at
Washington, and his effort has been
made the subject of every variety of
comment. The Washington Republican
says:
Mr.. McSweeney's argument was one
of the ablest ever heard in court. He
held his audience completely enthralled,
and by some Of his pathetic passages alb
solutely moved them to tears. His sud
den transitions from grave to gay
showed his complete and finished pow
ers as an unrivaled orator.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

The Cleveland Leader is convinced
that nothing can hurt the Republican
party. 1t claims "the threatened bolt of
eight or ten thousand Germans" in Ohio
will be more than made up by men who
last year voted Prohibition, and by re-
cruits from the Democratic party. The
Leader is a party organ in the full sense
of the term, always claiming its party
to be right and sure of victory.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

TWO or three thousand Knights of
Pythias were at Detroit last week, at
tending the Supreme Lodge of the world.
No country can furnish more "Sir
Knights" than this. Even in this Demo-
cratic land, Orders of Knights are thick.
True, royalty don't confer the honor
but that makes no difference.
A king can max a belted Knight,
Marquis, Duke, an a. that
- But an honest mans alb Don his might
Guild faith he mama IA that!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

The Republican candidate for Clerk
of Court in Carroll county is gentle
man named Gregg who, it is said, is
not accused of taking water as bever-
age, as rule. He will do, however, for
Fosters temperance party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

The official Democratic majority at
the late election in Kentucky on total
vote of 1913. .41S is 4l,869. That will do.
1t is but O49 less than Blackburn's ma
jority and 893 less than the majority the
State gave Hancock at the last Presi-
Dental election. The Malone idea was
tried but it was not a success.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

THE Boston Post aptly says; "The
American government protects about
everything except labor. After a CEN
tury of trying the present method, would
not turn about be- fair play?"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-31

If the Assessors would take an inven-
tory of Leetonia's residents now it
would surprise him to find that in the
last two months we have lost about one
sixth of our population. They have
gone in all directions, some to the far
west, and others east, north and south,
all on the hunt Of work.-Leetonia
Commercial.