The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-11

tion, until by slow degrees they have be-
come great. How different in our own
bOasted land of the free. We have our
wealthy few, the pOssessOTs of princely
fortunes equal to those of the money
Princes of the old world, and under the
vast and unequaled special privileges
granted to our favored few and the ad-
ministratiOn of our affairs, State as well
as national, in their interest. The Ameri-
can milliOnaires have amassed their
fortunes within the recollection of those
of us whose hair is not yet sprinkled with
grey. BOssism, with its devOtees to the
spOils system and to mOnOpOlies, run its
race unbridled and unchecked through
out the two administrations of Q s. Grant.
By perjury, forgery and fraud in 1876 it
defeated the lawfully expressed will of
the American people, and in the place
of the lawfully elected chief magistrate
placed r. B. Hayes in the Presidential
chair, only to ride down and crush out
his feeble and childish efforts to stay its
onward march. In 1880, at the Republic
can convention at Chicago, the best ele-
ment of the Republican party, dared to
antagOnize this threatening danger.
The chief of the bosses, U. S. Grant, was
defeated for third term, and James A.
Garfield was nominated and elected by
the people. His short administration
was a determined and glorious battle
against bOssism and the spOils system.
He had just succeeded in striking down
one of the ablest of all the bosses in the
person of Roscoe COnkling, when by the
hand of monster at the shrine of boss
ism, monopoly and this system of spoils,
he was stricken down in death. Another
victory was won for the bosses. What
perjury, forgery and fraud had accom-
pliShed for them in 1876 had again been
accomplished for them by the assassin's
hand in 1881, viz: another lease of power,
and to-day, Grant, COnkling, Cameron
and Logan, the quartette of bosses, with
Chester A. Arthur as President, are the
dictatOTs and arbitrary rulers of this
once free country, in open defiance and
disregard of the peoples will. The
principle of boss rule grew steadily
from 1861 to 1872, from 1872 it com
menced to assert its power and attempt
to make itself felt in the management
of our governmental affairs. 1t was
antagOniZed by such leaders in the Re-
publican party as Chas. Sumner, Horace
Greeley, Charles Francis Adams, Carl
SchurZ, Andrew g. Curtin and others.
Those men were foremost in found
ing the Republican party and were
among its ablest leaders up to the time
they dared to call for reform within the
party" and until they dared to antagO-
political graves, crushed by the bosses,
but their labOrs, though unsuccessful at
the time, have borne fruitful harvest.
The followers of Garfield, popularity
called the half-breeds, are carrying on
the fight begun by Sumner, Greeley and
others, half a generation ago. The prin-
ciples they are to-day fighting for are
| those and only those, which the Demo-
cratic party have battled for during the
whole reign of the bosses, viz: anti
| bOssism, anti-mOnOpOly, anti-spOils sys-
tenn. Nothing but the thin veil of party
name to-day divides the half-breed Re-
ptblicans and the Democratic party.
The Democratic party defeated bOssism
in 1876 by majority of the popular vote
of quarter of a million and clear
majority of the electOralI college, but
by fraud, perjury and forgery the bosses
then set at naught the peoples will as
expressed at the ballOt-bOx. In 1880 the
half-breeds defeated the bosses at Chi
cagO and elected their nominee by the
vote of the people only to see the bosses
again triumph through the instrumen-
| tality of assassination. The picture
presented is: Bossism through fraud
and perjury has defeated the Democra-
tic party. BOssism through powder and
lead has defeated the half breed Repub-
licans. Now let the great Democratic
party and the half-breed Republicans
| Join hands, and with united forces under
one banner, and with the battle cry Of
down with the bosses and their spoils
system of administration" march for
ward to sweeping and lasting victory
A LIBERTY LOVING AMERICAN.