The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-09-07
OHIO CAMPAIGN.
Hon. George H. PendletOn at
Mount Gilead.
Full Report of the Senator's Speech to
the People of Morrow COunty-A
Speech Worth Reading.

RreSS, secretary OF state, member or the
Board of Public Works and Judge of the
Supreme Court. There is no election for
Governor or members of the Legisla-
ture. And the Supreme Court is so con-
stituted that the result of the election
can not change its political complexion.
The offices to be filled naturally sug-
gest the questions to be discussed. Gov
ernOr Foster was announced to open the
canvass and discuss the issues at Akron.
The candidate for Secretary of State
was to do the same at Athens. looked
with interest for those speeches. 1 have
read them carefully. l found not one
word about Federal Administration, not
one word about the doings of Congress,
not one word about the dOings of the
last Legislature, not one word about
the Public Works, not one word about
the Department Of State.
THE FALSE ISSUE.
Both speeches were a raid against the
Republican distilleTs, the Republican
brewers, the Republican saloon keep
ers. They cOncurTed in the statement
that there was no issue before the peO-
pie except the liquor traffic.
| look at the offices to be filled, the
candidates who have been nominated,
the platforms of the parties. / find
nothing of the kind. l see there is an
issue between the Gazette and the Com
mercial. l see there was an issue be-
tween the Republican Legislature and
the Republican Supreme Court. 1 see
Governor Foster declares there is a re-
belliOn of the Republican whisky deal
ers against the Republican party. These
are factiOnal fights within the Republi-
can party, and do not concern the Dem
ocrats at all.
Gentlemen Republicans, you have
passed the Pond bill. Your own Court
declared it unconstitutional. Is that
your issue? You had the power; you
did not pass the Locke bill. Is that your
issue? TaxatiOnl!l You have had for
many years the full power of taxation
which the Constitution allows; and you
have exhausted yourselves in passing
one unconstitutional law. You have
full power now. If you are in such an
| agony over the liquor traffic, why not
call the Legislature in extra session
and pass law which shall at once re
lieve your cOnsciences and make an is
/ sue? ....
Gentlemen who have the power of
| their party, who control the Legislature,
who control the State Convention, can
not let these opportunities slip, and
then make their own differences issues
between parties. Gentlemen who have
for many years staked saloons before
every election, and subsidized the liquor
traffic, and on promises exaeted money
and votes and been elected to Office, can
not at their own pleasure turn square
on their tracks and make the honesty of
their former course an issue for the peO-
pie.
This year, meeting every question
fairly presented, the Democratic party
declared that it Is now as always, this
year as in other years, in favor of the
largest personal liberty consistent with
the public order, and opposed to laws
merely sumptuary. If the circumstances
had required, it would have declared
would have repeated the declaration
made by it in the Constitution, in the
laws and in the judicial decisiOns-that
the manufacture and sale of liquors is
lawful business in Ohio, and as such
is entitled to protection, as all other
lawful business, and, as the price of
protection, must bear its fair proportion
of Just taxation imposed by the State,
and must be subject to such regulation
on Sundays and on week days as a
sound, wise public opinion shall de-
mand.
believe it would have gone further,
and declared in favor of the license sys-
tenn as furnishing the best means of
taxation and regulation.
The statement that the Democratic
party favors "free whisky and no Sun
day." does not merit even contempt.
The man who asserts it without belieV-
ing it is knave.
I pass to the true issues Of the can
yass.
THE LAST CANVASS.
Last year we had no public discussion
of political questions. The assassina-
tion and prOtraeted illness and suffer
ing Of President Garfield so touched the
sensibilities and shocked the feelings
of our people that they instinctiveIy
fOrbore this phase of political contr0-
versy. A year before the contest had
been bitter. The Convention of the Re-
publican party, after a long and acri-
mOniOus session, had nominated General
Garfield. The seeds of dissension had
been freely sown. The devotees of the
third term clung to their idol. They
were not recOnciled to his defeat. Their
sullen leaders were induced to become
| active. "My dear Hubbell" was besought
| to raise money by his assessments on
| Officeholders. The offended Brady was
appeased. Dorsey was called into action.
Money was raised. Indiana was "sOaped."
Garfield was elected; and Hancock, as
brave soldier, as true Democrat, as
honest a man as ever lived, was de-
feated.
PROMISES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Immediately after the result was
known, the passions to which the con-
test had given birth, subsided The air
resOunded with the boastings of the
friends of the new Administration. 1t
would make new departure in the his
tory of the Republican party. 1t would
be an exemplar of purity, of economy,
of Justice in the routine, and of force
and energy and brilliant spirit in the
conception, of its domestic and foreign
policy. Taxation would be so lightened
and adjusted as to be no burden. Do
nestle commerce would be so regulated
that monopolies should not eat out the
substance of producers by exorbitant
freights. Foreign commerce would be
so revived that American bottoms should
do at least some share of the carrying
of American products. The new Ad-
! ministration was to borrow lustre by
| contrast with the corrupt practices
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