The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26


pattern waistcOat, pointed toed shoes
and zebra hat, has learned toregard the
Democratic party as the receptacle OF
all that Is bad, and all that is nasty, and
Is ready to cry out with those mistaken
ones OF eighteen centuries ago, "Can
anything good come out Of NAZARETH
when they ought to be taught to respect
1t as the party which is made up of the
bone and sinew of our country, of the
poorer classes perhap4, but of the most
worthy, of the most single-minded and
direct among our people; and that as q
whole 1t Is singularly free from hypO-
crisy. You know that this is true and
that 1t cannot be otherwise than true;
then teach it to your children. Why it
is true any clear headed man can see.
What attracts the carriOn crow but a
carcassr What attracts the carriOn
crow of politics, the Office seeker? The
spOlls of Office. Which party is able to
supply themP The Republican, and it
follows as naturally as the night fol-
lows the day that of this class Of rOgues
the Republican party has a practical
monopoly.
Again, take the wolves in sheep's
clothing, the hypOcrites and fostering
sores in social life, the whited sepuIchres
full of dead mems bones. Who has
themP Into which party do they throng?
Naturally to yours. You have so con-
demned the Democratic party that no
man seeking social position or prefer
ment would look to the Democratic party
for it. You have almost made it neces-
sary that Democrat should take a
double dose of the catechism before YOU
admit him into a church membership,
and you ask him to fumigate himself
before you will allow him to sit in your
pew, and when you shake hands with
him you are apt only to give him the
tips of your fingers, unless you happen
to want him to vote with you; and if he
does not happen to drink whisky and
swear like the army in Flanders you
shrewdly suspect he is only half
breed" to use the elegant vernacular of
your kid-glOved party in the State of
New York. Now be honest, and tell YOUR
children the truth, which is, that the
chances are ten to one that any man ia
honest and decent who is a member of
the Democratic party, while before ae-
cept1ng a Republican as such they should
turn him around on all sides, look at
him from every angle and examine his
teeth even before they conclude that he
is Republican, for any other reason
than that he hopes for Office or wishes to
trade upon moral and social character
which he is not entitled to. The spoon
is empty, the dose is down, and hope it
will do you as much good as the pill or
powder of the average doctor, and you
must not forget that | charge you moth
ing for the prescription, and L can as
sure you 1T is given with the utmost good
will.
Now to the questions which are of
permanent and oVershadOwing impor-
tance to us as citizens, and if you can
forget whether you are Republican or
Democrat for a half an hour or so I
think you will discover yourself in favor
of every principle which is Democratic,
because every such principle is part and
parcel of the fundamental dOctrine of
the greatest good to the greatest num-
beT."
THE DEMOCRATIC THE CONSTITUTIONAL
PARTY OF THE COUNTRY.
The Democratic party is the constitu-
tiOnal party of the country, and has
been from its earliest birth, even before
1T was known by the title Democratic.
From the time of Washington down
there has been radical distinction be-
tween parties, and it exists to-day, and
| would not have you forget that the
Democratic party is the party which rep
resents the strict construction view of
the constitution, while the Republican
party Is the natural heir of the Federal
"
and holds to the loose construction view
Is naturally as dack takes to water OF
a topper to whisky. The Democratic
party demands that we shall have con-
laws and constitutional gov
only, and that if changes are
needed in the constitution they shall be
made; but until such changes are made
all law must be in strict accord with
the constitution as it is. The Republi-
rfxy hn aIo ;ok
before 1t, has always been willing to
treat the constitution lightly, and to go
on. and legislate without much regard
to it, and always with view of making
the central government at Washington
stronger by drawing away from the
States and the people more and more of
their rights. do not impugn the mo-
lives of Republicans in this, their views
are honest, worthy of respect and care
ful consideration, but are they right?
Ought their views to prevail? So long
IS the party you belong to and believe
In is in power you would perhaps say
yes! But when the opposing party is in
power you would say as emphatically,
Mol You are willing to trust your own
Congress without limit, but you want
all constitutional restraints put upon
the other. So long as you have the gov
and its officers you are glad to
see united SIaJeS MarSnalS at the DOLLS,
but you would rather see the Devil there
than Democratic Marshal. You recog-
nize evils in one case, but not in the
other, and it is the old story of whose
OK it is which tears down the fence"
The strict cOnstructiOnist OF Democratic
view in this is the wisest. 1t will not
trust the Republican party with illegal
power. 1t will not trust itself with it.
1t knows that all parties need the re-
Straint of the constitution. 1t under
stands that the liberties and rights of
the people are safe under strict con-
struction of the constitution, no matter
what party rules, and so long as the
party exists this will be its attitude.
Out of this view and faith springs the
so called doctrine of States Rights,
which is, when properly understood, The
most wholesome OF teDets. oIates Rights
include all rights originally held by the
States which were reserved by them and
not given to che general government
These do not include the right of seces
sion, for there is no such right, for each
State having gone into the Union with
the consent of the others, can only go
put by the same path and tens of thOus-
ands, yes, hundreds of thousands of