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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

IF the government should fail to con-
Vict the Star route Tascals the DEMO
GRAFT would howl itself sick, and if the
government should succeed, it would
howl anyhow, as the following from
this weeks issue ndicates.-RepOsitOr
The cost to the Government for special
counsel, for experts, for witnesses and
mileage, for detectives and spies, for no.
tOTiOus blackmailers, for disgraced con-
tractors who were hired to work up
these cases, aggregates enormously.
And the end is not yet.-DEMOCRAT.
Are not these "rascals" all prominent
and leading Republicans? Is not one
of them even now Secretary of the Re-
publican National Committee? Did not
President Arthur at dinner given Dor
sey,at DelmOnicO's, New York, a'year ago
last winter, give him credit for carry
ing Indiana in 1880? Why is the Rep.
silent on those forged United States
bonds, printed on genuine plates stolen
from the safe in the Bureau in the
Treasury Department? Secretary of the
Treasury FOlger is now investigating a
fresh discovery, and by no means the
first. 1t is not thought the false can be
told from the genuine bonds, and it is
not known how many millions the ''lOil'
and official thieves have issued. 1t is
thought not to be less than hundred
millions, but it is mere guess work. 1t
is only another evidence Of Republican
machine rule.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

The Mackey O'COnnor-Dibble contest
in the Lower House of Congress came
from South Carolina. Mackey got the
seat, claiming to have been elected to
Congress from the Second District of
South Carolina in 1880, but to. have been
counted out" in favor of O'COnnOr. The
latter died before taking his,.seat, and a
new election was ordered. This the
Republicans refused to recognize" and
Samuel Dibble, of 0rangeburg, was
elected-the vote standing, Dibble, 1874
Mackey, 300. The Dibble party presented
affidavits showing that Mackey has at
tempted to criminally bolster up his
case, but the Committee on Elections
refused to consider them. Mr.. Dibble,
who occupied the seat contested for, en-
tered the Confederate army as private,
and served through the war-finally a
First Lieutenant. He has served as
Trustee of the University of South Caro-
lima, and as Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the South Carolina Agri
cultural College and Mechanics lnsti-
tute for cOlOred students "a branch of
the State Uniyersity9
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.


The Tariff Commission, if reports are
true, will be wholly constituted in the
interest of special privileges and mo-
nOpoly, and against the laboring men,
The New York Herald thus comments:
What prOtectionist journals are utter
ing word in favor of giving the Ameri-
can wOrkingman any representation
upon the Tariff Commission? Not one.
They used his name freely while the
Commission bill was debated. Turn
back to their articles during the winter
and the spring, and turn back to the
prOtectiOnist speeches in Congress dur
ing tine same period. They are full of
professions of wish to serve the Ameri-
can WOrkingman by pOstpOning imme-
diate legislation for tariff reform and
relegating the subject to this commits
sion. But now that the protected capi-
talists have carried the point, now that
they have got the law for a commission,
the wOrkingman interest is cOOlly thrust
aside, and these same newspaper writ
ers and speech-makers propose to divide
the nine commissioners exclusively
among the interests of capital invested
in specially protected branches of manu-
features.
The Herald disputes that the interests
of wOrkingmen are identical with the
interests of protected capitalists, and
fires this center shot:
If they are, what is the meaning of the
strike of John ROach's bOilermakeTs
what is the meaning of the tidings from
Pittsburg that thirty thousand iron and
steel workers are to strike tomorrow in
Pennsylvania, and $4,000 elsewhere
what is the meaning Of the vote of the
Pennsylvania Miners Association tC
strike on the same day; what is the
meaning of the recent distressing strikes
in cotton and wooden mills in Massachu
setts and New York; what is the mean
ing of the general uneasines among
wOrklngmen all over the country, which
is visible to a degree unrivaled since the
violent railroad strikes of 1877, when
coal miners and iron workers Joined in
the general tumult and blood was sheC
| before order was restOredP
If it is true-which we do not believe
that the American wOrkingmen are
concerned to keep the present scale OF
| tariff duties why not give them repre-
| sentatiOn upon this tariff commission
Why pack it exclusively with the repre-
sentatives of the capitalists against whom
they are striking?
The Herald then maintains that when
ever great manufacturing interest il
protected so as to produce an Unnatura
income, the profits accrue to the capi
talist and not the workingmen. Thi'
will hardly be cOntradicted in this 10
cality, and the Herald cites the enOr
nous subsidies realized by the Bessemel
monopoly; profits so large that the grea
mill at Harrisburg was puzzled how tt
divide them so as to evade the State taZ
on dividends, which all honest firms ant
corporations promptly pay.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

WHY cannot Decoration Day be OBJ
served in Christian spirit? Why must
scuryy politician be got to blow off his
nauseating stuff to try and keep alive
the spirit of hateP Is such a course cal
culated to promote peace and brother
hOOdP Are such fellows men or ghouls?
Are they Union men or dis-UniOn menP
Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Salmon
P. Chase, and such men wanted all evil
dences of strife buried out of sight, and
a spirit of harmony and brotherhood
cultivated. Not so, however, those who
! fatten on the Offal and garbage of pOliti-
cal strife and sectional animOsity. These
Decoration Grating hOwleTs have not a
word to say in favor of honest and just
government; not word to utter against
the Star route leaders, and corrupt ex-
travagance of the party in power. These
fellows, thus undermining our system
of government, are now the revolution
lists that should be denounced by every
true patriot.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

DECORATION day orators do not gen.
orally state the aVowed object in prose-
cutting the late war. This would not
suit these instruments of hate and party
rule. Truth is not what they are after,
but rather avoid; appealing rather to
prejudice. -.-.-.
For instance, they do not refer to the
Crittenden resolution that passed the
Lower House of Congress in July. 1861,
by a vote of III to 2, affirming that the
war was brought about by the disunion-
lists Of the southern States, and that it
was carried on by the government only
to defend the supremacy Of the COnsti-
tuition, and to preserve the Union, with
all the dignity, equality and rights of
the several States unimpaired.
r Neither do these Decoration day bab-
blers, as rule, attempt to- show the pur-
poses for which this government was
established. The preamble to the Con-
stitution, which is the fundamental
law, is in these words:
We, the people of the United States, in
order to form more perfect Union, es-
tablish Justice, insure domestic Tran
guilty, provide for the common de-
fence, promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our pOsterity, do Ordain.
and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America. % 81.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

In the contest in Congress on the
Mackey-Dibble case the Democrats may
point with pride to their record. The
Republican majority refused to permit
an investigation of the fOrgeries on the
part and behalf of Mackey:
The protest subsequently adopted by
the Democrats and read by Representa-
tive Cox is as follows:
WHEREAS, The minority of this House
have heretofore, under the rules of the
House, successfully resisted the efforts
of the majority to consider the case of
Mackey VS.. O'COnnOr because a proper
hearing has not been granted to the
cOntestee by the Committee on Elections
as to the allegation of forgery and fraud
in the evidence submitted by contest
ant, and
WHEREAS, The majority, in order to
prevent and avoid such an inYestiga-
tiOn, have proceeded to change the rules
in a manner not provided for in the
rules, in which alone they can or ought
to be changed, and
WHEREAS, The Speaker has made a
ruling which justifies proceeding un-
known to the principles Of constitution
al and parliamentary law, and subVer-
sive of the rights of the minority. "
Therefore, the undersigned, represen-
tatives of the people, hereby protest
against the proceedings of the majority
and the rulings of the Speaker, as un-
justiiable, arbitrary and revolutionary,
and expressly designed to deprive the
minority of that protection which has
been established as one of the great
monuments of our representative sys-
tenn by the patriotic labOrs of the adYO-
Gates of parliamentary privileges and
civil liberty. [Signed]
SAMUEL j. RANDALL,
And ninety-nine others,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

ST. PONDS back-set demOralizes the
average editorial Republican mind. 1t
was hugging the belief that, as Re-
publican Legislature had passed the
bill. the four Republican Judges of the
Supreme Court would disregard the
plain letter of the Constitution of the
State and sustain st. Pond and Charley
Foster. Indeed, Charles had spoken as
an oracle, and this average Republican
mind was entirely at ease, thinking his
views infallible. Even the Stark county
members, Senator HartshOrn, as we'll as
Conrad and Snyder Of the House, were
confident that st. Pond was o. K. The
Mckinley organ was assured and
satisfied, as the fourth termer had
carried Columbiana county over Laubie.
The next thing will be prohibition, al
ways excepting from that the drug
stores and the doctors. ..r
One thing is a comfort, that this year
in Ohio the Republican platform will
not be fixed up so as to suit both tenn
perance people and beer drinkers.
Governor Charles Foster has been sue
cess in straddling the liquor question;
but st. Pond and st. Foster are now a
little below par.
The real father, however, of the Pond
mOnstrOsity is W. H. West, of Logan, the
man whom Bishop beat for Governor in
1877. He is one of those blOodless, mar
rOwless politicians with whom all is
right that the party needs. Judge West
labOred four hours to convince the Court
that they ought to stand by his child;
but his wind did not win. The corpse
is on their hands and the funeral will
take place next October.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08
And ninetY.nine others.

At East Liverpool the most disgrace
full exhibition of bulldozing and boss
ism ever witnessed north of Mason and
works were shut down, and bosses
stationed at every street corner, to drive
in the voters like dumb cattle. The
saloons opened wide their doors and
turned on full head of steam, to boost
Mckinley. So zealOusly was the thing
pushed that Mckinley secured in that
township 632 votes and Laubie but forty
eightl-AIlianee Review.
The McKinley-POnd law license organ
of Canton don't deny the above. The
Rep, however, does deny that it cost the
Major $1,000 to beat Laubie in Colum-
biana county. Whileso denying though,
the family organ takes care not to say
how many thousand it did cost.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08
ANNUAL PICNIC.
The Stark County Pioneer Association at
The Fair Grounds.

The Stark County Pioneer Association at
The Fair Grounds.
The picnic of the Stark Co. Pioneer
Association will be held at the Fair
Grounds, Canton, Wednesday, June Ia,
1882. The grounds are open at 10 a. m.
An admittance fee of ten cents Will be
charged to males only. This assessment
is made to meet expenses incurred for
fitting up the grounds, seating, music,
sc. No charge for females or children
under 16 years of age, or the admission
of carriages. The forenoon will be spent
in social Intercourse. 1t is basket pic
nic, and understood that families pro-
vide themselves or make their own ar
Tangements for dinner. Strangers VIII
be provided for byyt the executive com
mittee. Lunch stands will be on the
ground prepared to supply the inner
Immediately after dinner, upon sig
nal, the crowd will assemble at the
band stand, when the Association Will
be called to order by the President, Hon.
Peter riLOutzenheiser, and the following
programme be observed:
1. Prayer-By Rev. Peter Herbruck.
2. oration-Byr Judge Geo. W, Raft.
3. volunteer speeches by Judge s.
Meyer, Canton; VIM. G. Myers, Esq,
Canal Fulton; Washington Guest, Esq
Pike; Rev. David Yant, Bethlehem; DR..
L. l.. LambOrn, Lexington; Robert II.
FOlger, Esq, Perry; Samuel Brook, Lex
ington; Levi Stump, Perry; Andrew
POntius, Esq, Plain; Col. James Bayliss,
Perry; A. McGregOr, ESQ.,, Canton; DR.;
A. II. Sherman, Kent, Sec'y Portage and
Summit Society; II. H. Gregg, Esq, New
Lisbon. Music. Adjournment.
By order of Executive Committee,
LEW SLUSsER, Sec'y.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

For years the Republican party lead
ers have fooled the temperance people,
bought up the temperance speakers
freely; and also at the same time have
managed to carry along the liquor in
fuence, especially the heavy disti1lers
and brewers, as well as the wholesale
men, with majority of the retailers in
Cincinnati Cleveland, Toledo and most
lother large towns in the State. They
Thought to play the st. Pond game sue
eessfully-but it is a failure and they
feel bad.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

TISSUE ballots are all right when cast
for Republicans. Indeed, tissue ballots
are of Republican invention and were
used in stealing Florida from Tilden.
In the House on Saturday, Lowe of Ala
bama, Greenbacker, was given the seat
Of General Wheeler, Democrat. This
was in pursuance of bargain; but it
came out in the debate that the Election
Committee to count Lowe in had to in
clude 1924 little jokers of the tissue
pattern
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THERE is talk of some clark horse"
being groomed to step in and leave Nc
Kinley and Laubie out. We rather
think the Congressman has the machine
in good running order so as to secure
the nomination. The Star route party
OF spOils and bosses is run in the ma
chine way. The fact is, the Republican
party is the party of privileged classes
and monopoly. Their rule makes mil
hOnaires at the expense of labor and
honest business. 'l.. i... "'-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE Cleveland Leader correspondent
had the news of Mr.. G. RusseII's candi-
dacy for Congressional nomination pub
lished two days before the Rep. knew (P)
about the matter. Probably the Rep.
folks knew it equally as soon, but they
had not received instructions from the
Majah what to do. 1t is difficult mat
ter to be an independent Republican
newspaper and Mckinley organ at one
and the same time.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

LAST Saturday the Repository called
it a Congressional Canard," and said:
1--WE decline to credit the statement
that Mr.. Russell would lend his name
at this late day to such an unworthy
crusade against our present representa-
party in Congress and out of it have
been extraordinary, andifOr W hich Stark
county especially has good reason to be
thankful" 20 tsr- a... ...-.,., LA
Great Cesar Thankful, I,-extraordi
nary tHaifW 100 ,sevlBV ssT.T
= "Upon what meat doth this, our Cesar, feed
That he hath grown 80 great!"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

OF course the Democratic leaders anu
organs of the north are ready to bow
down before their red-shirted masters
pository.
OF course the Republican leaders and
boss-machine organs are furious that
the negro vote south does their party no
good. 1t is not Shotgun and tissue
ballots" but the colOred men voting
with their true friends against the
fraud party An. AEt)N I
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

The Ohio Patriot of New Lisbon. the
organ of the Democracy of COlumbiana
county, has been enlarged to a nine
column folio, and furnished with new
type, which improves its appearance.
Mr.. Potts is evidently determined to
continue to make the old Ohio Patriot
acceptable to its patrons.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THERE is no doubt but Congressman
Mckinley has control Of the Republican
machine even in Columbiana county.
He seems to be the Don Cameron in this
Congressional district, and the success
full boss. The Major has been lucky
since he located in Canton some sixteen
years ago. He could not have done bet
ter had he remained In Trumbull county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

In the North American Review for
May Mr.. Carl Schurz predicts that the
Republicans will put Civil Service re-
form in their next National platform.
They can do that easy, and pay no heed
to it after. Vice too often masquerades
in Virtua
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

Now, that workingmen in some places
have plenty Of time on their hands, they
might take the trouble to compare the
present with the pleasing prospect
which was held out to them some
months ago conditioned on their voting
the Republican ticket.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

DR.. FISHER, one of the experts who
was a witness at Guiteaus trial for the
defence, is out in an able paper going to
show that Garfield's murderer has been
an insane man for years.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE Carroll Free Press generously
and freely admits this week chat Mr..
Clement Russell, of Massillon, is one of
the most intelligent and excellent bust
ness men in this district" "a
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

SENATOR HartshOrn, and Representa-
tives Conrad and Snyder, no doubt i'm
agined they were to be immOTtalized by
working and voting with st. Pond last
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

Two of mckinley dear Canton friends
have found out that Glenn Russell, of
Massillon, is being urged by leading Re-
publieans Of that town to consent to be
a candidate for Congress. The Reposi-
tory don'tseem to know it yet.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

The Republican State Convention,
yesterday, at Columbus, renominated
Secretary Of State Townsend. John H.
Doyle, of Toledo, was nominated for
Supreme Judge, and G. A. Flickinger, Of
Defiance, for Member Board of Public
Works. The platform is a trimming
and don't say Pond law once.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

WHY do the workers in iron who re-
ceiye the heaviest tariff protection,
strike for higher wagesP Farm labor
ers who have no protection" so-called,
are never known to strike for higher
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

The Republican party is a live or
ganizatiOn.-[R Repository.
A "live" Guiteau, Star route affair
with President who drew prize in
the lottery of assassination!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

The st. Pond Mckinley organ can get
great comfort doubtless from Represen-
tative Snyder, who can gather that con-
Germ under his own roofing as he
would delicate chicken from the rain.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE Mckinley organ may yet discover
that Clement Russell, of .Massillon, is a
candidate for Congressional honOrs. He
is another Richmond of some .conse7
uuence. .glr1 - g7o ,gss1 s.olE-a -ss7 5.ea
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

GOVERNOR Charles Foster pronounced
the Pond law constitutional. Well,
other blind leaders of Goods party did
the same thing.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

SENATOR Don Cameron has no trouble
In getting his friends appointed and
half-breeasF FemeTeds-SeRator Mitehell's
objections have no weight, as he is OpI
poses to the dry rot 9of bossism ar
general cOrrubtiOD. Iuiuri ms rG| I'D
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

CONGRESSMAN McK1SLEY did not 20 to
Youngstown to- deliver the address on,
Decofationl Day Dbl l'he had promised.
Public business, you know. We knew
it would be so. The Major didn't want
In nair 7i-2aW JsJ uH.C3 .siGe17 Qr
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

OF course the Republican State Con-
yention yesterday at Columbus endorsed
the.St. Pond-St. Smith-Poker Legislature
and the Arthur administration.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE danger is now that the Republi-
can party will fall through the hole in
its platform, made by knocking out the
Pond law plank.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

AS a Republican Supreme Court de-
cided the Pond law unconstitutional, it
becomes important to know whether the
Lords party" is now a whisky party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

PEOPLE are anxious to see the Repub-
lican platform adopted yesterday at
Columbus. They are curious to know
what they did with st. Pond.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE Repository isidisgusted withthe
5dtiSien Tof the FSdpreneo Court on! the
Pond law. 1t, is to be hoped that the
court don't know this. c..ti.,s feI.,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

WHEN the Repository gets fairly up on
the Major, let us know if it is for life.
The dark horses would like to know, you
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

1T is not thought the labor troubles
mean any good to the Republican party.
The question arises: Is the labOring
man protected?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

WE suggest that MI Aultman and,
William Kinley Miller, visit Nassillon
without delay and assure Mr.. Russell of
the Majors distinguished consideration.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

BLOCH, the saloon Republican mem
Der from Cleveland, was right in voting
against the Pond bill. At least the Su-
preme Court says so.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

McKINLEY's family organ was devOt-
ed follower of st. Pond.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

JOHN SHERMAN is not attempting now
to jerk the country from the verge of
financial ruin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE way immigrants are hOcking
from Europe it is thought a million will
come this year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

ST. POND is not now so much of a
favOrite with the Snivel Service Reform
Republican party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

= THE Nspoils system seems likely to
break up the Republican party as the
slavery question broke up the Whig
party. -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

AN exchange says Guiteau will prob
ably be the only Stalwart suspended
during Arthur's administration.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE Republican party is in need of
plank, having lost the st. Pond.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE iron heel of capital and the horny
hand of labor are at disagreement in
pIapaa
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

GOVERNOR Fosters temperance boom
on the st. Pond plank is played out.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

THE Republicans have the Smith bill
left, and that is consoIing, even if it is
not enforced, in Cleveland. ~