The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26
GRAND JoLIFIcATroN.
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GRAND JoLIFIcATIoN.
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which looked through these shams will
penetrate all others. The people will
hold the party in power to rigid account
ability. If power shall be cOnfided to us
in the State or in the nation, we will
be held to that responsibility also. The
hour of victory Is apt to be the hour of
self-deceptiOn. Let us not deceive our
selves. Let us now, this evening, in
this hour of rejoicing, take earnest heed
of the lesson of the election. If we
would gain and continue to hold power,
we must deserve to hold it. We must
cOnfine Federal administration and
jurisdiction within the clearly acknOwl-
edged limits of the Constitution. We
must Tecur constantly, both as to poll
cies and office holders, to the will of the
people. We must reduce all eXpendi
lures to the lowest limit consistent with
the due execution of the functions of
government. We must reduce all taxa
tiOn to the lowest point consistent with
such expenditure. We must introduce
a reform which shall secure economy,
purity and efficiency in civil adminstra-
tlOn. We must have economical ap-
preparations and cOTTespOndingly small
revenues; we must have just and honest
taxation; we must have no assessment
of Office holders for political purposes;
we must have no sumptuary laws, no
Interference with individual liberty not
essential to the maintenance of public
OTder-and as to all other public queS-
tiOnS we must remit them to the wise
aud tempered discretion of popular
judgment, subject always to the enlight-
ened protection of personal liberty and
individual right which our theory of
government and our Constitutions
afford. Individual right, home rule,
economical expenditure. just and fair
taxation, these are the synonyms of good
government. If we enforce them hon
estly we shall gain and retain power. In
this sign we shall conquer.
Mr.. PendletOn was frequently inter-
rupted by applause, and closed amid
great cheering.
MIR, NEWMAN'S REMARKS.
Secretary of State-elect Newman was
then in reduced, and in a few brief re-
marks thanked the people for his office,
and said the Democratic victory did not
come from the cities or the towns or the
country alone, but from the whole peO-
pie. Republican miSmanagement, pub
lie extravaganza and Jay Hubbell's COM
mittee we're quite as much the cause as
the Ohio Legislature. He was heartily
cheeTed.
The people seeing General Durbin
Ward in the assembly at once called on
him.
GENERAL WARDS SPEECH.
General Durbin Ward being intro
duced, said:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens
Unfinching adherence to principle, CEN
stancy under defeat, courage in conflict
and honest appeal to the people, have
their reward, and the flag of Democracy
is borne i'll triumph from the lake to the
river. We have won the victory by no
still hunt" by no mercenary alliance.
We have not succeeded, as in 1873 and
1874, by the lukewarmness of the Repub-
lican leaders, nor as in 1877 by the con-
sciOus shame of the Republican masses
at the frauds of the Southern Returning
Board and the visiting statesmen" Nor
have we succeeded by reason Of any apa-
thy of the official task-masters of the Re
publican machine. No, their most pO-
tential leaders in the State, and many
out of it, have been in the canvass.
Sherman, Harrison, Frye, Foster, NOyes
and the rest of the brotherhood of bosses,
great and small, have harangued from
the hustings, not only in the great cities,
but in the most obscure nook and corner
of the State. The country has been flood
ed with documents by the hundred thou
sand, and Jay Hubbell's assessments
have sought out every purchasable voter.
All that activity, desperation, and greed
for Office could do by appeal, organ "a
tiOn and money, has been done i'll vain.
The people meant to condemn the cor
ruptiOns and hypocrisy of Republican
ism, and ithey have done it well. But
we were not idle. We arraigned the
Republican leaders for their misdOings
and the masses listened. We invoked
honest Republicans to rebuke their un-
worthy rulers by defeat, and they fol-
lowed our advice. The campaign was
made throughout the State with active
energy on both sides, and we have won
after full trial, and not by default. We
may, therefore, my fellow Democrats,
well congratulate ourselves on our sig
nal success. And now, gentlemen, we
must neither underValue nor OverValue
our victory. 1t is due in part to the
truth and popularity of our principles,
but still more to the mal-administratiO
of the party in power in State and Ma
tiOn. When we look to Washington we
find the greatest misuse of the power of
and the grOssest cOTruptiOn5in office, and
this has been going on for so long that
resistance by all constitutional methods
has become an imperative duty. The
most OnerOus taxes ever levied now fat
ten individual mOnOpOlies, and the most
eXtraVagant expenditures ever made
now foster party interests and deplete
an OverflOwing treasury. Money is col
lected and expended beyond the needs
of the Government, and devoted not to
the public good, but to the advancement
of private interests. But even more de-
mOralizing than this is that systematic
official corruption in procuring and hold
ing power, which, if continued, must
sap the very foundation of political lib
eTty. When offices are being constantly
increased and their salaries raised till
the country sWaTms with one hundred
thousand Office-hOlders; when all these
and every other Government employe
are taxed on their salaries to corrupt
suffrage at the polls; when all official
patronage is used to set up delegates at
primaries in the interest of the Admin
istratiOn, and even credentials forged
by boon companion of the President
to manipulate the organization of a
Convention and nominate for Governor
Cabinet officer; when the President
has, Is,.