The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-12
The fraud of that member whit

20 East Tuscarawas
Folger. The fraud of that member who
misrepresented Oneida, to help Cornell, |
and, while honest men anathematize the |
former, common justice demands that |
they apathematize the latter. While |
Righteousness is crucihed in the center, !
1 show you that on the right and the left |
are the two thieves; the forged telegram |
on the one side and the Oneida fraud |
the worst of the two thieves-on the |
other. While the Cornell men hold up
their hands in holy grief at the forged |
telegram sent to the State Committee, |
they cover up with their skirts the Onei- |
da abominatlon; but they cannot hide 1t.
l drag 1t out and lift 1t up, so that all
the land may see to what in5utferable
degradation modern politics have come.
But there are illustrations more than
l can mention. After the large expendi-
ture in putting up new Raymond
street jail in this city, we still have one
of the meanest prisons in ChristendOm.
Money, money. Who has got the money
The Brooklyn bridge, which was to have
cost between $6,000,O00 and 100000, is
to cost SIS, 100000 or $20O00,000. Money,
money. Who's got the money! 1t
seems to me that 1t Is time to call a
halt of the political misdoing in this
country.
1t is tome an encouraging sign that
the two political parties seem split be-
yOnd reconstruction. That the Republi-
can party has a very serious split no one
will deny. For the present the split in
the Democratic party seems healed, but
ii you have any idea that because Tam
many is silent Tammany is dead you
make grievous miscalculatiOn. Walt
till they come to distribution OF offices.
think 1884 will begin new order of
things. l wish that new party could
be organized. l would have the first
principle the recognition of the Eternal
God in the affairs of men and govern
mente. The trouble Is, we have no God
recognized in American politics. We
have devil, yea, whole cOh0rt Of evil
spirits-the devil Of wastefulness, the
devil of falsehOod, the devil of injustice
but no God. Plenty of gin, plenty of
old rye, plenty of schnapps, plenty of
fraud, plenty of Legislative outrage and
Congressional swindle, but no God.
never want to see any union between
Church and State in this country, but
do want party which will openly and
without any disguise or can't recognize
the God in whose name Columbus took
possession of this country, and in whose
name Washington achieved our inde
pendence, and in whose name our inSti-
buttons have advanced, the God Of the
three last wheat crops, the God of these
genial skies and the industrious rivers,
the God who has given mereiful protec-
tiOn to our armies in 1915 and 1912 and
1865, the God Of our peaceful and beloved
homes. Blessed be His name forever.
You say 1t wOnld not be fair to have
such platform of Divine recognition.
because there are some people who do
not believe in God. Well, so there are
some people who do not believe In chast-
ity, do not believe in marriage, do not
believe in rights of property, do not be-
lieve in any style Of Government; people
who would rob and steal and murder
Do you refrain from making laws against
crime, because there are tcriminals9
Then why should you deny us plat
form of Divine recognition because there
are many that do not believe in God?
All good men believe in God. Your
political platforms begin whereas this,
whereas that, made out of the old hash
of political hacks. There will be unpre-
cedented and immediate victory coming
to that party who have the courage and
the worshipfulness to say in their plat
form, "Whereas this country has been
so blessed of God as has no other nation,
blessed in harvests, blessed in protection
from foreign enemies, blessed in civil
iZatiOn, we here and now recognize His
goodness, and ask His continued mercy,
and in His name we set up our BAN
ners." This preamble, followed by
common sense and righteous series of
resolutions as to what you propose to do
for the moral, and agricultural, and
commercial, and mechanical, and litter
ary, andlmining Industries, would sweep
every city, every county, every township
of the United States with an oYermaster-
ing triumph. % ~
The other plank of the platform needs
to be economy. 1t costs too much to run
this Government. Away with foreign
diplomatic machinery, by which costly
establishments are kept up in foreign
lands to settle questions International
What is the use of these men abroad on
large salaries when by submarine cable
our Government may any morning con-
verse with all the nations of the earth?
1t once was necessary to have these
Ministers PlenipOtentiary when 1t took
six weeks for letter to go to Europe
and six weeks for an answer to come
back, but not now. There Is also some
thing wrong when 1t takes 100000 to
hang one Presidential assassin. Many
look upon the United States Government
as made to steal from. The sh0Veltng
out of the nations treasures, without
discrimination and without right, Is
enough to sicken every philanthrOpist.
Let man rise with talent and charact-
er enough to lead In a great movement
in which the moral and the economic
ideas shall dominate all others, and the
Gehenna of modern politics will be
fumigated and plowed, under. We look
for such party and the coming Of such
a man. There must be'eithof reform on
destruction. A flight of Taxrots showed
Columbus the direction OF the land, We,
will come to new and reg6nefate
America by aight of prayers. --IR-onF
homes; In eur Churches, and cur xeom-.