The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-27
in the national anthems of free govern

Iua1 uOSG cnerlSQeu ana eHectlYe OF all
weapons in the hands of free men, the
ballot. speak to men "whO know their
rights, and, knowing, dare maintain
them; who never bent their necks to
the yoke, who never had in their noses
the ring of political boss; to men who
accord to all equal rights and privi-
leges with themselves, but cOncede to
10 one any right, privilege or immuni-
ty which they do not enjoy.
The Democratic party has ever been
the party of the Constitution, its funda-
mental principle being that all power
primarily belongs to the people, and
that Constitutions are made for the
purpose of defining and restricting the
powers delegated to the people, and that
they should be strictly construed.
Influenced by Democratic motives and
guided by Democratic principles, in the
hands of the Democratic party, the Gov
ernment of this country during the
first sixty years of the present century,
was such as to lead to unbrOken and
continuous prosperity. Capital was
protected, labor was amply rewarded,
the rights of American citizens were re-
spected both at home and abroad, our
commodities were carried in our own
ships to foreign markets, our commerce
was prosperous, labor strikes were un-
known, constitutional rights were
everywhere respected, the people were
happy and cOntented. Now mark the
contrast in the history of to-day! Slim
ulated and fOstered by Republican leg
islatiOn, mOnOpOlies have grown into
gigantic proportions, labor has been Op-
pressed and labOrers have become rest
less and dissatisfied, our commodities
are Transported to foreign markets in
ships OF other nations, labor is taxed to
feed mOnOpOlies.
The labOrer has been told by Republi
can leaders that tariff laws and high
protection were necessary in order to
prevent him from being brought in
competition with the cheap labor of
Europe, and, deceived by these preten-
ses, has been induced to vote for the
perpetuatiOn of Republican rule; but,
whenever he has attempted to obtain
even a small proportion of the profits
derived through the instrumentality of
tariff laws, he has found himself super
seded by the importation of these same
cheap labOrers of Europe, and the still
cheaper MOngOlian Asiatics, who enter
our port free of customs dues.
Our commerce has been seriously in
terfered with, and the business of the
country disastrOusly affected by the re-
fusal of the officers of our principal
trunk lines of railroads, who themselves
receive enormous salaries, the Presi-
dent at least as high as $4,000 per an
mum, to pay to the freight handlers
whose labOTs are OnerOus, and whose
time of employment is uncertain and
dependent upon the quantity of freight
to be handled, the sum of twenty cents
per hour of actual service. Should those
freight handlers be constantly employed
and work ten hours per day, their COM
pensatiOn would be but two dollars per
day, or six hundred dollars per year,
about one hundTedth part of that received
by the men who refuse to accede to their
modest and reasonable demand Repub-
lican policy seems to be to reduce the
labOreT to the last necessity, so that, on
election day, the cries OF his hungry and
ragged wife and children may induce
him to sell his vote for a small consider
alton, and by forced contributions from
appOintive officers with small salaries,
and voluntary contributions from mo-
nOpOliSts, who are anxious for a con-
tinuance of Republican rule, to raise
the means by which they can, upon the
approach of an election, send their paw
cars under the direction of a Cameron,
or Dorsey, or some equally immacu-
late Republican leader, to scatter broad
cast through doubtful States the money
with which to buy votes and corrupt
voters. This the Republican boss calls
shrewd party management, and he face
tiOusly denOminates these cOrrupting
funds, this blood money, grease with
which to lubricate the wheels of the Re-
publican machine.
Can such practices prevail and free
government be peTpetuated? Can liberty
Withstand such assaults? Has God, the
author of freedom, of purity, of political
virtue, forgotten to be just? The an
swer comes in the exhibition of Dorsey,
the Secretary of their National Commit
tee, the feted, banqueted champion of
the Republican victory of $780, being
indicted by a Grand Jury in Court of
Justice for fraud against the Govern
ment; in the revolt in Pennsylvania
against the continued domination of
Cameron, in the murder of the President
by the hands of an assassin who had
been a Republican teacher, and who
gave as reason for his dastardly act,
that che was a Stalwart, Arthur was
President, and the Republican party
saved;" in the elevation to the Presf-
Dental chair of man of whose admin
istraliOn of the Custom House at New
York, Senator Sherman, when Secretary
of the Treasury, said "that gross abuses
had continued and increased during Mr..
Arthur's administration, that persons
were paid who rendered little or no SER
vice; that Office expenses were increased
and revenue diminished; that bribes
were received by subOrdinates; that
there was want of cooperation with
efforts to correct these abuses" and the
divine who wrote the life
of Senator Sherman says, in speaking of
the removal of Arthur as Collector of
Customs, that the Hayes Administra-
ton, Gin assailing that fostering sore,
required more moral courage, and of a
higher order, than it did to put down the
rebellion"
To what a sad condition art thou
brought, my countrymen, by the rule of
the Republican party! Thy head a
fostering sOreP' "The whole head sick
and the whole heart faint"
To the administration of the Federal
by the Republican party at
the present time no honest, patriotic
points with pride"
Coming nearer home and contemplate
ing Republican rule in our State, the
prospect is no more pleasing. As citi-
zen of this State, proud of its position,
its resources and its people, | cannot, 1
will not expose it's shame by speaking
of the acts of the Legislature of last
winter.
Would that they might be buried as
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