The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-07-28
HOADLY AGAIN HEARD.
A Powerful Arraignment of the
Republican Party.
Weakness Of the Republican POsitlOn-An
Analysis of the Scott Law-What
the Democrats Will Do.

addressed a very large and enthusiastic
meeting here Saturday night. The Judge
spoke over two hours and his speech was
a most brilliant one, full of strong
points against the Republican party
witty, logical and eloquent. He spoke
at length on the Scott law, exposing
the Injustice a0d the weakness Of that
measure as we'll as the hypocrisy ana
double dealing of the men who framed
u. Speaking Of the liquor traffic, Judge
HOadly said:
The abuses of the traffic, not its law
full uses, the wrong which is done by
selling to drunken men. or by selling to
minors, we propose, through the agency
OF a license system, to prevent. But the
right, the liberty which a sober man or
sober woman has to take a glass of
beer, or glass of whisky if you please,
the Democratic party does not propose
to interfere with except by moral sua-
sion. The Democratic party is not a free
whisky party. The Democratic party is
composed of men as temperate in their
plVate character and of as elevated
hopes and ideals with regard to the duty
or self-cOntrOl in the matter of drinking
as the Republican party. Every bit of
~ But the Democratic party believe
IN governing, not by force, but by per-
suasiOn; except so far as force is neces-
sary to protect each man in his fullest
measure of liberty [applausel. That is
the Democratic principle. Now il is
easy enough to see where a Democrat is
going 10 be on such question as this.
He is for license law. He believes that
drinking in itself is neither right nor
wrong. IL Is neutral act, dependent
altogether upon the condition of the
man when he drinks; but that it is
wrong to sell to drunken man OF to a
minor. Therefore, the Democratic party
Is In favor of system which will per-
init 1t to control the traffic. Further
than that the Democratic party do not
believe in arbitrary exactiOn of any
Kind. square, horizontal tax of 5000
on every man who has a bald head, or
red head, or is lawyer or farmer, or
doctor, or who sells whisky is in the
judgment of the Democratic party. a
wrong exactiOn. The Democratic party
measures exactiOn by protection meas
ure5 burdens by benefits or by the in
jury which is prevented by burdens, but
to tax the crippled soldier or the widow
OF saloon keeper who has her little
family to rear--OT, if you please. a
stronger case, to tax a grown man who
might get a living otherwise, 5000,
when he sells in the course of the wear
but $4,000 worth, and to tax the whole
sale merchant but 5000 when he sells
his million dollars worth of goods, seems
to the Democratic party unjust or not
right lapplausel. Therefore we propose
graduated license tax, not an arbi-
trary exactiOn, the same to the poor man
and the widow as to the rich man-alI
alike, as If each operated the same,
whether the amount sold be 100000 a
year or only $4,000.
The Judge attacked the Republican
party on the convict labor question and
showed that the Democratic pTaty Is the
friend of the wOrkingmen. Concluding
he said:
My friends, the hour is so late, the
time have occupied in discussing our
State platforms has been so great, much
beyond my expectation, that l will de-
tain you but a. little while in consider
ing one single further topic.
said TO you at the beginning that the
Republican party in Pennsylvania had
taken new holt" they have dropped
the old holt" spit on their hands and
taken holt" in new place. [Judge
Hoadly here read the plank Of the Penn
Sylvania Republicans favOring a distri-
~ button of the surplus in the United States
Treasury to the various States on the
basis of population, to relieve them
from the burden of local taxation, and
to provide means for the education of
their people.
On Saturday last this newspaper, the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, which
for reasons have given l read with deep
interest every morning, get it early for
that purpose, contained the two follow
ing articles:
"The propositions Oe MIR. Wharton
Barker to distribute any surplus in the
Public Treasury, after providing for the
national debt, among the several States,
upon the basis of their population, is not
likely to be widely indOrsed, though it
has received the approval of the Penn
sylvania Republicans"
The Republicans of Pennsylvania.
having rid themselves of the last Vestige
of BOssism, met in State Convention at
Harrisburgh on the 18th, and nOmi-
mated State ticket and adopted
platform to which every Republican in
the old Keystone will heartily sub
scribe"
That kind of puzzled me. The great
twin brothers had kind of locked arms
with each other; instead of riding on
two shining white horses, they had got
on one; but ones head was to the head,
and the others head was to the tail
LGreat laughterl and Just put the two
articles together and read them this
way: ut is not likely to be widely in
dOrsed; the platform to which every Re-
publican in the Keystone will heartily
subscribe to-" If it is not likely to be
heartily indOrsed, how can every Re-
publican in the Keystone heartily sub.
scribe TO IT unless there are very few Re-
- VIC OAh hUyblOu6E Illus L
took heart and courage [laughter1 There
amt a man in this assembly that don't
know that the State of Pennsylvania
gives law to the Republican party on
Tie tariff question. Our friend, the
P0lIux of the Republican party, Mr.
Halstead, who 10 as good free trader in
sentiment as there is in Ohio, will never
theless train to the sound of the Penn
sylvania drum.
What is the schemep 1t is Republi-
canism run mad for the purpose of keep
ing tariff taxation high; it is thought to
be necessary to raise more money than
the country needs; that money cannot
be applied immediately to the payment
OF the public debt, except by buying up
the debt, as it is not due and 80 the sur
plus must be distributed to the States
according to the population for the pur-
4 pose of reducing local taxation [Judge
H0adly here entered into an elaborate
illustration of the effect of this arrange
pent, his point being that the wealthy