The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-10
LABOR AND LIBERTY.
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lectOrs of ports and the executive and
judicial officers of organized Territorial
governments.
Let the head of each bureau appoint
his own clerks and be responsible for
their conduct where the salary does not
amouL to more than $1,000 per annum.
and ali officers whose salaries amount te
more than $1,000 shall be appointed by
the Joint vote of both Houses of Congress.
1t Is just in this way that George Will
liam Curtis and all other employees are
hired and paid.
Wherever go hear deep. toned com
plants that 50,0O0,00o of people who
have no voice in the government are
taxed to support il, and have To fight TO
defend 1t, and are yet ruled by an oil
garchy Of 100000 office holders, who are
placed over them by the President, no
gives out these offices In exchange for
party fealty and 10 perpetuate his party
powers. In this matter the labOring
men are becoming Of one mind and of
one purpose, and declare that they will
support no party who are unwilling to
allow shem to participate in the election
of the same classes OF officers in the fed
eral government that they elect in the
state governments. The same reason
that was urged for their participation
or even better, for their participation
in the election of officers in the federal
government, and for the highest of all
reasons, that when the general govern
ment engages in war, that the 1abOring
men do the fighting, and their families
are the direct sufferers from the wars
which are carried on by the general gov
ernment.
The labOring and producing people
m Nuifh . hot d - -
experiment, but has already been tried
and proved by the States. especially by
the western States, whose industrial
prosperity and happiness challenges
comparison with that of any govern
ments which have existed in the history
of the human race.
When the question of capacity. .fOrlself-
government is raised the labOTing peo
pie will answer promptly that there ia
not mile square in the United States
which has not churches and school
houses, pOstOtfices, telegraphs and every
means of Information as far as the set
Elements extend. Every house has a
newspaper and many houses have three
or four. The lahOring people are organ
lied into societies to discuss their rights
and demand them. 1t is safe to say that
the average farm labOrer of the country
Is as we'll Informed upon the subject OF
his rights, and the character of public
men, as the average merchant or manu-
| facturer OF the city. On the day of the
killing of the Russian Gar the people
of every remote region of America knew
the fact and discussed the cause long be-
fore the event was generally known
| throughout Russia. These labOring and
producing classes ask why they should
be loaded down with school taxes, and
yet be denied the privilege of freemen-
the right to choose their own immediate
officers, who should be responsible to
them alone.
This is a question which affects the
vital interests of the people, and appeals
to the self-respect of fifty millions of
fTeemen who are disfranchised by gov
ernment, to support which they are
heavily taxed, and to maintain which
they poured out their blood like falling
rain. The labOring people will make
the issue. Already Nebraska has incOr.
pOrated in her constitution a provision
for leaving the question of selecting
United States Senators to the people.
The late Democratic Convention of Mich
igan took ground in favor of electinR
pOstmasters. This whole question ia
freely discussed among the people, and
will enter into the canvass 1884. 1t is a
question well worthy of consideration
by the Democratic party-whether they
can afford to separate themselves from
the labOring masses, who are seeking
simple justice at the hands of the gov
ernment, of which they are the source
Of power. Can the Democratic party
afford to sit down over a barren victory
and not engage in destroying the cor
rupt patronage which has made the fed
eral government fostering sore which
threatens to eat out our liberty as a de-
VOuring cancer. The Western people
are looking to your Governor Patteson
and brilliant Lieutenant Governor Black,
with the Independents to lead of, in Sc
curing to the people the right of self
government. IL Pennsylvania has not
felt the curse Of executive patronage,
then all your complaints against the
Cameron ring must go for naught. 1t is
men like Hons. 8. Cox, of New York, the
Virginians and Gov. B. =. Butler that we
are relying on to move at once iu this
great reform.
1t must mott be forgotten that thous.
ands Of Western Republicans are eager
to get rid of the curse of cOrTuptinR pat
rOnage, and will only be too ready to
avail themselves of the aid of the work
ingmen to free the country.
This IS no commune or social move
mbnt, Neither socialism nor commun.
ism can find a standing place where the
people are allowed to govern themselves.
The free and generous governments Of
the States demonstrate this. IL the vic
tories Of 1882 are to be fruitful and con-
tinue, it can only come from the Demo-
cratic party taking up its line of march
in the defense Of labor and liberty, In
working for the decentralization of the
power of the government and the des-
tructiOn of corrupting patronage by
placing the power Of the government In
the hands of the people who have a right
to fashion their own sovereign and do
mestic policy and govern themselves.
/ lam, most respectfully, your Obedient
servant, HENRY CLAY DEAN.
Ed. DEMoCRAT:-The time for holding
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