The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-07-28

fit of the tax payers of the United States.
they propose to take the money which
the consumer, the poor man, has paid
In The Increase of the price of his sugar
and turn that over to Tighten the burden
| of tax payers. RecOllect, the govern
ment of the United States collects $47,-
100000 on sugar alone; recOllect that
| every cup of tea you drink is sweetened
with sugar on which you have paid duty
-tnht The poor man consumes as much
sugar as the rich and that this $47, ,OOO.-
| 600 OF sugar which has gone into the
tea, coffee and puddings and pies which
the people of the United States consume.
hey propose to return to the people of
the states iii order that il may be distri-
buted. In what proportion? who will
| get the biggest piie2 Why, the richest
man, the heaviest tax payer.
That proposition is Republicanism
carried out to its logical extreme; it
comes from the Keystone State of Penn
sylvania; 1t comes from the keystone of
the Republican arch. mention it now,
because the illustration fits sOWell what
your chairman said of the whole tendency
OF Republican legislation in the State
ana III the nation. The tendency
/ Is to load down burdens on the
| labor OF the country for the pur-
pose OF eXempting the wealth of the
country. Now it won't do to say to me
That Pennsylvania Republicans are
not Republicans l wish they were not;
would be glad to hear they had quit;
GhaG they had marched out into camD
for themselves. 1t would be good for
both parties. But my friends, it is the
boast of the Republican party that its
principles are one and the same thing
everywhere; and, my friends, the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette cannot say
PennsylVania Republicanlsm is not the
simon pure article. 1t was in the CITY
OF Independence, 1t was in the state of
pennsylvania, the first national cOnVen-
tlOn ever met in the United States sat.
animated by religious ferVOr against
the extension of slavery. | was a meni-
0er OF that convention, because | was a
Democrat, and as Democrat believed
every man on Gods fOOtstOOl was tntit-
led to his freedom. [Slight applause.
But my friends, | have no excuse, no ap-
0lOgleS to offer for my action with the
republican party. My hatred of slavery
was large part, am sorry to say, of
my religion. But when slavery died,
and the financial heresies of PennsylVa-
MA asserted themselves, and the ReDub-
llcan party became a ship without a
chart or anchor, sailing here and there,
led away by alteration of every kind of
the wind which cOmeth whence it list
eth, the time had come for every man
of DemOcracy-that that country was
best governed which was least govern
ed, and that every man was entitled to
the largest amount of liberty which
could be conferred on him without sac
rlhclng the liberty of some other person
to get out of that party and come back
into the old home. [Applause.]
L wish, fellow citizens, had the time
and power to expand upon the misdeeds
of the Republican party, [cries of "gO
gO"l. L shall for moment or two. The
times demand a change. The people de-
mand a change. The Republican party
themselves demand change. Now,
amt right? Who wants Arthur to con
tlnueP Not Blaine; nor COnkling; nor
the Ohio Republicans, very much. Who
are exposing each other all over the
land? Who are washing their dirty
linen in publicp Who is the Secretary
of the late Republican National Execu-
tive COmmittee2 Who went into Indi-
ana with 100000 in twO-dOllar bills,
according to his own confession, and
bought the statep Stephen w. Dorsey.
He, as our friend Mr.. Hill said last night
Is the only Republican in the United
States found mot guilty" All l have
TO say, Fellow citizens, is, if you don't
believe the times demand change, the
people demand change, don't read the
Republican newspapers. You cannot get
away from the evidence of anxiety Of a
change. Does anybody want another
Legislature such as we had last winter
have not heard of an uprising of the
people for that Legislature; any great
enthusiasm, any large crowds demand
ing its return. 1t is true, my brother
Godfrey, you were nominated by accla-
nation, and so was Mr.. White; but you
were in the wOeful minority in that
Legislature. Its sins don't attach to
your skirts. What has become of DR..
ScOttp DOwnl down. DOWN. the Doctor
has gone; and he can carry en- his Joint
venture of doctor and lawyer no longer
as the representative of the Republican
party in the Legislature. You can hard
ly take up newspaper without reading
an expose of some Republican rascality.
We fOndly imagined these wTOng-dOings
had ceased in the White House with q
reign of morality and goodness, sweet,
gushing goodness, which dawned upon
the country, that was going to capture
us, and carry away the whole Republic
In sort of an ApOllOnaris rush of true
piety lgreat laughterl. But Brady was
not within the reach of this ApOllOnaris
water; nor was Dorsey. And so, right
under the blind eyes of Mr.. Hayes went
on the biggest fraud ever practiced in
the United States. They took postal
routes from the government at auction
Tor less than IT cost to run them, in or
der that the difference between the lit
tie price at which they were taken and
the expedition, the number of men and
animals necessary to do the expediting,
might measure fraud on the treasury.
lJudge HOadly then explained the
method by which the Star route
thieves practiced their fraud on
the government.l All this was done by
high officer of the government. That
it was done there is no doubt. Whether
he was technically guilty of conspiracy
or not is another question. But that il
was done is an admitted fact of the rec
ords of the POstOflice Department. That
1t was done by a high Republican Off
cial Is an admitted fact. That the mon
ey the Star route contractors made by
these frauds went to swell the Republi-
can treasury and to defeat Gen. Han
cock to the extent of 100000 there is
no manner of doubt whatever. That is
the last item which has come before my
attention, of the innumerable series of
frauds which began years and years ago,
the Belmont pOst-trader frauds, and the
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