The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-08

The query has been: Will Mr.. Foraker
vote for the Second Amendment Well,
in his speech last week at Ludlow Falls,
Fosters man held forth, saying he
should not vote for the AMENDMENTS.
But here is the extract:
1T is not right that L should seek to
drag these nOn-pOlltical questions that
don't belong to politics into political
discussions. And, therefore, with re-
spect to those amendments, both of
them, as a candidate of the Republican
party, standing on its platform, 1t is my
duty, as well as my pleasure, to leave
them alone, both i'll the campaign and
in the election. For that reason L shall
neither discuss them nor vote for them.
And that is the answer | gave to my
friend, Judge HOddly, when he asked
the question, as he did the other day,
whether or not l intended to vote for
this Second Amendment? We leave that
Second Amendment for the people to de-
termine as they see it, just as we have
the First Amendment. 1t is not for me
to champion the one and oppose the
other, OF to champion the other and Op-
pose the one"
Fosters Foraker gives no reason for
the faith that has been developed in
him; but merely says he will not vote
for either amendment.
John Sherman declares he will vote
for the first but not for the second. In
his speech August 3Ist to the Lincoln
Club at Cincinnati, Senator Sherman
said:
The first amendment gives the Gen
eral Assembly plenaTy power TO pass
laws relative to the traffic in intOXicat-
ing drinks, and it Tepeals the old prOvi-
sion of the constitution whic h prevent
ed the granting of license. The second
amendment submits to the people the
proposition to prohibit the traffic a6sO-
lutely, and these two amendments are
submitted to the people. The Republl-
can party neither say whether they VIII
adopt one or the other, but submit them
to the people, as the foundation of pow
er. Let the people of Ohio adopt any
constitution they choose, and there IS
no limit TO their power. We sometimes
have questions of constitutional power
in Congress. but there is a question of
the power of the people, and they have
the right to say what shall be the su-
pTeme law of this land. When they de-
eide, the Legislators obey them. Well,
now. these two amendments are submit
taking no part whatever in 1t except 10
count the vote, aud obey the Will of the
people. Now, | have said for myself,
and now repeat il, that propose TO vote
for one of the amendments, not the sec
Ond, but for the first The true way is
to leave this question to the people as
represented from year to year by the
election to the General Assembly. In
other words, propose to leave this traf-
fic in Intoxicating liquors, as we leave
any other question of commerce. why
should you make a distinction between
the liquor traffic and any other tratiicr
Let the General Assembly from time to
time pass wise temperance laws, and
there is no danger of oppression of any
interest. 1 think 1t iS the best solution
of it. But whether they agree with me
or not, they can vote for or against 1t,
as they like. So with the Olher amend
ment. Let them vote against that.
Here, then, at last. Foraker and Sher-
man are out against prohibition. We
have already published articles in the
DEMOCRAT, from the Cincinnati Com
mercial-Gazette, strong and able,
against the Second Amendment. The
c. G. is the leading Republican journal
in the state; and no doubt has been in
strumental in smoking out Foraker and
Sherman.
The game seems to be, on the part of
leading Prohibition Republicans, to
serve the mOlOch of the Republican par
ty. Hence was it that Foster, Foraker,
Sherman So Co., are so reticent. At last,
though, they have been smoked out.
HOadIv da6nad his nOaitiOn at oncp
and has been persistently calling upon
Foraker to say where he stood on the
amendments
The Commercials Gazette found some
time ago, that if the Republican party
was to stand show at all in Cincin-
natl, they must oppose and de-
nounee prohibition. OF course the C.
G. is pronounced for the Scott law kna-
very. 1t sticks to that.