The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-10-06
SUNSET COX'S SPEECH.
The Democratic Successes and
the Prospects.
The Dangers of the Money and Corpora
tion Power In Elections and
Legislation.
tFrom Hon. S. s. CO1's speech at Newark, o.

President said | could tell you some
thing about it. saw there 10000 Dem
OcTats of the Empire state in council.
There was no lack of harmony. If there
was any discOTd, it was simply that lit
tie discOrd which musicians will tell
you always gives hOmely concordance.
We had perfect unity. We will this year
renew the victOty of last. You know
during the last year we captured Colo
RADIO; we even captured Massachusetts
and old Ben. Butler. Laughter. We
elected an Ohio man as Governor of
Kansas. Why, we elected six members
of Congress and the state ticket In Mich
igan. We carried six members of Con-
gTesS in Wisconsin, three in Iowa, and
we carried California. What didn't we
carry? L can't name anything unless
it is Minnesota. We carried New York
State by 100000 strong, Father Abrahaml
Uaughter) l remember to have read
the other day of cyclone out west, that
swept over some portion of our great
country. 1t was said it carried off one
mans cabin, his barn, his horse, his
cattle, his ducks, his gOslings; that it
even went so far as to carry off every
thing on his cooking stove except one
skillet; and the man who wrote the ac-
count said it was going back this year
after the skillet. (Laughter.) That is the
hluu VI u CHClOub We udu III NC"
last year, and if there is anything left,
if there is a skillet lying around loose in
that state,it will have to go too. Uaugh-
ter and applause.) But after such big
victory as we had in that state and in the
country, one might think we should have
a little rest for time. You know that
Jonah, L think it was Jonah, remarked
to the whale after such big fish break
fast, he didn't want any more fish after
ward. 1t seems he wanted rest. (Laugh-
ter.) But our political opponents seem
to have some cohesion, though l think
only the cohesion of public plunder.
Their party is not based on a thought of
our future in this country.
THE UNITY OF THE COUNTRY AND THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
love to think of my country in its
unity, and the Democratic party as Its
salvation (applause), and especially in
Ohio. Since [ was last with you, in 1880,
as | said to some of my old friends today
up in this country, L have Travelled in a
good many lands; went beyond the Arc
tic circle, far up to that land where the
sun never sets. Uaughter0 | could not
find "sunset" above the Arctic circle.
(Laughter) There was perpetual day,
The old luminaFy, from which 1 have
my faYOrite name, would slide down at
midnight Just to the edge of the crimson
horizon, and after some little gorgeous
illumination, turn its course back and
move to the meridian. And l felt lit
tie sad to think that "sunset" was no
more. Oaughter.) But surveyed these
frozen regions and moved on to Sweden,
and until 1 came to the land of Finland
in Russia and part of Russia, and the
only part of Russia today that is pros
porous and happy. And whyP Finland
has Senate, has coinage, has home
rule. The Gar even gives to Finland
what England denies to Ireland Zap
plause), and the worst governed empire
in the world almost, Russia, defers by
necessity to the idea of desperation and
local sovereignty. But l can't say so
much as to Russia otherwise, for L found
in travelling through the 1,500 miles of
that territory, there was unrest, that
there has been discomfort by reason of
the autOcratic power. | moved down
toward Turkey, and taking up the BIZ
BILE, or rather the New Testament, fol-
lowed st. Paul in his migratiOns through
the land of Syria and Asia Minor and the
old churches. | went to Ephesus, up to
Damascus, saw all those places and the
more | thought and the more L saw of
the dust of dead empires, the more L low
ed our American confederation and the
pal bllhb 10 lbs Ahp-
plause,) Aye, even as l moved up from
JOppa to Jerusalem, standing on the
hills even over the Temple of Solomon,
of Mount Sinai, en- Mount MOriah, walk
ing down over the Valley of JehOsaphat,
up to Mount 0livet, looking off toward
the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and the
nebulOus mountains and Mount MOad-
off to the far off East 1 could recall to
my memOryJhe teachings of him who
spake as never man upon this earth
spake, who taught peace on earth and
good will to man; who laid the fOunda-
tiOns of true Democratic economy, by
which all Just men have the right to be
saved if they care for conscious duty on
earth. 1 came back 10 my duty in Amer
lea, think, il not a better man, bet
ter Democrat. (Applause)
THE DANGERS OF THE MONEY POWER.
And one thing above all others struck
me as our great point of danger in this
country, and come to that first because
would like my old friends to ponder it.
The danger in this country is not from
autOcratic or kingly power. No CZar,
no Kaiser, no King, nor Queen shall
ever rule America. The power that
comes to endanger our peace and pros
perity, the danger that appears, is the
power of money. 1t Is the miserable, low
mean, contemplate, mercenary ele-
ment that enters into our politics and
degrades it. 1t is not alone the 100000
which Stephen W. Dorsey has raised
among these magnates Of the east as a
consideration for an office; 1t is not alone
your star route speculatOrs who failed to
be pentitentiarized by your Republican
Government; it is not alone your land
stealers in the west, your mOnOp0lists
of the east: not alone the men in the
army, for that too has become tainted
not alone the rascals In the Government
who have spent hundreds of millions OF
dollars with nothing to show for it; not
alone all this evidence of Republican
rascality, which Is stencil in the nos.
trils of the people, but there Is power
even greater and worse than this. 1t is
said that it takes 400 pounds of lead tC
kill one man I'm war-that it costs that
much for every man killed. But what II
costs most is that 1t kills the soul and
purity of the people. And when you find
and examine the record of the last
twenty-five years Of Republican rule
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