The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-09-17

was welcomed 10 fight the rebellion,
hon0red, promoted, made Brlgadler
General, He was Invited 10 shed his
Democratic blood for his twice imperilled
country. Against foreign ioe9 and DO
nestle traitors he freely exposed his
life, but under Republican President
no has not been good enough 10 be even
a whisky ganger, Thank God dr0yer
Cleveland has destroyed all this. Demo-
Gratis, who for twenty years, have only
been considered III TO be enlisted as pri.
yate soldiers at el3 month, are now, nj
least. occasionally promoted from hard
tack and sowbelly 10 tho oysters and
champagne OF official position.
THE oFFIcKs.
At last II has become possible for the
majority OF the American people, the
majority not In numbers merely, but In
all thai makes a nation great, In intel
ligence, virtue, e0briety, right thinking
aud right living, 10 SEQ an office holder
occasionally ut least selected from their
midst, Doubtless Mr.. Cleveland seems
to some 10 move too slowly, but remem
Der, no Ia the head Of government, not
OF machine for the distribution OF
epOis. or one thing am sure, and that
IL that while maintaining and execnt'
ing in all their force, as Ia bia duty,
every law sne sands upon the BtAt-
ute book, including the law I the re-
form Vt the civil service, he will In time
fill every cillce Involving political nc
tlOn by mea relieving In tho Democratic
Chicago platform OF 1884, aud In syn
pathy with Democratic progress. For
twenty years the Republican party OF
Ohio and the nation has proved by lts
action that its single idea OF the
public service has been that no Dem
Ocrat should hold any civil Office what.
ever, business or political, and that
every public place, great and small,
should be filled by a partisan Republi
can, put there because, and only
because he was a partisan Re,
publican. All this Ia now reversed, and
"the mourners 40 about the streets" II
IL sweet. II Ia delicious, brethren, 10
hear the Republican lamentatlon, as OK,
pressed by John Sherman, who worked
the treasury department for all II was
worth In 1880 TO nominate himself for
President, and who never recommended
q Democrat for civil office In hie life,
that the Impartial. non-partisan civil
service OF our country ie In danger
Why, John, brother John, there Ia beam
In thine own eye. Do | nay beam2 Go
thou and pluck ~ out and then come,
and after we have done our share OF OIL
clal duty we will rub out our little NOTES
and listen 10 your complaints.
lAE COUNTRY Is STILL sABE.
And while these reforms have been in
progress the country has not gone to the
"demnitl0n bOw-w0ws." hs every Re-
publican orator has prophoeied for
dOz years past. II that great and Wise
leader of.the Democratic party, Samuel
]. Tilden, that clear'sigl tel reformer,
before the electric light OF whose pene
trating vision fraud and waste shrunk
and skunk into hiding places and exiled
or was driven TO prison, were inangnr
ated the country would be ruined, 30
prOphesied our Republican Cassandras;
therefore Florida and Louisiana, the
latter with Mr.. Sherman's own personal
cOnnlvance, were robbed OF their elec
toral votes, and the government for four |
years handed over TO q uanrpeT. II |
Hancock, the superb leader OF the loyal |
legions In battle, were elected, dire ca.
lamlty, the carnival OF treason, would |
ensue, they said. But l0l the hour has
come and the man. Democracy has Of
fectnally prevailed nj last, and where In
the calamitYp What has become Of the
dlsasterp Business reyiying, stocks ad.
yancing, are these the tokens OF dist essY
True, times are stiu hard, made no by
Republican misgoyernment. Rome was
not built In day or a year. IL Ia only /
elk months since the Republicans lost
power. II may be that the .reyiyals OF
Industry we read OF are not the results
OF Democratic success. They are NJ any
rate coincdent. Republican prophesy IL
falsined, and Republican prophets 81
lenced Let ua take heart aud with re-
newed faith In Democratic principles,
and doubled courage, with generous
confidence, continue our support OF
President Cleveland, sure and secure
that his iDflexibls integrity, his invincl.
Bile courage, his persistent labor, sup
ported by the counsels and wise leglsla.
tion Of Democratic House OF Repre-.
sentatiyes this year, and a Democratic
Senate and House In 1877 will richly
reward his, their aud our endeavors.
The country will thus enter upon q ca
reer Of prosperity such az has attended
other Democratic triumphs, such as
came In with Jefferson. Madison and
Monroe, under whose administration oil
political opposition 10 the Democracy
ceased, and who gave 10 the country
Louisiana and Mississippi, the territory
west OF the Mississippi and Florida, or
with jackson, who paid the public debt,
or with Polk, who added Texas and Call
f0rnia 10 the national domain.
Aud mt the election OF 1883 Democrats
and Republicans alike will have the
OF voting for the man OF
their choice, unawed by rufllans drawn
from the siums Of distant states and
armed with bulldog pistols
and lead by Powell Clayton, Dudley,
Rathbone and Lot Wright. Marshal
Urner le asDem0crat and q gentlemen
aud his deputies. will be gentlemen and
they will repel, not actively aid the
happy family Of Republican colonizers
who may be then enjoying the hospital
Ity OF Hogshead John.
THE LATE LEGISLATURE
NUW hb w ovhto hHhlIb, vi mybeil anu
my personal administration OF the trust
committed to me | have little TO say.
When entered upon the office OF Cover.
nor made up my mind 10 permit no /
dishonesty and TO DISCHARGE the duties {
)f my office with oil the wisdom could
command. How far have been able 10 | /
keep this pledge thus made 10 myself !
.he people Of Ohio must Judge. II 10 not i
'or me to say; 80, leaving the further /
OF my official conduct 10 9th.
,rs and TO the Judgment Of the State, l 1
PASS 10 the consideration OF the action ,
u the Sixtysixth General Assembly, In
10Th branches OF which the Democratic
party had q majorlty-in the Senate a ;
Of more than three'aftha, and /
IN the Ho ise three 1fths. less three. 1
Mr.. Sherman saya. ~ know by general