The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-14
che following glowing tribute 70 the
present NATURALIZATION:

present Administration;
/ "And row, acknowledgements OF Indi-
ana we enter this contest with high and
earnest convictions of duty to our State
2 and to our country. Indiana, with tho
mighty development OF her inexhaustble re-
! sources, and the establishment and growth OF
| her glorious institutions of learning and of
Christian benevolence, under the auspices Of
! Democratic constitution, and for the most
! part under Democratic State control, appeals
I to us to be true 10 the broad and liberal prin-
| ciples on which all her greatness is founded.
| Whatever else may happen the Democratic
I party owes 1t to its good name and splendid
I record in Indiana, that the administration of
the State shall not fall into the hands of those
! who distrust the people and who deny ts 9TH
ers the same freedom and right they exssNs Use
| for themselves. But in still broader sense
| we are called on to exercise our rights and to
discharge our duties as citizens. The admin
istration of the Federal Government by Gro
ver Cleveland has been bitterly assailed.
misrepresented and slandered by the
Republican State convention, and by
| the leaders Of the Republican party
in Indiana No two minds, perhaps, ever
| agreed in every thing, nor does it follow that
supporter of an administration necessarily
conours In all It's official details, but am here
| tonight TO declare as far as my words will
| go, that the Administration of Grover Cleve-
| land is strong, clean, faithful to public duty
and worthy Of all acceptation by the Demo
cratic party and by the country. What pub
| lie interest has suffered at his hands2 What
public duty has been neglected. What pub
| lie trust has been betrayed? In the more
| than electric light thrown upon every act of
his Administration, and on every step of his
public life by the powerful and sleepless
newspaper press Of the United States, he
stands clear and above reproach in his great
Office Senator Harrison had much to say in
his recent speech in regard to Democratic
pledges which he alleged had not been full
filled, He well knows and so does the coun-
try, that the Democratic party in Congress
has no power to enact a law, nor to
repeal bad law heretofore enacted,
nor 10 appropriate dollar of the pub
lie money without the approval and the
concurrence of a Republican majority in
the Senate. The Democratic party has not
had the law-making power of this Govern.
ment embracing, as 1t does, the legislative
and executive departments, a single day since
the 4th of March, 1851 Every evil. of legisla-
ton which has afflicted the country flows
from Republican responsibility. If the SOL
because the laws made by the Republican
party did not grant them. IL he did not get his
bounty, 1t is because a Republican President
vetoed The bill granting it: II the oolored
earnings and savings by the Freedmen's Bu-
reau and by the Freedmen's Bank, 1t is be-
cause Republican laws were so made chat the
thieves could break through and steal Sem
ator Harrison seems entirely to forget the
responsibility of his own party, as shown
by the long and blotted records while
he vehemently arralgns the Democratic party
for what it has done and for what it has
failed to do in the last eighteen
months, and during which time no enact
ment could be laid before the Democratic
Executive for his Signature without having
first received the sanction of the Republican
party in the Senate My colleague appears
to complain of the amount of the appropr&
tlons made in the last session of Congress-
and quotes an imposing array and specious
arrangement of figures, recently made by
Senator Allison, of Iowa. Is it not enough to
say that Allison was, and still is, chairman of
appropriations in the Senate; that he re.
ported and voted for every appropriation
bill, and that Senator Harrison voted with
him? On the question, however, whether the
actual expenses of the Government have in
creased or diminished under ClevGland's Ad
mnistration, / am content to rest the whole
case on the statement recently made by John
q. Carlisle, the very able, clear. headed and
impartial-minded Speaker of the House. He
puts the total expenditures of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, at
SIT 743,1 196 less than those of the preceding
year. The Speaker goesinto details, but none
ere needed in support ofa conclusion reached
by him. The recent Democratic State conven-
tion of Indiana, in very comprehensive reso-
lution indorsed the ability, the integrity and
the economy of the present Administration.
Its ability is conceded by the people of ali
parties and its integrity has not been ques-
toned, and its economy has been proven BY
the record. Mr.. Cleveland has broken no
pledges. II broken pledges, however, are the
theme for this canvass, would inquire how
The pledges, profuse, continuous and abun.
dant, of the Republican party to the colored
people OF the country have been kept? Mr..
Cleveland appointed during the last session
of Congress, well-bred, intelligent, educated
and very competent colored man to an i'm
portant Office in the District of Columbia The
Republican party has eight majority in tho
United states Senate, and that body rejected
Mr.. Matthews when his name came before 1t
for Register Of Wills The love of the Re-
publican party for the colored citizen is
based on the same condition as its love for
the former rebel of the South-party service;
only that the rebel, when he belongs to the
HaDnhlinAn marty offices
while the colored man, whether Republican
or Democrat, is left to feed on the crumbs
which fall from the Republican table, eH
more generally left without any thing at all.
May we not expect the support of all CLASSES
who believe in an Administration which, un.
der the most trying circumstances, has had
the courage or its convictions, and has been
faithful to all It's pledges, edther expressed or
implledp
THE public debt is being paid more rap
idly than the public creditors desire;
the surplus in the treasury, so enormously
overstated two years ago by the Republican
candidate for Governor, Is being rapidly r0-
duced, Notwithstanding the President with
emasculated and rendered worthless, as II
was, by the action of the Senate There is q
feeling Of confidence In business CIRCLES and
signs OF returning activity and prosperity are
Let US join voices hands and hearts once
more in the cause OF good government Let
not Indiana falter now, and thereby open q
breach through which the Republican party
with its evil methods, its perniciOus prin.
ciples, and its rapacious hordes may return
to power IN 1884 Indiana holds the key to
future Democratic national success and TO
the prolonged supremacy of a Democratic
Federal Administration. If a voice which in
storm and disaster, as well as in sunshine and
victory, has always been heard in the battling
ranks of the Democratic party, viii still Do
listened to. invoke a united, harmonious and
determined effort at this time in behalf of the
present and the future welfare of the Amert.
can people,"
The speech attracted q number Of
representative Democrats from the
State at large, all Of whom reported to
the chairman of the State Central
Committee flattering condition of af-
fairs in their respective localities.