The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-09-13
They ARE STILL COMING
Another Lifelong Republican
IlenOunces the Party
OF Cheap Whiakey and Dear
Neoeaaariea,
And WIN Hereafter Fly the oolors Of an
Honest Democracy o. nighman
Gives His Reasons For Voting For
Cleveland ana Thurman,

NANNeiNhN H"' e"N"'N"f
Among the many who have recently
decided 10 leave the party OF dead M
sues for the party OF progress is Mr H.
q. Niphman, the well'known livery
man OF this city, Mr., Nlghman is an
other man who has lived IN this city
too long 10 need an introduction, lie
has boon q well,known Republican aud
has been held In su III esteem by his
party az 10 have been, ut various times,
nominated for offices Of prominence,
Hear what Mr., Nighman said 10 a
News DEMOCRAT reporter on the G use
Of his political changes
"Mr, Nighman, | understand you have
lately undergone some change In your
political faith, and, while you have all
your life voted the Republican ticket,
you have concluded this fall 10 support
Cleveland aud Thurman,
~ guess you are rightly Informed
about that, but, look here, that is a pri'
yate matter, In which the public, do
not think, have any interest, | don't
want 10 get into the newspapers and
then, perhaps, have u son, who may not
think Just aa | do, rushed into print ia
claim That he Ia not going 10 follow me
and TO satisfy the venom OF somebody
who is illiberal enough TO censure me
for exercising the very prerogatlye he
claims for himself, viz, casting his bal
lot In the line OF his own Judgment"
"That IL Just where you make q mis-
take, Mr. Nighman, The public are
interested In the very thing
you think they are not, aud 80 far ~
your sons are concerned, everybody
knows that they, like you, have minds
of their own, and win vote accordingly
Can't you give the NEws'DEMocRAT
your reasons for change OF political
faith9 You hre not the only Republl'
can Aoppori the woods arc full of EN-
"Well, | have no objection aa never
have had In the past, 70 declare myself
openly and aboye'board and give my
reasons for anything do ] am fol
Cleveland and Thurman because be-
lieye they represent what is calculated
% do the most good for the very great
est number OF our people. am opposed
to the Republican doctrine of taking
the tax OIL whi0bey aud tobacco
and continuing high tarill
on the necessaries OF life and on raw
material | have In my own humble
way tried 10 study this tariff problem
aud while | don't pretend 10 know al
about II, | took the Republican plat
form of 1884 aud l find that In the mat
Ter OF this tariff, II Is substantially thC
same as the Democratic platform OF
the same year. Mr. Cleveland and th(
Democratic party seem 10 me 10 have
endeavored by every means TO carry ouI
the promises contained In both party
platforms, VIZ: 10 JudiclouSly revise thC
tariff and reduce the surplus. can
not satisfy myself that the Republican
party is sincere In It's protective tariff
proteBtatlons, and so fur aB our indns
tries are concerned, can see none thal
are benefited by high protective tariff
unless II be the steel and iron producers
and II Is question In my mind whether
the wOrkmen, who are the real produc
ers, get any benefit. / believe that
whatever benefit accrues goes straight
into the pockets Of the manufacturers
else man like Carnegie could not rear
the immense fortune he has IN 30 few
years of time. There Is certainly some
thing wrong In u system that makes Of
one man twenty times q millionaire
and keeps thousands eking out mis-
erable existence; yet that Is just th(
case ard condition In the Pennsylvania
mines and mills. This pretension Of
men like Carnegie, Of being 30 awfully
interested In the welfare of their EN-
ployes, strikes me 10 the sheerest non
sense. Then, again, there Is something
very wrong In system that has locked
In The National treasury nearly ont
hundred and forty million dollars
That money belongs 10 the people, anC
any tariff that brings with II such re
suits Is absolutely wrong and should b,
corrected without delay, Now find 1
great many Republican leaders pledged
TO do the very thing the Democrats
propose doing, and yet they denouncC
the Democratic party. / presume
II were governed by party bias
and would read only one side oi
the question as we used TO do / SHOULD
still be walking In the pathway Of dark
ness and voting the Republican ticket
| found II was not the easiest thing In
the world 10 cut away from old party
ties. The Republican party has treated
me well In the past, II has several timel
generously nominated me for office
and has shown confidence In m,
that II Is now hard TO cut away
from, but | have thought
the matter over long and seriously ant
while | part from my old political
friends with q feeling of sadness,
have the consolation that far greater
men than can ever hope 10 be havI
not wavered In their sense Of duty u
themselves In matter Of this kind, buI
regardless Of all censure, regardless Of
all party jibes and jeers, have cast theil
ballots In the spirit Of true American
liberty and In the cause they thought
right and just, That Is what ! have
done in the past; that Is what / propose
to do now"