The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-11-20
now ron nUsInEss.

Last night tho political battallona
their last march for TINS
campaign, The last horn was footed
aud tho lights and shadows OF the moat
bitter malignant ana heTeely Fought
campaign In all our history have van
ishe6.
May we never have another cam
paign like II, ia the prayer OF sinners
patriots and salnta,
And, that II Is over lot us forget lla
unpleasant features, Danish from our
minds all harsh and cruel memories,
cast aside all tho animoaltiea that the
old Adam Of our natures would retain
TO further yex us, and give ouf hest
thoughts and endeayor TO tho better
business OF life,
Even II dragons blood ia on the free
list we should not drink II 10 the drega
Let US give the tin horns and hoop
Ia a rest, eonaign the transparenoles 10
the cellar, and give heed TO llfe's higher
duties and pleasures
The battle Ia over, After tho battle,
since chiyalry diasipated the brutality
Of barbarlam, the oOntending armies OF
| war have always buried their dead
| aud cared for their wounded. under the
white flags OF q mutual truce.
After Gettysburg, after the mad
havoc of Chcamauga, after the
desperation Of Franklin, did we not
do it9
In the aeree malice born Of dire and
deadly war, how the white angel OF love
came 10 the rescue, In tho aNtul
presence of the unburled dead,
The lereeneaa of our more modern
politics Ia not born OF the best patriot
ism. The drum beats OF the marching
battaliona, In peace 10 In war, are liable
10 evoke a spirit Of earth too selfish and
| full Of eattha selfish ambitions,
We are all liable 70 catch this spirit
but II 10 not patriotlSm, nor ia II true
Americaniam 10 harbor II, or allow II
/, mnklein our hearts.
Lot US cast II aside.
We have all had our say, but Oi
course we have not all had our way
| The ways OF politics, like the ways Of
Providence, are mysterious and past
finding out,
Those who did not know this on
| November 8rd found II out on the 9th
Since that time We have had our periods
Of rejoicing, and we have elaborated
chapter after chapter OF speculation
and comment on the glory that encir
oles the result, Glory did we say
What a word that 10, How the nam'
runs through the brain like a surglni
apa over q high rocky shore,
IL dazzles usl
IL Ia the end and object OF oil human
ambition. II 10 not born Of men, bu
ia the lolnt product OF men and states
Llks a baby II must have two parents
Men mako fame, but the State make
men glorious, From semiramis u
Maria Theresia from Debora TO Joal
OF Arc, from Caesar to Napoleon, AM
from Napoleon Of Waterloo TO Napo
leon OF Canton, In Stark county al
great minds have grabbed for glor
with al absorbing muscularity. An
those who got the most OF II, lost mos
when they fell.
And all things human must fall, lie
us get down TO earth and mutton agar
We are now done with: the unpleas
ant incidents and episodes OF the cam
pMgn. We are now for business.
Let us salye the wounds OF the cru'
war with the generous recompense Q
a real Christian forgiveness Of thoe
who have despitefully used us, and
forward TO the future as the commun
. lty of q common brotherhood, standin
\ by each other and for each other
{ seeraeth best for the common good,