The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-10-20
WAYNE MAC veAeH FORMALLY DESERTS
THE G. o. p.

Gen. Wayne MacVeagh, one of the
ablest lawyers in the United States,
always Republican, and Attorney
General in the cabinet OF President
Garfield, has formally declared for
Grover Cleveland. He made bis formal
avowals in great speech in Phila-
delphia on Saturday evening, in the
Academy of Music. Every patriotic aud
God fearing Republican should read
his speech. We regret we have not |
room for 1t, entire. He addressed an |
audience packed to the doors, and hun
dreds were turned away. We quote |
some of his salient sentences.
CITIZENSHIP ABOVE PATIsANsHIP.
"My coming of age happened to coin |
cite with the birth of the Republican |
party, so that l have never been any |
thing but Republican, and / have |
never felt Until now at liberty to vote |
for any but Republican, for political |
office. 1t is'true that 1 was opposed to
the impeachment of President Johnson;
but with that exception, 1 do not be-
lieve that there was any more stalwart
supporter of the Republican party than
L was. have had no other serious
difference with the Republican party,
but, of course, have always held my
citizenship as far more precious thing
than my partiship, and l have never
pretented to approve any policy or any
| candidate whose bad influence upon the
i country seemed to me to be evident
"But L have watched with pain snd
| alarm the steady growth of the corrupt
use of money in our politics, and have
been constantly hoping that the Re-
publiacn party would at least turn its
| face towards lower duties upon imports
| and against other forms of Congress
| gional bounties, in accordance with the
| teachings of 80 many OF its greatest
/ and wisest leaders, and thus gradually
| diminish the temptations to that awful
traffic, hateful alike to God and all
| good men, the buying and selling of
/ votes.
at was because of that hope and the
very strong reluctance / felt to sever
| ing my connection with the party
which had conferred upon me so many
| and so uudeserved honors and because
of my cordial regard and respect for
| President Harrison, and of my abso-
lute faith in the pledges of the plat
form and in his pledge in respect to the
reform of the civil service that re-
mained Republican
REPUBLICAN PARTY FAULTS.
call my hopes, however, were disap-
| pointed, and from that day to this the
conviction has been steadily growing
upon my mind that the general ten
dency of the Republican party
was not only inimical to the
best interests of the country, but
unless checked was sure to result not
only in making the poor poorer, but in
making the rich more selfish and more
! corrupt, and therefore less patriotic.
"Almost as soon as the canvass of
| 1888 was over, rumors began to ciIcu-.
late that the election had been bought,
and that the gentleman who collected
the money, as well as those who paid it,
were determined to exact such recon-
penses as had been promised them, aud
| the revelations which have occurred
from time to time have strengthened
the conviction in my mind that unhap-
PLY there was only too much truth in
| these rumors.
at was because 1 could not approve
of these things that / found myself un-
able to vote second time for Presi-
dent Harrison, and felt il my duty to
| announce the convictions entertained,
and it is with equal pride and pleasure
that intend to vote for the gentleman
l hope and believe will be the next pres
ident of the United States, Grover
Cleveland"
Gen. MacVeagh then discussed the
robber tariff law of Mckinley with
great power. He riddles it from stem
to gudgeon. Then he does up that pious
fraud, John Wanamaker, in great
shape. Here is paragraph on Wanna
maker:
"The one hateful crime now more in
danger of spreading than any other
among respectable members of Ameri-
can society Is the crime of corrupting
our politics. AS to the past ] am quite
willing there shall not be only forget
| fulness and silence, but the amplest
| charity, aud if the men now engaged in
this work will stop promise to never
again allude to it. On the other hand,
| IL they persist in continuing their evil
work as they are continuing it today
then, while life and strength are spared
| me, / will continue to denounce them.
If they profess religion, will denounce
them as the enemy Of the religion they
dishonor by their hypocrisy, and If they
90 not profess religion will denounce
them as enemies of the nation they are
destroying by other crimes.
And this is the close of Gen. Mac
Veagh's magnificent grafton:
A MORAL BASIS NEEDED.
But these are all economic ques
uons, while far above them the sky is
glowing with the light of an ethical re-
naissance, kiudling the minds of men
to better knowledge of the divine
truth that the industrial and political
organization of great and free people |
must have a moral basis for moral
growth, meeting the essen
tlal needs of the human spirit, |
which are ethical needs; agreeing with
! the essential principles of human action,
which are ethica principals, and foster
ing in us the mighty hopes that make
us men,