The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-24
INCONSISTENCIES.

Republican journals are quite free in
dealing detractlon ut Senator Brice and
piling fulsome praise upon Senator
Sherman, Foraker, Mckinley ct al 1t
is the old story, republicans are all
saints and democrats all sinners. They
never do wrong and we never do right,
These journals take care not to spec
tally specify their great achievements in
craftsmanship looking to even.handed
justice and with which the republican
party should be credited. Their fine
Italian hands have been visible in many
performances, none of which, as far as
we know we know, promoted justice and
benefited the people These have been
from first to last selfish schemes of
monopoly, robbery and ruin.
The republican aggregation is various
affair, in fact bundle of inconsistencies
having little regard to the constitution
which constitutes the government and
lays down fundamental requirements.
For years republicans took great credit
for creating our greenback currency and
thereby hangs tale of wrong that
played into the hands of the bond
ocraCy, OF late years, however the re-
publican leaders have been trying TO re.
tire the greenbacks by borrowing money
on interest bearing bonds, thus adding
to our public debt.
Their tariff commission some years ago
authorized by act of congress, of which
Judge Amber, of Salem, was member,
recommended a tariff reduction of some
% per cent. Their congresses paid no
attention to all this and kept increasing
the tariff rates from time to time when
the grand cOmsummatiOn was reached in
the Mckinley law of 1890 when the peo-
pie in their might arose and swept the
party from power.
Evil grows on what it feeds and bad
tree continues to bear bud fruit. All
this time the republican party platforms
continued to make fair promises, only
to be disreg garded or broken.
They promised "to correct the in
equalities of the tariff" (their own
tariff and "reduce the surplus" They
never pretended to correct" nor to re-
duce except by lavish and eXtravagant
expenditure. President Cleveland, dur
ing his first term, ending March 4th,
1889, called repeated attention to the
fact that taxation should be reduced as
millions more of money were collected
each year than were required by the
government. The republican senate
reduction of taxes.
Republican journals h rp much at the
present administration borrowing money
which is bad enough, but these same
journals never refer to the surplus of a
hundred millions or more left by the
Cleveland administration when Harri.
son succeeded. Nor do republicans re-
fer to the empty treasury Harrison left
when Cleveland came in on March 18th,
1893.
The history of the republi AN party is
only one continued evolvement of one
scheme after another, by which to plum
der the people The lines of justice and
the safeguards of the con stitution have
always been of little or no account.
Let it not be forgotten that our fnan.
cial system, in all itsvarous and villain
GUS arrangements, is the work of the re-
publican party. Let every citizen bear
this in mind and vote and act according
ly as he shall approve or disapprove.
There is no half way house in these
matters. One is either for or against.
No third party, populist or otherwise,
is likely to attain to power and work a
change and return to constitutional re-
quirenlents and establish justice. Mr..
CoXey may talk pleasantly about his
non-interest bond plan which would
flood the land with government paper;
but he will not likely live to see it enter
tanned.
4. MGREGOR.