The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
THE UsURPERs ROUTED.

The Democratic mass meeting on Sat
urday, which was called by petition OF
hundreds of loyal Democrats in the county
for the purpose of reviyifying, reorgan-
izing and reconsecrating the party, was a
magnanimous gathering. 1t was domir-
ated by men of brains, character and cour-
age The cloud-burst in the morning un-
questionably kept many men away, but
still each man present represented the
sentiment of his respective community.
From benighted Lexington to debatable
Tuscarawas, and fIom Democratic Lake
to Republican Pike, came men who had
no axes to grind and no resentments to
crafty. They came in the interest of
Democracy, and they came without
recompense. They were there to find out
the reason why Mollie Stark, which gave
Democratic majorites continuously on the
state tickets from 1882 to 1892, inclusive,
had become so recreant to Democratic
duty and obligation, that she was now
rlvaling Trumbull and Ashtabula in her
large Republican majorities, and they
found the true cause. They were elo-
quently told by the Grand Old Man"
whose name is as much a synonym for
pure Democracy as the name of Jefferson
itself by the brilliant Pomerene, the
intrepid Monnot, the classic Krichbaum
and host Of others whose moral heroism
was sublime. These men did not dis.
guise the fact that the party was now in
the hands of lot of political desperadoes,
who had no politics but pelf; no princi-
pie but expedienoy and they were
simply Democrats for revenue only.
They were also told, in language perhaps
more forcible than polite, how they got
possession of the committee, not by
strategy, organization nor shrewdness but
by the imperious tactics of usurper,
and being bound together by that pecu-
liar affinity which binds free-booters and
traffickers, they Joined their zeal and
what talents they had in every project to
thwart the aims and purposes of the
Democratic party.
When the objects of the meeting were
stated, the convention got down to bust
ness. The first thing done was the aban
donment Of county conventions and the
restoration of the primary system. This
action of the convention sounds the
death h-knell to the political huoksters who
traffic in county nominations. Squire
Wagners resolution providing for the ap-
pointment Of seven persons to take charge
of the sunken ship until central COM
mittee consisting of one man in each pre-
cinct shall be elected at the primary cleo
tion few weeks hence, went through
with out dissenting voice. The conven-
tion then selected fifteen representative
men, all tried and true Democrats, as
so1o....o, 80 .ko ,ta 30 oonvan+ior and s,,, |
plemented this by The adoption Of a genu-
Inc old-fasihoned and thoroughly Demo-
,ratic platform.
The battle between the Democracy of
this county and the usurpers, was inevit-
able 1t could not have been delayed any
onger unless 90 per cent. of the Demo-
Gratis in Stark county would become
submissive slaves to the despotic masters.
The oabals leadership is political despot-
SIN, supported by political assassination,
and the men who have fallen victims to
the cabal's mel ciless slaughter are the
men who have marshaled the party for
years and led it to Its grandest triumphs.
The action of the convention on the
money question have put the fabricators
10 shame, and forced them into reluct-
ant silence. They loudly proclaimed that
the mass convention was a scheme of the
gold men to send single standard dele
cation to Columbus. They knew it was
a fabrication when they circulated 1t, but
II was the last card they had to play, and
It lost them the game The convention
not only passed free coinage resolution,
but instructed them to vote as unit
This action undoubtedly takes all the
wind out OF their sails.
There is just one thing for the defeated
md deposed usurpsrs to do. BY their