The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-03-03

Henry Cabot Lodge, representative
Republican statesman says in his life Of
Hamilton: "The Republic of Hamilton
was to be an ARISTOCATIC as dis
tineuished from DEMOCRATIC re-
public, and the power Of the separate
states was to be effectually crippled. The
first object was to be attained by COM
mitting the choice of the president and
senator's, who were to hold office during
good behavior, to q class Of the COM
munity qualified to vote by the possession
of a ceratin amount of real property.
The second was to be securel by giving to
the president of the United States the
appoint ment of the governors of the
various states, who were to have veto
on all state legislation"
Hamilton wanted the president elected
for life. He wanted property qualiflca-
tion; he wanted the governors Of the
states appointed by the president with a
veto power over all Legislation. Hamilton
believed in form of government modelled
after the British Idea. Study carefully
the history of the principles laid down
by Hamilton and you will know the
principles which dominate the Republi-
can party today. His ideas were British
and his policy foreign. those ideas prevail
today in the Republican party. The Re-
pulican convention at st. Louis declared
for foreign supremacy and for American
subserivenoy. 1t upheld the British
policy of a single gold standard, and that
we are utterly incapable of maintaining
q policy of our own. 1t declared that
we must stand idle, while our industries
are prostrated and our people ruined, un-
til British bondholders shall con sent for
us to lift our hands in our own defense.
Contrast with their policy the declaration
of principles of the Democratic party in
the Chicago convention of the same year.
ave, the Democrats of the United
States, in national convention assembled,
do re-sfiirm our allegiance to these great
essential principles of justice and liberty,
upon which our institutions are founded,
and which the Dsmocratic party has
advocated from Jefferson's time to our
own--fr. edom of speech, freedom of the
press, freedom OF conscience, the pre-
S ,rvation of personal rights, the equality
of all its citizens befors the law, and
the faithful observance Of constitutional
"The Constitution of the United States
guarantees to every citizen the rights of
civil and religious liberty. The Demo-
cratic party has always been the exponent
of political liberty and religious freedom,
and it renews its obliagtlons and re-
affirms its devotion to these fundamental
principles of the Constitution.
ave are unalterably opposed to mono
which has locked fast the pros
perity of an industrial people in the
paralysis of hard times. Gold monometal-
lism is a British policy, and it's adoption
has brought other nations into financial
servitude to Londan. 1t is not only un-
but anti-American, and it
can be fastened on the United States only
by the sitting of that spirit and love of
liberty which proclaimed our political
~ anu NOu ~ III Iub
war of the Revolution"
Gentlmen, these are the principles
adopted by you, and which by your sacred
honor you are pledged to support and
promote. The spirit manifested in the
Chicago convention has inspired you to
organize to do battle against the tyranny
and wrong aud oppression which has
the Republican party for
more than quarter Of century, and
which it is now perpetrating, with re-
newed vigor, upon an almost helpless and
hopeless people.
You are not prompted by any mean
low or selfish purpose, you have not asso-
slated yourselves for the purpose of secur-
ing the emoluments of Office or for mere
personal gain. With you it is principle.
Most of you have seen your party out of
power and ont of office. You have seen
1t suffer many defeats, but through it all,
without faltering, you have steadfastly
,lung to principle, without reward and
many times without even the hope of re-
ward, save that which comes to every
man who does right as God gives him to
see the right.
Gentlemen, these are times which try
mems souls. We need men of strong
minds, great hearts, trus faiths and
ready hands; men whom the lust of
office does not kill; men whom the spoils
IF office cannot buy; men who have
opinions; men of honor; men who will
not lie. "Tall men, sun crowned, who
i've above the fog in public duty and
private thinking while the rabble, with
their flimsy creeds, their large professions
and their little deeds, mingle in selfish
strife" With such men and such
,ause as that in which you are engaged,
you cannot fail.
1t is perhaps, expected Of me as your
officer, to define the policy to
be pursued by this Club. can do no
better than to admonish you to adhere
strictly tn your faith, and to abide by tn
and bylaws. About the
principles which you have adopted there
san be no doubt. About your honesty of
purpose and purity of motive there can
be no doubt. A strict adherence, then, to
your principles, and an unselt fish devotion
10 your purpose, will bring victory and
place Canton and Stark county again in
5he Democratic column, where they be-
ong. If you prove true to yourselves and
to your party, your Club is destined to
become not only a strong factor in the
political battles to be fought out in Stark
county, but I confidently predict that
your influence will be felt in the..state and
nation, and close by expressing the hope