Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-24
81 am Republican and Defended RepubIicanism
While Dobson ReviIed IT, Reference
to the ''0Id Guard"
Refuses to Take His Orders and Opinions From the Adopted
Leader Of the Local Republican Party..Riuht
to Defend Himself

need be to put down the rebellion,
were "land grabbers" or "land retain
ers''
|. Thc, imperialism" and 'land retep.
ton for which Abe Lincoln stood was
very unlike the policies of the same
name which have been given the an
parent sanction of the Republican par
~ today With Abe Lincoln. the CON
sttution followed the flag. even to the
south, Where II had been Inundated
and disgraced, and American citizen
ship, after the rebellion, stood for as
much in the south as in the north; il
did not mean. as today. one thing in
the United States, and another thing
IN Porto Rico. OF the Philippines. If
Dobson is lame in his understanding of
these distinctions, which involve a
question of right and principle, 1 simp-
ly refer him to the cause that led TO the
rebellion OF 1861, when those in sym.
pathy with the cause of the South
wanted TO grab Kansas for the cx
tension of slavery; but the immortal
man then at the helm of this govern
ment said no and the heroic boys in
blue sustained him.
1t is the vaporing brains Of such edi-
tors as Dobson that applaud the scnti-
ments uttered in speeches like that
made at Atlanta by j. b. Gordon. n
southern general, Il few days ago.
And here again. ] want to call the at
tenton of the old soldiers of the Civil
war to the fact that for the last IS
months the whole trend of the Beacon's
editorials has been to fiatter and hon
or, for polit cal effect Of course, the men
who tortured the brave boys In blue
in Andersonyille, Libby, and other hell
holes of the south. And yet this out
cast of the Democratic party, who has
come iutothe local Republican party to
teach Republicanism to voters who
were defending Republicanism white
he was rcviling 1t, boldly makes the
charge that tho Union soldiers of 1861
to 90 wanted TO deprive the southern
people of their rights. ! am amazed ut
this expression.
Only Il few years ago, | am told,
when DobsoD was running the local
Democratic organ, he was so higoted
that he would not allow his reporters
to print the name of Maj, Mckinley in
the headlines of his paper because he
did not want to give him prominence.
Follow Republicans. this is the kind of
"A man to whom you are enforced 10
look for leadership, and thought, ana
exposition of Republican doctrine!
And here pause for moment ms
"A lifelong member of the grand old
party. In memory | go back few
years when The party was under the
leadership of the Old Guard. am
not sure as TO dates, but think it was
In 81 or 80 when We elected Jack Me-
Court as City Marshal by majority
of 1.500, aud We're carrying Summit
county for the whole ticket by piurali-
ties reaching well into the thousands.
| ask the Republicans of Summit
county to note these facts and contrast
them with the conditions obtaining
today with our leadership subject to
the influence of Dobson. In the year
of Our Lord, 1893 the Democrats Of Ak
ron, after having securely ridden
themselves of Dobson, carry the city
for their mayor by a plurality Of $50.