The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-07

| refused to stand upon the st. Louis
platform, they declared that the Repub-
| lican party was deserting Its traditional
policy and that they were not willing to
follow the party in its change upon the
money question. They pointed out that
the Republican platform of 1885 de-
nounced Mr.. Cleveland's attempt to de-
monetize silver, and that the Republic
can platform of 1892 declared that the
American people from tradition and in
terest favored bimetallism. They took
| frequent occasion to quote Mr.. Nc
Kinley's speech in 1891 in denunciation
of Mr. Cleveland's attempt to make
money scarcer and therefore dearer-
money the master, and everything else
the servant"
Each year the departure Of the Re-
publicans from the early IDEAS Of the
party becomes more apparent. Lincoln
often referred to the plain people" and
to the common people," but any one
who thus classifies the people at this
time is sure to be called a demagogue
by the Republican leaders. When the
Republican party wrote Its national
platform in 1856 1t invited the co-opera-
ton of all those who were in favor Of
restoring the action of the federal gov
ernment to the principles of Washing
ton and Jefferson" and Lincoln himself
was a great adR1irer of Jefferson. In
1859 the Republicans of Boston cele-
brated the birthday of Thomas Jeffer-
son, and Lincoln in his letter Of regret
paid the following tribute to Jefferson.
"All honor to jefferson; to a man who
in the concrete pressure Of a struggle
for national independence by a single
people had the coolness, forecast and ca
pacity to introduce into a merely revo-
lutionary document an abstract truth,
applicable to all men and all times, and
SO to embalm it there that today and In
all coming days 1t shall be a rebuke
and stumbling block to the harbinger5
Of reappearing tyranny and oppres-
sion." In the beginning Of the party's'
existence the Republicans appealed to
the name and principles of Jefferson.
but at Republican banquets nowadays
Jefferson's name is spoken with disre-
spect, and Hamilton's name and ideas
are extravagantly lauded.
The significance Of this change be-
comes apparent when it is remembered
that Jefferson was the foremost rep
resentative of the democratic idea,
life Of Hamilton points out that the lat
ter was the representative of the aris-
tocratic idea. Lodge says: THE repub-
lie Of Hamilton was to be an aristo-
cratic, as distinguished from a demo-
cratic republic, and the power Of the
separate states was to be effectually
crippled. The first object was attained
by committing the choice Of the presi-
dent and senators, who were to hold
office during good behavior, to a class
of the community qualified to vote by
the possession of certain amount of
real property. The second was secured
giving to the president of the United
States the appointment OF the govern
ors Of the separate states, who We're to
have a veto on all state legislation.
These provisions, as may be seen at O.
glance, involved the essential character
Of the government, and although purely
republican, came much nearer the Brit
ish model than any other by their rec
ognition of classes and Of the political
rights of property, while by the treat
ment Of states a highly centralized ma
tional government was to superseda en-
tirely the confederate FORM"
In 1859 Lincoln, in speaking Of the
relation which should exist between
money and humanity, said that the
Republican party believed in both the
man and the dollar, but that in case
Of conflict, 1t believed In the man before
the dollar. In one of his early mes
sages to congress Lincoln warned his
countrymen against the approach of
monarchy. and said that his alarm was
caused by an attempt to place capital
upon an equal footing with, IL not
above, labor in the structure of govern
ment. Now the Republican party seeks
to settle every question upon fnan-
cial basis. The dollar mark Is plainly
stamped upon every modern Republi-
can policy. re
Lincoln signed the bill which provid-
ed for graded income tax; in the Atty
third congress the Republican party yot!
ed against an income tax. 't
Tile Republican party created the
gretnback; now 1t is planning to de-
stroy the greenback.
When the war closed Lincoln began
to plan to make the payment Of the
national debt easier by increasing the
volume of money available. for the pay
ment Of the debt. In "Raymond's Life
Of Lincoln" published In 1855. the pres-
ident's Views are set forth as follows:
Nothing can indicate more clearly
the elation Of mind with which the
president regarded the future of the
country, now that it's safety had been
assured, than the language he ad-
dressed, in conversation at this in
terview, to Mr.. Colfax, who was at this
time preparing for journey overland
to the Pacific coast. Said he: Mr..
Colfax. want you to take message
from me to the miners'whom you visit.
have very large ideas of the mineral
wealth Of our nation. believe II
practically In exhaustible. 1t abounds
all over the western country, from the
Rocky mountains to the Pacific. and its
development has scarcely commenced
During the war, when we were adding