The daily gazette., 1877-08-08

THE OHIO & CnAToRICAL CANDIDATE-'
A few days ago the Republican of this city,
appeared quite elevated with Judge West,
the Ohio Republican gubernatorial candi.
date, lauding him as an orator and pre-
missing that he would have greatly the ad
vantage in the campaign becausethe Dem
ocratic candidate, as it gave its readers to
understand, ives only an ordinary grocery
merchant, unable to take the stump and
talk to the people, who had been accustom-
ed for many years : , hear all the political
issues discussed by the candidates for Gov
ernor. Since the Republican ma lie this ex-
hlbition of its Joy, it has been very quiet;
1t has given its readers nothing of the
speeches OF its Ohio orat 1rical candidate
But other Republican papers have and
they are not SO well pleas. with his words
whatever they might be with his oratorical
fiourishes.
Well, we find that Judge West, took the
stand at a Republican ratification meeting
at Cleveland in Ohio, and discussed among
other things the labor question. We have
not seen this spoe ech but we are enabled to
give our readers some inklings of it i.om
Whatis said oft by several OF our exchanges
and we shall copy chiefly from Republica
papers some of which are as greatly dis
guste with Judge Vests ideas of politics
as the Republican is pleased that he is an
orator. At the meeting at Cleveland, Judge
West took pains to make it known that he
was not guilty of a certain sin of which a
great many ofhis countrymen are. There
was a large number of railroad strikers in
ms audience, but If every body had done as
Mr.. West has done there would have been
no railroads in toe country, and been no
railroad employees or strikers. With an
oratorical flourish he declared:
am no railroad officer, and never was
and never will be. / hold no railroad bonds
or railroad stocks, that my interests be diff
ferent from those of any other man. and
never did. hold no untaxed government
bonds, and never did and never expect to-
l hold no bank stock, and never did and
never expect To and, financially, suspect
am ABOUT as impartial between capital
ana iaoor as one without finances possibly
can be-"
Having made this boast it might be asked
o: Judge West how the government would
have triumphed in the late civil war If
every one, like himself, had refused to
touch government bonds? And yet it is
the pride of the gentleman's party that IL
carried throu sh and triumphed in that war.
Not satisfied with this boast, and having
failed to demonstrate that there was any
wronG in the ownership OF government or
other bonds or stocks, Judge West then ad.
vanced into doctrine TO an extraordinary
degree. He said;
81 would have Congress arranee and fix
a minimum of prices for all who labor in
the mines and on the railroads, and hen c :
qulre that OF all net receipts and proceeds
of the capital invested the lahorer. at the
end of the year, should, in addition to his
hX com pensation, receive a certain per
cent OF the profits"
To this the Baltimore a,n, replies:-
1t Is not surprising that these rema,k ,kable
utterances of Judge West should have ellie
itei protests even from the republican
press, Tor II the power ID step between the
employer and the employ 4 and fix the
wages OF labor, and order a per cent. distri-
button OF the profits at the end OF toe wear
IS vested in Congress- its operations can be
as well applied TO manufacturing and to
agriculture as to railroads and mines. AL.
luding to Judge Vests speech the Pbila.
delphia Evening Telegraph, a republican
paper, says:
"The performance was a pitiful ono to,
it was an exhibition Of the mcaneet q nd nd
most contemplate kind of demapogma~v
ana u was particularly pitiful, ms ,hf
speaker was man who had been Of cod
lcpute, and whose nomin4ition had beer
regarded as triumph OF genuine 1npubli
canlsm over the 'sorganizing aud dishon
est elements Of Lhe republican parry whicl
nave so nearly succeeded in bringing th
party to ruin. 7'9 w
Quoting Judge West, the Cincinnati
Commercial, another republican pape,
says:
~ Congress has this extraordinary DOW
er IL mus not make FISH of one and fies
OF anoher Let us hand oyerour fairs I
n Gohngress, and when Senator Matthew
shall have got his wonderful bureau Of i'
dnstry into operation so II car, he know
JUST now much the manufacturer pays hi
hands how much the dry goCis mercban
pays hlS clerks, how much the banker na y
ms cashier and accountants. and how M ~ y
the iarIner pays his hired man lei II nrc
ceed 10 regulate the relations of Tho en-
ployer AID emdlOJ e and de erminI Nv ~
grace OF God and an act oi Congr' sc ,us
now mt n labor shall receive and no,
much capital shall earn" "''" 'io'