The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
STAND Up, GOVERNOR.
Your PrsceptOr,the People OfOhis
Want TO AskYeu u Fe ~ q uestiens

definite, and it comes from source,
we may add, which we deem very re-
liable. Governor Foster knows wheth-
er or not it is true in all its details,
and we ask him to authOrise denial
if he can, pre- missing that if he should
do so, we will give to his denial as
wide circulation as to the questions we
have propounded. We would like to
ask Governor Foster:
Whether, on Saturday, the I'd of
September, he did not speak at West
Union?
Whether he did not proceed to Man
chester that evening, and about mid
night take the steamer Bonanza for
Portsmouth ?--
Whether, between that hour and one
o'clock in the morning-aftert the holy
Sabbath day had been ushered in-he
did not step up to the bar of the boat,
in company with the travelling repre-
sentative of a Louisville wholesale
liquor house, and tip the bar-keeper a
wink as he called for glass of lemon
ade?
Whether the bar-keeper in response
to that wink did not add to the lemon
ade liberal favoring Of whisky?
Whether he, Governor Foster, did
not go back to the bar after brief in
terval-on that holy Sabbath day-and
call for a whisky straight, and drink it
like Sabbath breaker?
Whether it is true, that upon his ar
rival at the Biggs House in Portsmouth
he did not send for saloon keeper, or
arrange for his coming, and have q
conversation with him upon political
matters?
Whether he did not teN that saloon
keeper that neither himself nor the
Republican party Of Ohio, haSsa de
sire to put stop to the sale Of intoT-
icattag liquors, 6ut that they simply
desired that the business should be
placed in the hands of responsible
men like himself
These questions are put to Governor
Foster, not with the purpose as some
OF our Republican friends may assert,
to give circulation to canard or po-
litical lie. but with the honest belief,
based upon the statements of credible
witnesses, that all that is there insin-
uated OR can be implied, is strictly
correct. If any part of it is not true,
we would like Governor Foster to au-
thorise some one to say so for him.
columbus Times.
Hitting the Nail on the Head.
In his speech at Cleveland on the
23d ult., Judge Hoadley, of Cincinnati
one of the ablest Jurists of the State
gave his views of the temperance ques
ton, as follows:
"The Republican party has haG
power for twenty-five years and has
not touched this subject before. Why
this newborn zeal2 Read last years.
platform. Read this years platform
How is this change and the Pond hill
explained? Solely by the 16,597 votes
for Ludlow, the Prohibition candidate
for Governor last Fall. The Republi
cans were afraid that the tail woult
finally wag the dog, if not cut off. Th'
platform last year was meant to catcf
the coon coming or going, and it help
ed to catch him. What does the Re
publican platform this year mean
Either, first, additional taxation, pro
hibitive and oppressive, to please th'
ultra temperance class; second, license
taxation, to please the sober, temper
ate and rational citizen of Ohio; or
third, both for different localities. Blu
specific taxation is already imposed
equally and fully, and cannot be doub
led, and license taxation is unconsti
tional. Specific taxation is unconsti
tutional, because the Supreme Cour
has five times decided that genera
revenue can only be raised in Ohio by
the equal taxation of all property, anC
because the Supreme Court of tht
United States has twice decided tha
the taxation of the commercial traffic
is the taxation of the goods, and there
is not and ought not to be any double
taxation of property in Ohio unless il
is accompanied with some legal bene
fits. Nor can specific taxation be re
sorted to by way of punishment Mo-
IL, II TO Of
ter of the Pond bill be resorted to il
any case. 1t imposes q horizontal anC
heavy tax on every person engaged il
the traffic without other discrimination
than whether his place of business i!
within city or village or in the coun
try Such legislation is intrusive anC
in violation of the personal liberty O
every citizen, and can only be explain
ed by the tendency of that party t,
paternal government and to the med
ding and interfering with individua
rights. The true remedy, if any i!
needed for the evils complained of, il
the adoption of constitutional amend
ment permitting license and the adop
ton of moderate and reasonable Ii
cense system"
A DISPATCH from Elizabeth, N. J.
says it will take over 81 100000 to re-
place the bridges in that county thai
were swept away by the late floods.