Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-08-30
The Campaign Practice.

principles and the lily defined issues,
duplicity and double meaning of the
Republican platform, may furnish some
excuse for the manner i'm which the
press and fugelmen of that party are
conducting the campaign, and the dis
reputable practice to which they resort.
Certain it is that principle of govern
ment or policy of party has not been
even limited at by any Republican rep
resentative.
The sum and substance of the Repub-
lican campaign thus far has consisted
wholly of misunderstanding, silly and
transparent, and we may say harmless
roorbacks. The most notorious and in
famous liars have been engaged, and
Foster, Jayhawker, Ben AbOu and even
Andy Smith have exhausted their fer
Utility in the futile attempt to attach
something disreputable to the character
of Hoadly, Owen and other Democratic
nominees. Their slime has only befOul-
ed themselves, and they have been COM
PEELED to digest the venom of their own
spleen. No appeal to the judgment and
common sense of the people has been
made-nothing except lies about the
decentralization of the Democracy un-
supported by names, and falsehoods in
regard to Democratic candidates, all of
which have been thoroughly disproved.
True, they have had little to say about
the Scott law, but have confined them
selves to the subject of taxation about
which there is no difference of opinion
amongst Democrats, Republicans, liquor
men and regulation men.
Accounting for the reason of this
style of campaigning, the Ne,Us Journal
says.
The reason why this canvass has been
on their side one of dust, smoke, and
noise is easily seen, apd it is plain why
it was begun so early. The reason is
found in what the Democratic party
proposes. In State affairs it proposes
license and regulation of the liquor
traffic with graded and just taxation,
which, being based on correct revenue
principles, will yield as much or more
taxes with less hardship to the tax-pay-
ers. 1t proposes to do what the Repub-
lican party has promised, and then de-
liberately refused to do-tO put an end
to the competition of convict labor with
free honest labor. In national affairs it
proposes to encourage industry, with a
tariff so laid for the revenues necessary
to the government economically admin
istered as to afford encouragement to
industry, protecting labor in it wages,
while it sets it's face sternly against fos-
tering monopolies.
1t proposes to bring the government
back to its legitimate sphere, to divorce
it from business so that Washington
will not be the center to which all great
interests tend with their eorrupting lob
bies. 1t proposes to put an end to that
system by which tendency has been
created to vast associations of capital
and counter associations of labor. 1t
proposes to do this without any radical
or complex reform methods. twill re-
sort to no counter monopoly, to no gov
ernment ownership of great enterprises,
to no government bureau system for
regulation, but to the simple remedy of
confining government to its legitimate
sphere, and enacting few simple gen.
eral laws by which private rights may
be tested and enforced in the courts OF
| the country.
Chief, and condition precedent to
all through reform, it proposes to un-
earth and expose, to punish if possible
but by all means to correct the system
of jObbery which crops in all Republican
operations at home and abroad; to put
down the tyranny Of political and allied
business and contractos bossism, by
which these two forces, working to-
gether, have corrupted the government
and made the ballot and elections OBJ
jects of barter and sale. 1t proposes
that there shall be no more nationa
fraud in elections, no more nationa
bribery in elections, no more nationa
jobbery in everything.
Are specifications wanted? A trad,
dollar could not be coined for foreign
commerce, but we find John Sherman
advocating the interest of bullion hold
ers on the floor of the Senate and de
fraudlng workingmen by depriving tn,
trade dollar of its legal tender quality
The public debt could not be refunded
without double interest and large profit,
to q syndicate of bankers, fav0rites o
Sherman. Windoms subsequent re
funding shows how Sherman's policy
favored the bankers syndicate. If no
Jobbery in fact, it was jobbery in effect
! No foreign claim can be settled in Mex
leo, Venezuela, or elsewhere that job
berry does not crop out. No foreign in
terventlon, treaty, or American inter
national congress can be proposed tina
jobbery does not disgrace the nation.
Are specifications needed as to briber,
in elections? Take the, Dorsey-Brady
Kellogg star route ring; the undispute,
fact that it robbed the government; tn,
part it played in Indiana, according t,
Fosters own boast, Dorsey's complete
, confessions aside; the half million dol
lars spent in Indiana, and who will
escape the conclusion that half mil
lion dollars were spent corruptly?
Are specifications needed as to un
wholesome bossism of combined corrup
rings and politicians of various grades
from the hummer up? Take the com
bination of Foster, Hubbell, Dorsey
Brady, and their henchmen, the New
York conference, the suspicious ia,
Gould contribution, and the tardy an
pearance in the canvass of Conkling
Cameron, and other stalwarts, and al
the pledges broken and pledges per
formed which followed the election ant
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