Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-06-14
Is it a Surrender?

After several months of bugle blasts
and drum beats, a small convocation of
second lieutenants in the Republican
party assembled in Columbus, held a
two day convention and placed at the
head of their organization and in COM
mand of its forces first corporal from
Cincinnati named Joseph B. Foraker.
Outside of his immediate home very lit
tie is known of him and in fact according
one of his home papers, from which we
quote, not much is known there. The
Enquirer says:
"of Judge Foraker, the nominee for Governor, we
can say truthfully that he is man Of fair average
talents and nttainments belonging TO class Of which
three, or four, or half dozen can be found In ev
cry county seat ia the State. He has no acQuain-
ance in Its various localities. He has no public po-
tcal record is entirely without legislative exper-
cnce, Is unacquanted with legislative and political
history, or, as Governor Foster puts it-''is free
from any great knowledge OF politics." he has none
OF the elements OF popular speaker; is In fact no
public speaker at all, not even in Courthouse to
jury. His deficiency In this respect will become
apparent during the progress OF the campaign. He
was elected Judge Of the superior Court Of Gin
cinnat after the virtual abolition of the general term
Of that Court the labors of which were the most
exacting its judges had to perform, Opinions
In the State that kept up with its docket;
yet, relieved of this labor, Judge Foraker, being
wholly without Judicial experience, that legal
knowledge OF general practice which can only be
acquired by time, and ambitious to make some rep
utation Oh the bench, broke down In about a year
and a half or two years from nervous prostration,
and resigned This comprises the whole of his Of
When recall the fact that Corwin, Chase, Broueh,
Tod and Allen-sll men Of national regulations and
experience, and protesting high order Of states
manship-have been Governors Of Ohio, the pre-
sentation of Foraker is certainly step 'from the
sublime to the ridiculous"
Thus in its nominee, has the Repub-
licans-not only in its selection but in
its repudiation ofits representative men,
like John Sherman and others-ignored
all national issues and endeavored to
confine the contest to purely local mat
tiers, and these but lily defined and the
position of the party left in doubt.
But not only does the character of the
indicate him as the mere bear
er of truce and evidence disposition
to make the sacrifice as small as posi-
BILE, the platform placed in his hands
is certainly white flag. 1t contains
more of the boast, arrogance and as
of former times. AS the
Pittsburg Post says, lit is a wall of dis
and seeking to heal their
admitted discords by a plaster adjusted
to every taste and sentiment. Their
plea is for mercy, not the shout of vic
tory" "Negation, duplicity, hypoc-
risy, equivocation, and defeat" says
the Ne,os Journal, ''are written in every
line of the republican platform. 1t is
valiantly positive as to things past; it is
either negative or deceptive, and equiv
Ocal as to all things future. If boast
full arrogance as to the past were a
statesmanlike pledge, and declaration
Of policy for the future, it would be
positive and direct"
1t declares in favor of the robber
tariff and maintenance of privileged
classes, and incidentally for revenue,
and says: = "It is opposed to the Demo-
cratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue
only, because such doctrine, if en-
forced, would of necessity compel Amer
lean workmen to accept the unremu-
nerative wages which are paid their
foreign rivals" After the slight modi-
fication of the enormous duties on iron,
the iron mongers of Pennsylvania made
4 pretence that the wages of laborers
must be reduced in consequence or the
business stop. The demand for reduc-
tiOn was not complied with by the la
borers, nor has the business stopped.
But look to Illinois. There is high
protective tariff on coal, which, if the
tariff effects labor should amply protect
it. Yet there we find labor so poorly
paid that the laborers are carrying BAN
ners with this strange device-"B
Or Blood" in apparent ignorance of the
fact that their labor is amply protected
from the pauper. coal and labor of Eng
land and Canada. The convention then
resolves "That the wool tariff of 1867
should be restored at the first oppor-
tunity." With John Sherman as Pres
ident of the committee which adopted
this, it sounds like sarcasm. The way
in which the duty on wool as fixed in
1867 was reduced is clearly and truth
fully..stated by the Washington cores
pondent of the Enquirer, as follows:
''The So 600 wool.g, overs of Ohio ought to know
md not Democratic votes. The duty was fixed by
Conference Committee on behalf of the two Houses
ipon which Ohio had two representatives, John
sherman representing the Senate and VIM. McKin-
ey representing the House Of Representatives The
Tariff bill with the wool duty reduced, received the
fote of John Sherman in the Senate and of every
ohio Republican in the House of Representatives,
With the y, ,ngc s Of Representative Robin
ither on the Conference Committee or in the |
House Of Representative stood solid against the
eduction, the duty would not have been reduced. |
md now come in face Of this record, Senator sher
nan and Mr.. Mckinley and offer as gag to the wool
men that the wool tariff Of 1867 should be restored
It the first possible opportunity" The wool grow
rs OF Ohi0 are doubtless an intelligent class, and W
B but fair TO deal with them honestly. Hence /
ONE information:
Messrs. Sherman, Mckinley & Co. know full well |
nat they powerless to have the duty Of 1867 re-
tored. They know that the Republican partyis /
Committed to the policy OF no further interference
With the tariff and before the State campaign closes
herman will be heard on the stump belaboring the
Democrats because quite number Of them favor,
ven by the next Congress, further revision of the
arm. The only manner in which the tariff can be /
evised is through bill which must have origin In
he House Of Representatives, and be reported favor