Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-09-07
FORAKER AT LUDLOW FALLS.


of "Tnrn the Rnscais Out'-The Methods OF
the New" Democracy Held Up to Light
publican Part,-How tho Democracy Stand
on the Wool Question.
LUDLOW FALLS, o. August 31.-Judge Fora
ker addressed an enthusiastic Republican re-
union yesterday afternoon at the romantic
sylvan retreat OF Ludlow Falls, Miami County.
Excursion parties were made up from the sur
rounding country, bringing an attendance OF
from two thousand five hundred to three
thousand
Judge Wright, of Troy, presided at the meet
ing,
The first speaker was r. NJ. Nevin, ESQ, a
we'll known attorney of Dayton, and IN old
college chum of Judge Foraker. Mr.. Nevin is
an orator oi great ability--of handsome pres
ence, magnificent voice and delivery and Of
the most captivating eloquence. He limited
himself to half an hour in order tomnke
way for
"a. Judge Foraker's Speech.
| Judge Foraker spoke as follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-I
want to commence my speech to-day by read
| ing to You Two sentences from an article that
appeared . few days ago in Harper's Weekly.
They rend as follows:
"The Democrats usually carry the election
overwhe)miugly-som months before il takes
/
selves to be the party Of avenging virtue and
all goes on prosperously until the votes are
counted [renewed laughterl when it turns
out they have not enough" tLaughter.l
| When our Democratic friends opened this
campaign at Columbus when they held. their
State Convention and for some weeks after
ward, they were engaged in the very pleasing
business, to them, OF overwhelmingly carrying
the next election. Laughter.l And one rea-
son why they proclaimed that they were TO
carry that election was that by the platforms
that had been adopted there had been made up
between the parties distinct issues and that
they intended 10 hold the Republican party in
the discussions of this campaign right down IA
those issues-and those issues were the tariff
question and the Scott Law question, about
which my friend Mr.. Nevin has been talking
toyou. 70
Well, now, our Democratic friends have
come toknow more about the Scott Law and
the tariff question since that time than they
then knew, and by ms much as they have come
) to better understand these quesiionsby so much
, they have come TO lose faith in their idea that
; they are 10 overwhelmingly carry the election:
: next fall. daughter and spplausc.l And a'
: a result of this we lind them, from the stump
J and in the columns of their newspapers al
, over the State, ccasing TO pay attention to tht
t questions that have really been put in issue
| and turning all their attention TO a cry q
, fraud and bribery, and corruption, saying ev
, erything that language can express that is bad
!, and calculated TO destroy the confidence ant
beittle the record of the Republican party. II
) answer to this want to say, not anything bad
: about the Democratic party, but simply tina
which is mere justice to the Republican party
, as rejecting ON this question OF our integrit.
} and fidelity in Office about which they have
so much TO say. As all know, the Republican
! party has been in power in this country max
ing record for almost twenty-five years.
THE RECORDS COMPARED.
! I,want to call your attention to that record II
fu n q II nj St of
and this charge about corruption which thel
7 so freely make. First, want to call your ut
5 tention to the record the Republican party ha
made in that respect in the administration o
National affairs Under the Administration o
J Washington there was loss because OF defal
/ cations in offce-defalcation on the part o
a public servants who were charged with tn
collection and disbu.Tsing Of public moneys
a dollars handled; under Adams it wa
: So 90; under Jetierson-who is the great politi
0 cal authority that my friend, Judge Hoadly
q 80 much quotes as the source of everythin
a that is good in politics-the loss was 81
: upon every thousand; under Madison 1t wa
!, 81 10; under Monroe IS 5S; under the secon
= Adams 81 80; under Jackson 81 So; under Va
:, Bnren Sll 7l-aDd Van Buren,, you will remen
2 Der, II you still recollect Judge Hoady's speec
y OF acceptance, was the great Democrat nnde
whom he,took his first lessons in politics;
d was his cause he espOused in the debating lycs
Q ums ia tile schools where he got bis educatio
n when he was boy we ought not 10 be o,
pected 10 be more honest than his official
4 were. Under the Harrison-Tyler Administr'
i tion the loss was 80 40 to the thousand; unde
: Polk IT was 81 0S; under Taylor and Fillmor
: a. 10; under Pierce 50 SO; under Buchanan
y the last Of the Democratic Presidents--$3 8
u And then the Republican party came int
= power. And we came into power, as m
!, friend Neyin said a moment ago, with a Dem,
d cratic rebellion on our hands--a rebellion TIN
Z made 81 necessary for us to raise and pr
It into the field and maintain them there, mi
!. lion soldiers; made it necessary for US to put
/. great iiavy upon the sea and maintain II ther,
= and made 1t necessary not only that we shoul
= pour out oceans Of blood, but amounts
:, treasure that are almost beyond the power
T. man TO compute them. The result was thu
we had TO have thousands of men 20 collie
N and disburse money where, before that tim
y. and under Democratic Administrations the
IS had one eman. The danger OF defaleations, ii
n danger OF dishonesty, the dangers that wei
q. sure 10 come in tiIne like that from such O
u increased number OF public servants, were,
~ you can see. increased a thousand-fold. An
" yet how does the record compare? Instead
= 33 81 of q loss 10 the Thousand dollars Of pu
~ lie moneys handled, under Lineoln's Admin
tration, a. under Buchanan's, notwithstandir