The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-05-02
ron G0KEREOR OF ONO.
Hon. D. B. Foraker.
COMMENTS OF THE REPUBLI-
CAN PRESS.

From Hooking Valley Gaz., Apl. 1871
No man whose name has been
suggested for Governor would more
surely suggest victory from the start
than Hon. Joseph B. Foraker, Of Gin
cinnad
If nominated he will run. If he
runs he will be elected.
His record, his history, his quail
fcations and capacities offer assur-
ance of strength possessed in fuller
degree by no one yet named or who
will be named.
His location is a good one--Cin-
cinnati Hamilton county. The
possibilities of National disaster
cluster around the suggestion of Re
publican defeat in that county. The
reasonable assurance of State and
National victory in 1883 and 1884
come hopefully commingled with the
thought of victory this year in that
locality.
We can afford to put forward For
aker to meet Hoadly on his own
chosen battle ground.
He can beat Hoadly in Hamilton
county.
His connection with Ohio politics
has been that Of the member of
great party working for its success in
the ranks of the disinterested. He
has not been the follower of a
faction. He does not belong to the
faithful serfs of good leaders who
can be kicked and cuhed when oc-
casion requires, and be whistled into
faithful allegiance when service is
needed. Nor yet is he the enemy of
anybody, who has required to be
petted and coaxed, and given the
honors of office to secure his fidelity
when the policy has been to "buy
up our enemies, we own our friends. "
He went to war, boy in the gal
lant and fated 8oth Ohio Volunteers.
Without friends to back him with
political aid, with his unerring rifle
and shining bayonet and his trusty
sword he won fame and unmerited
distinction.
No brighter example Of what de-
voted loyalty, brilliant and chival-
rous courage and unfaltering fidelity
could do for a soldier of 1861 exists
than that placed in enduring form
upon the records Of Ohio's devotion
to the Union, by the gallant young
soldier, Ben Foraker, of Highland
county.
His record upon the bench Of the
Superior Court Of Cincinnati, in the
seat in which had sat such men as
Gholson, Spencer, Storer and Til
den, was such as to maintain the
high character of that distinguished
tribunal.
His life has been model of virtue
and christian integrity.
He does not antagonize the pri-
vate ideas of our adopted fellow citi-
zens, so far as to render victory i'm
possible, and yet he is, in his own
| private and public views abreast
with the best ideas, convictions and
purposes Of the Republican party.
He will be a candidate for Gov
ernor, not for something else. The
Governors office will be to him the
goal of his race and not the stepping
stone to some other place.
His candidacy will provoke no
iealousies in Ohio or outside Of
Ohio.
1t will exalt nobody, and will hu-
initiate nobody He is an exponent
of the party's purposes and Princi-
plies, and his election will signify the
triumph of the party and not a fac
ton.
His campaign will grow in popu-
larity and strength from the moment
| it is launched. The halo of young
heroism, and youthful devotion to
country, and knightly chivalry in
war will descend like a benedictiOn
upon his contest.
And at the end victory, personal,
political and National, will crown
him as her prime and especial favor
ite.
To our mind the list of candidates
named and announced presents moi
the superior, nor yet the equal o.
| J. B. Foraker.
! TAdams County New Era, April 20.
OF all the gentlemen spoken O.
for the Republican nomination fol
! Governor, no one, should he receive
the nomination, can command more
votes than Judge Foraker, Of Cincin
natl. The Judge is young man, 3|
years old, has a good army record
having entered the army at the age
of 10 years and passed through some
of the hardest battles of that con
test. Notwithstanding his younl
years, the people of Hamilton coun
tv elected him as one of the Judge
of the Superior Court of that county
a position which he filled most &C
ceptably to the people until com
pelled to resign on account Of il
health. Give US Foraker, and Their
will no longer be anV doubt as Il