Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-08-30
Past and Present Political Warnings.
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Shall the people of Ohio be turned
away from the knavery of the republi-
can party and allow it TO go cOrrupting
the government and politics, and for
eign and home policies, because the
democratic party, in the failure of the
millennium to arrive on time, is not alb
sOlutely immaculate in every corner and
hole of this country? They have raised
great clamor about many things OF
small importance in order to divert the
attention of the people: They have
studiously impressed it upon their own
machine men in every county that this
is national election which IS to settle
the question as to the election of 1884.
They are moving by every means to OBJ
tain from the rings, jobbers, and no.
nopolies money enough to enable them
to repeat in Ohio the scenes of Indiana
in 1880. They regard this election as of
equal Importance in this year, preceding
the presidential nominations, with that
in Indiana in 1880 just before the ma
tional election.
Behind all this reign of the vilest
falsehood and conspiracy between the
vilest social elements in both parties
they are preparing for a campaign of
money. With Foster as the manager,
none need be told what the canvass will
be. 1t will be fight to the death for
ring rule, jobbery, monopoly, the abili-
ty to carry next election by bribery.
The man who sOOd back of Dorsey and
directed the Dorsey operations is the
man who is to manage this matter.
Heis not the less powerful that he does
not openly and unblushingly organize
his thugs and use open fraud and high
handed and Violent methods, like the
pitiful transient democratic boss of
Hamilton County. There is no more
unscrupulOus, no more insinuating, no
more cautious, and no more powerful
boss in the United States than this man,
who is loathed and despised by all de-
decent men of all parties. His power
lies in his being consummate master of
all the arts by which his party has won
and holds its place, coupled with q
thorough knowledge of all the elements
of which he must wave his snare.
1t is this Ohio head center of all
American bossism against which the
people of Ohio have another Opportuni-
ty to protest. We ask them to pause
and reflect whether democracy has
warned them without reason at any
time during the past fifteen years. Dur
ing Grants first term it told them what
they had to expect from the elements
which nominated him for his second
term. During the canvass it warned
them of the growth of jobbery, and en-
forced it's warnings by the testimony of
such men as Greeley and Charles Sum-
mer and hundreds Of respectable repub-
licans, including Charles Frances
Adams. The outcropping of the whis-
ky rings, the post-tradership rings,
the Belnap scandal, and many like
kinds of jobbery in high and low
places justified all that had been said in
warning.
Again the people were told what they
might expect from putty Hayes in ths.
hands of KellOggs and Chambers and
Dorseys, the remnants of the carpet bag
and other political and business rings.
Was the warning not justified by the
great fraud; the rewarding of the in
struments OF that fraud; the trusting in
public place of the meanest and lowest
knaves that ever held office in any
country; the Hayes compact by which
Packard, morally the best of Hayes
supporters, was ousted of a seat he had
won if Hayes had won his-an custer
right in itself, but a knavish piece of
work in Hayes, and cowardly submits
sion to few Southern men who de-
manded local freedom as the price of alb
stention from filibustering? Was the
warning not justified by the growth of
the star route ring, which was to con-
troll the next election? Was it not ius-
tilted by the bankers syndicates and
the enormous profits paid bankers for
refunding, the work of that great finan-
cier, John Sherman, who has never
been known to neglect any American
banking industry when it needed profits
at the public expense?
Again in 1850 democracy warned the
people what would come of again trust.
leg this knavish jobber party. Was the
warning not justified when it appeared
that % ring of thieves and politicians
had taken possession of the govern
ment, got control of both candidates
and bought the election with money
gathered from the monopolies and sto
len from the government?
Again democracy warns the people o
Ohio. They are contending with thu
same jobbery party, with the same bos
system, and the same rings, under new
forms and with changes of names
Whether Foster appear as head, or Dor
sey at the head and Foster in the back
ground, is of no consequence; the sys
tenn is the same. The people of Ohi'
are engaged in struggle with bossism
and jobbery, and bribery, and if the,
fail to crush it they weaken, although
not destroy, their chance foraccompiisIl
ing that end in 1884. Now is the TIM
to strike.
This is the single issue which trans
cends all Others, and, despite their can
vass of lies and trifies, despite loca
foul spot upon democracy which we re
gret and confess exists, the great battl
will be fought upon the true lines, drawn
where they belong, ignoring all mino
matters and necessities for local reform
Prior to all these, and without which
they can not even be attemted, is tn
necessity for crushing out the sourc,
and fountain head of all corruption.
Women who Suffer Those Terribl,
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