New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-24
JUDGE FORAKER OPENS ERE.

| safe to say. For some time a great journal
| has been urgently advising Judge Hoadly to
| invite his opponent to such a series OF dis
| cussions. The custom is good one it is
popular at the West and at times, as when
the soft money sophstries Of General Ewing
| were demolished by General Woodford, or,
| better still, when Mr.. Lincoln extingulshed
| Sauatter Sovereignty and Mr. Douglas together
| in the great debate in Illinois, powerful reyo-
| lutions IN public opinion have sprung from the
seed thus sown. But for that very reason
| Judge Hoadly is not likely to invite the Demo
| Gratis of Ohio to listen to the arguments OF his
| opponent Judge Foraker, III his speech on
| Saturday at Hamilton, gave an example OF his
| powers of reasoning. 1t may be that Judge
| Hoadly could surpass him in rhetoric and IN
| elocution, in wit and in subtety, and so Mr..
Douglas doubtless thought himself more than
a match for the quaint and homely methods
of MIR. Lincoln. But the straightforward,
downright, crushing simplicity Of solid truth
and sound reasoning is weapon that no other
can resist. Unhappily for Judge Hoadly, that
weapon can be used only by one who has
truth and right on his side. His opponent has
proved that he can use it, and that with tre-
mendous force.
Judge Foraker began by stating the simple
truth that the result in Ohio will powerfully
affect the political future of the country. In
a measure the Presidential contest of 1884 is
decided in Ohio in 1888. Great uncertainty
will remain for year, if the Democrats carry
that State, and that uncertainty already causes
stagnation of industry and business. " The
"incoming of the next Congress is attended
with the threat that there is to be revision
of the tariff in the interest of free trade" he
states. and il is known that Democratic con-
fidence to do mischief will be proportional to
Democratic assurance of success next year.
On that question, as Judge Foraker says, "nO
" one needs to be told where the Republican
"party stands His exposition of the reasons for
maintaining unimpaired the protective system
is so clear and strong, so simple and convincing,
that it marks him as man of superiorpower.
We do not remember to have seen for years
a more convincing statement of those reasons.
Nor would it be easy to surpass his treatment
of the lodging Democratic platform, with It's
"sections that are to be wheeled to the front
for free trade or protection as the locality
"may require it is like the Indiana school
"teacher who was willing to teach that the
"might prefer" 1t would be a treat to see
Judge Hoadly, with his evasions and subtle
ties his fine phrases and intrinsic weakness of
position within reach of his opponent on this
question
1t would be very uncomfortable, too, Tor
Judge Hoadly to discuss the Star Route bust
ness under the fire of an opponent who pro-
ceeds to show that the second trial was made
necessary by three jurymen who voted to
acquit at the first and that the leader of
these, Foreman Dickson, was for Tilden and
Reform in 1876 president of the Tilden Club
at Washington, and for bis services promised
the Marshalship of the District by Mr. Iilden.
|" He" says Judge Foraker, will doubtless be
"for the old ticket and his Marshalship
ain 1854" But at the trial che was
for acquittal, and it would seem that he
"was for acquittal for revenue Only--f0r he
I" has since been indicted by the Grand Jury
"Of the District for having been bribed." 1t
would be interesting to hear Judge HOadly
defend this corrupt Tlien Reform Demo
craft"
On one other subject it would be pleasant to
hear the two candidates face to face. Judge
Hoadly had said much of the theft of the
Presidency in 1876. His opponent replies
with crushing truth "If he could but know
"and appreciate how right-minded, sensitivey
honorable men, without regard to political
81 bias, regard the part taken by him in the
presidential controversy of 1876, he would
"never again speak in public Of the theft of
"the Presidency, Everybody knows there was
"no theft of the Presidency, and no attempt
cat theft, except only in the Oregon case, and
'that in the interest of Mr.. Tilden. Judge
Hoadly had charge of this case" And then
he goes on to show that while the Democrats,
upon every other question that came before
the Commission, voted according to party,
"when they came to my friend Hoadys case
81 they voted unanimously against it, Quite
clearly, the Democratic candidate is not going
to get within range of his opponents fire be-
fore any audience this year.
The treatment of the liquor question by
Judge Foraker is manly, simple and strong.
1t will commend itself and him to all good
citizens of Ohio. whether they are or are not
temperance men. Even the more orderly and
respectable liquor-sellers, who wish TO see the
traffic kept within decent bounds must admit
that his position is just and his reasoning
unanswerable. Even his opponents must con-
cede that his speech is that of a man who has
the courage to be honest, and that is more than
can be said of Judge Hoadly's two.faced
remarks on that subject. The great confidence