Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-13
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Monday. August I3, 1883.
DEMOCRACY IN OHIO.

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 The action just taken by tho Ohio Liquor
 Dealers Protective Association is important
 and significant. At the meeting eighty dele
 gates were present, and it was decided that
 the liquor dealers of Ohio ought to be, if
 they are not already, good Democrats. The
 chairman in his remarks put the case of the
 liquor dealers as well as he could. The ob-
 noxious laws, he saidi passed by the Repub-
 ican legislature had caused great disaffection | in the Republican ranks, as was shown by the last two eiectioms. The Pond biH and
 the Scott law had proved too heavy for them
 to carry. The Scott law was made to redeem 1 lost cause. He charged the Republican
 party with trying to please the temperance
 people with the local option clause and the
 saloon keeper by repeating part of the
 Adair law and others by regulating the mat
 ter by local ordinance. The Scott law in-
 creased rather than diminished the number of low places. He believed in making the
 business legitimate, and in divorcing it en
 tirely from bad associations, the result of which
 would be to make the business respectable
 The two constitutional amendments were i'm
 portant and should be well considered.
 Either of them was dangerous to the funda-
 mental principles of government. The speak
 CT believed that personal liberty should be
 supreme. In conclusion, he thought that their hopes rested with the Democracy, and their success depended on the defeat of the Republican party. A Democratic governor of Ohio in 1883 means Democratic presi- dent in 1884, and the work therefore for them was plain. The resolutions adopted were to the effect that there are rights in every free government beyond the control of the State, and government ignoring them was des- potism. The money exacted under the Scott and Russell bills was a legalized extortion and robbery. The Scott bill was conceived in demagogism and passed under false title, and ls hypocritical pretense to regulate the evils of the liquor traffic. All classes of persons were interested in warning against the Scott law, which would otherwise result in the un- dermining of all Democratic institutions of the country, etc., etc.
 This is certainly frank-perhaps 8 | little too frank for the Democratic party managers who want the votes of the l liquor dealers, but do not care to be openly l embraced by them. It makes one and per haps the chief issue of the campaigA very | plain The Republicans of Ohio have made | an attempt to regulate the liquor traffic by a | law which is bringing great deal of money into the public treasury and is not injuring This law was not, as the Hquor | dealers resolutions charge, passed in a spirit | of demagogism. Demagogues do not will | inely offend the liquor dealers. Tho liquor | dealers of Ohio are decidedly behind the | times in their protest against the regulation | of their tralao by lHw..~ ghsyz zna thvir Dem. ocratic allies will doubtless discover this fact sooner or later. Until they do it will be in- | teresting to watch the workings of the Dem 1 ocratic liquor dealers party of Ohio.