The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-09-11
Extracts from the All dress of
Hon. JAS. w. NEWMAN,
AT LOGAN, WEDNESDAY EVEN.
ING, SEPT. 10th.

| Fellow CITIzENs:-The Amer
lean citizen is once more..called up
ON to enter the arena of polite.
| A Presidential contest is before us
We are moving toward November
The parties are in the field wit
their pIal alforms and their can
didates. The conventions hav
done their work and the decision
of the people are now awaited. Th'
Democratic party has put forwar
a ticket upon ap'atform that mean
reform in the administration of tn
Federal Governments whoIesom
correction of abuses. The nOmin
alton of Cleveland means icform il
IFS broadest sense As the reform
Govelno of New York ne is tn
fit successor of the candidacy O
Samuel j. Tilden; fit to accomplis.
the work which the grea' Statesman
was called by the people to perform
but which the fraud of 1876 deniet
him the opportunity to accomplish
Thos. A. Hendricks, still in the Wig
or Of a splendid manhood. has beer
put forward to there election of tn,
Vice Presidency-an official trus
which common justice and common
honesty and the right of election
all demand should be confined to hi.
keeping. The Democracy of Obi,
must meet e first shock of tbt
battle in October. 1t will meet i,
with high hope and dauntless cour
ase. The glad light of victory al
ready gllds its banner, and its ad
vancing columns send words ol
cneef 10 the sister States.
CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATOR NEED.
When the patriot, proud of The
history OF his country and anxiou.
for its future looks for serious mo
ment into the condition of affairs
he must be impressed with the
thought that a change of admins
tration, a change of parties and a
change of men is desirable by the
highest and best interests of the coun
try. When he looks back and re-
views the conduct of public affairs
during the past fifteen years, and
measures how far We have drified
from the purity and honest meth
DDS of the fathers, he must feel that
a change is desirable. What Goes be
see? Corruption stalking through
the corridors OF the capitol and find
ing lodgment in pubic places.
Credit Mobe:ier in Congress.
Post tradeship sales in the Cab =,
met.
Whisky rings in the revenue
service.
Star route thieves IN the derart-
ments.
The squandering of public lands
for the benefit of private corpora,
a lions.
The treasury assaulted through
river and harbor bills.
Extravaganza everywhere crown
ed with official bribery and known
venali'y.
Where is all this to stop?
In the face of these facts we find
the. party in power putting forward
as its candidate for the Presidency
a man who was twice defeated for
the nomination by his own party
in two National Conventions be-
cause he Was tainted, because he was
unsafe. At last this year, 1884. he
has been given the nomination by
the strength of the very element
That has figured and flourisbed
Lhroagh these years of pecu alton
and corruption. The very crowd
hat has brought shame upon is
party and upon the country named
his leader, whom his own confes
,lons show made merchandise of
lis decisions in the Speakers chair,
nd sought t. profit by them.
)UT OF POWER-BUT A CHECK TO
BAD LEGISLATION.
The Democratic party has been
or almost a quarter of a century
,een powerless TO carry out any
of reform without the con
ent of its opponents 1t has not
t any time during that period had
ontrol of all branches of government.
3ut with the strength it has had
everal times in control of the
House, it has been unable to force
he adoption of measures for the
elief of the psop'e.
HE SPECTRE OF THE BROKEN.
It recalls to mind the old Ger
ian legend that comes to us from
he Hartz mountains. The travel
rs, we are told. who went up into
ne mountains and assembled the
ighest peak-the Brocken could
,e, in the early morning light, a ,
liant spectre that seemed to hover ,
bout the summit, that moved IN !
,e mists and clouds, and startled ,
le behOlder. 1t was the "Spectre G
the Brocken." But scientists in ,
the mystery, and it was ,
scovered that the wiered spectre :
"s but an image of the traveller :
mself, which was thrown by the G
VS. of the rising sun on the mists {