Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-09
The Republican Standard Bearer Ar
raigns the Democracy for Broken
Promises and Misconduct in
Public Affairs.

ISedOO "clo PIcS6uG. OeH. JO0D BEAU
made the speech of welcome. The ad
dress was full of remarkable utterance.
and presented in striking phrases, tn
dangers IN the path of the American Re
public. At the conclusion of Genera
EBeatty's address. Judge Foraker was in
troduced and was greeted with rounds o
applause. He made an eloquent ant
mastery address, reviewing the Demo
cratic mismanagement of the State Gov
eminent since they came into power il
lSS3. After referring to the hearty re
Eception rendered him, he spoke substan,
tially as follows:
+ And now l do not know how l could
get better invitation had l tried than
this affords me, to speak some of the
reasons to you why the Republicans OF
the State of Ohio will come up to Colt
umbuS in January next to take possess
sion of the state offices that are then to
be filed. But 1 cannot undertake to tell
you all of them tonight. Naughter.)
There are too many of them to be emu
merated in any one speech, especially in
any one such short speech as it is proper
for me to make here this evening. Suf-
fee it to say, however, they pertain not
only to national politics, as you have
learned from the eloquent remarks of
General Beatty this evening. but they
also pertain to our state affairs.
And now that you have heard seme
thing about national politics. and in view
of the fact that we are here within the
shadow of this Capitol building, will
take some of your time to talk to you
about some of those reasons that pertain
to our state affairs, why the Republican
party is coming into power as we trust
at the next election. (Applause) Now
we have had, ever since the election of
1883 went into effect, Democratic state
government in the State of Ohio. Their
time is not yet quite out, but there is
not anybody in the State of Ohio that
hnO"o VI GiIdG 10 uOG IcduJ "
have them quit forthwith. daughter
and applause) Now, why is this? am
not here, my fellow citizens. to claim
that all the integrity of this country is
represented and to be found in the Re
publican party. On the contrary, know
that the great mass and majority of the
Democratic party are as honest as any,
body else. That may seem strange to
you but it is true. (Laughter) And
they are just as anxious as nybody else
to have good government, but somehow
or other they do not have such good lut k
in that respect as somebody else. laugh
teri But while l am not here to claim
faults of that kind. / am here to claim
and to make it good to you, too, that this
Democratic state government which we
have been having, especially as to the
legislative part of it, has been a sore,
bitter and humiliating disappointment
to the people of Ohio. applause. A
voice: That's right.') l want to go
further and say of it that it has been
nothing short of an indecent outrage
upon the people and the interests of the
State of Ohio. (Applause. A voice:
That's so.")
Now let us look at it, To make good
that assertion compare their record first
with their professions. You may not
have as good a recollection as l have of
what they claimed in that canvass of
1888 (laughter), but | remember some1
thing about it. And | remember among
other things that all over the state of
Ohio, where Democratic orators went,
we heard loud and eloquent and earnest
professions to the effect that the Demo-
cratic party was the great civil service
reform party, and that if they only suc-
ceeded in getting into power they would |
give to the people of Ohio good, healthy,
clean, pure and economical administra-
tion. Well, they came into power and |
the first thing they had to do was the
thing which showed their absolute in
with respect to the matter of |
civil service reform, as well as their
faithlessness in some other particulars.
For the first thing that that Legislature
had to do was to elect successor in the
Senate of the United States to Hon.
George II. Pendleton. Now Mr. Pendle-
ton had been for six years in the United
States Senate representing his party and
the state. He was a man of acknowl-
edged high character and culture. A
man of ability. A life long Democrat.
A man in every way calculated to worth
lily and respectfully represent his party
and bis state in that body from a party
standpoint at least. Other things equal,
1t would have been in the line of civil
service reform that he should have been
continued there. He was an applicant
for re election. But he was not elected
according to my recollection. (Laugh-
teri On the contrary, he was relegated
to private life, and that, too, in the most
humiliating and mortifying manner in
which 1T could be done. And all for
what? For no other alleged reason than
that MIR. Pendleton was a civil service
reformer. He had been the author of a
measure in that behalf. He had cham
pioned it. His name was identified with
the measure. And as his reward for
such service he saw his political head
cut off and rolled into the political waste
basket. That, l say, was enough of it,