The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-08
IN ISRAEL,
The David who is to Slay the
Bourbon Goliath.
The Stones in his Sling are Indig-
nation and RetributiOn.
How the Democratic Party has H.
creased Taxes in ohio,
And why the Philistine Govern
ment Should be OverthrOWn.
The State Robbed Of Millions by
the HGadly Gang.
The "BOOdle" Governor in the
Role Of an ApOIOgist.
He Gives up the GOvernOrship but
Wants the Legislature:
The SenatOrship and the Prohibit
tiOn Movement.
A Time for Buckeye Republicans
to be on Guard,
Lest the Dwellers in the Tents of
WickedneSs Prevail.
A Time for Buckeye Republicans
to be on Guard,
Lest the Dwellers in the Tents Of
WickedneSS Prevail.


WiCkedneSS Prevail.
Special Correspondence OF he LlielgenoT.
CoLUNBrs, Oct. The remaining laEt
week of the Ohio canvass is to be a very
active one. The Republicans will hold
upwards OF one hundred and fifty meet
ings, and the Democrats will have all OF
their speakers in the field. The canvass
this year has been in the main quiet one,
bu! none the less effective on that ac-
count. The Republicans had the advsut-
age from the beginning in the discussion
OF State issues, and they have pressed
their points with much force. The Demo
Gratis have not been able to come forward
with satisfactory answers to the charges
Of recklessness aud extravaganza brought
against them. Tbe State OF Ohio has been
plunged heavily iuto. debt by the Demo-
Gratis in the past tao years. The general
debt has increased about 81 900 COO, and
in one year, 1881. the county deb's in
creased six hundred thousand dollars.
The county tex to supply the county
funds increased from 8, ,6i7 G55 in 1883 to
-, 500, ,7Gl in 1854, The bridge tax rose
from Sl,gO2,75 in 1888 to $2072, ,S6S in
1881. This steady increase 10 the local in.
debtednfss aud taxation is plainly due to
the vicious system ot legislation which
prevailed in the Democratic Legislature
aud which has had a demOraliZipg effect
and hss encouraged extravagauce and in
debteduess for local purposes.
COST or GOVERNMENT.
The writer's investigations led TO the
significant discovery that the cost of gov.
eruing Democratic counties ia more than
fifteen percent greater than The cost Of
trausacling all Of the public business in
Republican counties corresponding pop
ula,ions and areas. The Ieafon is this!
Republicans are much larger property
holders and lax payers than Democrats,
and are Therefore more deeply interested
in the economical management Of local
affairs. Ia many OF the Democratic
counties OF the Stale tie party in power is
controlled by men who are not tax payers
and who have much IN gain and nothing
to lose by the reckless management OF
public slairS. The repeal or julicisl de.
strnc;ion OF the Scott law, which furnished
two million dollars from nou-tsx paying
citizens, epd which supported the county
in[lrmaries, was demanded by The nom
tax paying voters and the Democratic
party through Governor Hosdly yielded
to the demand, and the most satisfactory
liquor Law ever given 70 Ohio was de-
stroyed by \ IaItisan Suplene Court.
The financial exhibit OF the peni;en.,irT
affords another striking illustration OF the
inability Of that party 10 econoniEe. In
the year ending November |, 1883. under
Republican administration, the peuitaH,
tiary paid the State a net profit OF $751;
OIL OS. In the nine months ending July
8, 1885, the penitentiary vas under the
full control Of the Democrats, and lts net
cost 10 the State for the period was $S5E
$50 81. Under Governor Hoadly's ad-
miuistralion the cost to tho State Of sup
porting an inmate in the peniteat!1ry one
wear was twenty dollars mora than II Sas
under Governor Foster. In the Blind
ASYLUM it was tWonty-three dollars more,
in the Insane Asylum thirty dollars more,
aud in the industrial Home Tor giI!s S52 %
more. The Democrats have put the cor,
yict labor at the penitentiRry into direct
competition With free labor, aud have
score OF commercial Rgents travelling about
the country selling Lrooais and harness
for smaller amounts OF money than hauest
working men can buy the material and
labor to produce the same GOODS. a
printing office has been equipped in the
penitentiary and Democratic campaign
literature issued from il.
The Democratic party OF Ohio has iur'
nished about ninsty'eight percent ot the
official criminals and dsfaulteTs in the
State OF Ohio. Within the last decade
twenty-five Democratic treasureTs and one
Democratic clerk in ntEeIty.six Democratic
counties have stolen over one million and
A half OF dollars from the tax payeTI.
Within the same tims defalcations have
occurred in four Republican counties, and
in each OF these counties the treasury vas
reimbursed, but in the Democratic coun.
lies few Of the deiAulters have been pun
ished aud not one. fourth OF the money
stolen has been refunded 10 the people.
The United States colony Canada has
been generously recruited from the ranks
Of the Ohio DemocrRtS
HoADLY's MELANCHOLY cAMPAfax.
Governor HosdIy is not making bril-
liant campaign, though it is always ad-
mitted that he is brilliant man socially
and professionally. The Governor Is EN-,
barrrassed by the array Of State issues
briefly outlined in foregoing paragraphs,
and he is on bad terms with his own
party, and is at ana on the liquor question,
So this most brilliant blunderer OF man
kind raves about the State, alternately
proclaiming that he is proud Of the lead
ing part which he took in securing the
pardon OF Lieutenant Mullen, and assert
ing that be wants no Prohibition votes.
When the Probibitiouists take the Cover
nor gently 70 task for his reckless asser-
tions. he calmly answers that II he did say
that he wanted no Prohibition votes that
| they must not mind it, because 1t was only
one OF George Ioadlys mistakes, and
nothing WIS meant by It, Hoadly's repu-
tation for laundering, and the estimation
in which he Ia held by the Democratic
party, was well sllted in some biting par
agraphs written shortly after his Inaugural
ton, by Allen o. Myers. Hoadiy's "elo-
quent young friend" Myers, wrotei
There is nothing remarkable In the new
Governors fist public effort eI.
leep. his anxiety displayed in
every suggestion 10 the Legislature
lest II thall ruin his political ambition.
The Legislature hiss more to fear from
lEoveynhP HOadly than he hRg fFOm H. His