St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-09

any previous year Inc speaker closed with !
a brief legal argument to show that taxation
as a license was unconstitutional.
JUDGE FoRAKER's SPEECH.
Tremendous cheering followed the
speech. Judge Doyle then introduced
Judge Foraker. who after the applause had
subsidized, began by referring to several
minor parts OF Hoadly'S speech. He then
said:
That from the character of Hoadly's re-
marks he evidently mistook the speaker for
Leouard, the Prohibition candidate for COVER
nor. The Republican plank on the liquor
tfalc IS IN the form of explicit declarations:
First denOuncing Democrats for the repea
OF the Scott law. Second. recognizing the
right of the people to amend the constitution.
Third and fourth. declaring in favor OF the
regulation and taxation of the traffic. He
read from Hoadly's inaugural address par
agraph in which the governor said the Scott
law onght not TO be repealed.
Inc Republican platform declares in favor of
the regulation Of the evils OF the liquor traf-
nc Hoadly had just acknowledged that the
evils ought to be corrected. AS to the method
OF regulation he could not of course foretell
what q Republican legislature would do. The
pledge OF the platform is for the proper regu-
Ia6ion OF those evils and the Republican
party has never yet made pledge it has
broken. The speaker then took UP Hoadiey's
argument that it is not competent for the
legislature to tax the liquor traffic and
pointed out that Democratic supreme court
in deciding the Scott law unconstitutional did
not decide that the principle of taxation was
unconstitutional but that one feature of the
law making Il tax on the traffic lien on proper
ty occupied aS Il saloon was unconstitutional.
Their position is that it is unconstitutional to
take tax and unconstitutional to give it
! back. He declared that it is not only cOGsti-
tuuonal to tax the liquor traffic, but equit-
able TO make it share the burdens of the crime
it produces. Ohio three times has over
whemingly defeated licenses, yet the Demo-
Gratis come pretending to favor license. When
Hoadly proposes this he knews it will be
years before the license proposition can be
submitted to people who have heretofore re-
Jected it. The Republican party takes hold
OF the matter in a practical way, dealing with
the constitution as it is. We can tax it, we
can regulate it under the constitution and
VIII GO so as is best to promote the public
welfare. Then the speaker demanded of
h0ady whether he was in favor of a high or a
low graded license? a thousand-dollar or fifty
dollar one? How to provide for securing Ii
cense: Whether as in the constitutional con-
Ventlon OF 1872 he was in favor of
TAXATION OF CHURCHES
and school houses Of the state. The speaker
believed in letting them GO free: religion and
education are necessary to the welfare of the
people. Foraker then turned his attention
10 The last legislature, which he declared was
the most 1nfamously corrupt in the history
OF corruption and bribery in the election Of
senator Payne from number of different
democratic Journals. He then turned to the
Democratic management of the Ohio peniten-
uary. He showed that in this institution, I'M
der the last year of Gov. Fosters adInnistra-
ton. there had been a net profit of over
S33, 900, While the last year. the first
OF democratic rule. this has been re-
duced to $4,000, $4,000 Of which was
realized from the Republican system of
it. The speaker then referred to the so-called
ripper bills, reOrganiZing Cincinnati and
other cities of the state in the interest of the
Democratic party. Then the speaker turned
TO the bonded debt of the state and showed
that eighteen months before bonds were due
statute was passed for It's refunding, which
differed from all former laws for such pur-
pose III allowing new lands to be disposed of
without advertising, but refunding might
BE DONE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT
approved by the governor. Foraker closed by
referring to HOadlys conduct i'll the consti-
tutiCnal convention and asked him if he were
still opposed to having any mention OF God in
the state constitution? Whether he still Op-
posed, as he did then, provision for i'm
peaching judges for drunkenness? Whether
he was still in favor OF taxing churches and
schools? Foraker declared he was not in
favor OF taxing them rs he regarded educa-
ton and morality as the safeguards Of the
nation. He closed by asking if Hoadiy ia
vored high license or low license, q S., 500 or
$50 license.
His close was met with rounds of cheers
and Hoadly stepped forward and said
twice
"DODGED AGAIN.
He talked for an hour and half,
aud no human being can tell whether
he is for prohibition or against it"
He called attention to the fact that Robinson,
the Republican secretary OF state, was one of
Tf,,
contract which he (Hoadly) had vetoed. The
speaker turned to the prohibition question
and characterized Foraker as the candidate
who could take refuge i'll profound silence on
the most vital question OF the campaign.
Regarding the charges of corruption concern
ing the election of Senator Payne, which
Foraker read from Democratic papers, Hoadly
said, when there is such double dealing in the
Democratic party, Democrats are up
in arms protesting, but in the Republican
ranks there is silence when corruption
is on foot. AS to the structures on the Den-
Tertiary management, he showed there were
two Republican members of the board and
there has never been Il protest against the
action of the board from them. The peni-
tentiary came to the Democrats nothing but
walls and prisoners and vermin. The state
has made 10 money, but it is because OF the
change from convict to piece-system price,
and declared the expenditures of the govern
ment for his two years time were S141, 600
less than IN tnc TWO years OF RepuDllcan dd-
ministration. Re disputed Foraker's state
ments of extravaganza in state expenditure
Regarding the decision of the supreme court
as to refunding the Scott tax to liquor deal
ers, EOadly noted the fact that the decision
made by a bench OF but three judges,
two of whom were Republicans. He
eXtolled the liquor code of the
state repealed by the Scott Law
and declared it provided perfectly against the
evils of drinking to excess. He declared i'll
favor of low license as against high license
for license as against prohibition. He did
not favor license so high that it would pro-
hibit. Regarding the Columbus Ripper
bill, Hoadly showed up the Republican re-
organization of Cincinnati twenty years ago,
from which he declared the Columbus bill to
be copied He closed with a severe arraign-
ment of the Republican party for inconsist-
ency, and expressing the kinde st feelings for
Foraker personally.
Round after round of cheers for both
speakers were given as the meeting closed
The order was excellent, and the immense
audience paid the closest attention through
out.
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