The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr.. j. B. Foraker seems to be
in favor of passing another unconstitu-
tional law and fixing the Supreme Court
to support it. -CleUeland Plain Dealer.
John Sherman's keynote of the
Ohio campaign is still echoing over the
country in lively competition with some
last century funeral dirges.-Ph"adet-
phia Times.
The Republican leaders and news
papers in Ohio are worried terribly over
the fact that many Republicans. tired OF
the double-dealing of their party on the
temperance question, have determined
to vote the Prohibition ticket this fall
Woodsfeld Spirit of Democracy.
john Sherman was so busy be-
laboring the ghost of twenty years ago
in his speech that he forgot the hePun-
llican position or his W on h silver
question. Governor Hoadly, on the
contrary, speaks right out on this ques-
ton, as on that of DEMONSTRATION Post.
|, The Republican candidate for
Governor of Ohio has been very prop
erlv dubbed Little Brooches" Foraker.
He is so impoverished Intellectually that
he still clings with a death-grip to the
..doctrineno of the bloody shirt, and
finds comfort in nothing else.-Nn-
cennes (Ind.J Sun.
Tho Republicans of Ohio put the
temperance issue into the present cam
paign as a strong card. but Foraker.
their candidate for Governor. now
wants to withdraw it. Hoadly, how
ever. saws board the play, the game
must 90 on, and appears to hold all the
trump cards.-Bmtalo Times.
Judge McIlvaine, who has on nc
previous occasion declined a nomina'
ton to the Ohio Supreme Court. has
now steppedd down from the Republican
State ticket. In the first thrill OF ex
element over the speeches OF Nlessrs
Sherman and Foraker the Judge wa
unable to distinguish between enthu
; siasm and goose f1esh.-Phsladetph't
8 Record.
The laws passed by the last Leg
{ islature need no defense. They ar
wholesome and have the merit to bene
3 fit the Door as well as the rich. Th
e laboring classes who have been neg
o lected by Ohio lawmakers in the past
have had wise and judicious measure
e passed directly in their interests. In
= late Democratic Legislature passed n
y laws that needs an apology.-C1euetan
e Plain Dealer.
If the state of things at the Sout
y is one-tenth as bad as Senator Sherma
t makes it out to be, and to have bee
for a and years. what have the Sci
N ator and his Republican friends bee
& doing ever since the era of reconstru'
a. toni They had the President, Col
y gress, the State Governments, tt
r. army, the courts-and yet they did n
to protect the negro. Why was this thu
Il -Rhiladelphia Record.
ut Congressman Mckinley, in
is is speech delivered a few days ago, tn
I'd to read the Democrats a lecture on Civ
'; = Service reform. and sneeringly charg
ld the Democrats with being after t.
IS, spoils. Now, what are the Republica
n afterp What did Bill Mckinley ever
OF to reform the Civil Service?" He h
in been in politics and in Congress for
IS, long time. How many Democrats b
he ever recommended for ofice?-C
tn cinnati Enquirer.
". The Republican leaders OF OF
we can not see an inch beyond their nose
'ct it ppear and fail to perceive the we
point of their adversaries and t
er chance to raise a live issue n the co
&c mercial power and political corruPtie
he of the corporations. They have the
on fore commenced threshing over
s sia; straw on the subject of the bloody sh
Sc and the war issues which were res I
at judicasa five years ago.-ftttsba'
"a Dispatch