Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-14
A PENDING REvOLUrION-AN NOTE OF
WARMING.

The pending political campaign in Ohio
has intrinsic Importance, for at least one
very good reason-namely: the Demo-
cratic party of Ohio deserves to be beaten
and must be beaten, if We are to have,
hereafter, government Of the people in
this State This is plain statement Of
fact. 1t is the purpose of the Democratic
Legislature, now sitting in Columbus, to
take local governments out of the control
Of the citizens and put them in the hands
of Democratic bosses. What the Bourbon
despots have tried to do with Columbus
they will attempt to do with other cities
and towns, and we presume they will re-
main in session throughout the summer
and fall, if necessary until they have filled
the measure of their contemplated in
iquity. Their conduct is really revolu-
tionary. And, from the standpoint Of the
citizen from whom his political rights are
being wrested, it is reasonable. For try
ing to do Just this thing men have been
hanged-and very properly. These new
traitors will carry out their purposes by the
forms of law, as legal body, and SO es-
cape the gallows, but they ought to be
gibbeted in the public estimation as felons
---as statesmen who should have been sent
to the penitentiary instead Of the State
| house.
All this is part Of plan to put the
State itself into the hands of the Bosses
that complete thing may be made of put
ting the entire Commonwealth, as well as
its individual parts, the towns and cities,
under conscienceless and irresponsible
despotism. These attempts are all means
to an end. The local governments, once
in the hands Of the representatives Of the
gang, are to use their influence at the polls
to secure the election of Democrats to the
Legislature-and such Democrats as will
represent the meaner and more dangerous
elements in the party, and not the better
elements-such, in fact, as are opposed to
civil service reform and in favor of whisky
and DOODLE In phrase, the direct, dis
tinctly defined programme Of this iniquit.
Gus movement IS to revolutionize the State,
politically, so that Mr. John r. Mclean
| may become the successor OF Senator John
Sherman. To promote this end the Legis-
lature is to SO gerrymander or otherwise
manipulate Republican or doubtful towns
and cities as to secure Democratic coun-
ellis and city officers in communities that
have Republican msjorities-another re-
suit of this being tnst all attempts at self
government, and certainly all efforts at the
regulation or suppression of the liquor
traffic, and for the preservation of public
order, will be rendered abortive
The proposed revolution in the interes,
OF hummer and Whisky politics-in be-
halt of strategy, cheating, corruption,
bulldozing and all other means for de-
frauding the citizen OF the exercise of his
! share in the constituting and control of the
government And it is not simply the
duty of Republicans to thwart this revolu
tionary and diabolical purpose. but it is
also the duty Of all good citizens, of all
parties, to join in a war of determination
of this dominant and rampant faction Of
the spoils Democracy We have had a
taste of this sort Of thing under the ad-
ministration of Mr.. Constantine, and if
Mr.. Constantine could have succeeded in
wheedlng all departments Of the State
government-the executive, Legislative and
judicial-into the support and confrma-
ton of his plans. we should have been
worse off in this city than the subjects Of
the Sultan-the mere subjects Of des-
potic little boss, with only the poor privilege
left us Of existing under his reign until the
end of his term. We want no more of it,
and the Republican majority for the city
ticket on Monday, the 9Th Of April, should
be so large as to extinguish all hopes Of q
renetition of the Constantine proora mme