The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-12
CLOSING THE OHIO CANVASS.
The Final Meeting of the Rival Stand
ard-Bearers at Cincinnati.
Hoadly Restates His Position on the Liquor
Question, and Foraker Declares Repub-
Iicans Favor Practical Legislation.

CINcINNATr, o.. Oct 10-The campaign was
practically closed, tonight, by the second joint
debate between Governor Hoadly and Judge
Foraker. When Music Hall was opened, at
CLOCK, great crowd surged through the doors
and quickly filed the vas. hall. Four hundred
OF the foremost citizens. equally divided between
the two parties, occupied seats on the stage. The
balcony and the gallery above it were filled with
ladies and their escorts. The windows, high up
over all, were filed with eager listeners, who
stood on the roof outside The floor was packed
with humanity. At least 5000 people waited for
8 o'clock to come. band played in the rear of
the hail. The enthusiasm broke out every now
and then, till the dust and hung heavy be-
low tho high arches of the groined roof. Sharply
on the stroke of the meeting was called to
order Ex-Minister Taft introduced Foraker.
Taft arrived from Russia only last night. and be-
tween cheers for himself and for Foraker his
few words of introduction were inardible, even
at the reporters tables directly in front. The
applause which greeted Foraker came from the
front OF the audience and the side balconies,
showing that the Republicans were massed
nearer the platform. When Hoadly came in,
and the two greeted each other cordially and
shook hands, the applause came from both par
ties alike. It was some minutes before Foraker
could secure silence enough to begin. He was
SO frequently interrupted that. after speaking
twenty minutes, he appealed to Hoadly to ask
for him fair treatment from the Democrats in
the rear of the hail. The Governor himself
could hardly get hearing, but when he did.
bod @Aaf Inx, 70 ry1ryn Enr olono hoa
and that Republicans do the same for him.
Then for while there was comparative quiet,
but when Hoadly began speaking he was sub
jected to much the same annoyance. This was
due less to the presence of roughs than because
those in the were impatient because they
could not hear we'll
Judge Foraker appeared five minutes before 8,
and received vociferous greeting. Governor
Hoadly's appearance three minutes later was sig
nalized in like manner. When the applause
which greeted the presentation of Judge Foraker
had subsidized he began by saying he would briefly
review the Toledo discussion. At that place
Judge HoaGly had devoted his entire opening
speech to the discussion of personal liberty and
argued in favor of license He led the audience
to think that the only question between the par
ties was prohibition "1n answering him, said
the Judge, ~ pointed out that there such
issue. except such as existed in the vivid magma
ton of one who fired one hundred guns in honor Of
Cleveland's nomination" He went to say
that he pointed out that the issue was wholly diff
ferent-that the Republicans proposed to do some
thing practical with the whisky question, while the
Democratic plan was to do nothing. Further,
he pointed out reasons why the last Legislature
was not worthy of Endorsement When Judge
Hoadly rejoined he manifested displeasuro be-
cause prohibition was not made an issue, The
party had not put in the platform what he had
asked them to do, but he In speeches had made
the issue. Governor Hoady ended by an abuse OF
the Republican party, hence the speaker would
now say something about that party. True. it
was out of power, but 1t did not GO out as did
the Democratic party In 1860 Instead OF being
condemned. the Republican party enjoys the un-
qualified appreciation of the people. He then
reviewed the leading achievements of the Re
publican party, which had been accepted and
approved even by the Democratic party Even
Mr. Hendricks said there were no issues, only
corruption and fraud, but the books and the
money when examined and counted, showed
the greatest victory of all. He begged Judge
Hoady in the presence of this audience
to utter no more SANDER against the
"grand old Republican party" Referring to
charges that memories of the war were being re-
called by the Republican party, he said if that
was true then Ohio was behind Virginia, for
there the Democratic party is carrying on cam
paign with only General Lees memory an is
sue But what Republicans in Ohio meant by
reviving issues of the war was the injustice of
one man in Ohio only having one seventh the
political power of Georgian. But he preferred
to talk about State politics. and referred again
to the charge of corruption in the election of
Senator Paine. The only answer of Judge
Hoadly was equal to confession and avoidance.
He only said that when Democrats did wrong
there was an outcry, while Republicans kept
STILL
During this part of his remarks the Interrupt
lions were such that he stopped, and Governor
Hoadly, rising, said: "Any Democrat who inter
rupts Judge Foraker is acting badly"
The house became still, and afterwar6 main
tanned better order. Judge Foraker then went
on to repeat in some degree his charges made
before against the record Of the last State Legis
lature, and said that although it had been guilty
of much extravaganza he wished it had made one
more expenditure-that of the cost of taking
Governor Hoadly and staff to attend the
funeral of General Grant lApplause.l Re
ferring to the bonded Indebtedness of Ohio, and
to the refunding contract at 3 60 per cent. which
Governor Hoadly dsproved, Governor Hoadly
said Secretary Robinson had approved that con-
tract Il have telegram" he said, from Sec
rotary Robinson saying that Governor Hoadly
had approved that contract in the first place
at per cent" Referring to the reorganiza-
ton of Cincinnati by taking the police
from the mayor he said it was done that the
lieutenant, Mullen, might have full sway. ICON
fusion. He charged that the disposition to have
Lieutenant Mullen in power was further shown by
the refusal of the Democrats to sustain the action
of the committee of one hundred which is trying
to prevent fraud at next Tuesdays election. Re
turning to the temperance issue, he said license
cannot be had under three years at the earliest.
Judge Hoadly is as much a prohibtionist as
DR.. Leonard, the only difference being that
Leonard wants absolute prohibition, while Hoad-
ly wants control by licensing the exclusive few
and prohibiting all the rest.
When his time expired, Judge Foraker re-
marked that he was sincerely glad of It.
iCheers.
GOVERNOR HoADLys REPLY.
He began by saying he had Two duties to per-
forn-one disagreeable and one agreeable. The
aisagreeable one was mistake of his own. He
intended to say William III. Seward died Demo
crat, but he inadvertently said Lincoln died a
Democrat, and he relied now on the reporters
to make his apology to his Toledo audiences
His second duty was to welcome Judge Taft
back to his home-to welcome him, because
though he is a Republican, he was an open en-
envy, and yet had heretofore argued in favor of a
license system, although Judge Foraker brought