The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-09

| see, bhlu tne speaker, now thN ihN
c IN be passed that will not have to b.
construed by the courts as license.
He declared that taxation was a rcve
nue. power, not a police power as tn,
Scott law made IL. That law PROVED
a failure as a police measure becaus,
more United States licenses were Is
sued the year IL was in force thar
during the previous year. He thcr
closed with n brief legal argument
TO show that taxation is really licens,
aud therefore unconstitutional II
Ohio.
FoRAKER's REPLY.
Tremendous cheering followed the
speech aud when Judge Doyle intro.
duced Judge Foraker, which was at.
ter the applause subsidized, he began
by referring to several minor points
of Hoadley's speech. He then said
that from tho character of Hoadley's
remarks he evidently mistook the
speaker for the prohibition candidate
for governor. "ihe republican plank
on the liquor traffic consists of four
explicit declarations: The first de-
nouncing the democrats for the repeal
of the Scott law; the second recogniz-
ing the right of the people to amend
the constitution, and the third and
fourth declaring in favor of the regu-
lation and taxation of the traffic" He
then read from Hoadley's inaugural
address a paragraph in which the
governor said the Scott law ought
not to be repealed.
Regarding the right of the people
to change the constitution he showed
that the democratic plan for license
could not be adopted without first
amending the constitution, which
forbids license. The republican plat
form declares in favor of the regula-
ton of the evils of the liquor traffic,
and Hoadly had Just acknowledged
the evils ought to be corrected. As
to the method of regulation he could
not, of course, foretell what a repub-
licsn legislature would do after dis
cussion of the legal methods. This
was matter of detail for the lcgisla-
tuee. The pledge of our platform
was for the proper regulation of
these evils, and the republican party
had never yet made pledge it had
broken. The speaker then took up
Hoadly's argument, that 1t is not
competent for the legislature to tax
the liquor traffic, and pointed out that
a democratic supreme court in decid-
lug the scott law unconstitutional
did not decide that the principal of
taxation was so, but that Que feature
of tho law making the tax on the traf-
flc lien on tho property occupied as
% m lanai I'll A alan
advanced the point that the same
supreme court decided thst tax. col
lected from liquor dealers, should not
not be returned. The position
seemed to be that II is unconstitu-
tional to take the tax and IL is uncon-
slitutional to give II back. lie de-
clared il was not only constitutional o
tax the liquor traffic, but 1t was
equitable to make II share the bur-
dens of the crimes IL produces.
"Ohio has three times overwhelm-
ingly defeated license and yet demo-
Gratis come pretending to favor IL
ceuse." When Hoadly proposes
this he knows 1t will BIO
two years before the license
proposition can be submitted TO
tue DeDDlb WIN uuNC hCictohoiN
rejected II. The republican party
takes heed of the matter in a practi-
cal way, dealing with the constitution
MS 1t ia. We eau tax aud we can reg
ulate the traffic under that constitu-
ton and we will so do, rs best TO pro-
mote the public welfare. Then the
speaker demanded of Hoadly whcth-
or no was in favor of high or low
grade license-$l0CJ or $50, and how
to provide for securing the license
and whether as in the constitutional
convention OF 1872 he was in favor oil
the taxation of churches aud school
houses of the state
The speaker believed In letting then
go free, for religion aud education
are necessary to the welfare of tn,
people. Foraker then turned to thu
last legislature which he declared
was the most UNANIMOUSLY corrupt II
the history Of the state. SO corrup
that while Hoadley approves of II
yet several members who were be
loved to have sold their vote to cleo
Payne senator were all dropped b.
their constituents. The speaker the
read the charges OF corruption an
bribery In the election of Senate
tpayne from q number of ditfcren
, democratic journals.