The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE.
The Troubles and Perplexities That Sur
round Ohio Republicans.


The Ohio Republicans thought it
would be an excellent plan to start their
campaign very early in the summer and
have all the fun they could while there
was nobody around to interfere with
them.
The plan worked well. They had
their convention early and there was
vociferous shouting and mighty dis
play of valor and dauntless enthusiasm
when there was nobody else around to
get in the way. Mr.. Foraker had a reg
ular picnic going about over the State
making speeches, and various campaign
orators with much heat and excitement
went up and down the State proclaim
ing how valiantly the Republicans of
Ohio were going to wipe the earth with
the sad and discouraged Democracy.
They had their own way for long
while and the Democrats sat in the
shade and enjoyed the circus. But a
change has come and the party that
was SO jubilant month ago is harassed
with many troubles and plunged in
darkness and perplexity.
There is the Prohibition trouble to
begin with. The Prohbitionists are q
perverse set of people, and the sorrow
they cause the Republicans can never
be told. They will not vote with the
Republicans. but insist upon going their
own way. They do not admire Mr.. j.
B. Foraker and his patent double-action
plan of regulation by the eternal prin-
ciple of taxation. And when they are
jeered. maligned and abused and lied
about and called :'lunk heads and
id fanatics by the Republican
press, they will not be in the least
moved by these powerful arguments,
but persist in voting for their own man.
even if he did take little ale for his
dyspepsia.
But this is only the beginning of Re-
publican perplexity. There is sad
trouble about the platform. In one
| corner of the State Republican news
| paper repudiates the party because the
| platform does not declare fatty against
prohibition. In another corner of the
State, the Toledo Blade, another Re-
publican paper, has gone back on the
| party because candidates are nominated
who are opposed to prohibition. With
the Cincinnati organ in sulks because
there is too much prohibition in the
platform. and the Toledo organ in a
fiat rebellion because there isn't enough,
and the loyal organs exhausting them
selves in an effort to prove that the pro-
hibition candidate drank some ale for
his dyspeps a, the poor old party is in a
very sorry plight. And at this unhappy
time prominent members of the party
are leaving it because they are disguised
with the bloody shirt foolery, and John
Sherman is preparing to swing the CORY
garment to the breeze again for all the
old thing is worth.
| And right here, upon the holy
Western Reserve, there is split in the
party, bolting candidate for the Legis-
lature charging that his opponent got
his nomination by fraud! And Chair
man Bushnell, who only opened his
mouth once in the campaign and got
his foot in so far that it choked him,
has been reduced to silence. and Mr.. j.
B. Foraker has paralyzed the country
with the discovery that taxation is ''ar
eternal principle" And upon all this
crushing load of trouble there comes
the horrible announcement. carving
dumb despair to every Republican
heart, that the bar'l is empty and the
Doodle gone
| And with the grand battle line of the
Democratic column, unbroken, un
swerving, undoubting, rank upon rank,
advancing in front and ready for the
conflict.
But what else could be expected? Tho
Republicans had their fun early in the
campaign, and it is presumed enjoyed
it. Now is the season of their trouble:
that will increase and multiply until thu
18th day of October, when they vii
have to endure their crowning calamity
But in the meantime our perplexed and
sorrowlul friends will have to sing with
the colored choir:
Nobody knows what a trouble we hab, Lawd
Nobody knows"
-CIeUela7ad Plain Dealer