New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-16
MISC IN OHIO.

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! GREETED that he has chosen to make hlinsen
| the apOlogst and ally of the most corrupt Lesis-
| lature ever seen in Ohio. The truth Is that the
| Governor had done many things that deserved
cepsure. But the Legislature had done so many
more. and had so much more tlagrantly out
ragged public opinion, that there was DISPOSE
| ton to attribute the failure of the Democratic
| Government in Ohio mainly to legislative IN
| coincidence and corruption rather than to any
| misconduct of the Governor. He taxes pains,
in q long interview published in The Sun, to
make the cause of the Legislature his own, ana
defends the worst features of its conduct as II
entirely Indifferent to his own reputation. FER
haps it is Just rs we'll that he does so, because
he spends much of his time in glowing indorse-
ment of Clevelands Administration.
The Governor particularly defends his party
against the charge that by overthrowing the
Scott law it subjected the taxpayers OF the state
to great additional burdens. This charge he en-
deavors to avoid by putting the responsibility
upon the Supreme Court. But it is notorious
fact that the Democratic managers in ONO were
responsible for this performance from begin
ming to end, Governor Hoady himself having
been the attorney for liquor dealers in assailing
publicans of Ohio appear to be entirely WILING
to leave the people to decide whether the over
throw of this law was praise worthy; whether
it was best to relieve the liquor dealers OF bur
dens amounting to 100000 yearly, and t.
compel the property owners and other taxpayers
of the State to bear that additional amount.
The Governor also defends his party against
the charge of extravaganza and Incompetence,
asserting that there was absolutely no increase
in taxes by the Legislature. That this state
ment is not strictly truthful he sufficiently
shows in his own subsequent comments on I'M
portant measures. For example, he says mat
the Legislature abolished the system OF contract
labor q by moderate appropriation which VIII
in time bring all work under the State account
system.n Rightly interpreted, this means
merely that the Legislature concluded to sup
port the prisoners at public cost, rather than To
require them to earn their own SUPPORT Other
expenditures, the Governor says were caused
nv the Cincinnati riot. But that not was
the result of the conduct of Democratic
officials, which it had long been the duty
of the State Government to suppress or punish,
and the riot itself would have been far less
serious than it was if the Governor had
more clearly true of the Hooking Valley riot,
which was made most costly to the State to the
miners and to the operators, by the Governors
unwillingness as politician to discharge with
fidelity his duty as a Governor.
But it is not worth while to discuss at length
questions Oh which the voters OF Ohio will pres
emily express their judgment. They are
sufficiently informed on those questions to meet
the Governors Misrepresentation as they de-
serve But when he bursts out in a glowing
eulogy of President Cleveland, he discusses
matters which the people of all the States are
equally interested in, and about which thoy are
equally able to detect his msstatements One
of the principal obstacles to the success OF
Governor Hoadly as politician has always
been his contemptcous disbelief in the public
intelligence, which leads him to make use OF
palpable misrepresentation as if they were
recognized and ndisputable facts. That course
does not profit either the Governor or the party
| he represents.