Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-09-23

~ W. ID. Hill assures the leaders of tn,
Democracy, privately, that If he is TO b,
elected this fall, the campaign must be made
red-hot, so as to draw strict party lines. Hi
tells them that many Democrats are nov
determined to vote against him, and tha
nothing but stimulating their party feeling
will change them. Judge Haag is to take
charge of the matter in this county, and viii
do the "blood-curdling" writing for the
NORTHWEST. Well, Judge Haag himself j:
not entirely invulnerable.
EDIToR NORTHWEST IL clip the attached
squib from the Henry County Signal of last
week, and wish you to reproduce it in your
journal.
| 1 am pursuing the even tenor of my way,
devoting myself to my profession; have writ.
ten nothing of political character for any
paper for several years, and have no present
intention of doing so in the future, and dc
not understand why should be made a per-
petual target for the Republican press and
scribblers.
make no claims to being ''invulnerable"
never having been immersed in the Styx of
nerable spot is in my heel, as I donot propose
to use it in retreating from Republican ca
lumny; and, unlike Achilles, I will not be
found pouting in my tent, and will most
cheerfully, cordially, actively and zealously
support Hon. William D. Hill for reelection
to Congress, and can conceive of no good rea-
son why every Democrat in the district should
not do so, nor why "strict party lines" should
not be drawn.
Mr.. Hill has ever been consistent, faith
full and honest Democrat-beyond that Dem
ocrats need make no inquiry. We need no
''blood curdling' in ours-the Republicans
have monopoly on that, as they have on al
most every thing else-haying farmed out
every perogative of government to individuals
and corporations to be prostituted to private
gain.
The Democrat who needs 'his party feel
ings stimulated" at present and in the face of
the usurpations and utter disregard of con-
stitutional forms and limits by Bob Kennedy
and minority of the Ohio Senate, and the
hardihood manifested by the Republicans
and the insult to law respecting citizens by
the nomination of that same Bob Kennedy for
seat in Congress, never was Democrat and
Democrats need not trouble themselves about
such.
Tariff, revenue reform, and independent
manhood are the questions involved in the
election of Congressman this fall, and the
bloody shirt howl and other side issues will
not enable Republicans to divert Democrats
from the strict line of duty, and thus enable
the Republican party to again get control of
the high places it has lost through class leg
islation; the empoverishment of the many for
the benefit of the few; its systematic robbery
during its years of power; its credit mobelier
and whisky frauds; its corruption, fraud and
high-handed political crimes; its larceny of
the Presidency; its squandering of hundreds
of millions under the pretext of constructing
navy and putting it into the pockets of bo-
gus contractors; its gift of millions of acres
of the public domain to great railroad mo-
nopolies and nonresident money kings, de-
priving the people of their just heretage; its
attempt to control State elections with the
aid of military power and bulldog pistols;
its attempt to disgrace American labor by
forcing it into contact and competition with
imported contract pauper labor; by its sys-
tenn of spoils and imposition of war taxes up
on the people in times of peace. Under no
pretense can Democrats assist in again plac-
ing such party in power.
Yours, &C., ]. NJ. HAAG.
Sept. %, 1886.