Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-31
BOYlE'S BLISTER.
A scathing Yet Correct Diagnosis of the
Political situation in Clark County
Tho Republican Jonah.

The Commercial Gazette is the leading
and most truthful republican paper in the
country.-ChGmpiO City Times.
James Boyle, a member of the editorial
staff OF the Commercial Gazette, and for
several years a correspondent of that paper,
known everywhere as one of the most reli-
able and trusted of the force, has been in
the city during the past week looking over
the congressional situation. In Saturdays
issue Of his paper he gives a two column
review of the outlook, from which we
take the following meaty extracts:
NO sane democrat in the Eighth district
pretends to believe that there is the lsas;
chance Of beating General Kennedy.
The counties comprising this district gave
the following Presidential majorItiess in
1854: Blains-Clark, 2,S13; Champaign,
1.OT9; Madison, 324; Logan. 1873. Cleve-
land-Pickaway, 954. So that the net Re
publican majority WAS 5,135. In 1856
Foraker carried Clark county by 2,OOl,
and the district by 3,940. 1t will be seen,
therefore. that the fusiOnists have big job
to overcome the republican majority in this
district. The leaders now recognize that
they had set themselves an impossible task.
The question now with them is as to how
small they can cut down Kennedy's maiori-
ty. A day or two ago John Kinnane, chair
man of the Clark county democratic COM
mittee, and a member of the state commit
tee refused to take a bet from Chris.
Holloway, the stalwart Springfield repub-
lican. except on the basis that Kennedy's
majority would be J, 500.
Kennedy's majority ought to be fully up
to the Blaine figures, and it is q burning
shame that it threatens to fall behind Fora
ker's s. $40. That the situation is as it is,
cannot be attributed to General Kennedy.
He is not only fighting the bOOdlers and for
gery-lOving democracy, but he is being
made the victim OF misapplied but just
wrath on the part of the Knights of Labor
of Springfield.
Ii is not worth while here going over the
ground of trouble between the Whiteleys
and the labor organizations of Springfield?
Nine people out of ten here in Springfield,
without the slightest reference to politics,
diSapprove of the action of the Whiteleys.
The local republican paper, the GLoBE-RE-
rUBLIC, has all a,oCg taken the side of the
Knights in their coIitrosS-Sv with those
gentlemen. The republican na.i,aal and
state platforms declare for the right On h
Dor TO organize. General Kennedy stands
uneQuivocally upon those platforms. Both
before and after his nomination he has de-
clared time and again that he absolutely
recognizes the right referred TO, and that he
has no sympathy with, but is opposed to
any attempt to deny that right. But the
Whiteleys are republicans General
Kennedy must be made to suffer.
With great shrewdness have the Demo-
crats famed the sparks into blaze. and
for weeks and weeks they have been stead
lily poisoning the minds Of trade unionists
and Knights Of Labor with the libel that
Kennedy is Whiteley's man. Let it be re-
membered that up to the break last fall no
employers stood higher in the estimation of
their men than William and Amos White
ley. They are great big-chested and big
hearted fellows, but dreadfully stubborn.
and as proud as Lucifer. So, when they
took the wrong shoot" on the labor ques-
ton, they went the whole hog" and now
they are little short of nIonomaniacs on the
subject of Knights of Labor. Now, it so
happened that of the two gentlemen who
were candidates for the congressional nom
ination-General kelfer and General Ken
nedy-Wm. Whiteley personally preferred
the latter. This preference had no relevancy
whatever to the labor troubles. The demo-
cratic papers have gone into so much whole
sale lying this campaign that ii is unprofit-
able il not impossible TO keep track of the
fabrications. But it is pertinent to notice
one right here, and that is that Vim. White
ley approached General keifer and offered
his support if that gentlemen would side
with him against the Knights Of Labor. and
that, falling TO get favorable response,
Whiteley made overtues TO Kennedy. This
yarn is without shred of truth. From the
day he first thought of being candidate,
until the present time, General Kennedy
has had no bargain. agreement or under
standing with the Whiteleys. They are to
him simply two republicans-nOthing more
nor nothing less, as individuals.
What has complicated the difficulty has
been the persiStency with which Wm.
has continued his public activity
as a republican. To present their side of
the difficulty, the Whiteleys started cent
daily-the Champion City Times. 1t is
the best-printed daily in Ohio, is full of
vim, but is also full of venom against the
Knights of Labor. With zeal worthy of
a better cause, it abuses organized labor in
a manner that makes it, as a professed re-
publican paper, a milestone around the
neck Of General Kennedy. Without bit
ef feeling, | reiterate declaration of the
Commercial Gazette, that ''the worst enc
my General Kennedy has, politically, is the
Champion City Times" The CONNER
cidl Gazette is the leading and most
truthful republican paper in the
country. - Champion City Times.
II the Whiteleys choose to refuse
10 employ Trade UniOnists or Knights of
Labor, there is nothing in the constitution
Dr the laws of Ohio to prevent them taking
his stand. Nor is there any statute for
bidding corporation starting an organ TO
iir their alleged grievances. But the
Nhiteleys have no right to expect the re-
publican party TO champion their private
quarrel, and the republican party will not
10 SO, neither as a matter of policy nor as
natter of justice. Journalistically speak |
ng, il is not wisdom to attempt to run |
'apsr on grievance, whether real or imag- |
nary. The Champion City Times is dead |
Oss financially, and it deserves to be so un- !
il it gets breadth of beam sufficient to do |
ustice to the wage workers, however enter !
'rising it may be in money it does not earn |
rom subscriptions or advertising. The |
hampton City Times is red rag that is |
ally waived before the republican labor bull.
n his rage the bull has plunged headlOng
nto the republican china shop in
springfield. Fortunately the republican
arty has big warehouses in the other cOun-
les of the district. No bull will smash the
rockery there. So long as the Times re-
Siates one of the leading planks of the