Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-10-04
"HELP US, PROHIBS,"
SAYS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
"OR WE SINK"
A Neat Scheme to Elect BoOthman
and Cheat This District Out of
Democratic Congressman.

| lHe NOOu OOu0Iy D6nLHet OF las
week printed a long and plaintiff al
ticle concerning the Congressions
candidates In this, the Sixth Ohio, dis
trict. ItshOws that the vote cast las
fall by the Republicans was 1905, b.
the Democrats 20,OO9, and by th
Prohibitionists ,844. 1t comedies MI
Saltzgaber's election unless the Prohi
bitiOn voters can be decoyed to vot
for Mr.. Boothman.
There are several inaccuracies in tn
Sentineps statements worthy Of notice
1t states that Mr.. Saltzgaber in
speech at Wiltshire, Ohio, said 18th,
Prohibitionists join hands with tn,
Democrats" Mr.. Saltzgaber did SAY
this, but he said it with reference t.
the tariff question, and In that he wa
right. Why do Republican papers con
tinually make false statements? Have
they no honest issues on which to make
a campaign? Why did not the Sentine
tell the truth?
1t also says many Democrats who
voted for Boothman two years ago will
do so again. Where can they be foundi
Two years Of Misrepresentation by
Boothman is enough. Democrats will
vote for one whose voice and vote will
he on the side of President Cleveland
and not against him and his grand ad-
ministration, one whose sympathies
are not with trusts and monopolies but
who is in favor of lessening the burdens
of the people.
The Sentinel says of Boothman that
mo new member of either party has so
quickly become prominent in national
affairs. His speeches delivered in the
House show breadth of research, and
a clear comprehension of the duties of a
Congressman" Who has heard of
that prominence? In what paper out
side of his own district has Boothman
been mentioned? What speeches of
his show research or comprehension?
Let us be candid, neighbor. Mr.. Booth
man made three speeches. One on the
wool question, one on the pension
question, and one in favor of giving
each Congressman clerk at $75 per
month. The wool speech was made
not to influence the action of Congress
but to blindfold the farmers of the
Sixth district. Every one in Congress
understood that fact and paid no at
tention to the speech. In fact only As
out of 325 members voted for his
amendment. Every farmer in the dis
trict received copy at public expense
and knows it was made solely to influ-
ence his vote. The same thing can be
said of the pension speech. 1t was in
jected into the debate on the tariff bill,
without any expectation that it would
influence Congress, and without refer
ence to any pension legislation pending,
but to be circulated broadcast over the
district hoping in this way to influence
the soldier vote. Boothman knows all
this and every intelligent soldier in the
district knows it. They will not be
gulled by such devices. 1t is said these
speeches were never actually delivered
but merely printed in the Record.
The other speech Mr.. Boothman de-
livered he was careful not to distribute
among his people. He wishes now he
had never delivered it. We refer to
the one wherein he advocates employ
ing clerk for each Congressman at SIS
per month, saying he could not per-
form his duties alone, and saying that
the people were not so stingy and
and penurious as to OBJ
ject. Does this mark the "broad and
comprehensive statesman? Doesn't it
rather show that Boothman was will
ing to get all there was in it, at public
The Sentinel says Mr.. Satzgaber has
only been Democrat short time
Indeed! TO Mr.. Saltzgaber's credit it
can be said that he opposed the Repub-
lican party more than twenty years
ago when the Democrats were hope
lessly in the minority. He sacrificed
for the sake of conscience
and has been a leader in the Demo-
cratic ranks ever since.
We are not running the Prohibition
party, but it does seem to us that no
)ne in 1t can think much of his party
who will vote for Mr.. Boothman. 1t is
, confession that he prefers Republi-
ian enemy rather than the success of
his principles. The Springfield Bea-
ION, Prohibition paper, reminds its
'eaders that the only people who have
lbused, and maligned, and rotten egged
Prohibition speakers are those who yell
or Harrison, and in towns that are
Known as Republican strongholtls.-I
Those Prohibitionists who were former
Y Democrats will be glad to know of
he attempted deal between the Re-
schemers and some alleged |
orohibitionists whereby this district |
night be cheated out of Democratic |
The .Sentineps plan is
Ill right, but the trouble is it won't |
work.-Pdn Vert Times.