Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-10
A ROUSER!
Hard Facts from Foraker at Ba.
tavia, ClermOnt County.
The Brewery Trust Bombarded
and Battered.

ana BaIl6r0Qs
81 Defy Him (CampbeID to Point to 8
Single Honest Endeavor that He Has
Ever Put Forth for the Purity and Pro-
teciIon of the BaIlOt-BoI-"
am not, the governor went on to say,
going to discuss brewery trusts here.
uaughterJ Up at Xenia l took accession to
answer some things in the Democratic plat
form in regard to trusts. They said in their
platform that they were opposed to the pro-
tective tariff, and among other reasons they
gave was that the tariff produced as one Of
its Legitimate results" the trusts, about
which we hear SO much and of which there
Is such Just complaint. / took occasion to
say at Xenia that the tariff did not have
anything to do with the creation of trusts
that they came independently Of the tariff,
and as conclusive evidence OF that fact
called attention to the fact that over in free
trade England trust originated, and ovE
there they have grown to their most gi-
gantic and offensive proportions Among
other things l called attention to brewery
trusts. and particularly did l call attention
to the character of one Of these brewery
trusts. After l had done that by reading
from its prospectus and giving its name, l
innocently made the statement that if had
not been incorrectly informed Mr. Campbell
had sometime in the past been, directly or
indirectly, the agent or representative OF 1t.
did not say that he had been or was the
agent, but that not having definite informa-
ton l would be glad to have him answer
whether or not he had been the agent or rep
resentative OF this brewery trust. l did not
know what he would answer. When Mr..
Campbell came to Batavia he essayed TO an
swer my question l asked him whether he
had not been such an agent in the past. He
answered in the present tense. He said, Il
am not.n But Mr. Campbell went further,
and said he had no knowledge of that trust
that he knew nothing whatever about it.
Well, when read that 1 thought of another
man with whom l once had a similar con-
troversy. Mr.. Powell, in his speeches two
years ago, had a great deal to say about
taxes / said the trouble with Mr.. Powell
was that he had not paid his own taxes.
Mr. Powell took the train home to Delaware
and paid his taxes. Then he went to Toledo
on the next train and made a speech, and
said, 81 don't owe a cent for taxes
[Great laughter.l 1 asked Mr.. Campbell if
he had been an agent of this brewery trust,
directly or indirectly; he answers, 81 am not
the representative" since he made that
answer his relation to the brewery trust
has, through the columns of the newspapers,
been fully set forth before the people of
Ohio, including Mr.. Campbelrs own atfi-
davit Upon that rest the matter. l am
not here to discuss it ant longer. but to
leave it Just where Mr. Campbell left it,
and where the newspapers are putting it.
The governor referred to the reduc-
ton made in the price of agricultural
implements since the tariff policy was
inaugurated, amounting to from 25 to
90 per cent. on almost every article
while at the same time the quality of
the implements had much improved.
All this, he said. was the result Of tariff
and home competition.
There are some other things about which
Mr.. Campbell talked. He had good deal
to say about interference with what he calls
''Home Rule" He had great deal of COM
plant to make about myself in that connec-
ton. As said at Xenia, don't care any
thing about his complaint about me; don't
think it makes any difference what man
may say on such subject who holds his
nomination through the support of such
men as gave the nomination to him in the
Dayton convention. [Cheers.1 There are
some things you can afford to treat with
silent contempt, and that is one of them.
lCheers] But what is there in this cry of
Home Ruleq In his speech at Dayton Mr..
Campbell made complaint that certain
boards had been appointed by the governor
of Ohio which must ''go.n He spoke of
them as incompetent" j" and said that they
exercised "baleful Influence on the public
good" When Mr.. Campbell got up to Co
lumbus, few days later, he made another
speech, in which he took accession to say
that his complaint was not against the
boards themselves; that he did not want to
be understood as charging that they were
incompetent; that his complaint was that
the boards were appo nted instead Of elected.
He wanted them elected by the people.
He said unless they were elected "the
heart was taken out of liberty But when
he got down here to Batavia he took occa-
sion to tell you that the great outrage that
he wanted to be understood as protesting
against was not the boards or the manner
in which they were chosen, but that we
should have registration laws in the state of
Ohio according to the provisions of which
he could be compelled to go and register
himself in the city of Hamilton before he
could vote.
Now, let us analyze this. Mr.. Campbell
started out by charging that the boards
were incompetent. Then he recalled that,
so far as he could. He said the election
board in this city was composed of first class
men-a credit to me for having appointed
them. When he got over here he took an
other turn on the matter and leveled his
complaint against the registration laws
Why all this shifting about; this changing
from one thing to anotherl 1 will tell you,
my friends, just why it is. In the first
place Mr.. Campbell started out to assail
these boards without stopping to think of
the character of them; without, perhaps,
even having any knowledge of their charac
ter. When he reached Columbus he heard
the echoes of his Dayton speech; echoes that
came from Democrats as well as Republic
ans They told him that the boards of
which he complained wer5 composed of two
Republicans and two Democrats, and that
the four men in each board were eminently
respectable representatives of their respect
i've parties and cities; good men whom he
could not afford to abuse, and good boards.
Therefore, he said, the boards are all right
SO far as the men composing them are con-
cerned, but he didn't want them appointed
he wanted them elected. That met with OBJ
lection. He did not seem to know it was
impossible to elect two Democrats and two
Republicans at the same time [Laughter.l
He saw there was nothing left for him, if
he would be consistent, except to be incon-
sistent, and denounce the registration law
itself. When he got around to that point he
had come to the real point where the gang,
who stand behind him, wanted to bring him
at the outset. In other words disguise it as
you may, these election boards and the reg
istration laws are his objective point in this
campaign. How did these laws come to be
passed. You who live here close to Ham
flt,n county: YOU who are well acquainted
with Cincinnati; you who 1--we close enough
to the city almost to have heard the noise Of
the riots and the anarchy that formerly rre-
vailed there on election day, know that do
not overstate the case when tell you that
prior TO the appointment of these boards
there had not been an honest or decent elec-
ton in the city of Cincinnati for ten years,
and probably not for fifteen years
You all remember the Eph Holland frauds
of 1875 and 1875. After that new brood
came on, and the Tosneys, and the Brum-