The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-10-17
EVERYBODY INTERESTED.
FORAKER, cAMpsELL AND HeLWlc
DISCUSSED.

ooratio Nswspapsr that Favors Honest
Elections and enforcement Of the Laws.
The Evening Penny Post Of Cincin.
natl is credited with large and infiuen-
tial circulation in that city, and, while
Independent, 1t has always heretofore
been known to lean strongly toward the
Democracy.
The Post is one Of the Soripps' syndi.
cate Of newspapers, and when 1t is
known that one Of the Soripps brothers
Of Cincinnati was . delegate at the late
Democratic state convention, the fol-
lowing editorial from that paper Of Sep
tember 10 will be read with interest:
SHALL WE 90 BACKi
A Piqua correspondent in Q letter to the
editor Of The Post asks these two questions:
What reason have you for believing that
]. B. Foraker, II elected will be ''more OF.
ecutive," as you express IL, than J. e. Camp
bell or DR.. Hslwig, II either Of them should
be electedi Or why should you say: "The
Post believes that II, on the contrary, he
Eoraker) shall fail Of reelection much Of
the advance made in the last four years will
be lostT'
Really the two questions are in essence
one. The Post has not said anywhere that
Governor Foraker IL elected will be more ex-
ecutive than J. E. Campbell or DR.. Helwig,
II either Of them should be elected. What
The Post did say II: 'The Post believes that
IL Governor Foraker shall be reelected, and
II his life shall be spared, be will carr for
ward the work and will contribute to the
complete rehabilitation Of the executive de-
partment to the lasting good Of the state,
and by example to the lasting good Of the
nation.
The Post believes that IL, on the contrary,
he shall fail of reelection, much Of the ad-
vance made in the past four years will be
lost.
The question then resolves itself into this:
Why does Tho Post believe that II Governor
Foraker shall fail Of reelection much Of the
advance made in the last four years will be
lost2
Because, in the first place, there Is no
human possibility of the election Of DR.. Hell
wig. The Prohibs Of Ohio have in the field
this fall the strongest ticket they have ever
produced. They are making campaign Of
phenomenal vigor and enthusiasm and seem
likely to increase their total vote in Ohio
Their vote last fall was "a, 356 and the fall
before 29,7O0. To win this year they will
have to increase that vote tc more than $780,
600, and there is no human probability Of 80
great an increase as that.
The race, then, lies between Mr.. Campbell
and Governor Foraker. II Governor For
aker shall fail Of reelection, Mr.. Campbell
will be elected. 1t is his chief complaint
against Governor Foraker that he has been
=
Campbell. in his speech at Batavia, COM
plained that che Forakerl can come down
to the city of Hamilton, he can make me
born and raised in Butler county.n
general assembly. who made tkat la W which
Ohio. The law was passed in the interest of
good government and nest elections. Gov
ernor Foraker is no mo nor less required
to see that that law shall be faithfully exc
cuted" than he is required to see that all Of
Ohios laws "are faithfully executed" It is
the constitution of Ohio which requires that
Mr.. Campbell seems to think that Gov
ernor Foraker does wrong in seeing that the
law Of Ohio shall be faithfully executed |"
his uOUlON b66Iub W Do tubO IL any ClLlZeu OIL
Ohio residing in Hamilton don't want to
register, even though the law does require
it, he ought not to be ''made" to do it. He
should be allowed TO vote without register
ing, especially IL "born and raised in Butler
county" It Is none of the governors bust
ness. Mr.. Campbell's notion seems to be
that Governor Foraker makes himself "a
lord and ruler" as Mr.. Campbell calls him,
because as governor Of Ohio he sees that this
law shall be faithfully executed. 't
His notion seems to be, and be Is running
the campaign ON that line, that II any con-
siderable part Of the people Of any Ohio
county dislike any state law, and II they can
get the sheriff to disregard open infractions
OF 1t, 1t IL all right The local preference
must decide. The governor has no businesa
to ''come down" to that county land make
his subordinate executives in and for that
county do their duty and tosee that the laws
Of Ohio shall be faithfully executed In that
county. l.J u3ly iig
His chief complaint against Governor
Foraker is that when the general assembly
has required the governor Of Ohio to d.
some duty he, Governor Foraker, hal
done it, and 20 has made himself "a lore
and n r,,lar n