Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-09-19

/ give three cheers for those gallant labor
| ers of London who have won such vic
/ tory.
Here the audience. led by the gov
ernOT, rose to their feet and gave three
rousing cheers, as requested by the gov
ernor.
/ That is one of the grandest victories that
has been won for labor and for humanity in
the last twenty-five years. The last one
that was greater than this was when We
struck the snackels of slavery from off four
millions of slaves and made labor honorable
in this country, as these men will make labor
honorable in England
Next he reviewed the PAYNE senate
rial election and declared the election
of any Democrat to the senate would be
the condoning of the offense committed
in the election of Mr. Payne. He re-
viewed the election frauds and forger-
les of 1894 and 1885, the attempt to hold
seats in the legislature by Cincinnati
Democrats on certificates based on flag
rant forgeries and told of the situation
in Cincinnati as it was in 1885. When
he told of the purifcation wrought by
Republican legislation creating nom
partisan boards of election and registra-
ton. which worked so well that they
were asked for elsewhere and created
also for several other cities in the state,
saying then:
Twelve cities were thus included and the
governor has appointed boards of a similar
character, non -partisan-two Democrats and
two Republicans-for these twelve cities,
making seventeen in all In addition to
that, we have appointed two non-partisan
police boards; one for Cincinnati, and one
for Dayton; and we have appointed non
partisan board of public affairs for the city
of Hamilton, the home of the Democratic
candidate. And in addition to that we have
appointed one Republican board, the board
OF public affairs of Cincinnati-all told
twenty-one boards, twenty out of the twen-
ty-one are one-half Democratic, and seven
teen out of those twenty non-partisan boards
are election boards What has been the re-
sultl Never before in the history of the
state have we approached to anything like
the decency, or the satisfaction, or the hon
esty in our elections that we have reached
under these boards [Applause.l
Every honest man in the city of Cincin-
natl, do not care whether he be Demo
elections have been honest, have been de
cent, have been satisfactory. [Applause]
No piece of legislation in the history of the
state has given such universal satisfaction.
With the police board it has been the same.
You remember the kind of apolice force
they had in Cincinnati before this legisla-
ton. With a few honorable exceptions they
were but an organized band of roughs and
toughs.
You could scarcely name a crime in the
whole calendar of crime that some man on
that force had not committed. What is the
result as to the working of these boards? In
the city of Cincinnati now, instead of the
character of police boards they had then,
they have one of the best police forces that
can be found in any city in this or any other
country-a genuine pride to every citizen of
Cincinnati. As a result of its work there is
not to-day in the city of Cincinnati a single
gambling house; not place where there is
faro game even; not place where there
is a pool sold even on a Kentucky horse
race; everything decent; everything clean;
everything respectable, and no man who
lives in Cincinnati is to-day ashamed to tell
where he comes from.
So might go on. The same general re-
suits have followed all along the line You
would think with such satisfaction we
would have peace We thought we would |
Therefore we were greatly surprised when |
week or two ago we heard the tramping of |
q multitude and the shout of host, and |
now 1 will wait until they go by referring |
to a brass band which interrupted the |
speaker
/ was just saying, that with such results |
as these result ting from this legislation. you |
wodld imagine that everybody would be
satisfied to let those questions that were so
settled stand as settled But, as I said, two
or three weeks ago, we heard great noise
of the tramping of a multitude and the
shouting of host, and when we asked what
was the matter, we were told that ''The
Campbells were coming" [Laughter.l
"The Cambells were coming [Renewed
laughter.l And what are the Campbellsl
We looked to see, but as the column drew in
sight, 10 and behold, only too quickly we
that it was not the CampbelIs, but
only the same old gang. [Applause.J The
same old gang. Go back to the years 1888,
1884 and 1885, and read the names of the men
who figured most conspicuously in the SEN
atorial purchase, and in che ballot box fraud
at Cincinnati and Columbus, and in the
glaring forgeries perpetrated at that time;
read the names of the men who perpetrated
those outrageS, and then go and read list
Of the names of the delegates to the Dayton
convention, and then read the proceedings
Of that convention and note who it was that
controlled that body and put their candidate
in nomination, and then compare the names
Of the leaders of that movement the follow
ers of Mr.. Campbell, to-day with the names
Of the perpetrators of those ou RACES, and
you will find that they are one and the
same. [Renewed applausel
And what is their battle crys 1t is that
The Foraker boards must gon More ap-
plause.l What boardsa In to-day's Cincin-
natl Enquirer you will read an editorial
which is in line with the declarations of Mr..
Campbell They say, pointing to our action
with respect to those boards, that we have
-aken away from the people of the state the
light of the ballot. Mr.. Campbell says
you have taken the heart out of liberty"
Laughter. "You have taken the heart out |
If liberty" how? You have taken it out by
empowering the governor, who doesn't live
n the city, to appoint board of this char
Icter for that city
My fellow-citizens, what more does he
ays He said, in his speech at Dayton,
hat those boards were incompetent: that
heir influence was baleful: but at Colum-
'us, however, in his speech of explanation.
e took care to say that the board of cleo
ions at his city, at least, was composed of
uch respectable men that it was a credit to
ne to have appointed them. But he says
hey must go because it is an interference
Nth home rule. Let US consider minute [
s it true that the people of Greene county
ave no interest in the election that is to be G
eld next November in the city of Hamilton
r the city of Cincinnati? What are they to
ote for in Cincinnati? They are to vote
Or governor; they are to vote for the
ther state officers; they are to vote for {
lembers Of the general assembly to act, not I
or Hamilton county alone, but for the I
hole state. They will vote for a legislature I
nat must choose senator to represent the =
'hole state in the United States senate. And =
he people of Greene county will be affected :
y the representatives from Hamilton {
ounty precisely, so far as the general as
'mbly is concerned, as the people of Hamil-
on county will be affected The people of r
reene county, and every other county in =
ne state, therefore, have a right to ask and y
emand that there shall be an honest cleo U