The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-02
POINTS FOR The PEOPLE.

THE brave and fearless Foraker has
not tackled General John Beatty yet
PRIVATE DALzELL and Josey Beeswax
Foraker 1eust come to the defense of
Tanner.
THE Generals around Harrison's Ad
ministration have no use for privates or
Corporal Tanner.
A JOINT debate between Governor
Foraker and Chas. s. Grosvenor would
be very entertaining. Let us have it
by all means.
IF the Democrats had removed two
legged soldier from Office for any cause,
as Corporal Tanner was removed, what q
howl would have gone up from the Re-
publican press.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was compelled
to kick Tanner down stairs. Looking up
from the sidewalk, Tanner asked for a
certificate of character, aud the Presi-
dent said: 1T gives me pleasure to add
that SO far as l am advised your honesty
/ has not at any time been called in ques-
tion." This is worse than to be kicked
out.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat tries
to be funny at poor Tanners expense by
saying THAT Corporal Tanner perished
as public officer in desperate effort
to run hair-trigger mouth in conjunc-
! ton with f1int-lock brain" Foraker
is afflicted the same way, and he will
| drop out in the melancholy days of No
vember.
| WHY does Foraker demand that as
SCISSORS, land appraisers, city councils,
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tive, be taken from the people and
turned over to him to fill? The conven-
tion that nominated him answers.
Every city over which the Legislature
has made him dictator, sent solid For
aker delegations.
Hon. T. Q. AsHBURN has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats for Senator in
the Clermont Brown district. He once
held an honorable place on the Supreme
bench of Ohio. This is the kind of men
the Democrats are sending to the Legis-
lature. The Democrats never made bet
ter local nominations this year than
they have made in every county in the
State. The next Democratic Legislature
will be one of the ablest and best that
ever convened in Ohio.
GOVERNOR FORAKER lives in house
on Broad street, in Columbus, owned by
A. q. Patton, a convict contractor! Sew
eral years ago Patton, who is shark,
beat the State out of $4,000 by default
ing on his contracts. Since Foraker has
been Governor Patton has run the peni-
tentiary. He now owes the State over
$4,000 for convict contract labor, and
can't or won't pay. Foraker still lives
in Patton's house. Foraker's ''sple ndid
administration" comes high, but do the
people want any more?
THE Urbana Gazette puts Big-Six
Alex Sands down as favoring James E.
| Campbell. This notorious and smooth
lobbyist is one of Foraker's henchmen
and go-betweens. He was a delegate
from the Ninth Ward, in Cincinnati, to
the Republican Convention, and aided
the Strangers to force Foraker on the
convention. He is boon companion of
Bill Capeller, Foraker's Railroad Com
missioner, who was exposed by the last
Republican Senate, for attempting to
shake-down and black-mai1 certain rail-
roads in Ohio.
WHEN the final order came from the
Brigadier's for Corporal Tanner to get
out of the Pension Office, he burst into
tears. He spent most of the next day
at home in tears, and when friend ad
vised him to shut his mouth and not
talk so much, he said: 'tWhy, what are
you giving me. 1 am tired of hearing
this talk about my mouth. My mouth
has been my best friend. We're it not
for my mouth never would have been
heard from since my legs were shot off
at Bull Run. Whatever 1 am, whatever
have been, whatever 1 have is due to
my mouth"
In New York recently Governor For
aker said to World interviewer
who inquired If he will be a
candidate for the Senate? mo sir; most
decidedly not. I shall not enter the
Senatorial contest under any circum-
stances. am only candidate for Gov
ernor" On his last previous visit to
New York, few days before the Ohio
Republican Convention, Governor For
aker said to Times interviewer: mo,
sir: am not candidate for renomina-
tion. l have no desire for the honor
again and l believe it is time to give
somebody else chance. 1 am aware of
the movement to pusf. the nomination
upon me, but you can say for me that I
do not want 1t and will not take it."
THE desirability of getting rid of the
Commissioner of Pensions was plain
enough, but an opportunity to do so
without losing votes was lacking. This
however, has been SUI piled by Tanners
performances at Milwaukee. His often
sive speech about soldiers wives at the
Grand Army Encampment and the de-
nunciation with which the party press
received it, has made an opening for the
administration, of which it will proba-
bly, avail itself Immediately after the
fall elections, if not before. Speaking
of Tanner, the Philadelphia Bulletin, a
Republican paper, says: He deliber-
ately made use of expressions which
were nothing less than the most intol-
erable insults to the wives and widows
of the soldiers of the Union. The habits
of thought which lead a man into max
ing such an observation at any time or
place, not to speak of such an occasion
as a Grand Army encampment, ought to
be enough to show the soldiers the SUI
preme folly of sustaining a Pension
Commissioner who has no more sense
than to give reins to his tongue in that
party paper so near to Washington sig
: nifies. it is believed, that it has been re-
solved upon that Tanner must go, and
that right soon. 1t is to be hoped tina:
the administration, in changing its Com
= missioner, will, in the public interest
modify its policy also. The present
policy is ruinous. Our pension rolls
contain nearly 100000 names, and the
expenditure last year for pensions was
: $50, 900, 900 out of total expenditure Of
S267, 900, 900. Place by the side of this
the fact that the expenditures of the Ger
man war Office for the year ended Marcel
81, 1855, were about SS6,0O0, 600. The
cost of the British army for the years
. 1ss6-s7, inclusive of pensions, was about
$91, ,OoO,o 600. A huge standing army
', would therefore, be no heavier burdeI
than our present pension roll.
' A FEW years ago the Republicans wen
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