Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-19

they disturb business? They come to US by these
cunningly arranged amendments and ask us TO
abolish the elections, and at the same time ex-
tend the term Of every officer elected at this cleo
ton.
Foraker has sat two terms as Governor OF the
State of Ohio, and Is candidate for third term.
If he 10 elected he will only serve until 1891
That 10 the year before the Presidential election
he can not very well be candidate for a fourth
term as Governor of the State of Ohio. 1t is not
probable that the people of this State are going
to swallow him for third term, but he thinks
10, and If they do he wants the constitution
amended SO that he can hold Office for three
years at 5000 year. This will give him a job
till the year of the Presidential election, when
he hopes to have Sherman and his friends laid
away in the political graveyard, and he will
loom up as the favorite son of Ohio and be the
candidate for President Beautiful plan great
scheme; good for Foraker. He asks you to amend
your constitution in number Of particulars,
and in every it appears he is chief beneficiary
under the change. Foraker for President in 1892.
Foraker, OF Ohio and Corporal Tanner of New
York, for Vice-President. What ticket that
would make, and the platform, pensions for
every fraud and stranded politician and oppo-
sition to a large surplus
But the people of Ohio are not such dupes as
Foraker supposes. His unparalleled audacity and
good fortune have led him to overstep the bounds
of reason and propriety, and the day OF reckon
ing is at hand, and the machine blatherskite VIII
be relegated to private life and ample time given
him to extract the swelling from his colossal
head.
You will find these amendments printed in
your country weeklies every week, as they are re-
quired to be bylaw. This item alone will cost
the taxpayers sss, 900. See what these amend
menta are, and ask you to take your weekly pa
per and look at them. Try to understand them,
IL you can; II you can not, go to your Republi-
can neighbor and ask him to explain them to you
If he can. Ask him why they were submitted,
and ask him II he desired their submission.
There are few Republican papers in the State that
advocate the adoption of these amendments.
Such clean and reputable papers as the Times
Star are vigorously opposing them. So danger
ous are these amendments that the Republicans
at their convention refused to indorse them in
their platform or make any reference to them,
but after Foraker had forced his nomination
through the aid of the Strangers and was making
his speech of acceptance he proclaimed himself
in favor of their acceptance, and this solicitude
for the amendments after the convention had re-
fnsedsto indorse them shows his interest In them
and how anxious he is to have them become
part OF the fundamental law of the State.
4 BIT OF SARCASM.
And now we come to one of the most gorgeous,
glittering old gold and CALLING pieces OF sarcasm
that was ever perpetrated in political platform:
Brethren, gather around while we plug. open
and slice this watermelon, and don't let no coon
dun snatch de core"
~" Mark the sacred and lucky plumber.
~" Resolved, that we heartily indorse our
gallant and able Governor Josey Butterfly For
aker, for what2 For his splendid administra-
ton of the finances OF the State, so mismanaged
by the last Democratic Administration, bringing
order out of chaos replenishing depleted treas
ury reestablshing the credit of the State; which,
while at the same time reducing the rate of tax
alton to figure lower than it has been for half q
century, entities him to the gratitude of the peo-
pie and marks him as the most brilliant of our
Governors"
Oh, sacred white mouse of Ohio Oh, grand
Magoozolem of the earth let the people hide
their eyes from the dazzling splendor of this aw-
full being, and fall down and worship the brass
idol of Ohio with the dirty feet, the big mouth
and tin ears, for we shall never behold his
like again. Our Josey Foraker, the "sui
Generis," did all of these wonderful things
by his little lone self, and at the same time
he had one of his fiery optics fixed on
the 'rebel flags and the other on that "skin
cane" All the departments of our State Gov
ernment have disappeared. and they are swal
lowed up and reappear resplendent in the person
of ]. Butterworth Foraker. There is no Judiciary
1t is Foraker, There Is no Legislature. 1t is For
aker. There is no Government. It is all absorbed
in the one, only personality, Foraker. Ikthis
wonderful divine being should conclude 70 be
transplanted what calamity would befal this
commonwealth Let us congratulate and thank
our Republican brothers that they have nomi-
mated the great, grand and ohly man in the Re
publican party Of Ohio for fourth time and
third term. They could do nothing else There
is not another man In the Republican party able
or fit to be Governor after Foraker. Who could
wear his shoes? No one in the Republican party,
certainly for 800 delegates in convention held
solemn inquest on Kennedy, Lampson, o'Neil,
Neil, Gibson, vanee,y Torey and Dawes, and
found them all puny, unfit, unworthy to succeed
Foraker. When he goes hence, if he ever should,
and leaves a yawning ehasm in Ohio's capital,
we must erect his statue in the State House to
guard the " rebel flags" and rig it out with
phonograph to talk like Foraker, for the office Of
Governor of Ohio will never be filed after For
aker leaves it. When we remember.that this.stu-
pendous joke in the Republican platform was
perpetrated by such men as Major Mckinley,
Jim Grosvenor an Judge Thompson, all of whom
have been tomahawked, mangled, scalped and
teIb DleeQllB on pldluS ny dig
Foraker, we can easily see that there is some ul-
terror purpose in smearing Foraker all over with
honey, The barbarians smeared honey over their
chosen victims and tied them to stake, and left
them exposed to lingering death. Foraker's
political friends have submitted him to similar
torture.
THE STATE DEBT.
Let us, fellOw-citizens, soberly examine this
claim of the Republican platform and see how
absurd and wickedly false it is upon its face Let
us take the State debt first and examine it year
by year, and see how brazen and desperate For
aker has been in his methods. say Foraker's
methods because. according to the Republican
platforms, no other Republican official in Ohio
has had anything to do with our State finances
but Foraker.
Article 8, of the Constitution of Ohio. under
the title Of Public Debt and Public Works."
provides how and for what purposes debts may
be contracted by the State. A Sinking Fund is
created to provide means to pay the debt OF the
State at maturity, and it is stated in plain Ian
guage, all moneys raised for specific purpose
must be applied to the purpose for which taxes
are levied and to other, There are four ex-
eeptions provided in section to the general
rule. The State may contract debts to repel inya-
sion, suppress tnsurrection, defend the State in
war and to redeem the outstanding Indebtedness
of the State. When the constitution was adopt
ed in 1851 this last clause framed to apply to
the canal bonds which had been issued years