Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-17
lOn.PartEaDSm
The Humbug Of the Foraker
HaIStead PretenSe.
II Non-Partisan Board is Good
for Hamilton, Why Not
for Cincinnati?
II a Republican Board is Best in Gin
Cinnati, Why hot In HamiltOn2
A NOn-Parisan Board May
be Very Easily Elected.
Foraker Should Shake OF
His Own Disrepu-
table ScaInps
Before Assuming to De
nounce Other People
as Democratic
Gangsters."
General Beatty Arraigns the For
aker Disciples in an Unan.
swerable Manner.
And Gives the People an interest
Before Assuming to De
nounce Other People
as Democratic
Gangsters."
General Beatty Arraigns the For
aker Disciples i'm an Unan.
Swerable Manner.
And Gives the People an interest
ing Article.

"WC have appointed partisan
board of public affairs for the city of
Hamilton, and in addition 10 that we
have appointed one Republican board of
affairs for Cincinnati. Foraker at
Xefia.
"The boards that Governor Foraker
has appointed in the State have all done
excellent service; only one of them is q
partisan board, that is our board of pub
lie affairs in Cincinnati. 1t has trans
formed our streets, spent millions of
dollars, etc."-Halstead at Wilmington.
Ifa non-partisan board of public af-
fairs is good thing for Hamilton, why
Should it not be good thing for Gin
cinpati?
If q Republican board of public affairs
is a good thing for Cincinnati, why
should it not be good thing for Hamil-
ton?
Why should the expenditure of mil
lions of dollars in Cincinnati be entrust-
ed to o partisan board, while the ex-
penditure of few thousands in Hamil-
ton Is put in the hands of non-partisan
boardP
Which kind of board is best? Why
not adopt the best? Why this discrimi-
nation between cities? Can the partisan
board be defended without condemning
the non-partisan? Is not every word
which Governor Forake. utters in justi-
fcation of 'ht - condemnation of
the other?
If partisan board of public affairs
is good thing for Cincinnati,
Why should not partisan police and
ELECTION boards be good things
also? Is it not utter folly to attempt in
the same speech to defend two opposite
and antagonistic systems on the score of
honesty, consistency and principle.
Would any one but q pretentious and
impudent ass who assumes that his
hearers are deficient IN ordinary common
sense undertake to reconcile and support
such hotch-potch Legislature?
In his Amelia speech the Governor
says in defense of his non-partisan
boards that, "He (CampbelD did not
Ssem to know it was impossible to ell.
tct twoDemoGats and two Republicans
at the same tiWe. faughter.J !
Does anybody know it to be i'm
posSble? NJ. Governor Foraker may
thipk It impossible, but he can not know
It. for it IS not only possible but the
simplest and easiest Of things to do. If
There be four members to elect let the
GeSeral Assembly authorize each Elec-
tor to vote for the two men of his choice,
coupled with the provision that the four
persons receiving the largest vote shall
constitute the board. You will thus OBJ
tain in every city of the State, not only
d non-partisan board but board COM
posed of honest representatives of the
two great parties. There are other meth
DDS by which similar ends may be
reached, but shall not stop to discuss
them. The declaration that the only
way to secure non-partisan boards is to
put the power to appoint them in the
hands of an unscrupulous partisan,is the
essence of foolishness.
Election boards and boards of regis
tration in the hands of honest, compo-
tent men may be made to serve a useful
purpose; but under the control of the
ambitious partisan they are quite sure,
Soon or late, to be prostituted to bad
ends. When certain of the Southern
States abandoned Ku-Klux methods they
had immediate recourse to boards of
election and registration, and through
these accomplished by fraud what they
had Heretofore done by violence. In
South Carolina for instance:
'"The registration officers are appoint
ed by the Governor, who also appoints
the commissioners of elections for each
county, who in turn appoint the man
Ayers of elections for each election pre-
cipct. The whole machinery of
Registration and voting are, therefore, in
the hands of that party, whose determin
alton to perpetuate its power by any
means, however foul, is not only mani
Test, but openly avowed. The election
Of 1880 was carried by frauds of every
imaginable kind, and was probably one
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