Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-17

Of the grossest Outrages and fsrces ever
perpetrated in the name Of free and
fair election. General Green b. Raum.
The Republicans of Ohio can not af-
ford to copy substantially the election
laws and endorse the election methods
of South Carolina, even to please Gov
erndr Foraker and Senator Halstead.
The Democrats OF Cincinnati and
Hamilton are not all saints, but we can
not justly disfranchise whole commGni-
ties because a few men of one or two
precincts forged tally sheets. The Gov
ernor's skin cane is altogether too slen-
der support for great party. The
proper thing for the people to do is pun
ish the guilty, not the innocent, and to
see to it that political dead beats, hood
lers and convention packers are driven
from the ranks OF both parties. When
Foraker shakes off the disreputable
scamps who are now his chief advisers,
his denunciation OF Democratic gang
sters will come from him with better
grace. There are some men 50 persist
emily impudent they force themselves
upon candidate against his wishes and
stick to him like a burr; but it is only
when they are appointed to i'm
portant positions in the public
service that an injury is inflicted
upon the state. What Campbell, if
elected, may do with this class of men
we can only conjecture. What Foraker
has done we know. They hold the offices
and run the machine at the expense of
the taxpayers of OHIO.
~
'The chatter about third term diff
Guilty is the ssheerest nonsense. | can
not understand that any man with COM
mon sense and common honesty can give
that foolish noise a serious thought.
This whole current of talk is twad-
die. 1t is an effort to pervert the public
feeling that has established the tradi-
tion, strong as the constitution itself,
that no man shall be three times Presi-
dent of the United States. There is no
third-term prejudice or sense of public
peril associated with any other Office,
and there is no occasion for any."-Hal-
stead at Wilmington.
Senator Halstead knew he was irdulg-
ing in little cheap demagogy when he
uttered the above, for he must know
that the reasons which debar Presi-
dent from third term apply with equal
force to Governor of Ohio The patron
age of the President is less to the square
mile than that of Governor. If the
one should be forbidden by 'the tradi-
tion, strong as the Constitution ITSELF"
to use this patronage to perpetuate him
self and his adherents in office, why |
should not the other? The offices are |
similar in character. The holder of one |
is simply larger President than the |
holder of the other Their duties are |
essentially alike. We know, indeed, of |
no case in which President has sue
ceeded through his appointecs in pack
ing convention and renominating him
self; but we have in Ohio, now, a case
in which the board of public affairs of |
with its numerousemployes,
the police board with its army of police
men, the election board with it's scores
of appointees, united under the leader
ship of Oil Inspector Cox to pack con-
vention in the interest of Governor
from whom hey had received their ap-
1t was successful. effort, so far as the |
caucus could make it successful-to per-
petuate him and them in office 1t was |
an open and conspicuous trampling un-
der foot of the principle embodied in
that tradition strong as the constitu-
tion ITSELF" to which the people of Ohio
and of the United States have hitherto
Is it wrong for President to
be subjected to the temptation of using
the patronage at his disposal for per-
Sonal ends, and yet right for Governor
to be not only so tempted but to yield
to the temptation? Shall we endorse
the doctrine that a Governor of Ohio
may peddle out the patronage of hts
high office to perpetuate himself in pow
Or, and yet hold that even q Lincoln or
q Grant shall not be permitted to do
substantially the same thing? Mr.. Hal
stead has not shown in this instance the
wisdom which should emanate from one
who aspiros to the position of United
States Senator. The fact is he display
I'd his great genius to better advantage
IN the 7th inst, when in an editorial he
said: Ellis (Foraker's) splendid appear
ance on festive occasions, and the bril-
liant greetings Ae had had in the dress
oarades before the eyes OF the country
nave been of general fame" This, I
hink, is pretty good for Halstead, and