The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-09-19

settled stand as settled. But, as said, two
or three week.. ..ago, we heard great noise
Of the tramping OF q multitude and the
shouting Of host, and when we asked what
was the matter, we were told that 1.-THE
Campbells wore coming.ss tLaushter1
1.-THE Camballs were coming" [Renewed
laughter.1 And what are the Campbellsi
We looked to sec, but as the column drew In
sight, 10 and behold, only too quickly we
recognized thatit was not the Campbells, but
only the same old gang. fApplause.1 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 the 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 60 and read list
Of the names of the delegates to the Dayton
convention, and then read the proceedings
Of that convention and note who 1t 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 outrages, and
you win And that they are one and the
same rRenewed applause.1
And what is their battle cryi II is that
the Foraker boards must 60" More ap-
plsusel What boardsi In to-day's Oincin-
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
taken away from the people Of the state the
right Of the ballot. Mr.. Campbsll says
"you have taken the heart out Of liberty"
rLAughter.l "You have taken the heart out
Of liberty" howi You have taken 1t out by
empowering the governor, who doesn't live
in the city, to appoint board Of this char
acter for that city.
My feilow-citizens, what more does he
sayi He said, in his speech at Dayton,
that those boards were incompetent; that
their influence was baleful; but at Column
bus, however, in his speech Of explanation,
he took care to say that the board Of cleo
tions at his city, at least, was composed Of
such respectable men that It was credit to
me to have appointed them. But he says
they must 60 because It Is an interference
with homo rule. Lat US consider a minute.
Is it true that the people Of Greene county
have no interest in the election that is to be
held next November in the city Of Hamilton
or the city Of Cincinnati7 What are they to
vote for In Cincinnatil They are to vote
for governor; they are to vote for the
other state officers; they are to vote for
members Of the general assembly to act, not
for Hamilton county alone, but for the
whole state. They will vote for legislature
that must choose q senator to represent the
whole state In the United States senate And
the people of Greene county will be affected
by the representatives from Hamilton
,vnkvv n1~v g..
sembly is concerned, as the people of Hamil-
ton county will be affected. The people of
Greene county, and every other county In
the state, therefore, have a right to ask and
demand that there shall be an honest cleo
ton In all the cities, and in all the counties
and townships and precincts Of this state;
and, inasmuch as It Is q matter Of common
concern to the people Of the whole state,
the general assembly said, Who
more ft-though I would have been
glad II they had excused me from 90 doing
who more At than the governor Of the state,
who represents the whole state, to make ap.
pointments Of those boards and thus secure
honest elections, not simply for Cincinnati,
but for Greene county and every other
county as wella Does any man pretend TO
say that by any one Of these boards any citi-
zen of Ohio has been wronged; that any citi.
zen has been denied his vote; that any vote
has been wrongfully counted, or not counted
at all3 Does anybody claim that any false
return has been madei Does anybody claim
that there has been any ofYense against lawi
Nobody. Mr.. Campbell says 1--WE have no
objection to the boards, except only the
manner in which they are created. We do
not want them appointed. We want them
elected"
Now, my fellow-citizens, these are nom
partisan boards, two Democrats and two
Republicans. How would you 60 about
electing non-partisan boardl [Applause. ]
Could you do it all2 More applause and
cries Of "No."I Would the Republicans be
willing to 60 and vote for two Democrats
which the Democrats might nominate, or
would the Democrats be willing to 90 and
vote for two Republicans that the Repub-
lioans might nominated Every man Of sense
knows, every man Of thoughtfulness knows
that such proposition as that Il not prac.
ticable.
Mr.. Campbell had probably not thought
Of that difficulty. He said what he did only
because he wanted to escape from the d.
lemma in which he had placed himself when
he said the "boards must 60 because they
were incompetent" He knew that they
were not; he knew that they were honest;
he knew that they were fearless; he knew
that no bull -dozer or ballot-box suffer could
interfere with them or control them in any
sense whatever. More applause]
But, my fellow citizens, there Is the great
issue Of this contest Whether or not, what
the Republican party has done for this state;
what it has done for the purity of elections
in this state; what it has done for the ballot
box; what it has done for municipal govern.
ment; what it has done in all those great
matters to which have averted, is to stand
or fall by the next electionl
All will stand II the Republican party be
continued in power; all will fall IL you put
the Democratic party in. For, their plat
form and their candidate and all his follow.
ers, all alike demand that the boards must
go; that this legislation must be undone;
that this step forward must be retraced.
Are the people Of Ohio ready for thisl
[Applause, and cries of "Noi'1 know you
are not. On the contrary, let us rally
as one man. Let us remember when we 60
to the ballot box In November that we 20
there to register verdict in appreciation Of
Gen. Harrisons administration. (Applause
That we go there to rebuke the senatorial
election OF 'S4; that we 60 there to vote that
u -l.N l. Il.