Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-07-25
And Pointedly Refers to the
Bossism of the Late Rep
ublican Convention.
1T WAS PACKED BY FORAKER's
APPOINTEES WITH HIS
KNOWLEDGE AND CON-
SENT.
And the Most Shameless Exhibition of
Bossism ever Seen in Ohio.
Statements That Cannot be Refuted.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The
Columbus Dispatch has this about Gen.
eral Beatty at Alum Creek:
"Gen. John Beatty, on the Fourth Of
July, at the Alum creek picnic, de-
INJURED to the people extending to one
of their number the privilege of hold
ing an office three times in succession.
"Gen. Beatty was elected to Congress
three times in successiOn-once to fill
an unexpired term and twice to fill full
| terms.
The people, in electing Gen. Beatty
three times in succession, exercised
their privilege and pleasure This they
will continue to do"
To this Beatty said:
l. L made no illusions to the subject
of a third term, at Alum creek.
2. Members of Congress have no
patronage and control no appointments.
They have, however, in common with
every other citizen, the right to ask the
President to nominate this or that man
for this or that Office; but he always
does as he pleases about 1t.
8. Ifthe Dispatch will take the troub-
lie to run through its own editorials of
few years ago it will find some very
congent arguments against third term.
4. 1t reversed its pop-engine on the
third term question simply because the
cousin of the editor-in-chief was in the
Foraker, Cox and Morlein brewery deal.
The nomination of Brown, (the cousin),
for three terms or thirty terms has no
bearing whatever on the third term
question, and the editor of the Dis
patch should have had sense enough to
discover this himself. Brown controls
no patronage, makes no appointments,
and is not permitted by party custom
to run the machine. He is to the State
simply what teller is to bank. He
receives the States money, pays it out
on warrants Of the auditor, and for the
faithful performance of his duties gives
bond. The present treasurer is not
only competent officer, but he is a
wounded soldier, with no nonsense
about him, who attends strictly to the
business office. He was renominated
by the gang'simply to give respectable
ty to the ticket, and will receive 10000
more votes in November than Foraker.
If he looses any Republican votes at all
the loss may be attributed to the folly
of the editor of the Dispatch, who seems
to think 1t necessary to abandon prin-
ciple and blaze away from the breech
of his gun instead of the muzzle in or
der to heIpa relative. Blood may be
thicker than water, but in this case
brains are considerable thinner.
5. The rule upon which the Ameri-
can people have finally settled is that
two terms in succession shall be the
limit in an executive like that of Presi-
dent or governor. The reasons for this
are too obvious and important to be
hidden by sophistry, or disturbed by
ridicule. This stability of our Republi-
can government depends upon our
faithful adherence to it. the last Repub-
lican State convention should be a
warning to every thoughtful man. 1t
was as completely and wholly in the
hands of the gang as any ward caucus
ever was in the most disreputable pre-
cinct of Cincinnati or New Orleans. It
has been systematically packed by Gov.
Foraker's appointees with his know
ledge and consent. The pretense of rot
being a candidate was simply blind to
cover conspiracy.
The very lines of the governors ac-
ceptance speech were known to the
shrewd newspaper men of Columbus
days before the convention was held,
and months prior to that, leading men
were quietly sounded as to their will
ingness to accept second place on the
ticket with him. Kennedy, Dawes,
Morey, Jones, O'Neal, Lampson, Lyons
and hundreds of other prominent men
know that all the power of the party
machine, and all the patronage of the
executive office and all the cunning of
close corporation of inscriptions
tricksters, all the money that could be
raised from an army of appointes. were
brought into requisition to control the
convention. ... ...
So confident was the gang at last of
its power to dictate to the Republicans
of Ohio that its members laughed de-
risiveiy at the nominating speeches
made for the Ostensible candidates; and
without showing decent respect for the
opinions of the people by assigning
reason for what they proposed to do,
they trifled with the honest delegates
on the first ballot, and then at the
crook of the boss's finger nominated
Foraker on the second. 1t was the most
shameful exhibition of bossism, of bad
faith, and of systematic packing ever
witnessed in Ohio.
I repeat, Dawes, Kennedy, Jones,
O'Neal, Morey and LampsOn, know
this statement to be true; but they were
candidates, and, having been candi-
dates, feel honor bound to fall into lineI
with apparent cheerfulness. The in
Republican voter, however,
is not so bound. He will find in the
makeup and action of this convention
an additional incentive to adhere to
that unwritten law of the Republic,
which forbids to the chief executive
officer of State or Nation more than two
terms in succession.
He will find in this convention an
illustration of the manner in which a
comparatively small organized body of
place-holders may perpetuate them
selves in office for life. In brief, he will
see that it Is but a step from the posi-
ton of q governor to that of a perma-
nent boss; and for the good of his party
to say nothing of the higher interests
involved-he will rebuke the gang and |
improve the ticket by striking out
Forakers' name AR q naa,
4 Now, I Ido not wish to be understood |
as affirming that Gov. Foraker had no
friends in that convention who were |
not parties to the conspiracy which
him, for this would be far
from the truth. He has many honest
admirers in the State, especially among
the younger Republicans, and he doubt
lass has sOma admirers ATfnOnU the Oldnr |