Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-03
POINTS FOR The PEOPLE


not tackled General John Beatty yet.
PRIVATE DALzELL and Josey Bseswax
Foraker must come to the defense OF
Tanner.
THE Generals around Harrison's Ad-
ministration have no use for privates or
Corporal Tanner.
A JOINT debate between Governor
Foraker and Chas. s. Grosvenor would
be very entertaining. Let us have it
by all means.
If the Democrats had removed two
legged soldier from Office for any cause,
as Corporal Tanner was removed, what
howl would have gone up from the Re-
publican press.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was compelled
to kick Tanner down stairs. Looking up
from the sidewalk, Tanner asked for
certificate of character, and the Presi-
dent said: st gives me pleasure to add
that so far as am advised your honesty
has not at any time been called in ques-
tion." This is worse than to be kicked
out.
The Sc. Louis Globe-Democrat tries
to be funny at poor Tanners expense by
saying THAT Corporal Tanner perished
as a public officer in desperate effort
to run hair-trigger mouth in conjunc-
tion with a fiint-lock brain" Foraker
is afflicted the same way, and he will
drop out in the melancholy days of No
vember
WHY does Foraker demand that as
SCISSORS, land appraisers, city councils,
and scores of offices that are now elec.
tive, be taken from the people and
turned over to him to fill? The conven-
tion that nominated him answers.
Every city over which the Legislature
has made him dictator, sent solid For
aker delegations.
Hon. T. Q. AsHBURN has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats for Senator in
the Clermont Brown district. He once
held an honorable place on the Supreme
bench of Ohio. This is the kind of men
the Democrats are sending to the Legis-
lature. The Democrats never made bet.
ter local nominations this year than
they have made in every county in the
State. The next Democratic Legislature
will be one of the ablest and best that
ever convened in Ohio.
GOVERNOR FORAKER lives in house
on Broad street, in Columbus, owned by
A. G. Patton, a convict contractor! Sew.
eral years ago Patton, who is shark,
beat the State out of $50, 900 by default.
ing on his contracts. Since Foraker has
been Governor Patton has run the peni-
tentiary. He now owes the State over
$4,000 for convict contract labor, and
can't or won't pay. Foraker still lives
in Patton's house. Foraker's splendid
administration" comes high, but do the
people want any more?
THE Urbana Gazette puts Big-SiX
Alex Sands down as favoring James E.
Campbell. This notorious and smooth
lobbyist is one of Foraker's henchmen
and go-betweens He was delegate
from the Ninth Ward, in Cincinnati, to
the Republican Convention, and aided
the Strangers to force Foraker on the
convention. He is boon companion OF
Bill Capeller, Foraker's Railroad Com.
missioner, who was exposed by the last
Republican Senate, for attempting to
shake-down and black-mail certain rail.
roads in Ohio.
WHEN the final order came from the
Brigadier's for Corporal Tanner to get
out of the Pension Office, he burst into
tears. He spent most of the next day
at home in tears, and when friend ad.
vised him to shut his mouth and not
talk so much, he said: "Why, what are
you giving me. I am tired of hearing
this talk about my mouth. My mouth
has been my best friend. We're it not
for my mouth never would have been
heard from since my legs were shot of
at Bull Run. Whatever am, whatever
I have been, whatever I have is due to
my mouth"
In New York recently Governor For.
aker said to World interviewer
who inquired if he will be a
candidate for the Senate? ''No sir; most
decidedly not. I shall not enter the
Senatorial contest under any circum.
stances. I am only candidate for Gov.
ernor." On his last previous visit to
New York, few days before the Ohio
Republican Convention, Governor For.
aker said to Times interviewer: "No,
sir: am not a candidate for renomina.
tion. 1 have no desire for the honor
again and believe it is time to give
somebody else chance. I am aware Of
the movement to push the nomination
upon me, but you can say for me that
do not want it and will not take it,"
THE desirability Of getting rid of the
Commissioner of Pensions was plain
enough, but an opportunity to do SO
without losing votes was lacking. This,
however, has been supplied by Tanners
performances at Milwaukee. His often
sive speech about soldiers wives at the
Grand Army Encampment and the de.
nunciation with which the party press
received it, has made an opening for the
administration, of which it will proba-
bly, avail itself immediately after the
fall elections, if not before. Speaking
of Tanner, the Philadelphia Bulletin, a
Republican paper, says: 'He deliber.
ately made use of expressions which
were nothing less than the most intol-
erable insults to the wives and widows
of the soldiers Of the Union. The habits
of thought which lead man into max
ing such an observation at any time or
place, not to speak of such an occasion
as Grand Army encampment, ought to