Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26

This is Forakerism. The law to re-
fund the debt was passed by Demo-
cratic Legislature during IIoadly's term.
This Law prescribed the rate of interest
which might be paid, the manner of ad-
vertising for proposals, and when the
time came for action the sinking fund
commissioners, one of whom was Dem
ocrat, accepted the best bid offered for
the new bonds and paid off the old.
Money was abundant, rates of interest
low, and the refunding a good thing for
the State. Foraker is no more entitled
to the credit of it than he is for the
abundant corn crop. II credit is due to
anybody, it is due to the General AS
sembly which passed the law, and this
was Democratic. The saving of $3.50, ,0O0
year in interest results from a partial
payment of the debt which would have
been made under any administration,
and reduction in the rate of interest
which no State law nor United States
law could either prevent or affect. The
lender always controls the rate of in
terest, not the borrower.
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''Then we did something else. When
Governor Hoadly came in we had the
Scott law, as it was called, on the stat
ute books of the State, that gave local
treasures two millions of dollars. The
first thing the Democracy did was to
tear that statute out of the statute book.
The first thing we did when we got back
was to put it in again cheersl, and we
want to keep it there renewed cheers
and we have been perfecting it. To-day
every saloon in Ohio, under the Dow
law, the State gtts $50 year; that
amounts to $3.50, 0,O00."
This is an impudent Forakerism. The
inference from it is that Hoadly and his
Democratic Legislature repealed the
Scott law, and thus lost to the local
treasures two millions per annum, for
he says ''the first thing the Democracy
did was to tear the statute out of the
statute book" Did the Democracy tear
it out? No, the Supreme Court held the
law to be unconstitutional
The $3.50, 1000 per annum derived from
the Dow law should aggregate over a
million which Foraker's administration
has had for general expense account in
excess of Hoadly's. Where has this
vast sum gone to? Why has there been
no relief to the tax payers except that
which is about to result from failure to
make the usual levy for the payment of
the public debt? Why have printers
with over due bills against the State
been put off from week to week and month
tomonth? Why have asylum boards failed
to approve, vouchers against the State
which were payable at sight? Why did
the finance committees of the last Gen
eral Assembly become panicky. over a
depleted treasury, and falling to obtain
practical advice from the Governor, ap-
peal to other men for suggestion, coun-
sci and guidance? The truth is, the
money of the State has been squander-
ed-in some degree under Hoadly, but
to a still greater extent under Foraker.
The cry has been for more money-more
things to tax-more offices and higher
salaries, not for smaller appropriations
and fewer expenditures.
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"You remember of that election it
was that Governor Hoadly spoke when.
in his celebrated speech to the Demo
cracy of Hamilton County, he said:
"Never again, never again, fellow-Dem-
ocrats, compel an honorable man to con
template as 1 had to, with shame my
name accredited to 926 votes never re-
ceived in the Fourth Ward THAT was too
many you see] and my friend Judge
Foraker given only 46 votes in Precinct
A of that Ward, when he certainly re-
ceited nearly 20O."
remember it and have been looking
to find Republican statesmen OF Ohio
independent enough-manly enough,
truthful enough and patriotic enough to
administer the same sort of rebuke to
the gangsters of my own party. But
have not found them. The Coxes, Ca.
pellers, and Kuytzes pack conventions,
manipulate wards, townships and cohh-
ties, and through the caucus control
elections without question and without
restraint. Men employed and paid by
tho State are assigned to party work.
Trifers, idlers and incompetehts DE
carried upon the State pay rol as re-
Wards for partisan service. Governors
even do not hesitate to WELD the patron.
age of their high office to perpetGate
themselves in power. And yet the Re-
publican who should dare to lift up his
Toice in protest would be assailed and
yilifed as if he were a traitor to his
country.
assume that the Republican party oi
Ohio is in the main composed; of honest
Intelligent men; that they want whole
truths, not half truths, from those who
presume to instruct them from the
stump; that they are opposed to electing
any man for third term; that they de-
sire practical, sensible man in the ex
ecutive Office, and I therefore take it fol
granted that Foraker will be beaten this
fall at least $4,000 votes. This disinge
nuous and trifling Xenia speech should ot
itself be enough to condemn him.
JOHN BEATTY.
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. Q, 1889.
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