Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-22

In his surroundings and home life the
Governor should avoid all p0mp and
display and seek simply to be plain,
solid and respectable. In his house the
humblest farmers, mechanics and
tradesmen should feel at ease and not
be reminded at every turn of their own
poverty and the barrenness Of their
fields Of labor. A poor man can get
along very we'll on $4,000 year and few
rich men spend more, but II by posi-
bilIty one exists whose private business
is so tremendously lucrative that he
can't afford to take Office, for one am
reasonable enough to excuse him and to
look around for somebody else not so
fortunately situated.
1t is astonishing how small things
sometimes appear to men holding ele-
waited positions. A farmer Of a neigh
boring county told me the other day of
a probate judge who, while in office,
complained constantly about the insult
ficiency of his $1,000 year salary, but
when his successor was elected the ex-
jndge managed to get along quite con-
tentedly and comfortably on $500, this
latter sum being the value of his servi-
ces in private business. The Ohio State
Journal is my authority for the state
ment that not one man In 5000 has a
clear annual income of $l400, even
when considerable capital is employed
In connection with his labor.
For four years now, through Cappel-
Ter, KurtZ and Doane, the Governor of
Ohio has had entire control of the party
machine. These servile henchmen have
turned the crank in obedience to his
private Instructions, although quite
often in opposition to his public utter
ances. BY means of this machine the
Governors confidential and salaried
servitors have been brought into direct
and close communication with leading
party workers in every county, town
ship and school district of the State.
The machine, although the property of
the whole party, has been used exclu-
sively in the interest of one man. 1t
was operated first to make him candi-
date on the national ticket, and subse-
quently to perpetuate him in the guber-
Material Office. But in addition to the
power of the machine, the patronage of
the executive office has been used to the
same end. Dawes, Kennedy, O'Nell
and others therefore had to contend
with the controlling spirits of the State
committee; with newspaper men who
in one way and another are stipendar-
les on the public treasury; and with
that larger force ofappointees scattered
throughout the State, whose places are
held at the pleasure of the Governor,
and whose services would be quite cer-
tainly dispensed with if they were to
oppose him. With his plans all laid to
capture the convention and his hench-
men busily at work, was it manly, fair,
truthful for him to affirm that he was
not candidate? ,......
A week or more before the State con-
vention was held there was a meeting
in the Governors Office at which the
whole scheme of capturing the conven-
ton was fully discussed.
One Of the gentlemen who had been
encouraged by Foraker to become a
candidate continued in the field until
he found that the Governor had secret
Organizations to set up primaries in
more than twenty countiesof the State.
On the evening of the first day of the
convention, and while Foraker was
still pretending not to be candidate
he was in consultation with his fellow
conspirators as to the prOpriety of leav.
ing Lampson off the ticket on account
Of his known temperance proclivities
and putting another man on who would
be more satisfactory to the Germans o.
Cincinnati. FE,5,f II IA
All this, however. Is simply part of 8
we'll known story. Those who were In
position to ascertain the facts know 1t
to be true; those who were not will prob.
ably be induced by love of party to
shut their eyes and go 1t blind. Color.
ed lights will burn around the candi.
date until the first frosts of November
He will be magnified by party pride; BY
those who hope for official recognition
by dislike of those in opposition; by
flattering comments of paid buffers; By
the continuous iteration of name; by
a systematic effort to glorify and extol
When Hayes left Columbus for Wash
ington he was escorted in triumph tc
the depot by huzzaing multitude but
when he returned four years subse
quently no one even offered to carry hi.
gripsack. The rising sun makes tht
office seeking heart exult with hope
the setting luminary depresses it by
suggestions of bitter disappointments
/ The manly and sensible American IL
not toad eater. He will go no farthe
to shake hands with Harrison to-day
, than he would have gone three year
ago. If he admires him at all it is fol
his good qualities of head and heart
and not for the accident of berth or tina
of position. He meets him as an equa!
and not as suppliant for fayors. HI
greets him because he is a man, and no
because he is an officer. He betrays NJ
1 poverty of spirit by abashing himsel
j for the sake of official recognition. How
1 many of these independent, manly ant
sensible Americans are there, VIII,
scrutinize a public servant or a candi
date as carefully and dispassionately a.
i they would the man who sought to b.
Il employed in the management of thei
/ private business?s
This question will be in part ans
wered by the Republicans of Ohio, VIII,
strike Folaker's name from the head b
the ticket, and thereby manifest thei
opposition to third term, their disap
proval Of treachery and their detesta
tion Of machine politics. y ia
| Wi sf'n'"s-e JOHN, BEATTY.