The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-10-24

domestic productss Tbh can only be mel
by the reduction Of wages Of the working
msn and the diminuti6n q domestic manu-
factursa Capital viii not be tempted into
any further investment, but win seek en-
| ployment In other pursuitA Workingmen
already complaining that their pay Is moi
sufficient must either abandon their pur-
suits or b. deprived Of some Of the comforts
they now enjoy, and their discontents will
break out In strikes, and many Of them win
Be compelled to ssek other smployments.
Now nearly all the products Of the farm are
consumed BY the workingmen at home.
The farmer will lose this market, will be
compelled to export his surplus products to
uncertain and distant foreign markets. He
will also lose the protection he now enjoys
on wool and on agricultural products.
Perhaps the most vicious feature of the
Mills bill is that IL places wool on the free
list, and brings the farmer into sharp and
hard competition with woods grown on the
vast uncultivatsd plains of Australia and
South America.
STATE ISSUES.
Now, fellow.citizens, let us turn to state
politics. You win have in . few days, per-
haps the most important state election for
tion involved at the election is whether We
shall have free and fair elections in the state
Of Ohio. You may say that we are all IN
favor Of fair elections. Mr.. Campbell has
already said SO, but he does not state the
action Of the Democratic party in the con-
duct Of elections, not only In Ohio but in
other parts Of the country. 1t IS very easy
to say we are for fair elections, but do we
conduct them fairlyl
do not count much upon promises but
upon acts, and am compelled by the truth
to say that the Democratic party Of Ohio
has in the past six years done more to de-
grade and deprave purity OF elections than
has happened since the state was organized.
Now, the main facts are known by every
intelligent citizsn Of Ohio. They COM
menced In the election of 1888 at Cincinnati,
when at the Highland house convention .
reckless and desperate gang substituted
list OF delegates who were not elected for
those who were elected, and thus seized the
machinery Of the Democratic party. It
may be said that this was fight in the
Democratic party with which we Republi-
cans had nothing to do, but 1t was just as
corrupt and corrupting as If they had seized
the ballot-boxes and changed the ballots,
for these preliminary movements Of parties
are a part Of the necessary machinery Of
elections. This was followed by open
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
In the election of Mr.. Payne as a senator of
the United States. I do not care to dwell
upon this, for it was admitted and de-
nounced by leading Democratic papers,
and, II am not mistaken, by the Demo-
cratic papers published in this county do
not say that Mr.. Payne participated in the
bribery, but that it was done to promote his
election may be stated as an established
fact. In the election Of 1884 the same GRIM
inal gang were guilty Of repeated outrage,
violence and fraud.
The senator next referred to the dis
graceful part taken by Mike Mullen
and others in the elections at Cincin-
natl in 1885, and quoted from Governor
Hoadly's speech delivered before leav-
ing Cincinnati, in which Hoadly ad-
mitted the frauds and strongly de-
nounced them. He then referred to
the frauds in Louisiana in 1874, by
which the vote of that state was given
to Polk instead of to Henry Clay, also
the frauds practiced by the border ruff
fans of Missouri. and the infamous
York in 1858, showing clearly that
every great fraud against the elective
franchise in the United States had been
committed by the Democratic party.
Speaking of the
REGISTRATION AND ELECTION LAWS
OF Ohio, the senator said they were
made necessary by the crimes commit
ted agains the ballot, and continued:
The question now is whether the party
which created the necessity for these laws
II. H.. k~I $l,o;,,
repeal, or shall they-in substance-stand
as the law of the land, until modified by
those favorable to their object. This is the
great local issue of the campaign.
The election of Mr.. Campbell, under the
circumstances, accompanied by the election
of a Democratic legislature, would lead to
the substantial repeal Of these laws The
many men who led in the crimes in 1885 in
Cincinnati are now leading and prominent
actors in the local and state conventions Of
the Democratic party.
TO CoNpoNK THE oFFENsEs COMMITTED
BY them and their associates would be to in.
vite recurrence of the same offenses. We
have had since then the benefit Of two Re-
publican legislatures. Their work Is before
you. They have passed many wise laws to
promote temperance and good order, have
barrassments without increasing taxes.
They have, aided by Governor Foraker, ad-
vanced the credit Of the state You may
feel certain that another Republican legisla-
ture will follow in the same line Of policy as
fast as public opinion will allow, while
Democratic legislature will naturally seek
to undo all that has been done by Repub.
lican legislature
NOT A PERSONAL CAMPAIGN.
II Is not contest between Governor For
aker and Mr.. Campbell :. Governor
Foraker is one of the ablest, one Of the most
brilliant men in public life He was one of
the youngest soldiers in the Union army,
and, though young, rendered important
services at critical periods Of the war. He
has made his own way in the world. and has
filled with distinction every place assigned
him. He has made an efficient governor,
and / can see no force in the objection that
he is running for third term II he has
performed his duties exceptionally we'll in
the past it Is good reason why he should be
continued In Office In the future.