Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-10

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THE PEOPLE SHOULD RULE.
There are ,s07 people in Cincinnati who man.
age the election down there, Every one owes
his place to Governor Foraker I would rather
the people elected these officers. 1 should feel
a little more certain about square deal be-
tween Governor Foraker and myself.
There is grand total Of soil oflce-holders
in the city of Cincinnati appointed directly by
the Governor. They were never appointed by
former Governor. They were created for this
Governor, and they draw out Of the treasury of
Cincinnati for salaries alone the enormous sum
OF 81 1893 $50 "a per year.
When go to elect q Governor and find that
he, who is himself candidate, can appoint
over three thousand people in the City OF Gin
cinnati, and can pay them annually more than
million and a quarter dollars in salaries, we
have come pretty near the p oint that the old
Roman Empire reached when they used to sell
the Emperorship in the public market, or let
the soldiers rattle it or
There are 5000 people in the city of Cincin-
natl, with all dependents, their friends, their
relatives, oil of whom are active politicians.
No wonder that the city of Cincinnati has gone
Republican, It's important to the people Of
that city, butit Is
MATTER OF IMP oRTANCE
To Pike County, because whatever interferes
with the free election of Governor of Ohio in
terferes with you. Nor is that all There are
seventeen other large cities in Ohio.
In these seventeen cities live one-fourth OF
the people of the State. He who controls the
election in seventeen cities can say to
you people in the country, 81 do not think it is
necessary for you to hold an election at all My
seventeen cities can carry on the election
alone" In each of these sevente en- cities there
have been created since Governor Foraker be-
came Governor and never before, Boards of
various kinds. Down in the little oity Of Ham
ilton, where live, city which commits the un-
pardonable sin of having the biggest Demo
cratic vote Of any place Of its size in Ohio, they
| have also created Board of ublic Affairs, so
that the citizens Of that town have no more
control in the expenditure of their municipal
taxes than you have and yet the Governor
wEEPs FOR THE PEOPLE
OF ireland, who have been deprived of local
self government. In the city of Hamilton there
is nothing the citizens can do except to pay the
taxes. It is the only right they have. Every
| thing else is done by four men who constitute
the Board of Public Affairs.
The city of Dayton has Board of Public Com
missioners appointed by the Governor who
control and manage police affairs in that CITY,
and there are in the following cities which
shall name a Board OF Elections, also appointed
by the Gov rnor, viz: Springfield Akron,
Canton, Chillicothe, Hamilton, Portsmouth,
Sandusky, Steubenville, Youngstown, Zanes-
vile, Mansfield, Newark, Cleveland Columbus,
| Toledo and Dayton. The people of this coun-
try, on our own theory of Government elect
SAAASSAS' S@SSS Va
Ohio, and
WE HAVE THE CAPACITY,
The intelligence, and the character to vote for
the Governor, but we have not, according to
Governor Forakers theory, the capacity to
elect officers hold elections in our own locali-
ties therefore he appoints them to the cities l
have named
He appoints the people who shall decide
whether we have a aight to register and vote
and 1 am unalterably opposed to and shall not
| =,
make the Election Boards when he himself is a
| candidate.
1t has been said most maliciously and falsely
that opposed Boards themselves. No man
on Gods great earth can put his finger upon a
word that have ever said anita gonistic to the
Boards, the registration laws, safeguard
thrown around the ballot, save and accept the
| appointment of such Boards by my competitor
| for office. 1 say, as an American citizen, that
| the man who is running against me shall not
| appoint the officers who are to determine
whether my friends have right to vote. lap
| plause.1
| WHEN WE ARE READY
| For that let us abdicate the right of elections
altogether Let US have a dictator and be hon
est with ourselves. The reply to this is that we
| have non-partisan Boards Let US see. The
1 law says these Boards shall consist of four
PEOPLE, two Democrats and two Republi.
| cans 1t does not specifically say
| Democrats and Republicans but says two from
one political party andtw from another. So the
Board is constituted ostensibly non-partisan
| They say that in no other way can you get q
| non-partisan board. The Governor has said,
| and every Republican paper in the State has
| printed, shat you can not get a non-partisan
| board except through ]. B. Foraker Can moi
| the people elect non-partisan board? What
is it SO intricate proposition that they can no
master it? There are in the city of Cincinnati
| four members of the board of elections Sup
pose every elector in that city had right tc
vote for members Of that board, the board tc
consist of four members, but no elector to be
| eligible to vote for more than two men, how
would you get more than two out OF one
party?
| UNDER THAT LAW
You could vote for but two only out Of tht