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

Every Step by Treachery, FaIsehood
aud self-Glorifications : speeImens
ofNewspaper Puffs Inspired or Paid
for BY the Governor.
COLUMBUS, Aug. l5.-Gen. Beatty
publishes an article to-day defining the
meaning Of Forakerisin. He says:
From an article written in the COVER
nor's Office, but published In the Ohio
Stat Journal of the 18th inst. as an edi-
torial, | clip the following definition OF
Forakersm: ts It'' @'HF 7
"Under his administration the State
debt has been reduced in three years
from "a, ,220, 900 to 50, ,760, 900, the annual
interest charge from $213, 900 to SIS, 600.
These We're Forakerisms."
The definition given is, 1 think, COR
rect. Forakerism means pretense, sham,
fustian, trickery, fraud, humbug, clap
trap, falsehood, and the above quota
tion fills the bill completely. : .-..
If the author of the statement quoted
ever read article of the constitution of
Ohio he must know, If he has ordinary
intelligence, that the governor has no
more to do with the reduction of the
State debt than the bronze figure of DR..
Smith at the corner of Broad and High.
The auditor, secretary of State and at
torney general are by the constitution
made commissioners of the sinking
fund, and it Is their duty ITO apply
said fund, together with all moneys
that may be by the general assembly
appropriated to that object, to the pay
ment of the State debt. .........'t.,.
The three members of the sinking
fund commission are elected by the peo-
pie and are wholly independent of the
governor. The latter has nothing to do
with the State debt in any way, shape
or manner. How absurd, therefore, to
give him credit for what he not only
did not do but could not do under
the constitution of the State. And yet
this Is Forakerism. 1t claims every
thing for Foraker and what is more,
these false claims emanate from his
own Office, are distributed to the news
papers of Ohio by his own agents and
are quite frequently paid for at so much
a line with his own money! or that OF
the State committee.
AgainI clip the following from the
same article: @s4
nCalled to the chief executive of bis
native State, his first act was to secure
a reform of the election laws under
which Ohio citizens can vote as they
choose without being bulldozed or die
tated to, and can and do have their
votes honestly counted, honestly re-
corded and honestly returned. This is
Forakerisn.v s8s@ SAL E
| ovct. e. f.N1a
and hence Forakerism. The general as.
semhly of Ohio in an independenthsdy
elected by the people In conformity ia
certain provisions Of the constit ituti0nqol
the State, and is not, therefore. simply
an instrument of Foraker's creation
whose good works must necessarily re.
dound to his honor and glory. He can
neither make nor unmake law, but
this factsdoes not deter him from claim.
ing all the credit for the good acts of the
Legislature. M0desty is not an attribute
of Forakerism. Again:
"In 1886, when Charleston was rocked
into ruins by a terrible earthquake
which destroyed buildings and render.
ed homeless hundreds of men, women
and children, Gov. Foraker sent tents
for the homeless. This was Foraker
ism.1 8 5E sEs.G/ et " II ~
So it was. It Is Forakerism to use
the property of the people and ther
boast of it as an act of personal gener
osity.t,
! Whose tents did he send? The States
How much did it cost him to send
them? Not farthing. Is there q mar
in this State or any other, with 50(
tents In his keeping. who would not
have thought of them on such an oc
casion, and used them in precisely the
same way? No. Why, then, this per
petual boasting about an act which any
body would have done and which Fora
ker could not have done if he hadn'
been governor of Ohio? sig
i Again: "In answer to protest from
Ohio Grand Army veterans against the
rebel flags in Ohio's capitol being re
turned, he telegraphed: !. No rebel flag
will be surrendered while am cover
nor.' This was Forakerism.
So it was; for it is in part a lie. Crane
Army veterans did not protest agains
the rebel flags in Ohio's capitol beinl
returned for they had sense enough t.
know that no demand had been mad,
for their return. One man in Hills
boro, however, wrote the governor ask
ing if such ademand had been made
and instead of answering the question
plainly In the negative the governo
| caught at the chance offered for tn,
display of little cheap demagogy ant
got of the nonsensical and irrelevan
reply above quoted. ~ g. 81 ,vseg
| Again: The.young'voiunteer speed
lily distinguished himself, was the frs
man over the breastworks at Mission
ary ridge. This was ForakerisIn.n
i So 1t was. Where did this little bi
of information come from originally
History has failed to mention it. In al
advancing line of 10000 men, stretch
ing for mile or more along eithernth'
crest or base of a wooded ridge VIII,
can say that this or that man led?~ No
body but Foraker. The information
came from him. It is Forakerism.
4 HE conducted himself with such in
trepid bravery in engagement that h
won promotions and was a quarter o
La century later referred to by Gen
SlOcum as a young man not then 2
years of age who was full of energy an,
activity, always reliable. This wa
Forakerism."
Nobody doubts that he was goo,
soldier. There were million good sol
diers in the northern army. Thousand