The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-09
Black Dian.a! j.s.
The Governor OfOhiOan
Attorney for Rail
road Sharks.
j. b. Foraker Gets $4OO
for the Use Of His
Name,
By Boone, Of the Star Route Scan
daI Notoriety.
The Governors Splendid Financial
Management" Consists in
Taking Care of For-
aker.
By Boone, Of the Star Route Scan
daI Notoriey.

Facts have come to light which place |
j. B. Foraker, the Governor of Ohio, in |
very unenviable position, and one
from which he will find it hard to es-
cape with honor, or explain to the salts
faction of the people of Ohio.
To hear Governor Foraker talk, one
would think him the soul of honor. His
daring assaults upon all who chance to
oppose him or differ with him lead his
friends and followers to worship him
as a man so perfect in private and otti-
cial conduct that none dare assail him.
To those who are not blind to truth
and devoid of conscience these facts will
come with crushing force.
During his term of Office Governor
Foraker has loaned his high position, as
the first officer of the State, to throw
the cloak of respectability over one of
the most daring, shameless and notorl-
Gus swindles and swindlers in the land
For months the Governor of Ohio has
permitted the use of his name as the
attorney of the Black Diamond Rail-
road Company. While drawing $4,000
a year as Governor, twice as much as
ever paid to any other Governor of Ohio
J. B. Foraker has been drawing $400
month, or $1,000 year, from that
prince of wildcat spectators, A. E.
Boone. What for? Legal services? No.
His name was used by Boone to aid in
the bold-faced swindling of farmers and
citizens in Knox, Morrow and other
counties in the State, where he has
built one of his imaginary railroads.
Boone will be remembered as one
of the sharks that was in
dicted In Washington a few years ago
| for swindling the Post-office Depart
ment of the Government out of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars by ficti-
tious mail route schemes, which existed
| largely on paper. For several years
| Boone has been operating in Ohio; and
| having no character of his own, and less
| money to do business with, he has hired
| the splendid name of our peerless and
spotless Governor at $400 month to
aid him in building air lines from inno-
cent victims pockets to the moon. For
| some days the Democratic State EXecu-
tive Committee has been employed in
getting the documentary evidence that
| would nail Governor Foraker to the
| cross in this scandalous business. They
| have secured the evidence and begun
the fight, as the following from the
Springfield Democrat Of Saturday shows:
''And now comes the defendant, Joseph
B. Foraker, and to the allegations Q)
that he is the counsel of questionable
corporation at salary of $1,000 per an
mum, to wit, the Black Diamond Rail
road Company, whose president is A. e.
l r. &c ~
the Star Route frauds, by which the
Government was cheated out of vast
sum of money; (2) that he lends his
official name to the enterprise, the cap
ital of which is mainly on paper; (3) that
he is a willing party to this scheme,
which has taken from hundreds of per
sons large sums of money without any
return; 81 that, while Governor of the
State and ex-officio member of the State
Board of Tax Revision and Remission,
to which corporations must apply for a
reduction of taxes, he has served in a
double capacity, as Governor for the
people against the Black Diamond cor
poration, and as attorney of the latter
corporation, for it against the people-in
answer sayeth naught.
I'm the meantime, the good people OF
Ohio are eagerly waiting for the Govern
or's statements in regard to the af-
fair They are astounded and ashamed
that such reports of dishonesty disgrace
the fair name of Ohio, and are bound
to probe the matter to its very depths.
The appearance of this first attack in
the Springfield Democrat is very signif-
can't. This paper is run by Will
| of n m
ayowed candidate for United States
Senator. J. B. Foraker is game fighter,
but he has a more dangerous man tc
face in John H. Thomas than James E.
Campbell. Thomas is a grim.
ugly, and desperate fighter
He means business and these
facts would never have appeared
in the Democrat if the Thomases had
not the evidence. 1t begins to look as
though ]. B. Foraker would have to
! come off of the ticket, or he will drag
every man on the ticket down to certain
defeat. There is no time to lose. Take
Foraker off, and have the Governor, the
Legislature and the Senatorship. What
pity it is that Foraker should be sc
foolish to do such 4 thing. We have
realized all along that he had hard
fight on account of the third term and
the gang" methods by which he was
nominated but this exposure settles
all His defeat is certain. The ques
ton now with all good Republicans
should be, How much can we save
t from the disaster?''-Cincinnati Porcu
+. pine Qnd.(
SHERMAN will not assist very materi