The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-02


There are 1907 people in Cincinnati who man
age the election down there. Every one owes
his place to Governor Foraker. would rather
the people elected these officers. 1 should feel
little more certain about a square deal be.
tween Governor Foraker and myself
There IS a grand total Of 3,dtl Gfdce-hdldefs
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 ST. 293 $50 q per year.
When we go to elect Governor and f1rd thdt
he, who is himself candidate, can appoint
over three thousand people IN the City OF Gin
cinnat, apd can pay them annually more than
a million and a quarter dollars in salaries, we
have come pretty near the oint that the old
Roman Empire reached when they used to sell
the Emperorshtp in the public market, or let
the soldiers rattle it off.
There are 5000 people in the city of Cncin-
natl with all dependents, their friends, their
relatives, all Of when are actiFe rolitisians.
10 wrndef that the City OF Cihcinnati Ids gone
Republican, It important to the people of
that city, butit is
| A MATTER OF IMP oRrANCE
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 ttfer 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. Ny
seventeen cities can carry on ths eleeti5n
| alone" Iii each Of these seventeen cities there
! have been created since Governor Foraker be-
| came Governor, and never before, Boards of
various kinds. Down in the little city 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 P ublic Affairs, so
that the citizens Of that town have ne more
control in the expenditure of their municipal
| taxes than you have, and yet the Governor
| HEEPs 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. livery
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 l
| shall name Board OF Elections, also appointed
| by the Gov rnor, viz: Springfield Akran,
| Canton, Ghillicothe, Hamilton Portsmouth,
| Sandusky, Steubenville Youngstown, Zanes-
| vile, Mansfield, Newark, Cleveland, Columbus,
Toledo and Dayton. The people of this coun-
| try, on own theory of Government, elect
their own officers. We elect the Governor of
| 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 I
have named
He appoints the people who shall decide
whether we have aight to register AMI vote,
and l am unalterably opposed to and shall not
cease TO fight the idea that the Governor shall
vhofi hk1h
candidate.
1t has been said most maliciously and falsely
that 1 opposed Boards themselves. No man
on Gods great earth can put his finger upon a
word that have ever said anita gonstic to the
Boards the registration laws, or safeguard
thrown around the ballot, save and accept the
appointment of such Boards by my competitor
for office. l say. American citizen, that
the min who is funh ng against me shall not
appoint the officers who to determine
whether my friends have a right TO vote. Jap
plausel
wHES WE ARE READY
For that let abdicate the right Of elections
altogether. Let us have dictator and be hon
est with ourselves. The reply to this is that we
have non-p&r Ioards. Let US see The
law says these Boarls shall consist of four
people, two Democrats and two Republi-
cans. 1t does not speclhcaily say
Democrats and epublicans, but says two from
one political PARTY and two from another So the
Boa d is constituted ostensibly non-partisan.
They say that in no other way can you get a
non-partisan board. The Governor has said,
and every Republican paper in the State has
printed, that you can not get a nonpartisan
board except thr ugh j. B. Foraker. Can not
the people elect non-partisan boardY What,
is it so intricate proposition that they can not
master it? There are in the city of Cincinnati
four members of the board Of elections. Sup
pose every e!ector in that city had right to
vote for members of that board, the board to
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 the