Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
DEMOCRATIC AIGHT-MLRE." {"
A Republican stalwart Takes q
Hand,
And Fires Some Deadly Shots Into
Forakerism and Cranky
Ha1stead.

Hcans the Democrats have been talking
about7 II they live in Ohio they are
keeping very quiet.
will try to answer. They are all
over the State Of Ohio. Nine out of ten
Republicans who do not hold Office, and
at least fifty per cent. of those who do
hold Office, II free to express themselves
would be opposed to Foraker's methods.
There is more honesty among the voters
of the Republican party than the subsi-
dised newspapers are willing to admit
1t is not Foraker they are opposed to,
but his methods. They are above per-
sonalities, but they still adhere
to the principles of the Repub-
lican party, viz, honesty and fair
dealing with the elective francise.
They are opposed to bossism in all
forms. They do not believe there is any
difference between Democratic boodler
and Republican boodler. 6They look
upon them with equal contempt.
They think self-constituted gang
who attempts to control elections and
nominations by dishonest methods are
dangerous elements whether they claim
to be Republicans or Democrats They
think that Republican who by dis
honesty and intrigue procures an office
against the will of the people, is equal
ly as dangerous as Democrat who does
the same thing. They can not see any
difference between the man who buys
his nomination for cash and the man
who trades for it or procures it through
intrigue and deception, SO far as honor
and integrity are concerned. They
know the difference between statesman
ship and egotism with brass band ac-
compartment. The Commercial Gazette
is giving rehash of one side Of the
history of the Payne election, but
it fails to give the true in,
wardness of the Payne case. If
it lacks information on that subject and
will send reporter to Columbus with
instructions to make known to the public
the full history of the case from Begin.
ming to end he can get some interesting
reading to lay before the readers, but in
the language of Beecher 'there may be
other hearts to ache" Also il the re-
porter will only take the trouble to in
terview the Republicans of Franklin
County, he will find large percent. Of
them who have no collars on their necks,
and consequently can not be dictated to
by the gang; and II the Toledo Blade
and the Commercial Gazette do not keep
better posted on the situation than
would appear at the present, the cleo.
ton returns may give them the might
mare" .....
The day of the wind jammer has gone
by in this country, and while the cone
scientious Republicans are not making
much noise they are keeping up ID
of thinking, and the ballot, though
also silent, has its effect upon the gang
sters whether they are Democrats or
Republicans. But few months ago the
honest Democrats assisted in rebukipg
the gang that had the Democratic party
here by the throat and were running
things with high hand, and we do not
believe that there is more honesty in
their party than there is in the Repub-
lican party. BY the manner in which
the Commercial Gazette is 1aboring on
the Payne case, it is evident that Murat
Halstead is to be vindicated by the Re-,
publican party in the present campaign;
or, in other words, he is in the deal, and
that alone is sufficient to defeat the par
ty. For one, would rather see Payne
return to the United States Sem
ate as Democrat than to
see Halstead go there as Republican;
and I know vote the sentiments Of q
large section of Republicans in Ohio
No man has been more abusive of the
Republican party and its leaders than
has Murat Halstead. Grant, Lincoln,
Stanton, Wade, Logan, Conkling, Ar
thur, Garfield, Evarts, Ingalls-in fact,
almost every man who has become prom
inent in the Republican councils for the
past thirty years has come in for share
of his villainous abuse, and when young
Logan felt called upon to rebuke him
and his cohorts for adding insult to in-
jury, he whines like whipped cur and
appeals to the sympathy of the people,
and young Logan stands higher in the
estimation of the people to-day by rea-
bOU Va UAhU 1hOSU AAOA1uSu 4CpuhOS 1OA Az
would be just as reasonable for the MUIR
derer to insist on being one of the pall-
bearers at the funeral of his victim, as
for the Halstead gang to insist on a
compliance of this unreasonable request.
G. B. TERRELL.
The financial affairs of Ohio must be
run on magnificent scale truly. Tri-
fies receive no attention at the hands Of
the financiers.
The fact that $3.50, 1000 of the sinking
fund was transferred to the general rev.
enue fund in violation of a constitutional
provision is regarded as SO Insignificant
that the people in charge of the States
affairs regard it simply as piece Of i'm.
pertinence to call public attention to it,l
Four Of the penitentiary contraStogs
are over $4,000 in arrears, and when