The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28

uenI SAUL III gives ine pleuSure w ou'
that so far as am advised your honest,
has not at any time been called in ques
tion." This is worse than to be kicked
out.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat trie'
to be funny at poor Tanners expense b,
saying THAT eorporal Tanner perishet
as public officer in desperate effor
to run hair-trigger mouth in conjunc
tion with flint-lock brain" Foraker
is afflicted the same way, and he viii
drop out in the melancholy days of No
vember.
WHY does Foraker demand that as
SCISSORS, land appraisers, city councils
tive, be taken from the people ant
turned over to him to fill? The conven
tion that nominated him answers
Every city over which the Legislature
has made him dictator, sent solid For
aker delegations.
Hon. T. Q. AsHBuRN has been nomi
mated by the Democrats for Senator in
held an honorable place on the Supreme
bench of Ohio. This is the kind of men
the Democrats are sending to the Legis
lature. The Democrats never made bet
ter local nominations this year than
they have made in every county in the
State. The next Democratic Legislature
will be one Of the ablest and best that
ever convened in Ohio.
GOVERNOR FORAKER lives in house
on Broad street, in Columbus, owned by
A. G. Patton, a convict contractor! Sew
eral years ago Patton, who is shark,
beat the State out of $4,000 by default
ing on his contracts. Since Foraker has
been Governor Patton has run the peni-
tentiary. He now owes the State over
$4,000 for convict contract labor, and
can't or won't pay. Foraker still lives
in Patton's house. Foraker's splendid
administration" comes high, but do the
people want any more?
THE Urbana Gazette puts Big-Six
Alex Sands down as favoring James f.
Campbell. This notorious and smooth
lobbyist is one of Foraker's henchmen
and go-betweens. lie was delegate
from tho Ninth Ward, in Cincinnati. to
the Republican Convention, and aided
the Strangers to force Foraker on the
convention. He is a boon companion of
Bill Capeller, Forakers Railroad Com
missioner, who was exposed by the last
Republican Senate, for attempting to
shake-down and black-mail certain rail-
roads in Ohio.
WHEN the final order came from the
Brigadier's for Corporal Tanner to get
out of the Pension Office, he burst into
tears. He spent most of the next day
at home in tears, and when friend ad-
vised him to shut his mouth and not
talk so much, he said: "Why, what are
you giving me. j am tired of hearing
this talk about my mouth. My mouth
has been my best friend. Were it not
for my mouth never would have been
heard from since my legs were shot off
at Bull Run. Whatever am, whatever
l have been. whatever / have is due to
my mouth"
IN New York recently Governor For
aker said to World interviewer
who inquired II he will be a
for the Senate? "No sir; most
not. shall not enter the
Senatorial contest under any circum-
stances. am only candidate for Gov
ernor." On his last previous visit to
New York, few days before the Ohio
Convention, Governor For
aker said to Times interviewer: mo,
sir: am not candidate for renomins-
ton. j have no desire for the honor
nd hnliaua 10 70 rri,
else chance. I am aware of
the movement to push the nomination
upon me, but you can say for me that 1
do not want it and will not take it."
THE desirability of getting rid of the
Commissioner of Pensions was plain
enough, but an opportunity to do so
without losing votes was lacking. This,
however, has been supplied by Tanners
at Milwaukee. His offen-
sive speech about soldiers wives at the
Grand Army Encampment and the de-
with which the party press
1t, has made an opening for the
of which it will proba-
bly, avail itself Immediately after the
fall elections, II not before. Speaking
of Tanner, the Philadelphia Bulletin,
paper, says: "lIe deliber-
ately made uso Of expressions which
were nothing less than the most intol-
erablc insults to the wives and widows
of the soldiers of the Union. The habits
of thought which lead q man into max
ing such an observation at any time or
place, not to speak of such an occasion
as q Grand Army encampment, ought to
be enough to show the soldiers the su-
preme folly of sustaining a Pension
Commissioner who has no more sense
than to give rcins to his tongue in that
fashion," Such frank criticism by a
party paper so near to Washington sig
nifies, it is believed, that it has been re-
solved upon that Tanner must 90, and
that right soon. 1t Is to be hoped that
The administration, in changing its Com
will, in the public interest,
Modify its policy also. The present
policy is ruinous. Our pension rolls
contain nearly 100000 names, and the
last year for pensions was
1872, 900, 900 out Of total expenditure of
1907, 900, 900. Place by tho side of this
he fact that tho expenditures of the Ger
nan war Office for the year ended March
Il, 1888, were about Ss6, ,000,0 900. The
ost of the British army for the years
s86-S7, inclusive of pensions, was about
o1, 10000 A hugo standing army
'ould, therefore, be no heavier burden
IAN our present pension roll.