The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-23
ZEE B4LI0TDQZll LIE
James {. Campbell
Tells the Truth.
Does Not Mince Words in An
sWering His TraducerS.
Governor Foraker Inter-
eSte0 In the Boxes.
Foraker's Letter to Governor
Luce, of Michigan.
Jim Foraker a Stakeholder in the
Ballot Box Company.
Mr.. Campbell Not Interested Financially
in the Box, and Brands as a Double
Dyed Liar the Man Who
Says He Was.
Governor Foraker Inter-
ested i'm the Boxes.
Foraker's Letter to Governor
Luce, of Michigan.
Jim Foraker a StockhoIder in the
Ballot Box Company.
nfr. Campbell Not Interested Financially
in the Box, and Brands Double
Dyed Liar the Man Who
Says He Was.

In his speech at Germantown Tuesday
afternoon, October 8, Hon. James II.
Campbell took the opportunity OF reply
ing to the sneaking insinuations, covert
innuendoes and obscure charges made
against him by political opponents in
reference to the ballot-boX bill intro
duced in Congress. Mr.. Campbell said:
Some nights ago the Governor of Ohio,
in Music Hall, exhibited ballot-box
and read a portion of bill proposing a
certain form of ballot-box 1t was my
bill. l introduced it. So far it was all
right. And it was the box-the same
box his brother Jim Foraker is inter-
ested in as stockholder.
AS l said before of the bill, intro
duced it, and it was the best bill intro
duced of dozen of the same kind that
were to come before tho Committee on
Elections.
1t was in consonance with the occasion
and with the surroundings that Gov
ernor Foraker was assisted in his dra-
matte performance at Music hall, in ex-
hibiting the box, by that distinguished
exemplar of purity in elections, by his
chosen instrument of reform, Mr.. George
R. Topp, his chairman of the
Republican Executive Committee and
his member of the Board of Public
Affairs. You will remember that as
Governor Foraker grew eloquent in his
description of the box George Topp ma
nipulated it and took it to pieces before
the great audience just as he had been
taking in pieces the peoples money.
Governor Foraker was, of course the star
of the occasion and George Topp, of
gravel fame, and the box were leading
supports.
Well, as said, that was the same box,
but at Pixies Opera-House a few days
later | made speech in which l charg-
ed that the board of public affairs of
Cincinnati was a den of thieves and
proved it by beginning with Governor
Foraker's ballo5-box assistant, the Chair
man of the Republican Executive Com
mittee of Hamilton County, and at the
same time exposed as common liar NJ
Halstead, once great writer, but whose
mind is now diseased. 1t is Halstead,
you know; and not Topp,
who is crazy. Ee has the Senatorial
bee, and isweak enough and vain enough
to think he can be elected to the United
States Senate. He is the laughing stock
even of his own employees.
/ quoted from his Wilmington speech,
and proved that he had told six or seven
malicious lies in one speech. l then al
luded to his
ABUSE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
When he said it would be Gods mercy
If Lincoln could be killed, and recalled
his calumnies of Sumner, Seward, Chase,
Logan, Blaine and Grant, and concluded
by saying he had descended from COM
mon scold to common liar. That made
him mad and he wrote card-forty
years an editor and he wrote card-so
you can tell how mad he must have
been, and here is the card:
Mr.. Campbell here read Mr.. Halstead's
card addressed to him saying that he
had proof that Mr.. Campbell was finan-
cially interested in the ballot box when
he introduced the bill into Congress.
The speaker made running comments on
the letter, and remarked concerning
Halst ead's charge that he was tool of
the gang, that it was ''an old gag but
played out"
Replying to Halstead's charge that he
did not reply to the ballot-box charge at
Pixies Opera House, Mr.. Campbell said
that the Forakerites were simply beat
ing gong to attract attention in an
other direction and cause the gravel in
cident to be forgotten.
II didn't refer to it, said he, s'and I
didn't propose to refer to it until we had
rubbed in. the Topp incident to our COM
plete satisfaction. / didn't want public
attention
DISTRACTED IN THAT WAY.
snow as to Mr.. Halstead's charge in
his card that 1 was financially in
terested in the ballot box. Now,
mark you, Mr.. Halstead, is utterly
irresponsible. He can call you a
thief, a liar, a murderer, and you can
have no recourse, unless it is to spit in
his face, and no decent man would want
to do that. You can't sue him for SLAM
der, because it would be like skinning a
flea for its tallow.
He dare not editorially, in the columns
of the Commercial Gazette, where his
company would be held responsible,
make that charge, and L defy him to
do so.
The morning the Halstead letter ap-
peafed reporter of the Evening Post
appeared before breakfast with the e.
G. and showed me the Halstead card.
/ then and there branded him liar,
double liar, and said if he could prove
that was financially interested in that
bsllot-box would go off the ticket, and
! repeat it now. But that poor, crazy
old creature, following the Senate jack
O. lantern, has been bowling away since
in innuendos and insinuatiOns.
Then the Cincinnati Times-Star took
it up and has been writing editorials
like the C. g., which read as if lawyer
had been slandering over the editors
shoulder to see that there was no
DIRECT OUTRIGHT CHARGE.
They are full of dirty slurs and in
situations, but no direct charges are
made.
Then comes the: Cincinnati Evening
Post, which has been bought up by the
Foraker combine-that's libelous, but L
charge it boldly. The Cincinnati Post
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