Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-10

they reached out for Columbus, and to dif-
fersnt places all over the sta te of Ohio, seek
ing, not by the will of the people to select
legislature. seeking, not by the will Of the
people 10 select United States senator, but
seeking by fraud, BY forgery. by perjury,
by every kind of crime, TO pervert and de
feat the will of the people and give rule of
fraud and crime to this great, free and
mighty commonwealth
1t became the duty of the Republican
party to break the thing up, and we pro-
ceeded, when we got into power, as the re-
suit of the election of 1885, TO enact laws
that have done the business [applausel, and
that's what hurts them. lApplause.] To
day every citizen in the state of Ohio who is
informed knows, and if he be an honest man
he is willing to concede it, whether he is
Democrat or Republican, that we have
never had in the city of Cincinnati and the
other cities of the state as fair, and peace
able, and honest, and satisfactory elections
as we are now having. Every one knows
that under the laws as they now exist there
can be no stufilg of the ballot-box, no
forging OF returns, no altering Of tally
sheets, no crime of any kind successfully
committed in connection with the exercise
of the right of suffrage Every one knows
that How has it come aboutf Simply be
cause we took it upon ourselves to enact
that no man should be allowed to vote until
in accordance with certain provisions of
law, which we prescribed, he should go TO
certain duly appointed officers and there
register his name and place of residence,
long enough before the election to admit of
citizens interested in the question as TO
whether or not he had the right to vote, to
make proper inquiry as to his being Legal
elector of that locality. Then we appointed
boards to enforce that law, and see to i.
that their provisions are obeyed These
laws were prescribed, not for one man, or
one class of msn; they rest alike upon al
classes. WAle, therefore, the great harL-
ship is being imposed upon Mr.. Campbell,
that he talks about, of having to go to Ham
ilton to register, equally as great a hardSh =
is imposed upon me, for am required u
journey all the way from Columbus TO Gin
cinnati that l may regis er, and am about
as well knowa in Cincinnati as he is in Ham
ilton, and l have never complained about it
[applausel and never shall, and neither will
any man Complain about it who believes in
honest and fair elections. Tremendous
cheers, and shouts of That's So" That's
right y
Therefore it is, continued the governor,
l say to you here to-day, my fellow -citi-
zens, that Mr.. Campbell was nominated at
Dayton by the very class of men who per-
petrated outrages on the ballot-boxes for
years in Cincinnati, and because they want
these laws repealed Why's They have been
in the rear for number of years. They
haven't dared to raise their heads in poll
tics; they have kept out of conventions, and
have not attempted to exercise and politi-
cal power, but now they have bobbed up
once mora. They are TO the front of the
Democratic party again. Tney call them
selves ''Campbells," and shout "Here we
come" They really supposed they were
'coming" a few weeks ago, but now they
appear to be 'going." lApplause.l Let US
keep them 'tgoing." [Cheers.
What is their interest in this electiona
Why should they come to the front in this
wayi asked the governor, warmly.
Simply because in the matter of elections
they have been out of business for the past
three years, and they don't like it They
want to do business again at the old stand;
they have calculated to do it under the
leadership of Mr.. Campbell, and Mr.. Camp
bell is willing to bs their leader in this
crusade against honest elections. CCheers. ]
That l charge against Mr.. Campbell here to-
day, and when l say charge it against Mr.
Campbell l speak knowingly. 1 mean what
l say. (Cheers He is their leader in this
crusade against honest elections; against all
that has been done for the redemption of
Cincinnati and for the protection of other
cities in this state against the systematic
frauds and forgeries from which they suf-
fered before TCheers
Now, I have something more to say to Mr.
Campbell l call upon him and defy him to
point to a single honest endeavor that he
has ever put forth in his life for the purity
and the protection of the bsllot-box
[Cheers.l When, and where, and how, Mr.
Campbell, did you ever put forth an honest
endeavor for the purity and the protection
of the ballot-box? 1 defy you to point to a
single one. [Applause.l
Speaking of state finances the gov
ernor said:
When my administration commenced we
found a great deficiency. We have made
that deficiency good and we have met every
obligation that has been imposed upon the
state. We have advanced the credit of the
state until it stands higher and better to-day
than ever before in our history. And that
Is nOG al. we nave uOO only meG every OD-
legation, but we have done it without in
creasing the burdens of taxation. On the
contrsry, my fellow-citizens, if we had done
nothing else it would warrant continue
ton of this policy, simply that we have
done all this and at the same time have re-
duced the bu dens of taxation. Applause.
When you come to pay your taxes on the
Goth of next December you will find that
you have to pay on account of state pur
poses two-tenths of a mill less than you
have paid since 1910. [Applause.1
What does this mean? 1t means that the
property holders of the state of Ohio will
have more than 1856, 900 less taxes to pay
than they had to pay last December.
[Applausel
No Democrat helped give you this relief
It was done by Republicans; done by Re-
publican legislature; done by Republican
administration; done by Republican econ
omy; done by the exercise of good, sound
Republican business sense. [Applause.l
That is how it was done That is, in short,
the financial situation in Ohio
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