The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-29

than the State of Ohio with its two Senators,
lApplause.l Let have equality Wipe out
ten New England Senators, or give ten more to
tne people OF Ohio. I am opposed to Mr..
Lodge posing as the champion of equal rights,
coming from New England, which has six
tones the representation in the United States
Senate that Ohio mas. Take your litGle State
OF Nevada, rotten to the core, with /" few half
breeds, and not many white people in the
whole State as there are in the city OF Caaton-
l want them
EQUALIZED BEFORE THE LAW.
1 want the citizen of Canton to be as great in
the Senate Of the United States as the citizen
of the sage-brushes and wilds of Nevada. ZAP
plause. Let US carry this doctrine out Begin
Democratic crusade, and you will never hear
any thing more OF the Lodge bill. New Eng
land wants to hold all she has and take all the
rest
did not intend to talk so long, but there is
Just one matter on which ask your indulgence
for moment. There are good many soldiers
in the city of Canton and in the Sixteenth Con-
gressional District, and ever since can remem-
Der have heard that the Republicans did all
the fighting and were the only friends to the
soldier. Turning to General Sherwood, in the
audience. You know how that is. General,
yourself Five or six years ago the Democrats
elected Pres ident, and in the course of few
months he put into the Pension ONCE crippled
Democratic soldier, who took that office and
run it four years. Under this crippled soldier
John C. Black, in the whole four years there
was not a murmur OF discomfort and what's
more, there was no scandal. OF course when
benjamin Harrison became President
GENERAL BLACK HAD TO CO.
Being crippled soldiers did not save him.
He did not belong to the G. o. p. Thereupon
they put in another crippled soldier by the
name of Tanner, man who lost two feet in the
war. He had he .rd these Republican
speeches. he had heard them say
how they loved the soldier, and poor old honest
jim Tanner, who was only corporal during
the war, and heard these gentlemen make these
speeches after the war. thought it was all
right and that his principal duty to see
that all the money went to the men who
fought for the flag, and he kept it up until he
got all the money run out, and Tanner, who
thought the surplus would last forever never
got down to
THE HUMBLE AND HONEST SOLDIER
In the city of Canton. Then there was trouble,
and Harrison sent for Tanner and said: What
does this mean" Says Tanner: Didn't you
tell us 10 be giving it to the soldierg'
So it came to pass that Tanner could net re-
main in the Pension Office, not because he was
not a crippled soldier. not because he was not a
good Republican but because he had been too
liberal to the soldiers under his immediate eye.
And they went for six months, or 1 don't know
but what it was year. without any Commits
praying to Harrison to put Black there and
start the thing up again. With all the scan
dals they will unearth and cover up, the Re-
publican party in its short lease of power will
never administer that office in the interest OF
the hundreds away from Washington as IL was
done by John C. Blaek- [Applause.1
1t is claimed that the State Of Ohio is tho
| closest State in the Union. You may talee the
return from 1873 to 1889 seventeen years, and
add up the Democratic vote and the Republican
vote, and divide it by the number of years and
there is not 5000 difference between them; and
yet we cast over 800 0O0 votes in the State
There is not State in the Union where the
Congressional delegation ought to be exactly
equallzed between the parties as much as in
this, and the worst that the Republicans ought
to have done in all these years of power was to
have given themselves eleven and given US ten.
But they didn't, and a sample OF wbat they
did do,
THE DEMOCRATS OF OHIO.
Who had II. 900 more votes last year than the
Republicans, have five Representatives in Con-
gfeSS and the Republicans have sixteen. We
had been taking that medicine with as much
JUNCTION as could be expected of us, and very pa
tiently great many years. At last we elected
see what effect 1t would have upon the Re
publican party if he would administer 10 them
one dose of the nasty stuff we had been taking
all our lives. They choke and sputter and spit
and complain.
As have said before, have talked too long.
came here to open this campa gn at the re-
quest of the State Committee.
have simply gone over in outline. IN the
scratch the surface of the issues in this cam.
paign You could not excuse the extravaganza
of the Republican party for all the schemes to
get power surrepitiously.
The thing to do is to rise as they are rising in
the States of the West, to rise in Ohio and Join
the great clan of Democratic States in number
victory in the name of honest government and
reform.