The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-01

gangs and an encouruger of politi-
cal reprobates. lie manipulated |
the asylums for personal ends and
brought discomfort, insubordina-
tion and scandal into places where
peace and quiet, the fear of God
and the love of man should have
been dominant. Lacking in COM
mon sense, his egotism and vanity
led him to assume the airs of q
dictator and at times the manners
of a plantation overseer. He en-
couraged Dawes, Kennedy O'Neil
and Lyon, good Republicans and
gallant soldiers, to become candi.
dates, while himself secretly intrig-
uing for their defeat and his own
nomination. He used the high
power with which the people had
clothed him, not for the public
good, but to punish his private en-
emies and reward his personal
friends.
Gov. Campbell may have made
mistakes, but in manliness of bear
ing, in attention to public duties,
in courtesy to those who call at
the executive Office on official bus
mess, in dispassionate and intelli-
gent consideration of public affairs,
in courageous treatment of incom-
petent or dishonest appointees, in
cool, deliberate, methodical action,
and in honest desire to maintain
the honor of the State and plo-
mote its prosperity, he has had no
superior in the gubernatorial Office
within the past fifteen years. He
is not only better than his party,
but stronger, and if Foraker thinks
anybody is going to have-to use
his own boastful language-"a glo-
rious feast" "a pleasing pastime,"
~ sort of reStful recreatiOn," in
dissecting [ ampbell, he thinks the
thoughts of fool.
Major Mckinley is too wise Il man
to run the campaign on the low
plane suggested by Foraker, There
are great issues to be discussed
questions OF finance, of taxation,
of revenue, of protection to citizens
of industrial protection, of city and
county indebtedness-and neither
the candidate nor mis- party can af-
ford to neglect these by entering
upon II campaign Of billingsgate,
vituperation and slander, which
would educate no one, and demOr-
alize all who participated in it.
Foraker embarked upon this sort
Of a voyage two years ago and was
shipwrecked. If experience could
teach him anything he would not
have advised Mckinley to follow
his example unless, as it is not at
all improbable, he desires his defeat
with the hope that in this way one
whom he regards as rival may be
materially weakened, if not finally
disposed of.
The state Republican central
committee, a majority of whose
members were Foraker's hench-
men, brought him to the late con-
vention by special invitation, not
in the interest of harmony, not to
aid in the election of Mckinley,
not with the expectation that his
presence would contribute to the
success of the Republican party,
but for quite another and different
purpose, and this purpose had prob
ably been suggested to his conf
Dental friends on the committee
by Foraker himself. He had emer-
ged from his late gubernatorial
campaign badly damaged, and he
wanted something in the shape of
a Notwithstanding more
than the convention of year ago
afforded him.
His old appointees are numerous
mainly residents of cities anG
towns, and hence easily organized
If they could be brought together
on convention days, and induced
to receive him cordially and cheer
him Justify it would perhaps be ac
!. cepted by the party as condona
= ton of his offenses and lead to /
| restoration of his influence. This
, then was the end to be reached.
D JOHN BEATTY.