Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-09-21
ROBBERY,
Duplicity and Dem
agOgy
MerciIeSSIy Uncovered and
Boldly Denounced
AT NEWARK, SEPTEMBER IA,
BY W. A. Taylor, the DEM
ocratic Candidate
For the Office Of Lieutenant
Governor.
Base Falsehoods Concerning the PEN
sa-S. sions Exposed.
How tho People Of Ohio We're
Robbed by the Boodlers OF the
Eoventieth General AS
sembly. .-GlA>,
BY w. A. Taylor, the DEM
ocratic Candidate
For the Office of Lieutenant
Governor.
Base Falsehoods Concerning the PEN
an. sions Exposed.
How tho People Of Ohio Were
Robbed by the Boodlers OF the
Soventieth General AS
sembly. -AAs~,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
For myself, and for the political or
ganization l have the honor to repre-
sent, shall appeal to no mans pas
sions or prejudices, with view of in
fuencing his vote.
That work / shall leave to the dema-
goPues of the opposition.
For two decades they have used pref
udice and passion as foil to conceal
the real workings of a Legislative and
administrative system that set at war
the common interests of a common peo-
pie, and, under false and pernicious
pretext, enriched the few at the bitter
cost of the many.
For years the masses have felt the
palsying effects of over-taxation and
class Legislation, and their recent ex-
perience was but the dying struggle of
a dethroned dynasty
Your candidate for governor is here,
and am here to-day, not to appeal to
your passions, not to incite ancient
prejudices, but to reason with you with
that calm deliberation which beflts an
intelligent people alive to their own
best interests.
1t argues we'll for the immediate fu-
ture of Ohio and the union, that the oc-
cupation of the demagogue, like
Othello's, is gone The ghost of dema-
gogy may gibber on some of the stumps
in Ohio, about hard times and about
pensions, and shrek for higher taxa
tion, but it will not succeed in fooling
anybody.
1t is to reason and intelligence, there
fore, that appeal, and, do not over
estimate the intelligence Of the $500
voters of Ohio, when | express my con-
fidence that that appeal will be in vain.
That many of the older members of
the republican party should cling to
the organization, even after it had full
filled its mission, and abused its oppor
tunities, is perhaps the natural result
of reminiscent association.
But why any young voter of thirty
five years, or under, can march under
its banner of Bourbonism is incompre-
hensible. And / address myself es-
pecially to young men and young re-
publicans. Why should you link your
self to the Bourbon corpse? Why should
you act as pall-bearers at the funeral of
your own opportunities.
Unjust, inequitable and burdensome
taxation, levied for any purpose and
especially for the purpose of enriching
class at the expense of all others, is
oppressive to the middle-aged and the
old, but to the young it is the blighting
mildew which destroys their hopes and
withers their opportunities upon the
very threshold of their lives.
The Mckinley bill unfurled the AL
gerian flag of rapacious and piratical
Mammon, in opposition to the glorious
banner of the brain and Drawn and
muscle of American youth; of the young
and virile, born to the plow and not to
the purple, engaged in a noble battle to
free themselves from their early en-
vironments and reach the highest
planes of American citizenship without
trampling down and destroying the
rights and opportunities of their fell
lows.
Under which flag?
You must give your answer at the
polls, and in giving it you should save
your common opportunities from over
throw and destruction.
Let demagogues maunder, but vote
for the preservation of your own fn-
ture.
The overthrow of McKinleyism in
Ohio this year insures the triumph of
the people in state and national affairs
for yea rs to come. The rock of their
safety lowers like Mt St. Elias above
the spray of the eliminating storm in
the nations capitol. There we have
the cheering spectacle of democratic
president and congress
1.-THE temple of peoples hope
The center of o lands DESIRE"
working out the peoples will
The redemption of the promises made
to the people has begun long before
the regular assembling of congress,
and it will go on until the high and
the low, the rich and the poor, the
mighty and the humble, shall each and
every one come into his rightful her.
itage, bequeathed by the fathers and
guaranteed by the constitution. We
want you yonng men, you young re-
Ipublicans, to come with us this year
and help emphasize the triumph of a
free and intelligent people.
And now concerning the pension
question. desire to say few words
on that have the right to say it here
\ in democratic old Licking county. It