Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-09-21

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Total loss 70 the roll ................ Is2
BY death. h...... ........ ........ luz
BY remarriage- ........ ii
By legal limitation .................. ii
by transfer 10 other ageneies....... 81
From other causes (suspensions)... 10
ADDED during August. .4ooS
Which includes 1906 transferred from
Dayton home.
There you have the whole story. To
make up the S2, 200 suspensions in Au-
gust, each suspension was multiplied
by 2,o00, but that is moderate false
hood when you take into consideration
the desperate straits TO which the bour-
bon republican leaders find themselves.
During the closing months of Grover
Cleveland's first administration in 1885,
1889 there was but one. question upper
most-how to reduce the tax burdens
OF the people and prevent the accumu-
lation of dangerous surplus in the ma
tional treasury, which, after meeting
every reserve and every requirement,
amounted to round s1O0, OOo 900.
During the closing months of Benja-
min Harrison's administration in 1892
1898, there was but one question upper
most, how to increase the tax burdens
of the people so as to raise enough rev.
enues to meet the hungry demands
upon treasury that carried defcien-
cy instead of a surplus!
The 800, 600, 900 of surplus was gone,
and the dimes and nickels and pennies
were counted as available cash in the
treasury balance.
The 500, 900, 900 gold reserve for the
redemption of the legal tender notes,
had been impaired, and was being
maintained only as fiction.
While President Harrison prayed for
the speedy arrival of the 4th of March,
Secretary Foster clamored for the
right to issue $4,000, 900 in bonds to
bridge the yawning chasms
Our gold was flying across the ocean
at the rate of $40, 100000 per month,
and the trusts and combines created by
the Mckinley bill were collapsing and
threatening to engulf the nation in
financial ruin.
The economical methods Of demo-
cratic administration had been hooted
ont of every depart rtment and the loot
ers had done their perfect work. When
a democratic president and congress
came into power on the 4th day OF
March, 1898, they found an empty
treasury and a financial panic, and they
heard the hoarse shouts of thepirates
charging it all up to the people and the
democratic party, jeering at the demo-
cratic salvage corps and shouting;
"You wanted change and you've got
it!'
And with that cry they hope to un-
ship horse sense in Ohio and carry the
state for McKinleyism and Sherman
ism, the dangerous reef from which the
democracy have just succeeded in res.
cuing the ship of state.
But here in Ohio, with each succeed
ing republican state administration
and legislature, the people have seer
their taxes increase and the public in
stitutions unload larger and larger de
ficiency upon a consumptive treasury.
A democratic congress and president
over in Washington, with fresh anG
emphatic and unnistakable instruc
tions from the people, are at work re
lieving you from the burdens of quar-
ter of century of republican class
legislation and twenty-one years of re
publican NAL administration, and thai
gives you Buckeye voters the colder
opportunity to do big job of thresh
ing onYour own threshing floor.
Every officer to be voted for in Ohio
from governor, state officers and legis
lature, down to county infrmary
director, with the exception of singl,
congressman to fill q vacancy, has t.
do only with your state and county
affairs and will determine whethe
Ohio is to be turned over to the bont
brokers and tax-gatherers, or whethe
the load of taxation for all purposes il
the state is to be reduced below
100000 limit next year, or whethe
it shall go beyond the SAG, 900, 600 limi
of this year, and call upon you TO
$50, 100000 or more of taxes annually
If you want to see it reduced, yo1
will turn the present republican stat
government and legislature out O
power.
If you want to see it increased, yo,
will re-elect Gov. Mckinley and
republican legislature, and by tina
vote give them carte blanche to confs
cate your property without the right o
appeal.
No man more cheerfully comedies t
Gov. Mckinley all the high attribute
of honesty and integrity claimed TO
him by his friends than l. I hav
| known him for many years, and know
him only to respect him.
But his administrative misfortune
have been so many and so signal tina
he well might pose as the modern Jere
miah and issue new edition of Lamer
tation.
Beginning with all the public institu
tions carrying the most enormous de
ficiencies to the yawning mouth of al
empty treasury, the procession is so
emn one and conducive of tears.
A high public official, reappointed b
him to an office that is designed to car
especially for the workingman an
woman, was brought to the bar of
public investigation by the democrati
and independent press, and was show
to have looted the treasury to the ez
tent of thousands of dollars.
A part of his misdoings, but not al
of them, were exposed, and part G
the thousands of the peoples money
wrongfully taken, but not all, was re
turned in the executive chamber, an
the perpetrator went thence unmolest
ed, although the states law officer
| now asking recollection at your hands
was present and knew the full dept,
of the offense against public moralit
and public safety.
1t is for you, my fellow citizens to sa
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