The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1893-09-21
ROBBERY,
Duplicity and Dem
agogy
MerciIeSsly Uncovered and
Boldly Denounced
AT LOGAN. SEPTEMBER l6.
BY W. A. Taylor. the Dem
ocratio Candidate
For tho Office Of Lieutenant
Governor,
Base Falsehoods Concerning the PEN
sons Exposed.
How the People OF Ohio Were
Robbed by tho Boodiers OF the
Ssventieth General A..
tsmtly.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
For myself, and for the political Or
BY W. A. Taylor. tho Dem
ocratic Candidate
For tho Office of Lieutenant
Governor,
Base Falsehoods Concsrning the PEN
sons Exposed.
How the People OF Ohio We're
Robbed by tho Boodlers OF the
Ssventieth General A..
tsmbly,

LADIES AND
For myself and for the political or
ganization l have the honor to repre-
sent. l shall appeal to no mans pas
sions or prejudices, with view Of in
fluencing his vote.
That work shall leave to the dema-
goques of the opposition.
For two decades they have used pref
udice and passion as foil to conceal
the real workings of a legislative and
the common interests of a common peo.
pie, and, under a 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
Q dethroned dynasty.
Your candidate for governor Is here,
and l 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 BELTS 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
ton, but it will not succeed in fooling
anybody.
1t il to reason and intelligence, there.
fore, that appeal, and, l do not over
estimate the intelligence of the $50, 600
voters of Ohio. when express my con-
fidence that that appeal will be in vain.
That many of the older mombers of
the republican party should cling to
the organization, even after il 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 incoinpre-
hensible. And l address myself es-
pecially to young men and young re-
publicana 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
a 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 tho brain and Drawn and
muscle of American youth; OF the young
and virile. born to the plow and not to
the purple, engaged in noble battle to
free themselves from their early en-
vironments and reach the highest
planes of American citizenship without
tramplipg down and destroying the
rights aid opportunities of their fel-
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 fu-
ture.
The overthrow of McKinleyism in
Ohio this year insures the triumph of
the people in state and national affairs
for years to come. The rock of their
safety towers 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 ..
The temple Of q peoples hope.
The center OF . 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 60 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-
publicans, to come with us this year
and help emphasize the triumph of a
Tree ana lnteillSeut people.
And now concerning the pension
question. desire to say few words
on that. have the right to say it here
in democratic old L:c.-:ag county. 1t
could be no more appropriate any
where. for from this county you sent
ycur democratic boys to the front by
the thousand.
On almost every battlefield. from
Gettysburg to Galveston bay and from
the banks of the Ohio to Savannah,
where Sherman's invinc.ble troopers
saluted the sea under the light of the
southern stars sleeps one or more of
the democratic sons of old Licking
county,,
And yet dernagogues, seeing power
and place about to slip away from
them. are filling the land with the
lying statement that the democratic
administration is going to take the
pensions away from the deserving old
veterans. l call it a lying statement,
because ! believe in the use of plain
Anglo-SaXon words.
The men who coin and the men who
circulate it, know that it is lie, but
are anxious to ride again into office on
the back of lie. since truth no longer
refuses to carry them.
desire 10 say here and now to our
republican friends. surrounded as | ain
by the bronZed democratic veterans of
the war, and the democratic fathers
and mothers and wives and sisters of
the heroic democratic dead. that these
illustrious dead are our dead as well as
yours. that the hOnored living are our
fathers and sons and brothers as well
as yours, and that their comfort and
care and welfare aIe as dear tc us as
they can he to you!
And shame upon the demagogues
who seek to trade upon patriotism, SO