Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-05-02
OPEN !HE BOOKS.
The People ofOhio Want a Bal
ance Struck
And n Search Light Turned on
the Dark Places.
Republicans Oppose Inquiry into
Their State Administration.
Doctor Mckinley, Specialist,
Makes a Wrong Diagnosis of
the Patient.
Another Chapter of McKinleyism
And Legislative Bribery.

COLUMBUS, o., April Goth. 1895.
The Republicans factions in Ohio
are in sore straits over the ominous
clouds that are everywhere appearing
in their political armament. The
confidence born of the incredible
plurality of 1877, 900 last year and 81
900 the year before does not seem to
be sufficient to sustain them in the
hour of their growing evils apparent
even to the most ardent of the fac
tionists themselves. AS their conf
dence lessons and disappears that of
the Democracy everywhere increases
and the old saying that every cloud
however dark has silver lining is
exemplified in the experience of the
Democracy of Ohio which never way-
cred in defeat and never lost its head
in triumph. The Republicans of Ohio
know very well that discussion of
their own administration in the state
under the three years of Mckinley
will be absolutely ruinous to any
chances they may have left and as a
matter OF course they propose to
DIVERT THE PEOPLE
from q review of thier stewardship
to subjects that will not reveal the
knavery and crookedness sure to fol-
low from any examination of the
books. In 1884 Thomas A. Hendricks,
the idol of the Indiana Democracy
began the campaign that ended SO
gloriously for his party and himself
by demand that the books be open
ed. For twenty-four years the book
keepers were all Republicans and the
books themselves were in Republican
hands. The people had no access to
any of them and were unable to tell
what their public servants were do
ing. The Republican side from the
very beginning has always been along
this line that if the people attended
to their own business they would have
all they could do without
PoKING THEIR NOSES
into the business of their public SER
wants. In other words the Republi-
can party in whatever form it chose
to disguise itself to deceive and prey
upon the public has always consider
ed that the people were incompetent
to manage their own affairs and that
it was only a little short OF impcrti-
nance when any of them made In
quiries how public affairs were being
managed. They held that the SER
wants of the Taxpayers were the mas
ters and the people were the serfs.
The Democratic party On the other
hand invariably maintained in power
and out of power that the people
WERE THE MASTERS
and that it was not high treason for
them to require reckoning of those
they fed at the public table. The
Democratic party considered the peo-
pie first and required a strict account
of the stewardship of their public SER
wants. Herein lies a line of strong
demarkation of the two parties. 1t
is this line that the Democratic party
of Ohio proposes this year to fight the
battle on in Ohio. The Republican
party under doctor
M'KINLEY THE SPECIALIST
proposes to treat the people for the
wrong disease. An incorrect diagnosis
has been purposely made in order to
deceive the patient and all the vile
political connections are to be forced
down the neck of the people volens.
If the Republicans administration of
Doctor Mckinley the specialist is all
that has been and will be claimed for
it by it's defenders and partisans the
leaders should invite investigation
rather than run away from it as they
are now doing. If something is rotten
in the
OHIO DENMARK
tha raoplo q rn hOuDd tO find ont W N q T.