Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-11
FEAR-STRICEEN
And Full Of Panic Over the Great
Demonstration.
With the Uprising Of the People
Against the Bosses and Corrup-
tiOnists They Cover With Fear.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Columbus, O., October 9-The great
uprising Of the people Of Ohio, which
marked the opening Of the Democratic
campaign of Ohio in this city on the
2Sth of September, has passed into his
tory, but it's effects are still seen in
the fear-sbicken and panic-wearing
faces Of the George 3. Cox gang. who
are running the Republican campaign.
At last they have been driven into a
corner and compelled to face the stern
responsibility Of their own misdolngs
and mismanagement Of State affairs.
AT last they find that there is no al
Tentative left them but to answer an in
dignant and betrayed people.
Governor James e. Campbell, the
brilliant statesman and honored citizen,
came TO the head Of more than $4,000 Of
them, and, like a giant Of legendary
times, he lifted the dome from the
state Capitol and let the sunlight of
heaven into the noisome corridors.
And what q scrambling and squirm-
ing and sQueaking and gibbering there
was among the political yermin who
have infested it so long. eating up the
peoples substance and gnawing at the
yitals of the State.
The distinguished orator showed
them no mercy, and the applauding
he f...Hr 4 a.
strdent and resonant shouts, 1t was
the declaration of q war of eXtermina-
ton from the lips Of the commanding
general, and the captains and the lieu
tenants and the privates in the ranks,
who were there, have since carried it
into every town and hamlet and house
hold, from Ashtabula in the far north
east 10 Adams in the southwest; from
Williams on the borders OF Indiana and
Michigan on the northwest, to Washing
ton at the junction Of the Ohio and
NuSkingum, where the corner stone Of
Western civilization was laid in 1888.
From this time on it is the war of tho
people against the bosses, and every
day since the crash of the opening Of
the battle. the people see more and
more clearly their duty TO themselves,
and the bosses realize more and more
clearly that the halter Of public indig'
nation is tightening about their necks.
When I'm 1898 a commercial panic OF
Republican origin, falsely charged to
the Democracy. swept the land, the
people were divided as to the best meth
DDS of securing relief. and disheartened
remained away from the polls, giving
the State to the Republicans by SO,OJO
plurality.
The gang in control of the party in
the legislature sign3lized their triumph
by wiping off the statute books the Gar
Der fee bill which was intended to keen
the fees Of public officials within rea-
son9ble limits. and adding between 500
000 600 and S25,00O.O00 to the local
bonded indebtedness. as well as putting
through innumerable jobs for corpora
ticns and spectators.
i'm 1894 more than $4,000 people re
Trained from voting, and the Republic
cans had a plurality Of 10000. This the
bosses interpreted as a wholesale IL
cense to plumber The people at VIII and
they proceeded to do it.
Through their reckless extravaganza
the State treasury had become penni-
less. They borrowed $4,000 on bonds
Of the State, and when they were bought
by two milliCnaires they exempted
them from an taxation. The half mill
lion they quickly squaldered and enor-
nous deficiencies began to pile up n
the State treasury and still remain 10
heap enormous burdens on the taXpay-
ers.
They cast covetOus eyes ON the Hook
ing canal, the property Of the people
worth at @ low estimate sl50000 and
transferred it to the lobby for less than
one-tenth of its real worth, and then
the Republican leaders IN the Legisla-
Cure openly quarrelled on the floor Of
the house over the division of the briba
money
They so gerrymandered the judicial
diCr!C,s as TO make a mere partisan
machine of the judiciary. disfranch.s-
Ing the Democrats and giving them less
than 20 judges out of a total Of 1876
There was no form of legislative cor
rupton and jobbery that did not re
caive the teuderest consideration of the
Seventy-first general assembly, which
was more than fOur-fif-hs Republican
in both Breaches. and which reached
the climate when It voted on party lines
to pay S91 600 in salaries for which no
sort Of service was performed.
And now the people have the result
before them. a bankrupt treasury.
enormous deficiencies, increased taxa
ton. scandals amcng public officials and
George b. Cox, the vulgar boss of Gin
cinna.i. moving to take control Of the
State of Ohio rs he has taken control &C
the county of Hamilton.
A knowledge Of these things among
the people caused the universal uprising
among the masses which manifested it
self I'm this city on the 2Sth ult
The enormous proportions Of this up
rising. and the determination of the
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