Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-01-31
JOSHUA = Z: MARVIL.
The TRIUMPH OF The 18th
CENTURY
Was TO Elect a Republican TO the o.
1Ce Of Governor
Who Can Neither Read Nor
Write and Signs His Name
With "1Iark''-But He
is a Good Republican.


For a quarter of a century there has
been nothing so persistently dinned
into the ears of the people of this
country as the assertion of the Re.
publican Pharisees that all the intel
ligence, all the morality, all the hon,
esty, all the honesty, all the education,
as well as all the patriotism of the
country is to be found in the ranks OF
the Republican party.
Their daily advocation is to teach
that Democrats individually and col
lectively are depraved, vicious, dis
honest, dishonorable and above all
ignorant, illiterate and unpatriotic.
The result of this, as paradoxical as
it may sound, is to get majority of
the ignorance and vice, especially of
the larger cities, into the Republican
party. They go there to cloak them
selves behind the claims of the Phari-
sees.
The other day Joshua Marvil was
inaugurated Governor of the State of
Delaware. The Republican newspa-
pers made great ado about it. And
well they might. He was the first
Republican Governor of the State,
coming in on last years landslide.
But none of the Republican papers
published his inaugural address, or
any of the traditional ceremonies at
tendant upon the installation of a
Governor. There were neither ad-
dress nor ceremonies. The Republi-
can papers have zealously failed to
tell why.
The reason was this Governor
Joshua Marvil, the Republican Gov
ernor of Delaware, during the last
half of the last decade of the Nine
teenth Century, can neither read nor
write, but is wholly and absolutely il
literatel
He couldn't make an extempore
speech, couldn't commit one to mem
ory, and it being impossible for him
to read written or printed one, he
had to stand mutel
We are surprised, however, that
the Republican genius for fraud and
deception upon public credulty was
not equal to the occasion, and we are
inclined to think that Satan is grow
ing old and his faculties are failing,
otherwise ventriloquist would have
been hired to make the speech, and
the Republican papers would have
gone into convulsions trying to de-
scribe Governor Marvil's matchless
eloquence and fathomless wisdom
and craftsmanship.
Nor is it hard to understand why
Governor Marvil was made the choice
of his party for Governor. Some
years ago a windfall came to him,
and knowing that profession of Re
publicanism was patent to education
and craftsmanship, he became con
spicious leader in the Republican
party.
His dense ignorance made his argu-
ments all the more powerful and un-
answerable, for you know that the
Bible says that while you can answer
the wise man it is impossible to ans
wer the ignorant one.
With plenty of ignorance, plenty of
pretended wisdom, and plenty of
money, he was the ideal Republican
candidate for the place. His nomina-
ton was the logical sequence of these
advantages. His election was the
logical sequence of the people listen
ing to the braying of lot of brain
less asses, and imagining that it was
the roaring of an army of lions.
The Generals and Colonels on his
staff, and the whole list of his ap-
pointees, will certainly feel honored
above all men who held appointive
offices during the century, when they
contemplate this signature to their
commissions:
HIS
JOSHUA X MARvIL, Governor. !"
MARK.
The proud distinction of having
elected as Governor of a State, and
of one of the Original thirteen, dur
ing the first 1876 years following the
Declaration of Independence, a man
who could neither read nor write falls
like a splendid mantle of triumph on
the Republican party. And it could
not have fallen more worthily. 1t hit
the spot exactly.
The case of Governor Marvil is rep
lfoSenUaUlVe. Inore is more lSuOrauce
and borderland illiteracy in public Of
flee five-fold coming from the Repub-
lican than from the Democratic party.
The truth is the greatest percentage
of ignorance and illiteracy is in the
Republican party. Columbus is a
representative American city. We
fearlessly make this assertion, and
are willing to leave it's answer to the
records, that the precincts which cast
the largest Republican vote shows
overwhelmingly the largest percent
age of illiteracy, and the precincts
casting the greatest Democratic vote
show the least.
AS to the question of vice and crime
we are willing to have it settled b.
the same le.-Columbus Call.