The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-10-17
FEAR-STR|CKEN
And Full of Panic Over the
Great Demonstration.
with tho Uprising of the People Against
the Posses and Corruptioniats
I They Cover With
Tear.
Special Correspondence.

SoLNhDS'N w. Wv. t. IN f,iNste
rising of the people Of Ohio, which
marked the opening Of the Democratic
campaign cf Chic III this city on the
2Sth of September, has pas;e'. into his
tory, but its effects are still seen III the
ear-stricken and panic-wearing faces cf
the George B. Cox gang, who are run
ming the Republican campaign.
At last they have been driven into
corner and compelled to face the stern
responsibility of their own misdoings
and mismangement of state affairs.
AT last they find that there is TO al
tentative left them bat to answer an in
dignant and betrayed people.
Governor James Il. Campbell, the
brilliant statesman ard hCnored citizen,
came at the head of more than 20, 600 If
them, and like giant cf loserdery
times, he lifted the dome from the state
capitol and let the sunlight of heaven
into the noisome corridors.
And what scrambling and squirm-
ing and squcaking and gibberins thore
was among the political vcrmin who
have infested it SO long, eating up the
peoples substance and gnawing at the
vitals of the state.
The distinguished orator showed them
no mercy, and the applauding thousands
betrayed no pity i'll their sirident and
resonant shouts. 1t was the declaration
of war Of determination from
the lips of the commanding gen
ecai, and the captains and the
heutenants and the privates in the
r.:aks, who were there, have since car
ried It into every town and hamlet and
household, from Ashtabula in the tar
northeast, 70 Adams III the southwest;
from Williams ON the iordcrs of III
diana and Michigan. on the northwest,
to Washington at the Junction of the
Ohio and Muskingum, where the corner
stone of western civilization was laid IL
l7SS.
From this time on it i, the war of the
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 moro clearly
that the halter of public Indignation is
Tightening about their necks.
When i'll 1893 commercial panic Of
Republican origin, falsely charged to the
Democracy. swept tn, land, the people
were divided rs to the best methods of
securing relief, and GisEeirtenel re-
manned away from tn, lol!s, giving the
state to the Republicans by $1,000 plur-
ality.
The gang in control of thu party in
the legislature signalized their triumph
by wiping off the statute books the
CARRIER fee bill, which was intended 10
keep the fees of public officials within
reasonable limits, ami adding between
$50, 900, 900 and $25, 100000 to tho local
bonded indebtedness, as well as putting
through innumeraS,e jobs for corpora
tions and speculators.
In 1891 moro than 5000 people re-
Trained from voting, and the Republic
ans lad pun ality of $4,000. This the
bosses interpreted as wholesale license
to plumber the people ut will and they
proceeded to do it.
Through their reckless extravaganza
the state treasury had become pennilesS.
They borrowed $500, 600 on bonds of the
state. and when they were bought by
two mi Eonaires they exempted them
from all taxation. The half million
they quickly squandered and enormous
deficiencies began to pile up i'll the state
treasury and still remain to heap enorm-
Gus burdens on the taxpayers.
They cast covetous eyes Oh tho Hook
ing canal, the property of the people,
worth at low estimate 81, 800, 900, and
transferred it to the LOBBY for less than
one tenth of its real worth, and then
the Republican leaders in tho legis-
l,.tnre openly quarrele,l on the floor Of
the house over the division of the bribe
money.
They SO gerrymandered the judicial
districts as to make mere partisan
machine Of the Judiciary, disfranchis!ns
the Democrats and giving them less
than 20 Judges out of total Of 125.
There was 10 form of legislative cor
ruption and jobbery that did not re-
ceive the tenderest consideration of the
Seventy first general assembly, which
was more than four fifths Republican
In both branches, and which reached
the climax when it voted OH party lines
to pay $9l 900 III salaries for which no
sort of service was performed.
And now the people lave the resul:
before them. A bankrupt treasury,
enormous deficiencies, increased taxa.
ton, scandals among public officials and
George B. Cox, the vulgar boss of Gin,
cinnati, moving to take control of the
state of Ohio as he has taken control OF
the county of Hamilton.
A knowledge of these things among
tho leo2le caused the universal uprising
among the masses which manifested it
self i'll this city on the 2Sth ult.
The enormous proportions of this up
rising, and the determination of the
people to strangle the stranglers and
bosses is what has thrown the Repablic
nraanagers into panic. In the mean
time let the people push Oh the column
w. A. T.
,Vter James f. Camnbpll is inauqur