The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-10-30
RIDE AWAKENING.

tions. also, in this years political cam,
paign The great demonstration Sat
urday night last in honor of Governor
/ Campbell that was and Governor Camp
bell that is TO be again, and President
Campbell that will be after March a,
1897, was pleasing surprise to the
Democrats and stunning surprise 10
the Republicans.
The comic feature of the campaign ia
just developing. Every Republican Of
ficial appointed by Governor Mckinley
and the whole force of employees undor
them have been heavily assessed to
swell the campaign fund to aid in the
yindication of George b. Cox by the
election of Asa s. Bushnell.
These officials, great and small, hav-
ing been assessed and having paid their
money, naturally concluded that they
would be moderately safe, at least, in
their placesif Mr. Bushnell were elected.
But in the last few days they have be-
camo disillusioned, Certain henchmen
of Cox and Foraker have been visiting
the capital, and casting hungry and CO.
vetous eyes ON all the fat places within
the gift of the governor.
Very naturally they INDUCED in suf
flcient cutgivings to open the eyes and
walSen to the fact that Mr.. Bushnell's s
friends in Office will have to 90. Joe
Smith and Colonel Bill Hahn may
look sleepy, but they know 4o.ton
stono crusher when they see it coming
as them.
They and their colleagues have walk
ened to the fact that if Mr.. Bushnell is
elected governor his introduction into
office will be followed by an immediate
and wholesale cleaning out Of McKin.
ley's friends in all the Offices and the
installation Of Gsorgo B. Cox's selections
in their places. They have already been
selected and the promise is out for their
appointment.
Cox has been consumed with rage and
filed with implacable hatred ever since
Senator Sherman publicly disgraced
him at GAINESVILLE byretusing to put him
on the committee to notify Bushnell of
Lis nomination. He knows the Gov
ernor Mckinley and all his appointees
warmly commended Sherman's action,
and he has doomed each and every one
of them TO dccapitation. His determine
ton is inexorable.
With Bushnell rs governor he has the
AK in his hand with which to chop off
the heads Of ali Mckinley ofiiceholders,
and with them expelled, and his own
trusted men in their places he will be
ready to settle accounts with Mckinley.
They will give him the leverage with
which to make the Ohio delegation in
the national Republican convention, and
under the sllillful manipulation of Cox
and Foraker the Mckinley delegation
from Ohio will be the eighth wonder of
the political world, and will overshadow |
all tho rest of them. uI
And what remarkable bunco game
it is, to be sure. No one except such
men us Cox, Foraker and Kurtz could .
plan and execute it. They first take
tho money OF their intended victims,
then strap them to the bascule and
shove them under tho guillotine.
The Mckinley officeholders are going
to escape the fate planned for thom by
Cox & Co., however, from tho fact that
James L. Campbell is going to be elected
governor. They will have to give up
their Offices. but to an open and manly
foe-not to midnight plotters and Sc
cret Cabal. Governor Campbell will
treat them as prisoners Of war. They
will be thankful next winter that they
the hands Of Cox if they did
have to surrender their Offices.