The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-06-12
Opening Its Petals Under
the Dews Of Democracy
Ready to Bloom and
Blossom in GlOr-
iOus Victory.
The Mckinley. Foraker Factions at
Each Others vitals, and a Contest
TO the Death is Now On.--OhiO
Democracy Erect and Con.
fldent In the Impend.
ing Struggle.


advised of the proceedings Of the
Republican state convention at
GAINESVILLE. After the action of that
convention there ought to he no
doubt of what the right kind Of
ticket can accomplish before the
people of Ohio. The Republican
factions are in fight to the death.
Governor Foraker with the re-
venges of half dozen years now
gratified is in the saddle and in
full charge of the Republican ma
chine. Gov. Mckinley after un-
paralleled successes since 1891 has
at last been overthrown. The re-
publicans who are now IN control
of party politics are the men who
are sworn to retire him to
PRIVATE LIFE
and their first step was the selec-
tion of a candidate for governor
who represented the idea of hostil-
ity to Mckinley swell as a state
ticket in harm ony with the same
policy. The Mckinley machine
though broken at GAINESVILLE is yet
a powerful affair and able to wreck
any other that has arisen on the
ruins of the old one. There is but
one policy open to the Napoleon of
tariff and that is the. defeat of the
ZANESVILLE TICKET
from top to bottom and including
the legislative ticket as we'll. 1t is
Il we'll known fact that Bushnell
administration at the state house
would be more disastrous than a
Democratic administration to the
presidential aspirations of the pre-
sent governor of Ohio. The friends
of the governor argue in an ingen-
ious manner If Foraker without
a dollar of state patronage as a
private citizen without anything
to reward personal loyalty could in
a few weeks marshall over 500 del
egates to state convention out of
800 what could he now do with all
the power and prestige of the
whole state and the legislature
back of him? With his personal
feeling toward Mckinley and the
full knowlege of the treachery. of
the Governor and his friends ever
since 1889 when both Sherman and
Mckinley issued the edict that
Foraker should be defeated what
can Mckinley expect at his hands?
Absolutely nothing. But he could
expect the knife
TO THE Hit
and in this he will be disappointed.
With democratic administration
intrenched in power in both legis-
lature and the state house and in
institutions, he would have an
equal show in graphing with For.
aker for it must be confessed the
governor is much stronger than
any body put forward to represent
him at GAINESVILLE. 1t was necess.
ary in 1889 to curb the grow ing
power and check the ambition of
Gov. Foraker and it was done in
the election Of James L. Campbell
and a democratic legislature. The
same situation is before the Nc.
Kinley-Sherman leaders today. If
they permit the election of Bush
nell and with him republican
legislature there is no longer any
hope for Mckinley. Politicians
are fickle and fleeting ard once
that a mans political sun has set
the men who have fawned in the
sunlight of his favor, in the hey
day Of his power, are generally the
first to desert to the worship of the
rising sun. Gov. Mckinley with
out power and patronage in his
own state will be no more than any
private citizen. Foraker on the
other hand, is dashing brilliant
magnetic commander who charms
and cnptivates his followers
through himself alone. Mckinley
on tho other hand attracts only in
the ratio of his ability to reward
with Offices those who serve him.
With that ability removed he
would be an exploded presidential
quantity that other states would
refuse to recognize bf cause of the
dangers attending II mans nomin-
ation with division of his own
party in his own state. But by
defeating Bushnell who is none
other than Foraker, his friends can
say that Ohio can only he carried
by the Republican party with Me-
Kinley and that has again been
demonstrated that the state has
been lost through the triumph of
the Foraker faction. In 1899 For