Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-08-08
Democratic Northwest.
AMI HENRY COUNTY NEWS.
VACATIONS.
Coy. Mckinley Says lie Never
Takes Any.
HOW LOBBYIST FORAKER
GAINED A POINT FOR
STREET RAILROADS
BY Threatening to Denounce Repub-
lican Legislative Corruption.
CoLuMBus, o., July 30, 1895,

COLUMBUS, o., JULY 30, 1896.
About the greatest Individual who
has been around Columbus for some
time called at the governors office
the other day. Ordinarily there
would be nothing singular about this
but the peculiar feature OF the vista
tion is the fact that the call was made
at night. The gentleman did not
leave his name for he was OF that class
known as burglars and instead Of
gaining entrance at the door tried
one of the windows. Evidently he
was of the opinion that the Governor
Of Ohio was likely to be at home and
he was going to take no chance OF
meeting his excellency by calling at
his Office at night. This poor wretch
is to be commiserated for there is not
a man, woman or child in the state
who does not know that Mr.. McKin-
ley is never at his Office day or night
without the gravest provocation. 1t
would appear to everybody that a
burglar who didn't know that McKin-
ley was never at home would not have
sense enough to engage in that busi-
ness. Following the heels Of this re-
diculous blunder of the
M'KINLEy BURGLAR
comes letter from the great apostle
of protection himself who says in an
eastern magazine that he takes no
vacation and hasn't for long time
but he believes it would be better for
him il he did. II stick to my desk
through the hot days and work." he
says, whereupon the Columbus Rec
ord thinks late political results do
not justify McKinley's claim that he
has been ''at work and sticking to
his desk" The Record naively re-
marks that Mr.. Foraker and his
friends are preparing to give the
governor a long vacation after Janu-
ary and it continues that, ''the peo-
pie OF this country in sheer self-de
tense will join hands irrespective of
party in insisting on the governor
getting what they need themselves
long rest from calamity howling-a
vacation from predictions of disaster
and evil-a dreamless sleep without
it's rude awakening by the dismal
happings of the wings OF that
BIRD OF EVIL oMENs
the raven OF the immortal Poe. This
would be vacation, method of
spending the summer that would suit
everybody and we believe even Mr..
Mckinley himself If he would try it,
The Record then remorselessly pro-
ceeds to remark that since Mckinley
claims he is q Deliver in hard work
that, Nothing but the hardest kind
of work will enable the governor to
get q solid delegation next year il
Geo. b. Cox succeeds in making Gen.
Bushnell his successor and putting
his other friend Foraker in the Brice
seat at Washington. 1t is estimated
that within the last 18 months, Gov.
Mckinley travels IL continued in a
given direction would have girdled
the world at least two or three times.
When Mr.. Phineas Fogg started to
make his famous journey around the
earth in 80 days he took no vacation
or he would have lost his bet. Mr..
Fogg was a great rustler but he was
not comparable with our illustrious
gubernatorial pereginator."
BRICE AND soRG.
Not since the last days of October,
1889, when Democratic triumph was
in the air, has there been such feel.
ing of confidence among Democrats.
One of the ablest and most diplomat
ic Democrats in Ohio, Hon. James A.
Norton, said to your correspondent:
"If Brice and Sorg have formed an
offensive and defensive alliance the
Democrats will carry the state this
fall. The combination will be SO
strong that it will be impossible for
the Republicans to break it. Such a
combination would secure both the
state ticket and majority of the
legislature.
with an alliance between Sorg as
a'candidate for governor. and Brice
for senator, there would be an ahun
dance Of the sinews Of war, and the
party would experience no difficulty
in that regard, in carrying on the
campaign.
FoRAKER's THREAT.
A sensation has been exploded under
the Mckinley administration by the
publication Of the facts relating tC
the exemption of street railway com
panies under the Nichols law. Ex
Gov. Foraker, who has represented
all the big corporations at Cincinnati
as a lawyer and lobbyist In the legis
lature, came on here last winter to op
pose the tax levied ON street railways
provided by the Nichols law. He de
clined to 60 before the conference OF
both house and Senate but went In
stead to Attorney General Richards
and told him to go and see Mckinley
and have him send word to his friends
on the conference committee to ex
clude the street railway clause. II
Mckinley does not do this" said thu
ex-governor, II will expose this legis