The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-01-10
Democratic Call.

most nearly concern them both as cltl-
zeus and taxpayers.
The result is what might have been
expected. A practically banlsruis
State Treasury, which is only KEEP
ahoat by borrowing the revenues six
months or year in advance; the sell
ing of bonds to pay current expenses;
subterfuges III matters OF finance
which the State officials dare not dis.
cuss publicly; higl e. taxes and taxa
ton in forms that are odinus and un-
usual; the debasement of the STA te
Judiciary to mere party machine;
the heal of the State militia issuing
Quasi orders for the members of the
State guard to vote against the candi-
dates of one of the parties, and other
conditions equally ohjectable.
The dominant party, in control of
the Legislature and every Office in the
State House. and now entrenched be-
hind an almost solid State judiciary
made so by Legislatures that were
mere brokers Offices rather than de-
Lucrative bodies, openly, deiantly and
inso emily refuse to account to the peo-
pie for any of their acts or even dis
cuss. them.
They already announce that none of
these topics shall enter into the dis
cussion of the issues Of next fall cam
paign. They deny the right OF the
people to call on them to account for
their stewardship.
And yet the people themselves have
the making of the issues ON which the
next election is to be decided. five
do not over estimate their intelligence
anu VIC uO uol tilliik lHdb VIC oo, Iltf
will make them, whether the Repubii-
can Uriah caps and Artful Dodgers
are willing or unwilling.
The present Republican Legis'a
ture is. going to ask the Endorsement
ofa reelection. Suppose it is given.
do the people know all that it implies?
1t means the saddling Of the people
with untold millions of locai bonded
inde ebtedness, the giving away Of the
remaining s10,000,G00 or s12,000,-
coo of the Public Works for legs than
10 per cent. of their value, and a rack
ing system of taxation to gather up
enormous revenues to be extravagant-
ly squandercd for the benefit ofpoliti
ca! favorites.
The sale of the Hooking Canal,
worth far beyond $1,000,000, for a
paltry 100000, seven-tenths of which
will not be paid for a generation, il
ever, is but the opening wedge for tie
sacrifice of all the remaining public
property to the. boodlers, if any more
boodie Legislatures are chosen in the
near future.
The interests and welfare of the
State of Ohio are the only issues a;
stake, or that will beat stake, in next
falls campaign. We appeal to the
Democratic leaders, the Democratic
press, and the Independent. right
thinking voters of all parties not to
let these issues be obscu:ed or relega-
ted to the rear.
The affairs Of Ohio are in danger
GUS AMI critical condition, because they
have been 50 long neglected while
they were being so grieyous!y mis-
managed. There is no hope from the
Republican leaders, who declare, by
word and action, that they are en-
titled to no sort of Consideration, at
their hands or al the hands of the peo-
pie thense yes.
If the work of redeeming ,he State
Treasury from its preseeS-s>sordered
and diseased condition is set about by
"a intelligent, honest and patrio ic
Legislature Oh the first Monday of JAN
uary, 1896, it wi.l entail costly sacri-
fees upon the whole people of the
State. But each years further delay
will only add millions to the burden
which soon or late must tall with
weight upon the already
over burdenel taxpayers. The time
to straighten out our tangled State
affairs is Immediately before the peo
pie.