The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-10-24
AS TO OHIO.
The New York World on it
Job of House Cleaning,
a True Picture of the Big Battle Against
Bosses and Corruption Now
Going on In Ohio
Politics.

A staff correspondent Of tho New
York World, in writing about the Ohio
campaign, says: Ex-Governor Camp.
bell, who has been nominated by the
Democrats for governor, declared war,
at the opening of the present campaign
here in Columbus, upon the misrule and
corruption Of the Republican party Of
the state under the leadership of George
B. Cox Of Cincinnati, and the Hon.
Fire Alarm Foraker, and, in q series Of
successful meetings, has been wagine
that war relentlessly.
The odors of the recent Republican
Legislatures which were nominated by
Cox are as pleasant the nostrils of re.
spectacle Ohio as the odor of the recent
Platt kindergarten in Albany to the
nostrils of respectable New York. 1t il
openly charged that corruption has
feasted itself in these bodies. and so bad
was tho record of the last legislature
that Mckinley and other respectable
leaders forced 1t to adjourn sine die at
the close of the first session to prevent o
witches dance in the adjourned session
which has been the rule of Ohio legis.
latures for nearly half century.
In 1889 ex- Governor Campbell, then q
candidute for the governorship. waged
war upon Cox and Coxism and won.
The enemy was crippled, but under sue
ceeding Republican administrations it
has grown stronger than ever. Cox is
the ally Of Foraker. He is the real
strength of the Foraker faction of the
Republican party, which seeks to put
beneath it the venerable head Of the
cold and canny Sherman and the Napo-
leonic headpiece of the dull and dreamy
Mckinley, who has visions of greatness
and glory that no medicament Of defeat
seems able to cure.
Foraker furnishes the skyrockets and
brass band of popularity 70 the combi-
nation. In Foraker's elevation Cox secs
his own advantage. Together they
iran" the Republican convention and
put up for governor Mr.. Bushnell, q
very ambitious rich man, who il said to
be suitable for the purposes of the two
schemers. In that convention Cox sat
practically alone as the representative
Of Hamilton county, casting its vote
with the autocracy of czar, while the
dummy delegates who had accompanied
him enjoyed a moment Of liberty in
various hotel bars.
No other interest than those Of Fora
ker and Cox was considered in the con-
vention. A pretense of harmony among
the factions was made and Mckinley
was put forth as Ohio's presidential cam
didate Mt the same time that Foraker
was nominated for United States SEN
ator. That pretense was maintained at
the opening Republican rally, when
Sherman and Foraker and Mckinley
spoke from the same platform, but the
reality Of discord was shown by John
Sherman's elammy Endorsement of
MCKINLEY or any other good Repubi-
can" for president, and of FORAKER or
any other good Republican" for senator.
Both the Sherman and Mckinley men
know that with Foraker and Cox in
the saddle they will be overridden rough
shod. and however honest Sherman and
Mckinley may be in their professions
of harmony, their followers are not
likely to put the knife to their own
throats. Foraker has played the part of
Judas in Ohio politics too often to hope
for the support Of every Republican,
and in the probability of settlement Of
long-standing accounts lies much hope
Of Democratic success this fall.
1t is doubtful whether were there no
old grudges to slack. the respectable ele-
ment OF the Republican party would
look upon this alliance of Foraker and
Cox with forbearance enough to support
it for the sake of party SUCCESS.
The Republicans. for lack of better
issue, to distract attention from Repub-
lican misrule and extravaganza and the
disgrace of Co1ism, and to please the
little Napoleon, perhaps, have revived
the tariff talk The leaders have open
ly declared for return to higher duties.
and the threat to revive the tariff has
been received with no very great joy by
the manufacturers.
The influence of the Wilson tariff has
been felt already in Ohio by vigorous
revival of industries, and the Republic
ans are likely to find that they have
made tactical mistake in dandling Nc
Kinley's pet baby in public.