Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-12
GIGANTIC REPUBLICAN SCHEMES TO.
BXfORT MONEY FROM THB TAX
PAYERS OF THE STATE.
Monstrous and Outrageous Bills
Against the State by Repubh-
cans Like Foraker and
Watson.
The Keeley Cure People Wild After
the Public Money Through the
Present General Assembly.
Forakerism and Ripperism Go Hand
In Hand to Throttle the Voice
of the Popular VIII.
CoLuMpus. O., March 5th, '96

COLUMBUS, o., March 9th, '96.
How to squeeze the corporations
and how to get money out of the
people seems to be the purpose of the
present Republican Legislature elect
ed by the people with a two-thirds
majority in both branches. There
never has been a Republican body
within generation that was apparent
ly organized for any other purpose
than the extortion of money from the
people. Nobody seriously disputes
that this is a Republican state and
with few exceptions the state has
always been Republican by substantial
majorities. Yet there is state debt
of at least $S, 900, 900 and local and
municipal Indebtedness Of nearly
$lOO,OOO,OOO authorized by the legis.
lature, yet in the face of these facts
the Republicans Of this general as
sembly are contriving new methods
to extort more money from the peo-
pie.
TAX PAYERS sANDBAGaED.
There is now pending in the assem-
bly, bills to the amount of $52, 900 to
pay lawyers. One Of these bills is to
meet the expese Of the attorneys and
Col. Colt in the Washington G. H.
riot. It is for $3O,0Oe. Another
bill is for $4,000 to pay Senator
Elect Foraker, $4,000 for the Eggles-
ton avenue case in Cincinnati, Con-
gresham Foraker the same sum in
addition to So, OOG more in the Hamil-
ton basin case and Thos. McDougall
the sum of $4,000 for services in the
Nichols law case. These bills are out
rageous and infamous in the extreme.
They are such that no private citizen
would pay for services and it is only
because the state is the debtor that
these bills tower mountain high like
rocks and mountains threatening to
fall upon and crush heart-sick peo-
pie. In the Colt case some extraordi-
nary fees are charged. The sum of
$4,000 goes TO law firm in Washing
ton G. H., where no lawyer earns that
much in year and few of them in
two years. He says Booth and Nash
are to get $500 for their services
each. Here then the people are asked
to pay four lawyers the sum of $l9,--
900 in the Colt case. But there Is
another point that should not be over
looked. With a single exception all
the attorneys in the case are Repub-
licans. No Democrat could be found
anywhere in the state able enough to
take hold of these knotty problems.
Only Republicans possesses the requi-
site ability to look after the interests
of the state.
EXToRTIoNATE FEES.
The demand of Messrs. Foraker
and Watson, two Republican politici-
ans, is sufficient to paralyze the tax
payers. Because forsooth they are
Republican statesmen and one is a
Congressman and the other newly
elected Senator, they file their bills
before Republican body, which the
latter processes to own and does own,
and the people can whistle. In the
lease Of the Eggleston avenue proper
ty to the railroad company, there have
been many rumors of scandal and
even the Republicans have fallen out
among themselves and have before
Legislative Committees called each