Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-02-06

Republican BOOdlinS In Columbus Re-
celYes Its Death BLOW.
FRANKLIN COUNTY GRAND
JURY BEGINS ITS TASK
OF STOPPING LEGIS-
LATIVE CROOKED
NESS.
Republican Innocents to be Pro-
tected Against the Wiles
fThe Wicked DEM
Ocrats.
How the Republicans are Working
The Green Goods Trick on
Temperance People.

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 27th.
When Ex-Governor Campbell was
going about the state last year telling
the people what kind OF men they |
had sent to make laws for them as Re
publicans, the Republican politicians
and newspapers told the public that |
there was nothing In the stories at |
all. Campbell they explained was
simply an Office hunter and would |
make up almost any kind of a story
to tell the voters SO long as he could
get into Office and power. Every
body remembers what stories Of bri- |
berry, corruption and wickedness in |
high places he told but the people, or
at least majority of them did not |
seem to want to believe them. They
had been told so many times that a |
Republican politician was without
sin, that some Of them came to be-
lieve it and so instead OF investigat-
ing matters they not only elected
more Republicans but gave them big
ger majorities. This was intended, as
they say in London, for a vote OF
confidence. But while the people OF
this state were pillng up Republican
majorities like Ossa on Pelion the
court machinery Of Franklin county
creased with the information that
was given them by James E. Camp
bell, was also engaged in piling up
something too, but it was evidence
that is designed to decrease the num-
ber Of Republican statesmen who are
now and have been running at large
telling the people what wicked liars
and culminators the Democrats are
and how they would ruin a mans
character il only thereby they could
get into an office. But the way that
Campbell and other Democrats last
fall went about running" the char
acter OF Republicans in the legisla-
ture and out of it might be consider
ed the very highest and warmest
euioriums on their virtue and good
deeds as compared to the way OF
criminal juries Of this county will
ruin" their characters at the proper
time and place. Then indignant
gentlemen like Mr.. Oil, Of Mahoning
county bursting with honest rage at
the "calumny' and "vile abuse" of
the irresponsible Democrats life
Campbell will not be keeping the
wires shot" with the burning virtue
and denouncing the Democrats as IL
ars and scoundrels.
HEAP BIG INJUNs.
One of the amusing things about
the legislative indictments made and
so far announced by the Franklin
county Grand Jury at this writing, is
the fact that two Democrats were On
the list, the balance being Republi
cans. In the Seventy-first General
Assembly there were but five Demo
Gratis and thirty Republican Senators,
vet from knowledge at hand 1t seems
that these five Democrats or two of
them rather led astray the Republi-
cans who were very good little boys
indeed and had no thought of evil
until they fell in with the two bold,
bad Democrats and were led to sin
ming contrary to their wish or desire
and clearly against their protest. 1t
is now suggested that it would be q
good thing for the present legislature
to provide against future misfortune
befalling Republicans who are sent
to the capital to make laws for the
people and to make 1t an offense of
the highest and seyerest grade for
any Democrat to lead astray a truly
good and virtuous Republican. A
capital penalty would be by no means
a too severe penalty for two Demo
cratic Senators breaking into a fold
of Republican sheep and corrupting
the whole flock against their will
with political foot-rot. A Republi-
can statesmen sent to Columbus is
entitled to at least some protection
against the evil and hypnotic Demo-
crat who lays in hiding, awaiting for
his innocent victim to ensnare him
into wrong doing in the legislative
byways and hedges Of the capital.
This general assembly will sink into
oblivion and contempt If it hesitates
for a single moment to throw the
proper safe guards about and around
Republican craftsmanship turned
loose in the capital and exposed to
the Vaccinations and wiles OF the
desperately wicked and abandoned
Democrats.
THROWING THEM DOWN.
Many honest and exceedingly we'll
meaning people have been in the
capital the past week in the interest
OF O. temperance measure promised
them by the Republican politicians
last Summer. They are not people
OF the world, but rather men whose
lives have been spent in honest toll
and who believe that everybody is
just as honest as they are themselves.
Nobody knows this fact better than
a Republican politician and none of
them are quicker to take advantage
Of it than one OF this same class. So
1t was but the most natural thing in
the world that their campaign, last
fall, should be based on the green
goods and brown paper plan with an
occasional switch Of hand sachels
when the victim was not looking.
The Haskell bill of course was the
good money the victims were playing
for and the brown paper is the ex-
PLANTATION the Republican statesmen
are now making to those they are
preparing to swindle when 1t comes
to fulfilling their agreement. The
writer was present the other day
when a Republican member of the
Legislature was discussing the ques-
tion with an honest farmer who was
here attending the Anti-Saloon Con-
gress. This was the way he talked
and that is the way the temperance
people of the state who have their
votes to the Republican legislative
candidates are going to be sold out
once more as they have been times
without number by the Republican
party of this state.