The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-08
IS THIS BLAsPHEMY7
Republican spelibinders Utter Word
Shocking to Good People.

| Republican Spellbindera Utter Words
Shocking to Good People.
Mark Hanna Is a candidate for elec.
ton to the senate from Ohio. He has
forced to their knees all the independ.
ent Republicans Of the state and cor.
rupted the venal ones until he has
grown arrogant and reckless. The
other day he made speech, so-called
The same day he forced Senator For
aker to humiliate himself by appear
ing on the same platform. At another
place Senator Thurston, of Nebraska
the paid attorney of the Pacific rail-
roads, was brought in to swell the an
thems to Hanna.
1t was a saying of the ancients that
Whom the gods wish to destroy they
first make mad" Surely the Republi-
cans of Ohio are mad when they In
dulge in blasphemous utterances ON the
stump such as those uttered by Hanna
Foraker and Thurston.
Says Hanna: II tell you, my fellow
citizens, that believe, not perhaps
that an All-Wise Providence has In
terfered In visiting disaster upon other
nations, good deal as Polish priest
told me the other day, n. nelly, that he
had made up his mind the Lord was @
Republican"
Marks sentences are sometimes In
volved, and the above is badly SO, and
have to be read a second time to see
just what Hanna does say he believes.
Cleared Of its tangles, this leader.
statesman, patriot, philanthropist and
public benefactor, tells his fellow-citl-
zens that ne believes "a good deal as a
Polish priest told me the other day.
namely, that he had made up his mind
the Lord was Republican" Senator
Foraker, knowing what Hanna was go
ing to say, was not to be outdone. An
swering supposed Democratic claims
that the present high prices Of wheat
are due not to Mckinley, but to fail
ure Of the crops in other places, he
says: They tell us that 1t is an act OF
God, and not Of the Republican party,
that wheat is $1.00 per bushel. There
are a good many answers to this sug-
gestion. In the first place, 1t seems a
little singular II 1t Is nothing more
than an accident, that the same kind
of an accident should attend the Re
publican party whenever it is dominant
In national affairs" etc.
This Is but another way, Foraker'a
way of saying the same thing that
Hanna makes Polish priest say, viz:
That God Almighty is Republican.
But It was left to Thurston, the Ne
braska importation, to give full par
ticulars of this late Republican acquisi-
ton. "They say to us, why, this isn't
Republican prosperity; this is the PROV
idence Of God. That is true, but
did you ever stop to think that since
the Republican party's first birth that
the providence of God had never been
spared on this country with its mag
nificent blessing except when the Re
publican party was in power?
"Why, we don't deny your statement.
This new prosperity is the providence
Of God. Yes, Abraham Lincoln was
the providence of God. Appomattox
was the providence OF God. The eman-
cipatlon proclamation was the provi-
dence OF God. The Mckinley bill was
the providence of God. The Dingley
bill is the providence of God.
"William Mckinley is the providence
Of God; yes, the Republican party Ia
the providence of God"