The Irish standard., 1899-09-30
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.

The state campaign in Ohio was
opened last Saturday by the Repub-
lican party at Akron, the town in which
the foremost German-American paper
in the commonwealth has announced its
opposition to Mark Hanna and the
principles he represents. The principal
speaker was Gov Theodore Roosevelt,
of New York, the commander OF the
Rough Riders in Cuba and, in his own
opinion, the greatest master OF military
strategy and proves that the nineteenth
century has produced. He posed as
the exponent Of true American patriot
ism, OF civic worth and trancendental
virtue, and those who entertained con-
trary opinions were branded by him as
traitors, coppcrheads and scoundrels.
This blatant hero OF the skirmish at
San Juan exhausted his copious vocab-
ulary OF abuse upon the Democratic
party and its leaders, and pranced and
snorted about like a cowboy. In his
capacity as a burlesque warrior who
pretends to possess monopoly OF all
the civic virtues none can approach this
knight-errant, this Bobadil of the En-
pire State.
He began his harangue by saying that
the Democrats Of Ohio had raised a
false issue for the sake OF carrying the
election, and that the position assumed
by them is calculated to destroy ma
tional prosperity at home and national
honor abroad. One would expect that
he would try to prove his assertions in
a calm and logical way, becoming the
head OF great state, but instead he
proceeded to accuse his political OPP
ponents of disloyalty to the republic
because they disapprove of the rapa-
cious Philippine policy OF the president
and his gang of plunderers. Accident
ally, he said one thing that we heartily
endorse when he declared that "the sal
walton OF this country lies to no small
extent in the fact that while the bulk OF
our people fully appreciate the import
ance OF party, and the usefulness OF
party government, yet that they put
country above party" That is exactly
what the Republicans of Ohio will do
this fall, and that is why Mckinley,
Hanna, Roosevelt and the rest of them
are shaking in their boots. Gen. John
Beatty, OF Columbus, O., an eminent
Republican and an honest man, says
that the defeat of Hanna's ticket this
year will be blessing to the state and
nation. 'The people," he says, "are
becoming very weary of this thing OF
bossisnl-this constant domination OF
cue power and interference with local
affairs. 1t is very disappointing to see
Mast, led astray and made the tool OF a
man who at the best is political plum
dcrcr. Hanna has not even brains with
which to dignity himself There is
nothing brainy about Hanna 1t is
simply his methods that have placed
him i'll the position which, alas for the
reputation OF this country and character
of American politics, he occupies to-
day."
Like the majority OF Republican lead
ers Roosevelt favors high protective
tariff, and does not believe with Have
meyer of the sugar trust and ex-senator
Washburn of Minnesota, that the tariff
fosters the gigantic aggregations that
are prcying on the American people
Surely the country has had enough Of
tariff tinkcring by opponents OF a pro-
tcctive tariff" says the New York re-
former
But it was on the Filipino war that
TEDDY" grew fercely eloquent. He
secuted the idea that the brown men oil
the East were fighting for independence
In stentorian tones he said: mo man
can hesitate in this struggle and ever
afterwards call himself true American
and true patriot He must stand by the
flag. He must uphold the honor and
the interest OF the nation, and the only
way in which he can stand by the one
and uphold the other, is to overwheln
the party that assails both" He Their
undertook to show that the islands be.
long to US, and that it would have beer
Infamous" for Dewey to have sailed
away after he had destroyed the Span.
ish fleet in Manila bay. He argued
thus: "Aguinaldo, who has turned
against US, owed his return to the is.
lands to US. 1t was our troops and moi
the Filipinos who conquered the Span
iards, and as consequence it was to Ii:
the island fell, and we shall show our.
selves not merely weaklings unfit tc
take our place among the great nation:
Of the world, but traitors to the cause
OF the advancement of mankind, if We
finch from doing Alright the task which
destiny has entrusted to our hand
We have no more right to leave the
Filipinos to butcher one another anc
sink back into savagery, than we woult
have the right, in an excess OF senti
mentality, to declare the Sioux anc
Apaches free to expel all white settlers
from the lands they once held"
The New York fire eater said nothing