The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-09-24
THE COMING ELECTION.
Democrats Hope to Win by
Republican Apathy.
THE OBLIGATIONS OF PARTY.

THE OBLIGATIONS OF PARTY
Why No Republican Can Afford to
BE Apathetic, Or Fail to Do His
Full Duty.
Last year the Republicans carried
Ohio by nearly 10000 plurality. The
Democrats can not elect KIbourne
and send John R. Mclean to the Uni
ted States senate without overcoming
this. Their only hope of SO doing lies
in the possible Indifference and apathy
Of Republican voters.
If there be a danger to the Repub-
Hcans it is from this cause. The men,
ace of free silver being removed, some
voters may be inclined to give no at
tention to political affairs. The gold
Democrats may be expected to go back
to their party. for they all know that
Kilbourne has always been in favor of
the gold standard. All these things
make it imperative that every Repub-
lican in the state shall be alive to pos
sible danger, and cast his vote for the
Republican state and legislative tick
cts.
This is the presidents own state.
His administration for the past five
years has been SO Overwhelmingly sue
cessful as to reflect honor upon the
state of his nativity. Ohio is flourish
ing; her farmers, her workingmen,
her business interests of all kinds are
in superb condition. Were she to elect
q nQrnnorofio
ture-to thus seemingly rebuke the
president and flout the splendid sue
cess of his administration-the Demo-
cratic party in every state would rise
with renewed vigor, feeling certain
that next year they could shackle the
Republican administration by gaining
control of the house of representatives,
and in 1904 secure control of the ma
tional administration.
Then would come another era OF
tariff for revenue only, such as we had
under the Wilson law, and the same
results would follow. We would have
idle mills, unemployed workmen,
miles of sidetracks blocked with use
less cars, and general stagnation of
industry. The dark days from 1893 to
1896 have not passed out of the men,
ories of the people. Democratic sue
cess would mean their repetition. That
| party now grovels in the dust Of de-
| feat. The way to keep it there and
maintain the glorious prosperity of
the present is to defeat the Ohio De-
| mocracy next November.
There are always in every political
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| are more or less dissatisfied. Some
| feel so because their candidate failed
| of nomination; some have other ex-
cuses; but our political system is a
government by parties, and a party is
composed of men who on certain
great cardinal principles of govern
| msnt, agree fully in their views. In
the essentials there is unity, in nom
essentials there is a wide diversity OF
opinion. But the Republican who
fails to give his party ticket his un-
swerving and enthusiastic support, be-
cause on some of these non-essentials
the majority of the party do not agree
with him, is doing wrong to his par
| ty in state and nation. The majority
of a party must decide upon these
things, as does majority of voters at
an election. A man can not always
| approve all the candidates of his party,
and he may differ on minor points in
the platform; but he does a party in
jury to rebel against the verdict of
this majority by refusing to support
its regular ticket. If every individual
were to insist that he alone is right
and all who differ from him are wrong,
there could be no unity of action, and
the party which might be in the nu-
merical majority would fail at the
polls simply because of the number of
these individual revolts.
| Every Republican voter should care
fully consider these things. The pres
ent Republican state control has been
business-like and effective. The state
is practically out Of debt. Were the
few outstanding bonds now due, they
could be met at once without imperil-
ing the financial condition of the state
treasury. All the state institutions
are well and economically managed.
There are no scandals in any of them.
The taxation bugaboo which Tom
Johnson is trying to make an issue is
a fake. During the past ten years Of
Republican control in Ohio the reve-
nues of the state have been increased
one-half through Republican laws,
which have taxed corporations by
methods which have been declared to
be in harmony with the state constitu-
tion.
The Republican party stands today
for a revision of the tax laws which
will require all classes of property to
bear their equal and just share of tax
alton. 1t declares for such improve
ments in the machinery of equaliza
ton as will correct error and note
changes in value. What is there in
any of the issues trumped up by the
Ohio Democrats in their desperate
endeavor to get away from Bryan and
the defeated silver issue, to cause any
Republican to vote for Kilbourne for
goevrnor and John r. Mclean for
United States senator? The path of
duty is clear to every man who be-
! lieves in the cardinal doctrines of Re-
publicanism and in a continuance OF
our marvellous prosperity. 1t is, to
vote the Republican state and legisla-
tive ticket without a scratch.
/ Thoro &c ono nloplx in tho nhio nov,n