The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-10-17
THE OHIO 8ANPAIGN.
oHlUs vo1cs Is WAITED FOE.

why 1e IL Nscsssary - Republican
Prosperity That the 0snefsl A..
ssnbly, shall b Casried. d. ~
The only possible hope Of Democrat
10 success In Ohio this fall 10 In the |
inattcntion or detection Of Republican |
voters. IL Afty thousand Of them
should neglect to go to the polls, or
half that humber vote the Democratic
ticket. success 70 that party would ,bs
possible. Az neither Of these things ID
to be expected, there is no hope what
ever in the minds Of the Democratic
managers that they will be able to
elect their state ticket
All the real work that IL being done
y therefore devoted to the candidates
for the general assembly. A majority
In that body this winter IL prize
worth striving for. II means a United
States senatorship, and . redistricting
Of the state for congressional purposes.
Under Q gerrymander such az they
perpetrated the last time they were In
power, Ohio would for the next ten
years be misrepresented In the lower
branch Of congress BY more Democrat
ic members than the party vote really
entities them.
This being the case II behooves ev-
cry Republican to be wide awake. He
should make It point not only to 60
to the polls himself on November s. but
to see to Il that all his Republican
friends and neighbors do likewise. The
general assembly Of the state must
contain . Republican majority. Ohio
would disgrace herself in the eyes Of
her sister states did she allow the peer
less Foraker to be retired from the
senate, and thus lose to the country
his broad stafesmanship and wise
counsel. II is absolutely necessary
that Ohio shall retain her present Re-
publican delegation in the house Of
representatives,, because there is pos
sibility three years hence of failure
Of the electors to choose president, in
which case that body would have the
task Of choosing one.
The country IL in all ways prosper
GUS. The people are making money.
No man who really desires It need 90
without employment, and that, too. at
good wages. Should Ohio this fall
elect a Democratic legislature, or re-
duce materially her normal Republican
plurality, that fact would be interpret
ed all over the Union as indicative OF
dissatisfaction with the policies inau.
| Ao1 hx, t,.1n of totr "a
Of President Roosevelt. Think this
over, Republican voters of Ohio, and
do not allow your selves to be misled
by the Democratic gabble on taxation
and other trumped-up issues on which
the Democrats Of the state are endeav.
oring to make campaign.
There is, in fact, no issue whatever
on taxation. Republican legislatures
within the past few years have in
creased the states revenue fully one
third without increasing taxation or
real or personal property. This hal
been done by the enactment Of law
which tax corporations In various
ways, despite the awkward fact tina
the state constitution, adopted In 1852
| uOcc uOt 0llOW SAO t0A0IiOA Va Aloh
chdses. Then, too. the Republicans o
the state stand committed by thei
platform to further legislation to tn
, end that the burden Of taxation upol
property may be lessened. Tom John
sons cry is that the railroads do no
pay their proper share of the taxes.
The Republican general assembl,
next winter will give its attention t
this matter, and provide method
whereby they shall bear their just bur
den II they are not already doing &C
At present the fault, II there be any
lies with the auditors Of the countie
through which the lines run. Thes
oficials meet and make up the valua
tion for every road in each county.
that valuation ID too low, the fault
theirs. A number Of these gentleme
are Democrats, Of course, but no on
has yet brought forward any Demo
cratic auditor who has insited that an
railway was not bearing its prope
share Of taxes. The whole cry is
manufactured one, intended to deceiv
the voters.
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