The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-10-12

The inscription on an old Spanish
reads:

1
The moral of this is obvious. ant
should sink deep into the heart Of every
Ohio voter. Ohio has at least her full
share of the general prosperity of the
country. There are many who claim
that, if anything, she has more than
her share 1t would be contrary to
Ohio traditions if she had less. There
never was a time in the history of the
State when work and wages were so
plentiful for all, with every dinner-pail
full. and the mortgages melting away
from the modest roof-trees like frost
before an April sun.
So unexampled is this prosperity, fol-
| lowing so markedly upon the period of
| gloom and depression of the four years
of Democratic ascendancy in the coun-
| try. that it seems incredible that any
body should suggest change, with a
conditions from which the Republican
triumph delivered the country only nine
years ago.
Like the man under the Spanish
tombstone. however. the Ohio voters
are now besieged by auacks trying to
persuade them that they are not really
well, but suffering from insidious ills,
of which they are as yet ignorant. and
serious consequences can only be pre-
vented by taking their nostrums. If
the men who are ululating over the ter
rible evils threatening the people were
of the Slough of Despond into which
Cleveland's advent plunged it in 1899,
and We're now urging further reforms
and improvements, they should be lis
tened to with the deepest attention.
But, one and all, they are the marplots
and maldoers. whose quackeries pre-
cipitated the crisis of 1893, and inten-
sified and prolonged it, without hope
of Improvement until the last one of
them was removed from where he had
any power for mischief. 1t matters
very little what they may say now. The
| remembrance is painfully fresh of what
they did when they had chance and
strong and well as the country has be-
come since it was purged of them and
their evil councils, and it is not strong
enough nor well enough to take the
least chances of their return to power.
Since 1892 the country has repeatedly
and emphatically condemned as per-
nicious every idea advanced by them.
So crushing was this Reproduction that it
seemed that the Democratic Party
would wither up and disappear, but
the Democratic Party is as hard to kill
| out as Canadian thistles.
The oft-repudiated party and lead
ers are now seeking restoration to pow
tack. Cunningly distracting public at
tention from their past heresies by a
clamor over State issues, they hope to
gain a foothold for 1903 by an alliance
| in Ohio with every faction which has
a sore head, an aching intestine, or a
selfish grievance Of any form. They
will attack anything. condemn any
thing, promise anything. that has the
| least prospect of bringing votes. They
are filling the air with the widest and
most improbable charges. to delude the
people until after the election with the
idea that they are improperly governed,
and the affairs Of the State suffering
from maladministration. AS these
charges do not have to be proven they
can be made with the utmost safety,
and the makers are confident that If
they only yell long enough and loud
enough they will be believed until the
votes are cast. AS to what may come
after they are totally Indifferent. Like
Jerry Simpsons definition Of a plat
y
on"
II the result affected only Ohio, the
country would have less concern about
1t. But it is. and can not help being
National in it's consequences. While II
is vehemently asserted that it is onl,
a question as TO whether Herrick OF
Patterson shall be elected Governor. il
the Republican candidate Is defeated
and the Democratic elected, 1t will be
at once positively claimed and inter
J preted as the rehabilitation OF the Dem.
ocratic Party, with all of it's enormou.
possibilities for evil 1t will be &C
cepted everywhere as the swinging OF
the pendulum back to 1892, with all the
bitterly remembered consequences Of
that swing, and prudent men will a
once begin setting their houses i'm orde
for the approaching evil day. frost,
, chill will fall upon the present hop,