Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-11-09
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
Senator Dick Tries Hard to
Make an Issue.
THE COUNTRY LAUGHS AT HIM
Old Boy" Is an Ardent AdvO-
cate of His Own Brand of PrOtec-
tiOn-The People Have Made the
Issue, Which Is Civic Righteous
ness-The Machine In


ness-Thc Machine In Danger.
The whole country is laughing at
Senator Dick of Ohio, although he does
not seem to know it. In the severe
stress that the Republican machine Of
Ohio is now laboring under, with it's
rotten management of state affairs, it
is natural that Senator pick and Boss
Cox should want to switch the issue to
the tariff OF any old issue but the right
one. AS there are nc congressman or
senators to be elected in Ohio this year
and the campaign is entirely on state
the Republican machine, it is hardly
any wonder that Brother Dick and his
grating machine would prefer any old
issue rather than the one every one is
talking about.
That's what makes people laugh at
Dick.
Cox, the Cincinnati end of the ma
chine, known to the initiated as Cox
ey, old boy" whose local machine is
patterned on a smaller scale, but per-
haps equally corrupt, after the Phila-
delphia machine just knocked out by
an indignant public, is ardently taking
up the tariff issue. He declares Pat
tison, the Democratic candidate for
governor, is a free trader, and Coke.
does not intend to have any free trad
ing in Cincinnati if he can help it. He
believes in protection-protecting the
dives and other unsavory institutions
that are too noxious to be mentioned
by decent people, but are good grist
for the CoXey machine to grind out
the dollars from.
That is the idea of Coxey, old boy,
on the tariff. He is a natural protec-
zionist and has a most complete sched-
ule of rates he charges all whom he can
drag into his net.
The Dick machine other than CoXey,
old boy, is of course for protection. 1t
has been protecting the trusts and cor
porations so that they only pay about
half the taxes they ought to, and in re-
turn they have kept the Dick machine
in power by paying literally to the Re
publican corruption fund.
Protection is the breath of life of
these patriots. No wonder they pro-
claim Pattison as a free trader and
fear his election. When elected gov.
ernor he will execute the laws as he
finds them against corruption and
grafters, and if the people of Ohio viii
elect a legislature to work with him
for "a square deal all around they
will forever discourage the Dick anC
Coxey brand of protection. There viii
then be free trade for the honest trad
ers of Ohio, which they never have en-
!, joyed under the Dick and Cox machine
for it has protected favored corpora
tons and individuals at the expense OF
t the great majority of the people Of the
|, state. There will not only be free trade
: in Ohio, but with her sister states
: which the constitution Of the United
/ States makes obligatory, and there
, will be no more protection for such Il:
Cox, for honest men will get their dues
Yet even if Senator Dick could hav'
5 his way and turn the attention Of thu
J people of Ohio from the evil effect o
| his machine rule to the national ques
ton of tariff reform he would find tn
| great majority Of the people of Ohi'
, standing with President Roosevelt il
declaring that the tariff must be re
viSed so that the trusts cannot sci
5 cheaper abroad than here. That is goo'
Democratic doctrine, and Mr.. Pattisol
Of course favors it, and if Presiden
| Roosevelt is a free trader, why, MI
i, Pattison must be.
t Senator Dick will find that he can
not make an issue. The people max
t issues, and they have selected civil
r righteousness and the retirement Of til
2 Dick machine, with it's boss, Cox, AM
it's trailer, Herrick, as the paramount
5 issue, for they are sick and tired o
, them.