The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-01
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Former Governor Campbell Demo-
cratic Candidate for Senator, Gets
Back at Governor Harris.


town, spoke at the night rally of the
Democratic campaign opening al
Mansfield, Saturday, and showed up
the unreliability of the governors
statements. Mr.. Campbell, who was
endorsed for United States senator by
the state Democratic convention, de
livered spirited address on state as
well as national issues, as follows:
The boss-ridden and decadent or.
ganizaton now posing as the Repub.
lican party, has recently presented
two grotesque spectacles to the people
of Ohio. The first was enacted at
Cincinnati upon the day that Judge
Taft broke all long-speech records in
fruitless attempt to explain the de.
linquencies of the Chicago platform.
Although he believes In pub icity of
campaign contributions. popular elec.
tion of United States senators and
other sound doctrines which were con-
temptuously trampled upon at Chi
cago, he meekly swallowed that trust
made platform. Realizing his inability
to convince the people that his party
stood for reform and the relief of the
masses. he travelled sixteen hundred
miles in midsummer heat, to the great
CONSERVATION of his friends. that he
might submit his manuscript to the
most ruthless party dictator that this
country has ever known. With a do
cility that astonished his admirers he
delivered this edited" speech just as
il came from the masters hand, and
described his appearance by saying
"the nauseating incubus beneath
which he staggered in nearly
every sentence would suffocate any
ordinary man"
This unhappy candidate, meant by
nature to be singulary frank and
friendly, was surrounded upon that
occasion, by the minions of the Big
Cincinnati Boss, whom he had so
soundly berated and openly repudiated
and whose resplendent cohorts were
parading before him with unmitigated
hatred fostering every heart. Was
there ever such mockery? Nobody
there was sincere-especially the COL
ored contingent, which had been i'm
ported from another state to supply
the vacant places Of the self-respect-
ing colored men Of Ohio who refused
to mingle with the ruck Of foreign
hirelings falsely masquerading as the
Republicn party.
A few weeks later, at the Youngs-
town opening" yet more startling
and hypocritical scene took p ace un-
der the auspices of the once great Re-
publican party Of Ohio. There were
more than ten thousand free-born
cry of law-defying trusts. took the
places in line assigned them by the
foremen of their respective shops
each man fearing to refuse lest wife
and child should suffer.
Who were present that day to ad
dress this cold and purchased audi
ence? One conspicuous orator who
had led the Republicans of Ohio in
every campaign for twenty-five years
was absent. The only soldier whom
the grand old party had sent to the
senate from Ohio in the forty-seven
years which have elapsed since the
outbreak OF the Civil war was not
there. The one solitary Republican
who stood up in the United States
senate contending for justice to the
colored soldiers of the Union had
been eliminated" and foreign states
men had been imported to supply the
void.
The only citizen of Ohio who could
be trusted to speak upon the occasion
was the governor of the state. and
yet he was led into most egregious
blunder. Relying, presumably, upon
utterances of party hacks
and irresponsible scribblers, he spoke
of the last Democratic administration
1880 to 1S91-as follows:
$50 deplorable was the condition OF
the states finances at this time that
the auditor had to resort to the prac-
tice of making advance drafts on the
counties OF the state in anticipation OF
taxes to be collected, in order to get
money enough to pay the running ex-
penses OF the state government and
provide for the benevolent and other
public institutions of the state"
Had the governor taken the trouble
to ascertain the facts, he would have
found that the practice of making ad-
vance drafts" was first "resorted to"
half a century ago-in 1S59-by a Re-
admiuictra tion undar O laW
passed by Republican legislature;
and that for ten years Immediately
prior TO the time to which he refers.
Republicn administrations had been
piling up these advance
drafts until the Democratic governor
who took Office in 1890 found defic4t
Of more than nine hundred thousand
dollars in the state treasury. The most
cursory examination would have
shown that this Democratic governor
did not increase that deficit one cent,
although in order TO protect the lives
Of the soldiers orphans at the Xenia
home, who had been grossly neglected
~ preceding administrations, he was
put TO an extraordinary expenditure OF
more than 100000.
In this connection the following
may be quoted from the campaign
literature sent out to country week
lies from Republican headquarters.
"At the end of the term of Cover
nor James e. Campbell, the only
Demoerati who has really occupied
he executive chamber in 80 years.
he state debt was s2.29l .665. and
turing his term of office the state