The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-10
IT WILL BE DIFFERENT IN
NOVEMBER

abetted by the reactionary Republican
press, are engaged in electing a Re-
publican governor of Ohio. His iden.
tity has not yet been established, but
of course he is a reactionary.
But it will be different in November.
The election is q long ways off
some nine months.
1t is just as well, perhaps, that these
reactionaries get all the satisfaction
and comfort that comes with carrying
the election in February, as they will
not get look in" when the time ar
rives for the people to express them.
selves at the polls.
Just now Gov. Cox is the storm CEN
ter of the reactionaries, and they take
much delight in assailing him and the
progressive measures of his admins
tration. However, their campaign of
villification, Misrepresentation, and, in
many instances, just plain lying, will
not last long, as the truth is bound to
prevail, as 1t always does in the end.
Nine months is long time to keep up
campaign based and conducted on
falsehood.
The methods employed by the reac-
tionary Republicans in Ohio, are no diff.
ferent than is resorted to by them else
where, in other states and in the ma.
ton. Misrepresentation faIsehood and
throwing scares" are their tactics now
just as they always have been in the
past.
The reactionary always has a heart
pleading interest in the people-nit.
He would fain use the people to pull
the chestnuts out of the fire for him
self. But the reactionary cannot fool
the people nowadays with the same
success as formerly. The people are
onto his curves.
Scratch reactionary, and you al
ways find a fellow who is connected
with the interests, closely or remote.
ly, and who has a selfish purpose to
serve, and would use the people as a
catspaw.
Take two recent matters in national
affairs. What hullabaloo was stirred
up by reactionaries when the Under
wood tariff bill was introduced in con-
gress year ago, and what dire calam-
ity to the country they predicted If 1t
was made law-the same old plan
of the reactionaries to scare people.
The bill became law, and instead of
the country going to the demnition
bowwows. revival of business soon
became manifest.
Then came the bill to reform the
currency, and o! my countrymen,
what howl went up to heavens dome
by the Reactionary interests, and
what scare they threw into the little
fellows all over the land! Their pre-
dictlon, made on all sides, was that
general bankruptcy would follow in the
wake of the currency bilPs enactment.
Back OF all this preachment of calami-
ty and promoting it was the Money
Trust, and for obvious reasons. The
bill passed and business Immediately
took another upward shoot.
What was true in national matters
is also true in state matters in Ohio.
Every piece of reform, progressive leg.
islation proposed in the session of the
legislature a year ago was bitterly
fought by the interests which would be
adversely affected by it, and in almost
every instance the Reactionary Re
publican press, to a greater or lesser
degree, was found assisting In the fight
made by the interests. Take for eX-
ample, the worbmens compensation
act. When Gov Cox proposed that 1t
be made compulsory what shrek
went up from the interests! The In
terests in tbs case were the liability
insurance companies, which had fat.
tened off the employer OF labor and
whose policy had been to deny to labor
any recompense for injury or death in
employment The tremendous on.
slaught the Interests made on this
just and humane law was so recent
that everyone Is familiar with it.
Another instance Is the Warnes
taxation law, which has been constant.
ly assailed by the Interests in cam.
paign of misrepresentation and false,
hood and of soaring people. The Inter
ests in this case are the big fellows
who have not been paying their share
OF the taxes. AS usual, the Reaction,
airy Republican press has come to the
assistance of the Interests. The effort
has been made to scare the small tax
payer and to impress him with the idea
that the principle of home rule is be,
ing violated in not electlng the asses,
sors, What a great privilege has been
denied the people in not electing the
assessors! When assessors were cleo
tive, how many people turned out to