The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-08-28
KEEP PROGRAM OF PROGRESS
IN The HANDS OF ITS FRIENDS

the safety and comfort Of those who
were physically or mentally deficient
and of the employment by the same
board of the hundreds of heretofore
idle convicts in farming, road build
ing, brick making and other whole
some and productive occupations
thereby attempting to save those
who were capable of reformation?
The same primary which renomi
mated Governor Cox also filed the en-
tire state ticket with a complement
of nominees every one of whom is a
man of conceded ability, wide public
experience and unblemished private
character; and the same high encon.
ium may justly be pronounced upon
all of the candidates for the two
houses of the general assembly who,
at the same time were nominated
in their respective counties and dis
tricts. In addition to our state
officers we have, for the first
time, nominated a. candidate for
United States senator in the person
of that gifted lawyer who so capably
and cleanly, through four astonish-
ingly successful years, has filled the
Office of attorney general and who,
by sheer industry, rugged integrity
and native ability, has risen to his
present honorable and enviable posi-
tion. 1t is superhuous to name him
for everybody knows and loves that
genial Democrat, Timothy s. Hogan;
and 1t is no disparagement to his two
| able competitors to say that no bet
] ter nomination could have been made.
| The election Of q senator and twen-
! ty-two representatives in congress, is
a reminder that we are engaged in
battle on national Issues. Six years
ago the Republican party polled over
seven and one-half million votes upon
the solemn promise to revise an un-
fair and burdensome tariff which had
become obnoxious to almost the entire
electorate of the country. While this
promise did not say, in specific words,
that the revision should be downward,
the campaign was made upon the
such would be the case; although the
Republican party had already revised
the tariff thirteen times and in every
instance the revision was upward. I'm
der the leadership of Serene 70. Payne
and Nelson W. Aldrich. they again re-
vised it upward with full knowledge
that they had Intentionally cheated
the people in their prediction prom
ise-even the wool schedule, which
President Taft had denounced as '"in-
defensible," was not reduced. To get
even with these deceivers the people
had to wait until 1912; but, when the
Grand Old Party emerged from that
wreck, 1t was floating on two narrow
and rotten planks-one thrown to it
by the debauched electors Of Mormon
Utah, and the other by the hopelessly |
bigoted electors of Vermont.
Keeping the Pledges.
For the first time in half century
q tariff law was enacted for the pur-
pose of raising revenue to administer !
the government without burdening
the poor to enrich overgrown greed. |
Senator James of Kentucky cogently |
and truthfully characterized this new
legislation as "a bill to raise revenue,
not to raise millionaires; bill to
support the government, not to i'm
poverish the peope." Time to demon
strate the results of this tariff has not
elapsed, and worldwide financial
chaos yet longer postponed that DEM
onstraton; but 1t is safe to predict,
and 1t Is predicted now and here, that
the Underwood tariff, in due time, will
prove to be the most salutary law ever
enacted by the congress of the United
States, and that it will remove greater
burdens from poverty, from labor,
from the farmer and other producers,
than any law upon the statute books
The Currency Bill.
Another great promise was kept by
the national Democracy, and another
vicious monopoly was uprooted, when
the money trust heard its death lknell
rung In the passage Of most revolu-
tionary currency bill This legisla-
tion was fought by many leading
bankers, and by them denounced as
to the country; but they
promptly availed themselves of its
privileges and thereby acknowledged
that the law was just one
Both President Wilson and Cover.
nor Cox, in times gone by, have been
unjustly assailed because of their
influence in legislation.
The opprobious epithet OF Boss" has
even been applied to them; but he
who carefully scrutinizes their olflcial
acts will find that both of them have
set up lofty moral and political stand.
ards which have exalted their party:
and that the leadership which they
exercise so successfully is that Of
trained minds enforced by absolute
and unquestloned honesty Of
purpose, This is the noblest form of
aad every Democrat ought J
70 be proud to follow 1t.
ADDRESS OF THE GOVERNOR
Governor Cox was then introduced
and spoke in no uncertain terms In