CE J. B. FORAKER, Sketch of tho T.tfo of the ItcrmMlcnn Cnmlldrtto for OovcriKir. as a nor. Nino miles west o Bninbridgo, on the htgli lands that border tho Bocky Fork that ioorI picturesque of Ohio streams lies tho pretty little, fanning Village) of llalnsuoro. It is tho larger of tlio two voting' precincts of Taint Township, Highland County; and out of its threo hundred voles enstaa Republican majority of from eixty-flv- o to eighty nt every clectiou. But thnt majority will bo doibleU tho picent fall) for at tho head of this year's l.ermb)icim llckct stand a name which all Highland County, mid especially till Taint Township, tlolightH to honor Toseph Bex-fc- ToaARrn. To tho peoplo thereabout ho Js not "Judge Fornker," uor oven "Mister," but just plain Beu, and they speak tho fa- miliar tltlo with an evident emphasis of lik-in- g and npprobation. .Not IhaUhcy aro at all insensiblo to tho honors so bravely nnd so early won, but'first nnd foremost they es- teem tho individuality of tho man whom they hnvo watched and loved from Infancy up, nnd whoso record bttinds before them without n blot. IIo has'n host of relatives nil through tho county, and everybody is his friend bot.idc. A thhdof amilo north of Bainsboro, n lane leads from tho New Poloisbnrg pike back into the woods. Half n ratio In, amid n littlo grovo of noblo trees, stands n neat, cosy frame house, how occupied by Henry Foi'aker, a sccond'cousln of tho Judge. The older part of this building was tho later ad- dition to n large log cabin now demolished which tho elder Fornker built when ho came from the State of Belnwnre, and in which Hen was born in July,, 1840. In April, 18-1- tho family removed to Recce's saw and grM mill tho most west- erly of tho threo mill upon Rocky Fork, nnd situated about four miles above Rains-bor- o thero remaining for twenty-thre- e rears. Hero Ken passed nls noynooa. anu which have career. to develop me numirnoio traits hnvo marked, nnd. indeed, lnrrelv shaped his wliole Ilo was noted, from the start, for remarkable energy, push ami perseverance. Never content to be merely among the best, tho boy strove to be the best. It was bo in his lesions, in his childish snorts, in every thing. There wna'nb fcnvy' ill his ambition, no desire to push others down, but a manly di'tenninalion to "work for all he was woith." Ho did not plan to rest on any suc- cess, so long ns a higher success was attain- able. ' Sam. Xewell, long-tim-e iniller on the Fork, was Hen's prime favorite in thoso early dnys, A great reader of tho newspapers, and a man well intorineu on nil tuo questions 01 mo day, he never tired of answering tho count- less questions put to him by the boy, who was insatiate in his thirst for information. Ben's interest in politico began almost with his infancy, and ns a boy ho ncquiied a most unusual knowledge of this complicated sub- ject. .Air. Newell has a double interest In tha npjiinnching election. Not only is ho anx- ious for the Miccnm of his former protege, but his leputution as a prophet is at stake. When Ben was five or fix years old, Newell wns one day encaged in u hot political n witli Mr. Delaplnne, n rabid Demo- crat, who contended thnt his party would soon croli out nil opposition, nnd reign su- preme. ".No, Ir!" said Mr. Newell, with neat, "you can't do itl We're going to beat yon nil" to pieces, and this boy hero (catch- ing up Hen in his brawny hands and hold- ing him in Delaphnnc's face) id going to bo our Governor ono Of these days." Tho prediction so unthinkingly made thirty vears ngo, is now on tho verge of ful- fillment. as a FOunr.n. When lie was fifteen IIuT war of tho Re- bellion broke out. and his older brother, tho lamented Captain Burch Foraker, went into thenrmy. Ben wanted togo, ton. His par- ents very naturally objected. Ho was too votinc: boidcB one Kin was already cone, and might never return. But Ben chafed tinder the restrninl, nnd finally, fearing that he jould go anyhow, his.parcnthgavo a content! By this timo tho second year of the war had rolled round. Tho Kighty-nint- h 0. V. X. was being recruited in Clerniont, Ross and Highland Counties, nnd Captain (nftcrward Colonel) W. II. Glenn wnraisins a company at Hillsboro for his regiment. In this company, which, became Company A, Ben Foraker volunteered. The commissioned officers of tho company wero then selected, hut those who first put. down their names wero informed thnt tho man who brought in tho most recruits for tile company would bo first or orderly sergeant, tho next second ser- geant, and so on through tho list cf non- commissioned officers. brought in tho most recruits, and tlms was entitled to be orderly sci gcant. Ho was but a boy six- teen years old, and knev nothing whatever nloiit froldiering, as he said, and voluntarily gavo up that place to the man who was next to him in tho number of recruits, and who hod bomo experience as n soldier, and took tne second sergeantcy. 'ino went immediately into active nnd severo Eervioe. Its terrible inarches and camp pri- vations, as well h losses in buttle, rapidly thinned tho ranks.. and made way for nro- - molion by loss of commipioned officers. iienloiaker Jiaulnken unit In all this sen vice, and had become) successively orderly sergeant, Second nnd Firct Lieutenant, when. lato in tho summer of .18(13, ho was sent homo on recruiting duty, nnd was eo en gaged when the great battle ol tmckamauga took plnce. Tho result of that battlo with tho Light is thus stated in Whitehvw Keid's "Ohio in tho War:" "Falling back on Chattanooga, our army went into mtrcnciiuiems. .Monday niorn- - imr. nt 1) o'clock, burceon Crew, of tho Eighty-nint- h, sick with jaundico, and just able to ride on horseback, found himself hnlf a nine in lront oi our lino oi oattio with tortv wounded, twenty sick, and seventy-fiv- e well men. nil that wns left of tho Kinhtv-ninth.- " No other voomUsioned officer w ho went Into the fight was left. All wero either killed, wounded, or prisoners. "Captain JoUy, wiio had been at homo recruitinif. ni rived nt Cliattanooint the dav after tho battle with the side wlio had re- covered. Ho was promoted to Major, nnd took command. Tho Kiglitv-nliit- li soon mustered two hundred men, For six weeks it lay in tho marhlo quarry at Chattanooga with shell bursting over its camp from Lookout Mountain, subsisting on half rations, ratptily clgthed, nnd braving the rik'Oi s of winter. It witnessed Hooker'u enemy gavo way and fled. Tho next day. sujtiiJXiM:EsisrT-5KisbPofilii,d-A.i- s' rooTJMEisrars the oi-ii- o campaign, election ootobbe j, iss3. when tho chargo was mode on Mission Itldgo, Major Jolly, nt tho head of his littlo band of two men, led them to 'vic- tory in tlio fiontof Iho attacking column." loraker hod reached Chattanooga tho iiight beforo liidgo, Ho had no orders there, nnd got to his just ns It was going into battle. Ho instantly took command of his company, led it in tho chargo, nnd was tlio first inun of tbo regiment over tlio enemy's works. Ho wns then years old. After this tho EiWity-nint- li was in tho demonstration on Dalton, Ua. In a rhnrgo at Rocky Face, on February 25, it had two men killed, ten wounded aud two captuied. Tho regiment then went into tho campaign against Atlanta, and took part in tho buttle of Buzzard') Boost, itesnea, Burnt Hickory, l'ench-tre- o Creek and Atlnnta. took nn honorable pnitdn ml this service, Shortly after tho fall ot Atlanta ho was de- tailed for duty In tho Corps, nnd when Sherman ojganizpd Jiis nnnyforthe march ta tho sea, he wra assigned to tho etafr of Major General H, V. com mending tho Arniy of Qoorgia. Ho serve4 in thin capacity through tho campaigns to tho Ben, and through tho Caiollnns, nnd un- til tlio close of tlio war, when, on tho 14th of June, lBOS, ho was mustered out at Camp Dennlson before ho wpa yet nineteen j cms uiu. In November, 1884, fihoroan cut from his communications and began hU march to the sea. with his great at mv ho had disappeared from the outside world and was heard ol no except i '."itaa." ,"" ,' ", ,,'" ,""""i " " ffi .ill1 WW IMm m'MiTmw'mmiimfWSKtm'm mMMmm$MEmwm MHBNBfflMiK,l9smBV . 4 Jt BtMViii HON. J. B. FOP.AKr.n. through rebel sources, until he reached Fort JlcAlister had been stormed on tho 13th of December, nnd the city had smrendered on tho L'lst. Tho United sitntrs ileet layoff the mouth of the Savannah River, cichteen miles below the eitv. nnd the only way to let tho waiting people of the North know that Sherman had got to tho sea was to reach tho fleet. But tho river was full of torpedoes, and tho banks were full of lebols. Foraker was or- dered by General Slocum, then command- ing tho left wing of Sherman's nimy, to open communication between his arniy and tnc neet. Jtie ctceiucti utnt mo oct way to accomplish this was to descend the liver. Ho obtained a row-boa- t, secured the ser- vicer of two neorocsto row it. and in the night started with ono oiderly on tho porilous trip." Tho boat, after running aground several times in the darkness, and being nearly capsized once or twice, reached tho lleet, bringing to it tho first news of the capture of Savannah, Bcforo tho fleet went up tho river, the torpedoes were removed under direction rebel Colonel who' ship, they Mich a wav put them down. When ordered to'take ' as that for us not io protect them in it would ihem nn tin lm,1 enld in Rliormnn "fit im i bn the basest Ineptitude and wronit damned if I such "Tlxn gratitude wrong for which tho you wUl hang tomorrow vioming I" said Sher man, this nrgument convinced tne leoei Colonel. Next tho career of Sherman's armv came the march through Carolina?, w 1th frequent skirmishing, nnd sometimes more severo lighting with Johnston, until the vi- cinity of Goidsboro Bentonville was reached. hat occurred thero is thus told by WhitclawReid: "For now, whilo Sherman, deflecting his columns to tho right to move straight on Bentonville and Goldbor6, felt sure that no further interruption was intended, and went off to open communication w ith Schofleid's column froili the seacoast, Johnson had im- proved tho day's delay, gathered his troops together, with nil his. old skill, formidiblo positions, of defence, and fortifk'd them. Suddenly left wing, marching in all the confidence of Shwmau's belief that ho was now past any danger of nttaok, enmo fairly upon Johnson's skirmish ers, a nerco assault, speedily lonowen, driving in the Union adnnco "with of guns provisions. Hlocum hurriedly sent word to Sherman that ho w as confront- ed by Johnson's wholo army, and thon made such preparations for defense as tho instant would permit. " " The nssault placed Slocum in great peril, but after recovering from tho first sudden on- slaught lost no more ground. It was hard to persuade Sherman that anything serious vns going on, but when convinced ho hur- ried over reinforcements from the other wing, nnd was pushed into his works." The messenger hy whom Slocum "hur riedly sent word to Sherman was Ben Slocum in command of tho left winir. marchincr on a Benaroto rond. Sher man with Howard's wing of the army, marrhing on another road some seven or eight miles to the right. Slocum had been cnecKed some little tune, and Jioward was going on. Johnson was in front of Slocum, in tlio woods, witli about twenty-nv- o thou- sand men. To reach Slier .ian w ith Howard it was necessary (o co around tho left flank of the rebel nrmv. Slocum's injunction to Fornker when ho started was: "ISn careful. but don't spare horseflesh." Ho observed tho injunction, got to Sherman in safety, ob- tained from him an order to bring Slo- cum's aid Hnzen's division of the Fifteenth Uorpo, nnd suereeded in arriving with it upon tho battle-fiel- d at 3 o'clock in'tho morn- ing. It was for these services that, whilo tho nriny was lying at Raleigh, was com- - missioned Brevet Captain of U. S. Volun- teers upon the special recommendation of General Slocum. AS A MAX. Tlio war being over, Foraker camo home, and at ouco began his efforts for A better education. In this lie was assisted by his brother Burch, who had also passed through the perils of tho wnr, and hnd successfully started in business in Hillsboro. Tho most ardent fraternal affection existed between the brothers, nnd when, a fow years after, Burch Foraker died, it was a terrible blow to lien. Ho studied nw hilo nt South Salem, Ross County, wns two years nttlie Wesleyan University nt Delaware, Ohio, then went to Cornell, and was graduated in its first class in 1800. He had heen studying tho law dur ing his collegiate course, nnd upon his graduation entered tlio office of Judge Jnmcs fcioane, men in Cincinnati, no was admitted to tbo bnr in tho fall of that vcar. and nt onco benan nractice. He had ho influential friends, and no acquaintance even in Cincinnati, and for a year or two his practice was not large. It wns not very long, however, before his genial manners, nntirins enercv, solid nbillties. nnd stern in tegrity, began to mako his way, and his practice extended into "o very grado of Court, from a Justice of tho Pence to the Supremo Court of tho Unifed States," IIo was married October 4, 1870, to Misa j una imnuy.n daughter .ot .non. li. t. Bundy. of Jackson, Ho was nominated for Judge of tho Court ... f '..,, ft. IMniio Im 1 QTll 1,,,, ,,. ,1, ?,.., wl by tho notorious Eph. Holland frauds of that year. Ho was again nominated for County Solicitor in tho spring of 1878, without his knowledge or consent, nnd against his wishes, out recognizing tho claims of his party upon him, ho remained on (he ticket, to with it by a majority of 2,000, with which the Democracy swept tho county. In tho fall of 1870 Judgo Baxter. of tho U. S. Circuit Court, appointed him cunrgo up the steeps oi Lookout .Mountain, i (Jiiicf Supervisor of .Elections for the South-nn- d Joined in tho shout of victory as tho cm District of Ohio. This position ho also hundred Mission regi- ment tcventceil Foraker- - Signal Sfocuiii, day I0060 Jiwous more, selected, Johnson practicing defeated took much against his wishes, hut having accepted it, ho administered its duties wjth such manifest fairness thnt oven tho Demo- crats look occasion, when tho elections ol that fall wero being Investigated by a Con gressional iomniiHoo, 10 nut upon record ua duo to him, thut thoy hud no fault to find with him ns tho olilcer of tho law. Thov conceded that his administration of it had been nil that it should have beep. In the spring of 1870 ho was elected to tho Superior Court Bench for a fill) term of flvu years. Ho remained upon tlio bench for about tlirco years, when he teeignedbecnusn of AVhen it becamu known Ciucin natitliat Judgo Foraker intended to resign, ho wan most strongly urged by tho Bar ot tho city and his many friends, without d to party, to remain upon tho bench, nnd to take a long vacation until ho sboilld regain his health. And oven after his icslg. nation was forwarded, telegrams weto wn to Governor Foster urging that it bo not ac- cepted, Among the many gentlemen until- ing heso telegrams, wero Hop, 31. F. Foicc. Hon. George lloadly, Hop. Aarorj F, Pojnr, Hon. K. Vf, Kittredgo Hon, Jolin v, Warrington. Frour boyhood Judgo Forakor has been an oetivo supporter of tlio llenubllcun mirlv. Duilng the war he Bupported principles cud tho country, ns a boldier, After tho w'nr lio was in fayor of ull tho .great icconstmc-tio- n measures intended to secure the fTults of tho victory and to insuin thu rlehta of tbn (ate slaves, In 1674, Judgo Foraker, nt a Re publican rnsw meeting in wncmtiuu, poi(o as follows on the civil rights question; "The object of tblt bill ii to Prevent mask- - od marauders from burning negio school-house- s, shooting negro school-teuclier- and keeping this innocent nnd Inoffensive people in a state of tenor, which retards their de- velopment and corrupts and domoraliics so- ciety nnd polities in a hundred wnys. And it Is right, and the Republican party is for it becawoit isi!ght. "When in Columbus Hip other day I stood in our Capitol building, nnd looked with ad- miring gnro upon thut mnguillcent painting, which ncloriiH in walls, oi 'Peirv's Victory on the Lake.' tkeie. in the midt of the death storm of that terrible conflict, as gal- lant looking as nny nn of (he bravo faces surrounding the Commodore, is a. full- - blooded renrcscntatlve of the African race. Ami lima It hns nlwnva been since our Gov ernment was founded on land and sea, in adversity and piospciity, through peace and through war, tins laco lias necn ever pres- ent with us, and never once has its faith faltered, its devotion lagged or its courage quailed. "TheVha'vo iustlv earned their citizen- - of tho and have'earned it in had In- - do any drudcervr and Nation in the and had aud had tho loss and he was was to' ho O. bo in and its would deserve to sink to rise no more." After Judge Fornker left tho bench in tho spring of 188'J, his health rapidly improved, and hoi has now entirely recovered. Al- though he is comparatively a young man, there was no surprise among thoc who knew him thnt ho should be taken from among tho many nblo men of Hamilton County as their mot available man for Govornor. And thev have the fullest confi- - should health bo defaulters nnd ent snared, what he lias already done is only a presage of greater usefulness Thero is nothing whatever, nnd honom from his very bovhood until now, that needs defense, nnoloev nr excuse, but on tbo contrary oicrytliinjr to inspire hi friends with pride mid hope .in his future. FORAKER AT LUDLOW FALLS. .in Able Iteiil)-t- o the Democratic War Song nt "TiiriitfioltascBln Out" TlioSIethodn of the "" nomocracy Held Vp to Light 'The l'lolitliltlmi Amemtimmt and the Re publlrnn i'nrtj How tho Democracy Stnntl on the IVaol Question. O., Augut 31. Judge Fora- ker addressed an entbusiastio Republican re union yesterday afternoon nt tho romantic sylvan retreat of Ludlow Falls, Miami County. Kxeurslon parties were made up from the sur rounding country, bringing an attendance of from two thousand fivo hundred to three thousand Jifdgo Wright, of Troy, presided at the meet ing. Mho lirst sneaker was 11. 31. Kevin. Ka.. n well known attorney of Dayton, nnd on old college chum of Judpc Foraker, Mr. Nevin is nn orator of great ability of handsome pres- ence, magnltk'ent voice nnd delherynnd of the most captivating eloquence. JIo limited himelf lo naif an hour in order tomnke way f6r .Turtle Fornker' Speech. Juage Foraker spoke as follows: Mk. Chairman, Ladies a::d Gkxtlkmfx: I want to .Commence my speech y by read- ing "to.voii two Ecntcncca from an article that appeared a few days ago in Harper's Weekly. They rend a follows: "'1 lie Democrats usually carry the election overwhelmingly Kline months before it takes place. Laughter. They proclaim them- selves to be Ilia party of avenging virtue, and all goes oil prosperously until the votes are couniea (renewed laugnterj, wncn it turns out they have not cnoush." Laughter. When our Domocratlo friends opened this campaign at Columbus when they held, their wnrd,,tliey were engaged in the very pleasing buInc:vtnthcm, of overwhelmingly carrying uic next, election. ii.aiigiucr.j aiiu one rca-.so- n why they proclaimed that they were to carry that election was thnt by the platforms that had been adopted therp had been made up between tlio parties distinct Issues, nnd thut they, intended to hold tbc Republican party in the discussions of this enmnaien rialit dowh to those issues and those haucs were the tariff question nnd the bcott Law qnetion, about width ray ' friend Mr, Nevin has been talking to'vou. Well, now, onr Democratic friends have cotrio to know more about the Scott Law and the tnri ft quest Ion since that time than they then knew, and by as much as thoy liuvc come to better understand these questions.by so muc h they hnveuonio to lose faith in their idea that they aio, to" overwhelmingly carry the elections next fall. Laughter and applause. And as n result of this we find them, from tbo nnd in the columns of their newspapers, all over thcStnte, ceasing to pay attention to the questions that, have really been nut in issue. nnd tnrning all their attention to n cry of fraud nnd bribery, and corruption, saying ev erything mat language can express tnat is mid and calculated to destroy the confidence and belittlo the record of the Republican party. In nnsWer to this 1 want to Bay, not anything bad about the Democratic party, but simply that which is mere justice io me jicpuouciin party, as rcilectine: on this miestion of our lntccritv mid fidelity in olllre, about which they lime so much to say. As all know, the Republican parly has been in power in this coiyiiry mak- ing a record for almost twenty-fiv-e years. tiir EEConos compared. I.want to call your attention to that record in so fur as it reflects upon tliisquestion.of honesty nnd this .charge about corruption which tlicy so freely make. First, I want to call your at- tention to the record the Bepublicau party has made in that respect in the ndminiitration of Nutional aflairs. Undor tho Administration of Washington there was a loss because of dcfal-catiol- in office defalcations on the part of pubjlo' servants who wero charged with tlio collection and disbursing of public moneys to the amount of $2 2 for every thousand dollars handled; nnder Adams it was t'2 fll); under JeH'erson who Is the groat politi- cal nlithoritythat my friend, Judge Hoadly, so much quotes as the source of everything that is good in politics the loss was (2 75 UlKin ovcry thousand; under Madison It was M iu; unucr wonroo 03; uuuer me second Adams $1 09; Under Jackson $7 62; under Van Ilqren $11 71 and Van Bnren, you will remem- ber, if you still recollect Judce lloadlv's sneceh Of acceptance, was tbo great Democrat under whoui his first lessons in politics; It was his cause lie espoused in tho debating lyce. unm in tlio schools whero he got bis education wheuhn wasaboyt wo oneht not to bo ox petted to Im mora honest than his ofllclali were'. Under the Harriton-Tvle- r. Administra tion the lots was $"40 to the thousand: under Polk jt was $t 0$; under Taylor and Klllmoro t 10; under Plerco W 50: under Buchanan the last of thu Democratic Presidents J3 81, Aud'theu tho Bcpubllcan party came into poworj And we camo Into power, us my iriciid 'Novlu eald a moment ago, with a Demo, cratio rebellion on onr hands q rebellion that iv ncccuary tor us io raiso anu put Into ,thui:c)d and maintain them there, a mil- lion sbldrn;'tndo It necessary for UK to put n. great Ifavy upon, tha sea aud maintain it thero: and ujad? it necessary not only that we should pour out 6ceans of blood, bat amounts of treasure thai aro almost beyond tho power of pian to compute them, The result was thnt we'hndlo Have thousands of men to collect and distrtireu money where, before that timo, and under Democratic Administrations, they badopounn. '1 bo dunger of defalcations, tha danger of dishonesty, the dangers that were ture.iocoinc in n time like that from such an increased number of public servants, were, as you can e'e Increased a thoutand-- f old. And et now uoes tuo record comparer insteauoi 3 Slbf a lento tbo thousand dollars of nub- - la munevs handled, under Lincoln's Admlnls. trstion, as under Buclianan's, notwithstanding tn moraiirtuuns 01 we war, me inns was bnt teventy-sl- x cents to the thousand dollars. tAptnauie.j 'men touowcu .loumoira Ad- ministration, and the loss was but lltty-sove- n cents. ApnUuie.l And then followed Grant's of eight years, during wliloli Ml thoio irauus una corruptions occurred about which my mend Iloaaly seems to bs so much trouDica. Ana tne loss under urnnvs Admin- istration whisky rings all Included amounted lo but twentv-tuu- r cents on every thousand dollars. And Grant was succeeded hy llnyc, and you know what character or n man ha Is, and what kind o( Administration ho gavo to tha country, nnd, therefore, the record shows only mm which every unio man Qcauauucd witn these facts would oxnect for It shows that during the Admlnlitiatlon of President Hayes, on nuuuc moneys loucrtcu anu aisuurseu uy public officials, thorc nnslost not one single cent every cent of it accounted for. loud applaus. 'TOINT1NU WITH rBIDE. Well. now. 1 don't cite this for the mircose of showing, or mnking an argument, that the Republican party, ns compared With tho Bern-ocratl- o party, Is more honrit than tlio Demo- cratic nartv for nn nruument of that kind Is unnecessary. ii.niiKiiicr.j Kveryopay Knows tnnt TWtnout my inniting any nrgunieut nnout It. Ucncwed laughter. I don't say 1hl either, In tho way of the defense (if the He pub lican party, lor mo itepuuiican party uoirt need nnv dpfensn lnlt I wiv it nnlv hernli!i hv reason of such talk as tlmt'Judso ltoadly give's nm the liberty, which he started out in th cflinnnifFii in the denul nf tome. of tnrnlnirmv back to the future nnd pointing with sucii Bride, to the nasi. iAunlaute.l 1 hat Is n vcrv picasant thing to do once and awhile on our side oi tnc nouse. ii.augliter.j l pity a man wholsbn asldo thatraii'tdo that. But that Is not all. Our record Imi been Just as good In the Stute as in tho Nation. First let mo say, however, thut I don't believe the Democratic larty Is as bad as my friend Xevln thinks it is. 1 think, n great drol of the Democratic party. H hns helped us a great dual In the past; and it hns helped us a great deal this year. ncn iney siaricn out, it was as l sam a while ago, with the expectation that they nero to have n erent victory and certainly with a great feor on our part thnt they might succeed, nud probably theyxfould hnvo but for what they did jet, at the criti- cal moment they rallied to our aid, nnd in Cincinnati, Toledo, and In Cleveland, nnd in half n dorm places in tho local management m well nstliioiiRhout the State in the General management of their party affairs, they have glten us such material oid thnt thelctnry now is conceded to us even by them. Well, 1 feel crnteful lo a natty that Is Villlnc to do that nt a critical timo like this luughter, especially when I have such nn important pergonal Interet hi the matter, and I am the lat man that would think of un- necessarily nbusing them. Laughter. T don't two any Inneuinre. therefore, with respect lo any record they havo nrnde in tho past for the purpose of making myself offensive to the uemocraue party, ana certainly not to any Individual Democrat, ocMornMio county TnrAsvnr.Rs. But at the same time I want to refer to the recoids in this State. Plncc the Republican party came into power there have been three Republican counties nnd three only in the State of Ohio In which the county Treasurers have defaulted; in which they have wrongfully applied nnd made uc of any public money whatsoever. every one oi these counties, ln that campaign tlicy did hesitate to V us we're then, declaration, its the bondsmen have nroen cood. and the tax. payers have not lost n inglo dollar; nnd two dpnee Hint, bis life nnd of the t ere tried, convicted iiuiuu to the Penitentiary; the third escaped before his fraud became known. But how has It been vritb our Democratic brethren? They havo not had as much opportunity ns we havo had. Ohio is a Republican State; a creat majority of bur counties arc Republican counties. There arc not k many Democratic Treasurers as there are Republic an Treasurers to run the risk of fraud with; and while there have been three Republican County Treasurers in Ohio defaulting, there arc twenty-si- x Democratic counties in which the Democratic Treasurers hne been guilty of de- falcation, ranging nil the way from .J,00CI, over in Wyandot County, up to $i:x,O0d, over in Fairfield, where they have got a Demo- cratic majority ordinarily of about eighteen hundred, though I expect Dnrbin Ward's refluent to decrease It this year to about one thousand. Laughter. But is tho kind of record they have made botli In tho Nation nnd in the State. I refer to it, however, as I say, not for tho pur- pose of giving Democrats oU'ense; not for the purpose of abusing them, for is not neces- sary, nor is it according to my liking to in abuse of any man or any party. Xot so cither to show thnt Democrats are leps honest than Republicans, for I rather think they are only less fortunate in their selection ot otu- - rials. .. . - Hut I simply give you these facts so tint when yon read nbont the corruption ofihe Republican party as the reasons why "tbo ros-co- ls should be turned out," you may throw the paper down as presenting to you a libel that ought to be dUpoed of peremptorily nnd with indignation. DEMOcnicY a Fnrc-TnAu- n rAV.TY. But this matter of corruption i not the only thing about which they have been talking to divert attention from the .cott Law and the tana Question, which 1 referred to a moment ago as tho real issues in thiscainpaign. 1 don't know how much Interested you are in the. wool taritl'aue.stion, but thnt is one of theouestions. about which they hno been talking, and con- cerning wliich 1 want to say n few words. I want to fay Iheso few words tor the purpose of showing you that with respect to thisqucction, as with rcinird to thnt of imblio honesty, the declarations of their party papers and hpenk-e- i arc not sinierc. Iow,the complaint of the Democratic party is ana iney re malting inn all their new-panel- , and they're making it from every stump that the Republican party in tne last vougri'ss oi me united oinics, m mo last session, reduced the tariff on wool. Their complaint nlso is that the Republican partv ot the samn time Increased the turilf duties on the importation of, woolen goods. Well, now, 1 am not surprised to hear that our Democratic friends complain of tho Republican party increasing tho duty on woolen goods or an anything else; but doesn't it strike you, my friends, as very Mpingnand inconsistent tlio Democratic party, tlio champions of free trade ever sinco this, fiovern-men- t wns established, should now come bcforo tbepcoplcof the State of Ohio' and complain of the liopubllcnn party because tbnro has been a reduction of tl0 tariff, ccu thptyth It boontvool. lam not overstotlng It when I say that the Democratic party has over been a free-trad- e party. Thero oro plenty of intclli-cc- men bcforo mo who know that this nues- - tlon of tho rigid to levy n protective larllf fluty was ono oi too questions consiacrcu by our fathers when they framed tho Constitution of tho United States. Aud every one knows who is familiar with the adoption of thnt instrument that if It had not been made to be understood that under the corcrit- ment set up ihut Constitution, wo had a right to levy protective duties, that instrument never would have been adopted. But from that day to this our Democratic, friends have not only opposed u protective tariff us a mat- ter of policy, but there has never been a time when the Democratic party did not have occupying such a position ns war- - rantcu mem to speak lor tucir party, who op- posed a protective tariff, not only as bad policy, but also as unconstitutional. In nil their party platforms, both National andStale. at least up to 1SS0, tlicy have never hesitated to ueciaro mcniscircs in lavor 01 ireo trauc, nnd they always insisted upon it In their press and their speeches on the stpmp. So that if wo had nothing except their pnst record they would be unwarranted id making tho com- plaint they da make in regard to the rcductiou of the tarltT on wool. tub wool TAntrr, But they mado a record in the last Congress with respect to that identical question; and that record, so made by them, shews that they were not only not opposed to a reduction of ll-- ta.HPAti .i.Anl 1.. tl.n, , A,, lar.il I .. .l.A af- - LUD 111,11, Ull nvui. LIU. ,111.1. tllVJ IEUU ,1, IIIU W fort to secure that reduction, and that their endeavor was to get a still greater reduction than which was got, and wliich Mr, Bay- ard declared, in the discussion which ensued, was by way of a step toward putting wool on the free list. Mr, ifnyiiid offered at resolution In AiieuHt. which was huniiorted bv him and Mr. Deck, that tho tariff on wopl should be reduced to twenty-liv- e jer cent, ad valorem, That resolution received on the Democratic lido twenty-thre- e out of twenty-fou- r votes. Only one Democrat in the Senqlo voted agnlntt mat proposed reduction; and one oi mo twen-ty.thr- Senators who voted for It was 11. Pendleton; whlln ot the Republicans, every siugln solitary one voted against Mr. Bayard's resolution. After- ward, when the bill for the general revision of the tariff camo before the Senate, when rool was but one item of hundreds uliont which tlicy were legislating, and when the bill must (,o through as u whole or fail as a w hole, a text vote was had with respect to the proiowd re- duction, and thut was brought about by nn amendment ollerud by Mr. Klierman, to make the tarift'twelve and fourteen cents per pound, about equal to .what the aid tariff of 1B07 was. On that amendment so ottered hv Mr. 8hor man. sixteen Itenubllcana voted for It and onlv fourteen voted against; while on tho Demo cratic iu, out oi twenty-nin- e voung, twenty sir of them voted inailntt Mr. Sherman's pro posed amendment. Xove thero Is the record, and it shows, as I have snld. that they not only wanted a lower duty than that Which was finally fixed, but tlicy wanted It as Mr. Uck and Mr. Bayard aid ln the Benate. and as Mr. Snrlmzer aud Mr, Hewitt said ln the House, to the end that wooi migut ue ultimately put on tnc iree list, and hive no dutv whaUoerer levied upon It. 8uch bftlng the record, I Uaveyou to judge i !il J. B. rORAKER, tfo. to where responsibility for the reduction of the tariff on wool bilonas, and 1 ask you to judge, also, or a party which, in tho face of such a record, can claim what our Democratic menus are claiming about tuts mailer. THAT "T.CT10N" J'MTFORM, And now a few words about the tnTifTfiU"-tlo- n generally. My friend Mr. Ne in did not call your attention, ns ho might hate done, to tho verv singular platform upon which my friend Judge Hondly stands In this campaign, with respect to the tariff question. As I Mild a while ego. the Democratic party has been cer a free-trad- e party. They never hesitated o to declare thcmclves. In 1870 they did, how- ever, forth? first time, declare tlienuchci in favor of n tariff for revenue only. Well, there was not much discussion about thnt matter then. We were then talking about the right of men, colored men particularly, in the South, to vote, and the tariff question did not cnt much of a figure, and the result was that our Democratic friends did not got any profit from the experience of that campaign, and o when they came to the campaign of 1SS0 they repeated that samo declaration nnd then the question turned very Intvely on thnt iuc. 'Hip camnalan was decided on that nue'tion. In not tell that they hv tint yet, that it that that 1R82. always tiiey had necn, opposed to a piotecuve torilh But when they were defeated oiiym- - wlielmlngly, they found out that tho people of this country would not favor a proposition to return to free trade. They at once became aware of the fact and had it most em phatically impressed upon their minds that tree trade was not the thoronglifaro for them to travel if thev wanted to cct into tiower. So from that day to this that party has been trying to show tnu people oi mo country, ny some Kinn oi a declaration, that they arc not as their fathers were, a free-trad- e party. But they have all kinds in their party, most of them rabid and so it happened that when tncy met at toiumuus tins year to frnmeanlatform. they could not exactly anreo to declare for n protective tariff, or for tree- - trade, and so they did the best they eouln do under tho circumstances, and they made a platform, which, liko Kentucky during the war, contributes a full quota to both (.ides, with a lot of bushwhackers thrown in for quantity, fljiuchter.l It has an assortment of planks, all in one nsort ot Jsplurwiif timim nllair one lor lreo trade and nnotner tor a protective tariu, nnu still another that is a kind of a libcral-concr- - kind of a nlaiik to suit thoo who aro neither protectionists nor And Judgo ltoadly ha? been princ about over tbo State trying to define his iHiaiiuiu wnji ivsi'cwb lu ijiis in urn formitv to Hint kind of a nlank. 1 bono his performance has been as amuing to him ns it lias been to other people. A day or two ago I cut out of a newspoper, I think it was the San- dusky Register, a littlo extract which Mimk me as describing most completely the kind of uccess he had met with in that underlakintr. I want to read it to you as not only defining tho Democratic position witli respect to this question, but more especially of the po-itl- of my friend .IuiIro Jloadly. It says: "As near as wc can make out irom Judge Hoadly's speerhes on the tariff question, ho is in favurof a Judicious tariff for icvcnue only, nnd a revrnuo tariff for judicious protection only laughter, so graded in thcrovenno olllre as to either protect manufacturers or manu- facture protectors, and wc don't understand which. Renewed laughter. A judicious tariff, the .ludce exnlnins. for revenue omy means only a larifTfor protected judiciousness, nnd that only." Hoars of laughter. That statement is not one whit overdrawn. As I said before tbo Democratic party found itelf in sutli n situation that it could not nirrce, and if it could have ngrced in tlio light of its experience of lbSO, it did not have tbo courage to express its con victions; and the lesult is that we have a plank in the Democrntto platform which declares that the Democratic party is in favor of a tarift to meet tlio expouseH nf tho liovc-nme- nt a turlll for revonuo iinutcu to the uxnentes of Government economically nd- - ministcrcd, nnd it wants that so adjusted ns to prevent equal burdens, encourage American Industries nnd American laborers, nnd not to foster monopolies. The mere reading of it shows that instead of heiiiK a plain, clear dccla-tlo- which would haio defined a position in- telligibly, they have purposely dealt In duplic- ity, in order that nobody might 1j ablo to un- derstand just where they do stand witli regard to the question. And that of itself, considering the character of, the question, ought to be enough to cause tho peoplo of the Slate of Ohio, as they no doubt will, to deny their np-- plication for power in this instance. rnoTFcrioK asc the F.vnMms, I nm not going to enter Into any extended discussion of this question nfter all that has been to well and so pointedly by Mr. Kevin: but before dismissing It inasmuch ns I am in purely nn agricultural county I want to consider nt least ono oi tne ooicLtions that my friend Judge Hoadly is making when he ctts'into a free-trad- e district to a protective tarfir system. Judira Iloadlv snvs that u pro tective tariff is of no benefit whatever to tbo jarmcr. Aud I hnvo no doubt, when begets up here in Miami County if ho should come again and have n talk with tho farmors ho would labor to impress that idea upon his bearers. Let me consider It for Just ono single moment. If you do npt have a protective tariff system wo can not, with labor at the cost it is in this country, compete with the manufacturers of Europe, where labor is two or three times as cheap as it is here. Under a protective tariir system we hnvo our Industries developed, we hove our resources ail opened up, wo have homo murkcts mado by these mills, factories, mines, and muchino shops, that are scattcrcdovcrthoStatc, where men are employed who do not produce what you do, but who have to cnt. Thus the farmers have homo markets, with ready salts for all their products. But aside from this Incidental protection, there Is levied by the laws of tha United Slates, under tbo policy of thoKopub-lica- n party, u protective duty upon the impor tation of every product that can bo brought Into this country to coinpclu with the Ameri can lanncr. uur inuauiau iricniu can not bring their horses to compete with ours in the markets at llaltlmoro or New York: nor can thoy bring their wlirat, corn, rye or bnrlty until they first paid 11 duty, just as for eign manufacturers hare to pay duly on all tlicy urmg uiat may coinnciu wiiu our manu- factures. Hut tho incidental protection 1 tpoke of is the benefit I want to refer to morn tarttcularlv. In IhN) there weio produced in this country two billions bushels of corn. Of that great product less than tlvo per cent, was kent abroad, exported lend fold at Live less than one hundred million bushels out of two billions. All tho balunco of that piuducr, all the nlucty-flr- o per cent, that; did not go abroad, was given to the homo markets, and thev paid good piiocs, as yon will remember, and to It will be with tho product of this veur. A, ruuiTv-Ntsr- u RrGHitrrr, O.V.I. ipool- - Hut Judge Hoadly says that the fanner guts no benefit front this berausci of Ids home market, for Hie reason that Liverpool fixes the price, nnd that ha gets Imply the price at Liverpool, less transportation, insur- ance. Ac. Now. that Is not truo In tho first pluce, but It It were, as I will comedo for tho take of argument, there is another question liehlud all that, that every farmer ns well ns Judge Hoadly understands, If Liverpool fixes we price, wuaiuxca inverpooir ii you were to turn to a free-trad- e nollev tho result would b that thero men, now of what you produce, would have to go into competi- tion with you, la order that they might make a living, to raiso their own support; and not only that, but they would iwiil tht products tlnt would have to go abroad, nnd Instead of only nve, per cent. 01 tne corn raiscti going amend to the market at Liver pool, we would have ten, twenty or fifty per cent.. posibly, of our produrt goingabroad I don't know how much enough at any late so that the market at Liverpool would be glutted by the immense supply on that account, and the prices In Liverpool would decline; nnd if Liverpool flxs the price that tho farmers got litre they would then speedily reallie that they have been enjoying somoben-efit- s from protection. 1 cite the position that the Democratic party occupies with regard to this question, and I answer that one objection of Judge Hoadly's in this catnnaicn simnlv to show that thev hnvo no poliev in the matter; In order to show thut we can only judge of their position by what thev have done In the post, and can only judge of theorgumehts 'they mnke by testing them as 1 havo endeavored to tet this: and 1 have only tti'add that Whether we look at their argument s mnile in a free-trnd- o country, or whether wo look at tbelt platform, I can not see anvtlnne in either amument or platform that should recdinmeiid that party to the favor ot a voter in a smte into mis. "SHW'1 AMD "Oln" DEMOCRACY. And now. as Mr. Nevin has said, thero Is an other question in this campaign, and that is ,1... ....... .In.. l.n Qnn,. 1 n... ..... In.. But beforo I enmo to discuss that 1 want to talk to you a Iftllo about the chaiactcrof the l)c.mocrat!n party in this campaign. You know vvnat tliocircuiusinnccs wore under w men our friend. .Indue ltoadly, was nominated. You know that a fevy days afterward ho look occa- sion to explain that ho was the leader of a "new and living' iiemocrncy. well, there wercngood many "old-linci- who did not understand what that picnnt. Laughter. J They didn't like it, and so they wanttd to know whether they had captured him or ho had captured thorn. Renewed laugh- ter. Judge I fondly toon found it necessary n ,if n ininn iiriilnnnltmi Af TlamlUnn ot Cellna, and afterward clsowheic, he labored with this question. Ho nevir cnnldquito hit iL lie tried it nijajn at Zpar the other duy, whero he told us it was true he had been out; he had not been acting with the Democracy for n auarter of a century; but ho praised Vnllan dlgliam, referred to Horace fitoley, and he might havo referred tn General Kwlngaqd Mr. liookwnltcr but bo didn't. Great laughter. But bo did go on to sny, after lis thought lit; had satisfied his hearers on the question of "old"' Democracy, that tlm Democratic party was not ashamed of him. Laughter. Well, now, what does thnt sipnlty? Did anybody ov er hear tell of anything that tho Democratic p.ii jy was ashaniedof ? llJpjtrB of laughter. I did nof,ffinViilLrTug"ll ns n party.' ButtTicra" m o some cood men in the Democratic party. Theio arc lens of, thousands of good Democrats in the State pf Ohio, to whom 1 lefcricd n moment ago, and who, if I ml.MnLo not, when they come to understand us 1 hone to be ablo to make them do it by what kiln) qf influence thp Demo cratic puity isimplrcd in this campaign, will bo ashamed both nf their party nnd of the po- sition their leader has taken in this light. Cries of ' Good" and applause. I want to point out to my Democratic friends bcfoie I uiocetd to discuss the Pcott low. that the in- - tliienco nt preKht inspiring and controlling the paity, is not the inllnenecof tbo "old"' De- mocracy, and ns to that every Democrat on this ground will agree with me before I get through. 1 want to call tho attention ot my Democratic friends particularly to this, for tlio onestion presented to tlioin tins jenr is not whether thev will continued! botidaco to theold nartv. but whether they will hire out to this ticui De- mocracy, or, what is better, whether they will conic over Info good company for u while. Ijugbter, . Cincinnati's "nvsDY" iiem.tii roAnn. Tho legislation of our State was such last winlcras lolcavojljoclty of Cincinnati with, out nny Health Tion"rd,'oud it became tho duty nt least tlicy took it upmUhemsclves of the Democratic Common Council of Cincinnati to provido us with a Health Board. Well.jiow. under nny clrcuimtnnccs, tho providing of n crcutcitvof time hundred thousand Inhabit ants with fi Health Board is an important dutv. It li one that auirht loba Performed with Impartiality: only too liestmeu ought to besclened; l)i'a highest, intercuts of the people omdit to bo looked uftur and subserved. Well. now, maybo'our Democratic friends did this aiidmajlio tlfcv dliln'l. 1 urn going to read you what they did. And then I am not going to indulge in any objections to thero, or to the men tlicy appointed. I intend to leave it forDcmocrntitnwellasBcpuwl.caus to judge of as they may see fit. I wnut to remark firit, however, that wbtu the Bepublicau party, having the appointing power, lias had occasion to appoint n Hoard of Ave members, as our Democratic Common Council has here, they have always, without exception, appointed three Republicans and two Democrats In other words, thev havo triven the minority represen tation. And so, too, tbo "old" Democracy did tlio samo thing. Koycr bcforo within my knowledge or recollection has there been a Hoard appointed for Cincinnati by a Demo- cratic appointing power that did not givo mi- nority representation of two out of live. That lias necn a Kind m unwritten i.iw tout uotii parties havo heretofore observed. But as I said a whilo ago a new Influence starts up this year and takes the Democratic party by tho throat mid calls it a " new " Democracy, and says it Is going to lead It to a magnificent triumph in the name pf personal liberty. That "new" democracy took that common council by the throat, and when Democrats said " wo must elect tliice Democrats and two Bcpub-lkniu.- " that Influence said "No. elect them all Democrats." And when tlicy set about elect- ing five leputablo cittern, us the law requires, thut influence said whom tlicy should elect My Democratic friends, draw nigh, for I want you to bear witnevs with mo that you ore under tho leadership ot a man who knew what he was talking about when lie said thut he was leading a "nuw" Democipcy, Judge Fqiuker here read tho list of nmeas pf the Jiya Cincinnati saloon-keeper- s who wero appointed upon the Board of Health, and went on to toy: You ktu they arc an .Jcmoirni, uutaisomatii is only n nues- - tlou in each cas,a as to where ha kept lib Oreat laughter. Now, these, are tho live nun that tha Democratic Common Coun cil in this cur, 18BJ, delected and appointed to DC llioitcnitn uoaiupi iiiacny oi Miiriiiuati nny year liiipoilant, but particularly so in this veur, when, as) on nil know, wuurothrcat-enci- l wild cholera; witlicholeiwfromBgypt,and earthquake from Jschla and Java. It's a wonder wn did not have an earthquake In Cin- cinnati. 1 think we will have one yet, about the nth of October. Applause. tmt that is not ull they jiavM done. Von nre nil familiar with the alliance openly pioclalmcd uud cutab-lUh- between the LiejUOE.rr..vi.i:yi' amocutiov, in the Convention they held at Toledo, and the Democratic parly. Tliu Convention wns called hi filename of Democracy a Con- vention tho professed object of which was to advnncu Democratic IntoieMs a Convcutlov which, as lis flnl act, patued a resolution bn ttllli il mv iiruyptMiuiu vu. iiiuiu nuv buihh rlehls in this country blither than the law: by a second resolution proceeded o de- nounce tbo Bcott tha equities of which Mr, vhi has so plainly put bcforo you, as an infringement ol those rights. I foltvcry much relieved when I had read their declaration abont the interference with ticrsonnl liberty, to know that it was ouly that kind of peronal iioejiy mat vioif inicnureii wuu, JUTEB tlBADt's ci:TmcATr," But on the Democratic ticket, as a candidate for State Trifirr,U s g""'1 '""n bv ' - of Peter Brady. Now, Tcter Brady has always enjoyed n very good roiiutntlon, nnd I nm suro I don't want to filch it from him; and therefore I don't propose to say anything about roler that Peter can complain of. Bui inasmuch as he is on tha Democratic ticket) a cundldato for State Treasurer, and found It nccossary,.ni tho paper I am about to rend to you rccttos, to give to the people of the State of Ohio n certificate of character ns a recommendation for lilin to tho voters of the State, of course neither he nor anybody else can make a complaint If I rend that certificate. That's what It was gottcu up for. Petor Brady was n moraborof tho last Legis- lature. As a member of thnt body he Voted for tho Pond Bill nnd the Smith Sunday Bill, hs it Is called an ac,t that provides thatrjunday sbouldboobscryedasndayof rest. Well, povv, this element that has taken charge of tho Donio-crati- o party in 1883, ns soon ns it round out tlio record of l'ctcr Brady, tumid tho cold shoul- der upon him, and gavo Mr. Brady to under- stand that If ha wanted to bo In good favor,, with Iho Democratic party, nnd to bo elected,!' he must "come Out" a littlo on n few important things. IIo kept his peaco for a long whfo;' but tho shoulder grew colder and colder, nnd finally he concluded that If he did not Wiuit to get "left" ho had belter do something. And so Ida first movement was to put In an appear- ance at Toledo at the Liquor-dcalur- Conven- tion. I looked with a gicat deal of Interest to see what Sir. Brady would havo to say, for I thouaht ho certainly would not let tbo occa not only am) sion pass without nn effort to mollify this hoi- - tuo eirment. Jiut ho was as dtimu as nn oys- ter, lie simply camo nnd went. But as the days went by ho camo to un- derstand that whnt he probably thought would be sufficient namely, putting in an ap- pearance to Identify himself with thnt associa- tion, tho ally of bis party was not sufficient, and that they wanted something with more meat in it than that. Mr. Brady, 1 presume, was given to understand that he must glvo a certificate of character I don't know why else ho should have donu such a thing and so he came forward with it. He bad it published in the Wnchter am Erie, edited by a former Lieu- tenant Governor ot Ohio, Mr. Mueller, who has recently been down to Cincinnati Instructing us about "personal liberty." And it was otter-war- d published in tho Rnnlish papers of Toledo, and afterwards throughout tbo State. I will read It to you. It shows tbo kind of certlflcato that the influence which that party Is under requires tho candidate for State Treasurer to give: "We, the undersigned, ucrmnn-Amerlca- n clthensof Bellevue, 0., nnd havo noticed for somo tltnn that our former Mayor. Peter Brady, has been charged by several papers, in nnd outside tbo State, with being n temperance nian nnd n Sunday fanatic, and consequently recognlro the necessity lo declnro that since we knew him he has always been a friend of tho Germans." That I don't blame him for. We're all good friends of tho Geimans especially in campaign times, when wo want their votes. Laughter. I, myself, hardly ever forget lo say that thy aro patriotic, g elti-reu- And 1 don't say It ns mere idle word, either, but I ny it because It is the tnith. Everybody knows that, and everybody Is willing to conccdo that. Therefore we don't find any fault with Mr. Brady for lxJugn friend of the Germans. "That he was alwayslnfavorof the German language being tnuglil in our public schools, and that even previous to accenting office In Bellcvue icaltinyj, irtttnhc felt Me if, puMtcly in saltnms, satittinl his njijKtite fur apiritiitMi liquors, and that even y lio conlml AN in that direction; that "during his term nf office, which lasted seven years, lie nlwnvs showed himself very liberal nm? tirtcrntria taloou-lcrpc- that ho never acted according (u the wishes of tho fanatiis, who insisted on a strict observance of tho Sabbath, nnd t is neither a temperance lint he mini nor n fcuiut.-.- y lanutiLV After tho subsidence of the laughter which erected the reading of this ccrtlHcate, .llulga Fornker went on lo say: Now, think of that, my Democratic friends, as a certificate nf Char- acter that has been wrung by tiie hlilueticA your party from your party's candi date for the high ofl'iro of State Treasurer' a man who is nominated lor nit oiuce, tne duties of which will require him to collect and safely keep nnd dlsburso honestly nil fiio taxes, tlio millions of dollars of taxes, thnt nto to lie raised in the Stite of Ohio1 Think of a party being subjected to nn wring from a caudidato a curtilicnte of chanv-t- er kiich as that!, Xot that wo carp anything about bis going into Kilocms, one way or an- other; but to leqnlro him to certify, to givu testimony by foity citizens who have signed this, thut he la ill the. habit, oven Ivefoie lio was elected to office, wlicneverlie felt liko it and I am glnd he did not do it wli?u lio d jd not feel liko it ho was in tbc habit ,of. -- drinking pul licly in saloons, of satisfying his appctitq for spirituous liquors! As I said I don't intend to comment on tblt, "cirtilicalo," I don't care anything about' his personal habits or tastes, for I am not Koing to vote foT him anyhow, Laughter. 1 La peo- ple who are thinkiug of doing that, may mika atdudyof thnt if they wuntio. Idonltrafor to tbco matlcrs,eitlier,for the purposo pf depre-- , ciatiii Mr. llrady in tho estimation ot tbo people of the State of Ohio. Thnt is pot neces- sary There is a d soldier by the name of Captain Drown, v ho lives. in Meubenvillc, who is running against Mr, llrady; and sd- -I hough )ie has got only one leg. he will beat him by anyvvhtrofrom 2.'),QW to 30,000. Ap- plause. fcoitlanot material for us to kyow whether Mr. Brady publicly drinks in saloons aud controls bis appetite or,noL I don't care anything qbout that. What Inm icfcrrinc to it for is to feliow that we aro opposed, not by thu "old," butbjn ''new" Democracy; and It inn "new" Democ- racy of which I know tens of thousands of tho "old" Democracy will bo ashamed, whether some peoplo are nsbamed of tome other peoplo or not. Applauhe.J jourcY iw'irvs'fl "coss" cosvcktios: But that ain't all. Tho opening sentences 1 read tn vhti recited that tho Democratic patty declared themselves to bo tiie party of purity and Civil Sorvicp lteform, and all that s.irtof thing. If n man were to rend only Democndlo declarations be would bo led to mpposs that all qf tho goodness as well a all of thoprcat-ncs- s oT this country was training under-th- o Democratic li.ig in this campaign. Hut they disprove this themselves, for thev break out occasionally not only in health boards nnd "ccrtiliratcs" of charactor, but now and then tlicy hnvo conven- - .- ,., t ...l.t.... .............. 1II.. IHJIll. 11 UIU1U UIllllllIK U I'CIULII ll.W lll.l-?- , it Is a convention. They bad ono the other day in Cincinnati. I nm nnbKoing to dwell upon It. It hns become, history. Out of tho Damocrntlc organs and from their politicians it is learned thnt It was a convention that be- longed to Johnny Mcl.ean, the 'boss," ns ha is called, of the Democratic party in that county that It was captured nnd controlled by mm, as ucmocrais say, tiirougu tuo corrupt uso of money. I don't know how that was, but somo tilings wore, seen of all men. A friend of mlno told me that ho happened In on that convention, and 1 will telf you whnt lie told me abont it. He tnid he was on hi? way home, a littlo lata in thu day, about 4 o'clock. Passing tho High-lau- d House, he thought he would step, in and see what thoy wero doing. Ho soon so much Interested that lie sat there, in company with Theodore Cook nnd Isaac M. Jordan, for an liourund tweuty-thrc- o minutes by thu watch, and during that timo hn said he counted on the tloor ot that convention eigh- teen bloody-nose- d Laughter. Finally when another big ono commenced ho saiu ne rcn.ari.eci to Mr. uook, as ua was leav- - ing, for he thought he would go, that ho was sur prised there should be so much tlKhtluic liut Theodore replied to him that he had coins late, that nearly all tho fighting had becu dnno be- fore ho got there. Great laughter. Ho said that in the morning when the boys wero "fresh," laughter, they seemed qulto frisky, nnd fighting was tlioordcrof tlieday, renewed lauguierj, uut iney uaci gotten ureu, auu that what he had seen did not amount to much. Such in part was that convention. Democrats ns well as Republicans were disgusted witli that kind of apolitical performance, ev en li (twos in the nnme of the Democratic party; and tbu Democrats who wero disgusted, who did not want to bo controlled bv a boss, commenced to cluim that that convention was n disgrace on their party; that It was and go tlicy loncluelul tlicy would havo another Con- vention. And so tho day beforo yesterday a meeting of tho "reputable" men in tl;e prty hi the city of Cincinnati was held. There were, seventy or eighty gentlemen present, os I un- derstand it, at tho Burnet House, to consider whether to call another convention that would fairly represent the Demo- cratic, party. There were present at that convention Judg O'Connor, Judgn Oliver, Mr, Hymen, and a great many other men I might incutlon, as reputable as anj that can be found in the Domocratlo party, Thoy arc "old liners" men who don't bellcvw In that kind of tiling that ruled at the High- land Ilouso licing practiced In a convention. And therefore titty dpclarcd for n now; con- vention. Hut how wero thoy to get It up to as not to huv.o a rendition of the disgraceful scenes perpetrated nt the Highland House? Ordinarily, when w wont to havo a conven- tion, calls arc ImuoJ for primaries, for the peo- ple of each word to elect somebody to reme-tc- nt thpm. And they discussed thut thing, ami w uae uiu uiuy ray r "Wo want n convention, but (he trouble ji to havo it icspcctablc." Laughter. Should they have Democrats there? That was the question. They said: "We daw not proceed In that way: If we undertake to get up ft convention in that manner we will have a repetition ot that which occurred nt the Highland Hoosa Tii m -' , -- , th Mine tb WW: M - ft ( i- - t r 2 fel' r- - o
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CE
J. B. FORAKER,
Sketch of tho T.tfo of the ItcrmMlcnnCnmlldrtto for OovcriKir.
as a nor.Nino miles west o Bninbridgo, on the
htgli lands that border tho Bocky Forkthat ioorI picturesque of Ohio streams liestho pretty little, fanning Village) of llalnsuoro.It is tho larger of tlio two voting' precincts of
Taint Township, Highland County; and outof its threo hundred voles enstaa Republicanmajority of from eixty-flv- o to eighty nt everyclectiou. But thnt majority will bo doibleUtho picent fall) for at tho head of this year'sl.ermb)icim llckct stand a name which allHighland County, mid especially till TaintTownship, tlolightH to honor Toseph Bex-fc-
ToaARrn. To tho peoplo thereabout hoJs not "Judge Fornker," uor oven "Mister,"but just plain Beu, and they speak tho fa-
miliar tltlo with an evident emphasis of lik-in- g
and npprobation. .Not IhaUhcy aro at allinsensiblo to tho honors so bravely nnd so
early won, but'first nnd foremost they es-
teem tho individuality of tho man whomthey hnvo watched and loved from Infancyup, nnd whoso record bttinds before themwithout n blot. IIo has'n host of relativesnil through tho county, and everybody is hisfriend bot.idc.
A thhdof amilo north of Bainsboro, nlane leads from tho New Poloisbnrg pikeback into the woods. Half n ratio In, amidn littlo grovo of noblo trees, stands n neat,cosy frame house, how occupied by HenryFoi'aker, a sccond'cousln of tho Judge. Theolder part of this building was tho later ad-
dition to n large log cabin now demolishedwhich tho elder Fornker built when ho
came from the State of Belnwnre, and inwhich Hen was born in July,, 1840.
In April, 18-1- tho family removed toRecce's saw and grM mill tho most west-erly of tho threo mill upon Rocky Fork,nnd situated about four miles above Rains-bor- o
thero remaining for twenty-thre- e
rears. Hero Ken passed nls noynooa. anu
whichhavecareer.
to develop me numirnoio traitshnvo marked, nnd. indeed,lnrrelv shaped his wlioleIlo was noted, from the start, for
remarkable energy, push ami perseverance.Never content to be merely among the best,tho boy strove to be the best. It was bo inhis lesions, in his childish snorts, in everything. There wna'nb fcnvy' ill his ambition,no desire to push others down, but a manlydi'tenninalion to "work for all he waswoith." Ho did not plan to rest on any suc-cess, so long ns a higher success was attain-able. '
Sam. Xewell, long-tim-e iniller on the Fork,was Hen's prime favorite in thoso early dnys,A great reader of tho newspapers, and a manwell intorineu on nil tuo questions 01 moday, he never tired of answering tho count-less questions put to him by the boy, whowas insatiate in his thirst for information.Ben's interest in politico began almost withhis infancy, and ns a boy ho ncquiied a mostunusual knowledge of this complicated sub-ject.
.Air. Newell has a double interest In thanpjiinnching election. Not only is ho anx-ious for the Miccnm of his former protege,but his leputution as a prophet is at stake.When Ben was five or fix years old, Newellwns one day encaged in u hot political n
witli Mr. Delaplnne, n rabid Demo-crat, who contended thnt his party wouldsoon croli out nil opposition, nnd reign su-
preme. ".No, Ir!" said Mr. Newell, withneat, "you can't do itl We're going to beatyon nil" to pieces, and this boy hero (catch-ing up Hen in his brawny hands and hold-ing him in Delaphnnc's face) id going to boour Governor ono Of these days."
Tho prediction so unthinkingly madethirty vears ngo, is now on tho verge of ful-fillment.
as a FOunr.n.When lie was fifteen IIuT war of tho Re-
bellion broke out. and his older brother, tholamented Captain Burch Foraker, went intothenrmy. Ben wanted togo, ton. His par-ents very naturally objected. Ho was toovotinc: boidcB one Kin was already cone,and might never return. But Ben chafedtinder the restrninl, nnd finally, fearing thathe jould go anyhow, his.parcnthgavo a
content! By this timo tho secondyear of the war had rolled round. ThoKighty-nint- h 0. V. X. was being recruited inClerniont, Ross and Highland Counties, nndCaptain (nftcrward Colonel) W. II. Glennwnraisins a company at Hillsboro for hisregiment. In this company, which, becameCompany A, Ben Foraker volunteered. Thecommissioned officers of tho company werothen selected, hut those who first put. downtheir names wero informed thnt thoman who brought in tho most recruitsfor tile company would bo firstor orderly sergeant, tho next second ser-geant, and so on through tho list cf non-commissioned officers. brought intho most recruits, and tlms was entitled tobe orderly sci gcant. Ho was but a boy six-teen years old, and knev nothing whatevernloiit froldiering, as he said, and voluntarilygavo up that place to the man who was nextto him in tho number of recruits, and whohod bomo experience as n soldier, and tooktne second sergeantcy. 'inowent immediately into active nnd severoEervioe. Its terrible inarches and camp pri-vations, as well h losses in buttle, rapidlythinned tho ranks.. and made way for nro- -molion by loss of commipioned officers.iienloiaker Jiaulnken unit In all this senvice, and had become) successively orderlysergeant, Second nnd Firct Lieutenant, when.lato in tho summer of .18(13, ho was senthomo on recruiting duty, nnd was eo engaged when the great battle ol tmckamaugatook plnce. Tho result of that battlo withtho Light is thus stated in WhitehvwKeid's "Ohio in tho War:"
"Falling back on Chattanooga, our armywent into mtrcnciiuiems. .Monday niorn- -imr. nt 1) o'clock, burceon Crew, of thoEighty-nint- h, sick with jaundico, and justable to ride on horseback, found himself hnlfa nine in lront oi our lino oi oattio with tortvwounded, twenty sick, and seventy-fiv- e wellmen. nil that wns left of tho Kinhtv-ninth.- "
No other voomUsioned officer w ho wentInto the fight was left. All wero eitherkilled, wounded, or prisoners.
"Captain JoUy, wiio had been at homorecruitinif. ni rived nt Cliattanooint the davafter tho battle with the side wlio had re-covered. Ho was promoted to Major, nndtook command. Tho Kiglitv-nliit- li soonmustered two hundred men, For six weeksit lay in tho marhlo quarry at Chattanoogawith shell bursting over its campfrom Lookout Mountain, subsisting onhalf rations, ratptily clgthed, nnd bravingthe rik'Oi s of winter. It witnessed Hooker'u
enemy gavo way and fled. Tho next day.
sujtiiJXiM:EsisrT-5KisbPofilii,d-A.i- s' rooTJMEisrars the oi-ii-o campaign, election ootobbe j, iss3.
when tho chargo was mode on MissionItldgo, Major Jolly, nt tho head of his littloband of two men, led them to 'vic-tory in tlio fiontof Iho attacking column."
loraker hod reached Chattanooga thoiiight beforo liidgo, Ho had
no orders there, nnd got to hisjust ns It was going into battle. Ho
instantly took command of his company,led it in tho chargo, nnd was tlio first inunof tbo regiment over tlio enemy's works.Ho wns then years old.
After this tho EiWity-nint- li was in thodemonstration on Dalton, Ua. In a rhnrgoat Rocky Face, on February 25, it had twomen killed, ten wounded aud two captuied.Tho regiment then went into tho campaignagainst Atlanta, and took part in tho buttleof Buzzard') Boost, itesnea, Burnt Hickory,l'ench-tre- o Creek and Atlnnta.took nn honorable pnitdn ml this service,Shortly after tho fall ot Atlanta ho was de-tailed for duty In tho Corps, nndwhen Sherman ojganizpd Jiis nnnyforthemarch ta tho sea, he wra assigned to thoetafr of Major General H, V. commending tho Arniy of Qoorgia. Ho serve4in thin capacity through tho campaigns totho Ben, and through tho Caiollnns, nnd un-til tlio close of tlio war, when, on tho 14th
of June, lBOS, ho was mustered out atCamp Dennlson before ho wpa yet nineteenj cms uiu.
In November, 1884, fihoroan cutfrom his communications and began hU
march to the sea. with his greatat mv ho had disappeared from the outsideworld and was heard ol no except
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through rebel sources, until he reachedFort JlcAlister had been stormed
on tho 13th of December, nnd the city hadsmrendered on tho L'lst. Tho United sitntrsileet layoff the mouth of the SavannahRiver, cichteen miles below the eitv. nndthe only way to let tho waiting people of theNorth know that Sherman had got to
tho sea was to reach tho fleet.But tho river was full of torpedoes, and thobanks were full of lebols. Foraker was or-dered by General Slocum, then command-ing tho left wing of Sherman's nimy, toopen communication between his arniy andtnc neet. Jtie ctceiucti utnt mo oct way toaccomplish this was to descend the liver.Ho obtained a row-boa- t, secured the ser-vicer of two neorocsto row it. and in thenight started with ono oiderly on thoporilous trip." Tho boat, after runningaground several times in the darkness, andbeing nearly capsized once or twice, reachedtho lleet, bringing to it tho first news of thecapture of Savannah, Bcforo tho fleet wentup tho river, the torpedoes were removedunder direction rebel Colonel who' ship, they Mich a wav
put them down. When ordered to'take ' as that for us not io protect them in it wouldihem nn tin lm,1 enld in Rliormnn "fit im i bn the basest Ineptitude and wronitdamned if I such "Tlxn gratitude wrong for which thoyou wUl hang tomorrow vioming I" said Sherman, this nrgument convinced tne leoeiColonel.
Next tho career of Sherman's armvcame the march through Carolina?, w 1thfrequent skirmishing, nnd sometimes moresevero lighting with Johnston, until the vi-
cinity of Goidsboro Bentonville wasreached. hat occurred thero is thus toldby WhitclawReid:
"For now, whilo Sherman, deflecting hiscolumns to tho right to move straight onBentonville and Goldbor6, felt sure that nofurther interruption was intended, and wentoff to open communication w ith Schofleid'scolumn froili the seacoast, Johnson had im-proved tho day's delay, gathered histroops together, with nil his.old skill, formidiblo positions, of defence, and
fortifk'd them. Suddenly left wing,marching in all the confidence of Shwmau'sbelief that ho was now past any danger ofnttaok, enmo fairly upon Johnson's skirmishers, a nerco assault, speedily lonowen,driving in the Union adnnco "with ofguns provisions. Hlocum hurriedlysent word to Sherman that ho w as confront-ed by Johnson's wholo army, and thonmade such preparations for defenseas tho instant would permit. " "The nssault placed Slocum in great peril, butafter recovering from tho first sudden on-slaught lost no more ground. It was hardto persuade Sherman that anything seriousvns going on, but when convinced ho hur-ried over reinforcements from the otherwing, nnd was pushed into hisworks."
The messenger hy whom Slocum "hurriedly sent word to Sherman was Ben
Slocum in command of tho leftwinir. marchincr on a Benaroto rond. Sherman with Howard's wing of the army,marrhing on another road some seven oreight miles to the right. Slocum had beencnecKed some little tune, and Jioward wasgoing on. Johnson was in front of Slocum,in tlio woods, witli about twenty-nv- o thou-sand men. To reach Slier .ian w ith Howardit was necessary (o co around tho left flankof the rebel nrmv. Slocum's injunction toFornker when ho started was: "ISn careful.but don't spare horseflesh." Ho observedtho injunction, got to Sherman in safety, ob-tained from him an order to bring Slo-cum's aid Hnzen's division of the FifteenthUorpo, nnd suereeded in arriving with itupon tho battle-fiel- d at 3 o'clock in'tho morn-ing. It was for these services that, whilotho nriny was lying at Raleigh, was com- -missioned Brevet Captain of U. S. Volun-teers upon the special recommendation ofGeneral Slocum.
AS A MAX.
Tlio war being over, Foraker camo home,and at ouco began his efforts for A bettereducation. In this lie was assisted by hisbrother Burch, who had also passed throughthe perils of tho wnr, and hnd successfullystarted in business in Hillsboro. Tho mostardent fraternal affection existed betweenthe brothers, nnd when, a fow years after,Burch Foraker died, it was a terrible blowto lien. Ho studied nw hilo nt South Salem,Ross County, wns two years nttlie WesleyanUniversity nt Delaware, Ohio, then went toCornell, and was graduated in its first classin 1800. He had heen studying tho law during his collegiate course, nnd upon hisgraduation entered tlio office of Judge Jnmcsfcioane, men in Cincinnati, nowas admitted to tbo bnr in tho fall of thatvcar. and nt onco benan nractice. He hadho influential friends, and no acquaintanceeven in Cincinnati, and for a year or twohis practice was not large. It wns not verylong, however, before his genial manners,nntirins enercv, solid nbillties. nnd stern integrity, began to mako his way, and hispractice extended into "o very grado of Court,from a Justice of tho Pence to the SupremoCourt of tho Unifed States,"
IIo was married October 4, 1870, to Misaj una imnuy.n daughter .ot .non. li. t.Bundy. of Jackson,
Ho was nominated for Judge of tho Court... f '..,, ft. IMniio I m 1 QTll 1,,,, ,,. ,1, ?,.., wl
by tho notorious Eph. Holland frauds of thatyear. Ho was again nominated for CountySolicitor in tho spring of 1878, without hisknowledge or consent, nnd against hiswishes, out recognizing tho claims ofhis party upon him, ho remained on (heticket, to with it by a majority of2,000, with which the Democracy swept thocounty. In tho fall of 1870 Judgo Baxter.of tho U. S. Circuit Court, appointed him
cunrgo up the steeps oi Lookout .Mountain, i (Jiiicf Supervisor of .Elections for the South-nn- d
Joined in tho shout of victory as tho cm District of Ohio. This position ho also
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took much against his wishes, hut havingaccepted it, ho administered its duties wjthsuch manifest fairness thnt oven tho Demo-crats look occasion, when tho elections olthat fall wero being Investigated by a Congressional iomniiHoo, 10 nut upon record uaduo to him, thut thoy hud no fault to findwith him ns tho olilcer of tho law. Thovconceded that his administration of it hadbeen nil that it should have beep. In thespring of 1870 ho was elected to tho SuperiorCourt Bench for a fill) term of flvu years.
Ho remained upon tlio bench for abouttlirco years, when he teeignedbecnusn of
AVhen it becamu known Ciucinnatitliat Judgo Foraker intended to resign,ho wan most strongly urged by tho Bar ottho city and his many friends, without d
to party, to remain upon tho bench,nnd to take a long vacation until ho sboilldregain his health. And oven after his icslg.nation was forwarded, telegrams weto wnto Governor Foster urging that it bo not ac-cepted, Among the many gentlemen until-ing heso telegrams, wero Hop, 31. F. Foicc.Hon. George lloadly, Hop. Aarorj F, Pojnr,Hon. K. Vf, Kittredgo Hon, Jolin v,Warrington.
Frour boyhood Judgo Forakor has been anoetivo supporter of tlio llenubllcun mirlv.Duilng the war he Bupported principlescud tho country, ns a boldier, After tho w'nrlio was in fayor of ull tho .great icconstmc-tio- n
measures intended to secure the fTultsof tho victory and to insuin thu rlehta of tbn(ate slaves, In 1674, Judgo Foraker, nt a Republican rnsw meeting in wncmtiuu, poi(oas follows on the civil rights question;
"The object of tblt bill ii to Prevent mask- -
od marauders from burning negio school-house- s,
shooting negro school-teuclier- andkeeping this innocent nnd Inoffensive peoplein a state of tenor, which retards their de-
velopment and corrupts and domoraliics so-
ciety nnd polities in a hundred wnys. Andit Is right, and the Republican party is for itbecawoit isi!ght.
"When in Columbus Hip other day I stoodin our Capitol building, nnd looked with ad-
miring gnro upon thut mnguillcent painting,which ncloriiH in walls, oi 'Peirv's Victoryon the Lake.' tkeie. in the midt of thedeath storm of that terrible conflict, as gal-
lant looking as nny nn of (he bravo facessurrounding the Commodore, is a. full- -blooded renrcscntatlve of the African race.Ami lima It hns nlwnva been since our Government was founded on land and sea, inadversity and piospciity, through peace andthrough war, tins laco lias necn ever pres-ent with us, and never once has its faithfaltered, its devotion lagged or its couragequailed.
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spring of 188'J, his health rapidly improved,and hoi has now entirely recovered. Al-though he is comparatively a young man,there was no surprise among thoc whoknew him thnt ho should be taken fromamong tho many nblo men of HamiltonCounty as their mot available man forGovornor. And thev have the fullest confi- -
should health bo defaulters nnd entsnared, what he lias already done is only apresage of greater usefulnessThero is nothing whatever,
nnd honomfrom his very
bovhood until now, that needs defense,nnoloev nr excuse, but on tbo contraryoicrytliinjr to inspire hi friends with pridemid hope .in his future.
FORAKER AT LUDLOW FALLS.
.in Able Iteiil)-t- o the Democratic War Songnt "TiiriitfioltascBln Out" TlioSIethodn ofthe "" nomocracy Held Vp to Light'The l'lolitliltlmi Amemtimmt and the Republlrnn i'nrtj How tho Democracy Stnntlon the IVaol Question.
O., Augut 31. Judge Fora-
ker addressed an entbusiastio Republican reunion yesterday afternoon nt tho romanticsylvan retreat of Ludlow Falls, Miami County.Kxeurslon parties were made up from the surrounding country, bringing an attendance offrom two thousand fivo hundred to threethousand
Jifdgo Wright, of Troy, presided at the meeting.
Mho lirst sneaker was 11. 31. Kevin. Ka.. nwell known attorney of Dayton, nnd on oldcollege chum of Judpc Foraker, Mr. Nevin isnn orator of great ability of handsome pres-ence, magnltk'ent voice nnd delherynnd ofthe most captivating eloquence. JIo limitedhimelf lo naif an hour in order tomnkeway f6r
.Turtle Fornker' Speech.Juage Foraker spoke as follows:Mk. Chairman, Ladies a::d Gkxtlkmfx: I
want to .Commence my speech y by read-ing "to.voii two Ecntcncca from an article thatappeared a few days ago in Harper's Weekly.They rend a follows:
"'1 lie Democrats usually carry the electionoverwhelmingly Kline months before it takesplace. Laughter. They proclaim them-selves to be Ilia party of avenging virtue, andall goes oil prosperously until the votes arecouniea (renewed laugnterj, wncn it turnsout they have not cnoush." Laughter.
When our Domocratlo friends opened thiscampaign at Columbus when they held, their
wnrd,,tliey were engaged in the very pleasingbuInc:vtnthcm, of overwhelmingly carryinguic next, election. ii.aiigiucr.j aiiu one rca-.so- n
why they proclaimed that they were tocarry that election was thnt by the platformsthat had been adopted therp had been made upbetween tlio parties distinct Issues, nnd thutthey, intended to hold tbc Republican party inthe discussions of this enmnaien rialit dowh tothose issues and those haucs were the tariffquestion nnd the bcott Law qnetion, aboutwidth ray 'friend Mr, Nevin has been talkingto'vou.
Well, now, onr Democratic friends havecotrio to know more about the Scott Law andthe tnri ft quest Ion since that time than theythen knew, and by as much as thoy liuvc cometo better understand these questions.by so muc hthey hnveuonio to lose faith in their idea thatthey aio, to" overwhelmingly carry the electionsnext fall. Laughter and applause. And asn result of this we find them, from tbonnd in the columns of their newspapers, allover thcStnte, ceasing to pay attention to thequestions that, have really been nut in issue.nnd tnrning all their attention to n cry offraud nnd bribery, and corruption, saying everything mat language can express tnat is midand calculated to destroy the confidence andbelittlo the record of the Republican party. InnnsWer to this 1 want to Bay, not anything badabout the Democratic party, but simply thatwhich is mere justice io me jicpuouciin party,as rcilectine: on this miestion of our lntccritvmid fidelity in olllre, about which they limeso much to say. As all know, the Republicanparly has been in power in this coiyiiry mak-ing a record for almost twenty-fiv-e years.
tiir EEConos compared.I.want to call your attention to that record in
so fur as it reflects upon tliisquestion.of honestynnd this .charge about corruption which tlicyso freely make. First, I want to call your at-tention to the record the Bepublicau party hasmade in that respect in the ndminiitration ofNutional aflairs. Undor tho Administration ofWashington there was a loss because of dcfal-catiol-
in office defalcations on the part ofpubjlo' servants who wero charged with tliocollection and disbursing of public moneysto the amount of $2 2 for every thousanddollars handled; nnder Adams it wast'2 fll); under JeH'erson who Is the groat politi-cal nlithoritythat my friend, Judge Hoadly,so much quotes as the source of everythingthat is good in politics the loss was (2 75UlKin ovcry thousand; under Madison It wasM iu; unucr wonroo 03; uuuer me secondAdams $1 09; Under Jackson $7 62; under VanIlqren $11 71 and Van Bnren, you will remem-ber, if you still recollect Judce lloadlv's snecehOf acceptance, was tbo great Democrat underwhoui his first lessons in politics; Itwas his cause lie espoused in tho debating lyce.unm in tlio schools whero he got bis educationwheuhn wasaboyt wo oneht not to bo oxpetted to Im mora honest than his ofllclaliwere'. Under the Harriton-Tvle- r. Administration the lots was $"40 to the thousand: underPolk jt was $t 0$; under Taylor and Klllmorot 10; under Plerco W 50: under Buchanan
the last of thu Democratic Presidents J3 81,Aud'theu tho Bcpubllcan party came intopoworj And we camo Into power, us myiriciid 'Novlu eald a moment ago, with a Demo,cratio rebellion on onr hands q rebellion that
iv ncccuary tor us io raiso anu putInto ,thui:c)d and maintain them there, a mil-lion sbldrn;'tndo It necessary for UK to put n.great Ifavy upon, tha sea aud maintain it thero:and ujad? it necessary not only that we shouldpour out 6ceans of blood, bat amounts oftreasure thai aro almost beyond tho power ofpian to compute them, The result was thntwe'hndlo Have thousands of men to collectand distrtireu money where, before that timo,and under Democratic Administrations, theybadopounn. '1 bo dunger of defalcations, thadanger of dishonesty, the dangers that wereture.iocoinc in n time like that from such anincreased number of public servants, were, asyou can e'e Increased a thoutand-- f old. And
et now uoes tuo record comparer insteauoi3 Slbf a lento tbo thousand dollars of nub- -la munevs handled, under Lincoln's Admlnls.
trstion, as under Buclianan's, notwithstandingtn moraiirtuuns 01 we war, me inns was
bnt teventy-sl- x cents to the thousand dollars.tAptnauie.j 'men touowcu .loumoira Ad-ministration, and the loss was but lltty-sove- n
cents. ApnUuie.l And then followedGrant's of eight years, during wliloli Ml thoioirauus una corruptions occurred about whichmy mend Iloaaly seems to bs so muchtrouDica. Ana tne loss under urnnvs Admin-istration whisky rings all Included amountedlo but twentv-tuu- r cents on every thousanddollars. And Grant was succeeded hy llnyc,and you know what character or n man ha Is,and what kind o( Administration ho gavo to thacountry, nnd, therefore, the record shows onlymm which every unio man Qcauauucd witnthese facts would oxnect for It shows thatduring the Admlnlitiatlon of President Hayes,on nuuuc moneys loucrtcu anu aisuurseu uypublic officials, thorc nnslost not one singlecent every cent of it accounted for. loudapplaus.
'TOINT1NU WITH rBIDE.Well. now. 1 don't cite this for the mircose
of showing, or mnking an argument, that theRepublican party, ns compared With tho Bern-ocratl- o
party, Is more honrit than tlio Demo-cratic nartv for nn nruument of that kind Isunnecessary. ii.niiKiiicr.j Kveryopay Knowstnnt TWtnout my inniting any nrgunieut nnoutIt. Ucncwed laughter. I don't say 1hleither, In tho way of the defense (if the He publican party, lor mo itepuuiican party uoirtneed nnv dpfensn lnlt I wiv it nnlv hernli!i hvreason of such talk as tlmt'Judso ltoadly give'snm the liberty, which he started out in thcflinnnifFii in the denul nf tome. of tnrnlnirmvback to the future nnd pointing with suciiBride, to the nasi. iAunlaute.l 1 hat Is n vcrvpicasant thing to do once and awhile on ourside oi tnc nouse. ii.augliter.j l pity a manwholsbn asldo thatraii'tdo that. But thatIs not all. Our record Imi been Just as good Inthe Stute as in tho Nation. First let mo say,however, thut I don't believe the Democraticlarty Is as bad as my friend Xevln thinks itis. 1 think, n great drol of the Democraticparty. H hns helped us a great dual In thepast; and it hns helped us a great deal thisyear. ncn iney siaricn out, it was as l sama while ago, with the expectation that theynero to have n erent victory and certainlywith a great feor on our part thnt they mightsucceed, nud probably theyxfould hnvo
but for what they did jet, at the criti-cal moment they rallied to our aid, nnd inCincinnati, Toledo, and In Cleveland, nnd inhalf n dorm places in tho local managementm well nstliioiiRhout the State in the Generalmanagement of their party affairs, they haveglten us such material oid thnt thelctnrynow is conceded to us even by them. Well, 1
feel crnteful lo a natty that Is Villlnc todo that nt a critical timo like thisluughter, especially when I have such nn
important pergonal Interet hi the matter,and I am the lat man that would think of un-necessarily nbusing them. Laughter. T
don't two any Inneuinre. therefore, with respectlo any record they havo nrnde in tho past forthe purpose of making myself offensive to theuemocraue party, ana certainly not to anyIndividual Democrat,
ocMornMio county TnrAsvnr.Rs.But at the same time I want to refer to the
recoids in this State. Plncc the Republicanparty came into power there have been threeRepublican counties nnd three only in theState of Ohio In which the county Treasurershave defaulted; in which they have wrongfullyapplied nnd made uc of any public moneywhatsoever. every one oi these counties, ln that campaign tlicy did hesitate to
V us we're then, declaration, itsthe bondsmen have nroen cood. and the tax.payers have not lost n inglo dollar; nnd two
dpnee Hint, bis life nnd of the t ere tried, convicted
iiuiuu
to the Penitentiary; the third escaped beforehis fraud became known. But how has It beenvritb our Democratic brethren?
They havo not had as much opportunity nswe havo had. Ohio is a Republican State; acreat majority of bur counties arc Republicancounties. There arc not k many DemocraticTreasurers as there are Republic an Treasurersto run the risk of fraud with; and whilethere have been three Republican CountyTreasurers in Ohio defaulting, there arctwenty-si- x Democratic counties in which theDemocratic Treasurers hne been guilty of de-falcation, ranging nil the way from .J,00CI,over in Wyandot County, up to $i:x,O0d,over in Fairfield, where they have got a Demo-cratic majority ordinarily of about eighteenhundred, though I expect Dnrbin Ward'srefluent to decrease It this year to about onethousand. Laughter.
But is tho kind of record they havemade botli In tho Nation nnd in the State. Irefer to it, however, as I say, not for tho pur-pose of giving Democrats oU'ense; not for thepurpose of abusing them, for is not neces-sary, nor is it according to my liking to
in abuse of any man or any party. Xot socither to show thnt Democrats are leps honestthan Republicans, for I rather think they areonly less fortunate in their selection ot otu- -
rials. .. . -Hut I simply give you these facts so tint
when yon read nbont the corruption ofiheRepublican party as the reasons why "tbo ros-co- ls
should be turned out," you may throwthe paper down as presenting to you a libelthat ought to be dUpoed of peremptorily nndwith indignation.
DEMOcnicY a Fnrc-TnAu- n rAV.TY.
But this matter of corruption i not the onlything about which they have been talking todivert attention from the .cott Law and thetana Question, which 1 referred to a momentago as tho real issues in thiscainpaign. 1 don'tknow how much Interested you are in the. wooltaritl'aue.stion, but thnt is one of theouestions.about which they hno been talking, and con-cerning wliich 1 want to say n few words. Iwant to fay Iheso few words tor the purpose ofshowing you that with respect to thisqucction,as with rcinird to thnt of imblio honesty, thedeclarations of their party papers and hpenk-e- i
arc not sinierc. Iow,the complaint of theDemocratic party is ana iney re malting innall their new-panel- , and they're making itfrom every stump that the Republican partyin tne last vougri'ss oi me united oinics, m molast session, reduced the tariff on wool. Theircomplaint nlso is that the Republican partvot the samn time Increased the turilfduties on the importation of, woolengoods. Well, now, 1 am not surprised to hearthat our Democratic friends complain of thoRepublican party increasing tho duty onwoolen goods or an anything else; but doesn'tit strike you, my friends, as very Mpingnandinconsistent tlio Democratic party, tliochampions of free trade ever sinco this, fiovern-men- t
wns established, should now come bcforotbepcoplcof the State of Ohio' and complainof the liopubllcnn party because tbnro hasbeen a reduction of tl0 tariff, ccu thptyth Itboontvool. lam not overstotlng It when Isay that the Democratic party has over been afree-trad- e party. Thero oro plenty of intclli-cc-
men bcforo mo who know that this nues- -
tlon of tho rigid to levy n protective larllffluty was ono oi too questions consiacrcuby our fathers when they framed thoConstitution of tho United States. Aud everyone knows who is familiar with the adoptionof thnt instrument that if It had not beenmade to be understood that under the corcrit-ment set up ihut Constitution, wo had aright to levy protective duties, that instrumentnever would have been adopted. But fromthat day to this our Democratic, friends havenot only opposed u protective tariff us a mat-ter of policy, but there has never been a timewhen the Democratic party did not have
occupying such a position ns war- -
rantcu mem to speak lor tucir party, who op-posed a protective tariff, not only as badpolicy, but also as unconstitutional. In niltheir party platforms, both National andStale.at least up to 1SS0, tlicy have never hesitatedto ueciaro mcniscircs in lavor 01 ireo trauc,nnd they always insisted upon it In their pressand their speeches on the stpmp. So that ifwo had nothing except their pnst record theywould be unwarranted id making tho com-plaint they da make in regard tothe rcductiou of the tarltT on wool.
tub wool TAntrr,But they mado a record in the last Congress
with respect to that identical question; andthat record, so made by them, shews that theywere not only not opposed to a reduction ofll-- ta.HPAti .i.Anl 1.. tl.n, , A,, lar.il I .. .l.A af- -LUD 111,11, Ull nvui. LIU. ,111.1. tllVJ IEUU ,1, IIIU Wfort to secure that reduction, and that theirendeavor was to get a still greater reductionthan which was got, and wliich Mr, Bay-ard declared, in the discussion which ensued,was by way of a step toward putting wool onthe free list. Mr, ifnyiiid offered at resolutionIn AiieuHt. which was huniiorted bv himand Mr. Deck, that tho tariff on wopl should bereduced to twenty-liv- e jer cent, ad valorem,That resolution received on the Democraticlido twenty-thre- e out of twenty-fou- r votes.Only one Democrat in the Senqlo voted agnlnttmat proposed reduction; and one oi mo twen-ty.thr-
Senators who voted for Itwas 11. Pendleton; whlln otthe Republicans, every siugln solitary onevoted against Mr. Bayard's resolution. After-ward, when the bill for the general revision ofthe tariff camo before the Senate, when roolwas but one item of hundreds uliont whichtlicy were legislating, and when the bill must(,o through as u whole or fail as a w hole, a textvote was had with respect to the proiowd re-duction, and thut was brought about by nnamendment ollerud by Mr. Klierman, to makethe tarift'twelve and fourteen cents per pound,about equal to .what the aid tariff of 1B07 was.On that amendment so ottered hv Mr. 8horman. sixteen Itenubllcana voted for It and onlvfourteen voted against; while on tho Democratic iu, out oi twenty-nin- e voung, twentysir of them voted inailntt Mr. Sherman's proposed amendment. Xove thero Is therecord, and it shows, as I have snld.that they not only wanted a lowerduty than that Which was finally fixed, buttlicy wanted It as Mr. Uck and Mr. Bayardaid ln the Benate. and as Mr. Snrlmzer aud
Mr, Hewitt said ln the House, to the end thatwooi migut ue ultimately put on tnc iree list,and hive no dutv whaUoerer levied upon It.8uch bftlng the record, I Uaveyou to judge i
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J. B. rORAKER, tfo.
to where responsibility for the reduction ofthe tariff on wool bilonas, and 1 ask you tojudge, also, or a party which, in tho face ofsuch a record, can claim what our Democraticmenus are claiming about tuts mailer.
THAT "T.CT10N" J'MTFORM,
And now a few words about the tnTifTfiU"-tlo- n
generally. My friend Mr. Ne in did notcall your attention, ns ho might hate done, totho verv singular platform upon which myfriend Judge Hondly stands In this campaign,with respect to the tariff question. As I Mild awhile ego. the Democratic party has been cera free-trad- e party. They never hesitated o todeclare thcmclves. In 1870 they did, how-ever, forth? first time, declare tlienuchci infavor of n tariff for revenue only. Well, therewas not much discussion about thnt matterthen. We were then talking about the rightof men, colored men particularly, in theSouth, to vote, and the tariff question did notcnt much of a figure, and the result was thatour Democratic friends did not got any profitfrom the experience of that campaign, and owhen they came to the campaign of 1SS0 theyrepeated that samo declaration nnd then thequestion turned very Intvely on thnt iuc.'Hip camnalan was decided on that nue'tion.
In not tellthat they hv tint
yet,
that
it
that
that
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always tiiey had necn, opposed to a piotecuvetorilh But when they were defeated oiiym- -wlielmlngly, they found out that tho people ofthis country would not favor a proposition toreturn to free trade. They at once becameaware of the fact and had it most emphatically impressed upon their mindsthat tree trade was not thethoronglifaro for them to travelif thev wanted to cct into tiower. So from thatday to this that party has been trying to showtnu people oi mo country, ny some Kinn oi adeclaration, that they arc not as their fatherswere, a free-trad- e party.
But they have all kinds in their party, mostof them rabid and so it happenedthat when tncy met at toiumuus tins year tofrnmeanlatform. they could not exactly anreoto declare for n protective tariff, or for tree- -
trade, and so they did the best they eouln dounder tho circumstances, and they made aplatform, which, liko Kentucky during thewar, contributes a full quota to both (.ides,with a lot of bushwhackers thrown in forquantity, fljiuchter.l
It has an assortment of planks, all in onensort ot Jsplurwiif timim nllair one lor lreotrade and nnotner tor a protective tariu, nnustill another that is a kind of a libcral-concr- -
kind of a nlaiikto suit thoo who aro neither protectionists nor
And Judgo ltoadly ha? beenprinc about over tbo State trying to define hisiHiaiiuiu wnji ivsi'cwb lu ijiis in urnformitv to Hint kind of a nlank. 1 bono hisperformance has been as amuing to him ns itlias been to other people. A day or two ago Icut out of a newspoper, I think it was the San-dusky Register, a littlo extract which Mimkme as describing most completely the kind ofuccess he had met with in that underlakintr.
I want to read it to you as not only definingtho Democratic position witli respect to thisquestion, but more especially of the po-itl-
of my friend .IuiIro Jloadly. It says:"As near as wc can make out irom Judge
Hoadly's speerhes on the tariff question, ho isin favurof a Judicious tariff for icvcnue only,nnd a revrnuo tariff for judicious protectiononly laughter, so graded in thcrovenno olllreas to either protect manufacturers or manu-facture protectors, and wc don't understandwhich. Renewed laughter. A judicioustariff, the .ludce exnlnins. for revenue omymeans only a larifTfor protected judiciousness,nnd that only." Hoars of laughter.
That statement is not one whit overdrawn.As I said before tbo Democratic party founditelf in sutli n situation that it could notnirrce, and if it could have ngrced in tlio lightof its experience of lbSO, it did nothave tbo courage to express its convictions; and the lesult is that wehave a plank in the Democrntto platformwhich declares that the Democratic party is infavor of a tarift to meet tlio expouseH nf tholiovc-nme- nt a turlll for revonuo iinutcu tothe uxnentes of Government economically nd- -ministcrcd, nnd it wants that so adjusted ns toprevent equal burdens, encourage AmericanIndustries nnd American laborers, nnd not tofoster monopolies. The mere reading of itshows that instead of heiiiK a plain, clear dccla-tlo-
which would haio defined a position in-
telligibly, they have purposely dealt In duplic-ity, in order that nobody might 1j ablo to un-derstand just where they do stand witli regardto the question. And that of itself, consideringthe character of, the question, ought to beenough to cause tho peoplo of the Slate ofOhio, as they no doubt will, to deny their np--plication for power in this instance.
rnoTFcrioK asc the F.vnMms,
I nm not going to enter Into any extendeddiscussion of this question nfter allthat has been to well and so pointedly byMr. Kevin: but before dismissing It inasmuchns I am in purely nn agricultural county Iwant to consider nt least ono oi tne ooicLtionsthat my friend Judge Hoadly is making whenhe ctts'into a free-trad- e district to a protectivetarfir system. Judira Iloadlv snvs that u protective tariff is of no benefit whatever to tbojarmcr. Aud I hnvo no doubt, when begetsup here in Miami County if ho should comeagain and have n talk with tho farmors howould labor to impress that idea upon hisbearers. Let me consider It for Just onosingle moment. If you do npt have aprotective tariff system wo can not, withlabor at the cost it is in this country, competewith the manufacturers of Europe, where laboris two or three times as cheap as it is here.Under a protective tariir system we hnvo ourIndustries developed, we hove our resources ailopened up, wo have homo murkcts mado bythese mills, factories, mines, and muchinoshops, that are scattcrcdovcrthoStatc, wheremen are employed who do not produce whatyou do, but who have to cnt. Thus the farmershave homo markets, with ready salts for alltheir products. But aside from this Incidentalprotection, there Is levied by the laws of thaUnited Slates, under tbo policy of thoKopub-lica- n
party, u protective duty upon the importation of every product that can bo broughtInto this country to coinpclu with the American lanncr. uur inuauiau iricniu cannot bring their horses to compete withours in the markets at llaltlmoro or New York:nor can thoy bring their wlirat, corn, rye orbnrlty until they first paid 11 duty, just as foreign manufacturers hare to pay duly on alltlicy urmg uiat may coinnciu wiiu our manu-factures. Hut tho incidental protection 1
tpoke of is the benefit I want to refer to morntarttcularlv. In IhN) there weio produced inthis country two billions bushels of corn. Ofthat great product less than tlvo per cent, waskent abroad, exported lend fold at Liveless than one hundred million bushels out oftwo billions. All tho balunco of that piuducr,all the nlucty-flr- o per cent, that; did not goabroad, was given to the homo markets, andthev paid good piiocs, as yon will remember,and to It will be with tho product of this veur.
A, ruuiTv-Ntsr- u RrGHitrrr, O.V.I.
ipool- -
Hut Judge Hoadly says that the fannerguts no benefit front this berausci of Idshome market, for Hie reason that Liverpoolfixes the price, nnd that ha gets Imply theprice at Liverpool, less transportation, insur-ance. Ac. Now. that Is not truo In tho firstpluce, but It It were, as I will comedo for thotake of argument, there is another questionliehlud all that, that every farmer ns well nsJudge Hoadly understands, If Liverpool fixeswe price, wuaiuxca inverpooir ii you wereto turn to a free-trad- e nollev tho result wouldb that thero men, now of whatyou produce, would have to go into competi-tion with you, la order that they might makea living, to raiso their own support; and notonly that, but they would iwiil tht products
tlnt would have to go abroad, nnd Instead ofonly nve, per cent. 01 tne corn raisctigoing amend to the market at Liverpool, we would have ten, twenty orfifty per cent.. posibly, of our produrtgoingabroad I don't know how much enoughat any late so that the market at Liverpoolwould be glutted by the immense supply onthat account, and the prices In Liverpool woulddecline; nnd if Liverpool flxs the price thattho farmers got litre they would then speedilyreallie that they have been enjoying somoben-efit- s
from protection.1 cite the position that the Democratic party
occupies with regard to this question, and Ianswer that one objection of Judge Hoadly'sin this catnnaicn simnlv to show that thevhnvo no poliev in the matter; In order to showthut we can only judge of their position bywhat thev have done In the post, and can onlyjudge of theorgumehts 'they mnke by testingthem as 1 havo endeavored to tet this: and 1
have only tti'add that Whether we look at theirargument s mnile in a free-trnd- o country, orwhether wo look at tbelt platform, I can notsee anvtlnne in either amument or platformthat should recdinmeiid that party to the favorot a voter in a smte into mis.
"SHW'1 AMD "Oln" DEMOCRACY.
And now. as Mr. Nevin has said, thero Is another question in this campaign, and that is,1... ....... .In.. l.n Qnn,. 1 n... ..... In..But beforo I enmo to discuss that 1 want totalk to you a Iftllo about the chaiactcrof thel)c.mocrat!n party in this campaign. You knowvvnat tliocircuiusinnccs wore under w men ourfriend. .Indue ltoadly, was nominated. Youknow that a fevy days afterward ho look occa-sion to explain that ho was the leader of a"new and living' iiemocrncy. well, therewercngood many "old-linci- who did notunderstand what that picnnt. Laughter. JThey didn't like it, and so they wanttd to knowwhether they had captured him or hohad captured thorn. Renewed laugh-ter. Judge I fondly toon found it necessaryn ,if n ininn iiriilnnnltmi Af TlamlUnn
ot Cellna, and afterward clsowheic, he laboredwith this question. Ho nevir cnnldquito hitiL lie tried it nijajn at Zpar the other duy,whero he told us it was true he had been out;he had not been acting with the Democracy forn auarter of a century; but ho praised Vnllandlgliam, referred to Horace fitoley, and hemight havo referred tn General Kwlngaqd Mr.liookwnltcr but bo didn't. Great laughter.But bo did go on to sny, after lis thought lit;had satisfied his hearers on the question of"old"' Democracy, that tlm Democratic partywas not ashamed of him. Laughter. Well,now, what does thnt sipnlty? Did anybodyov er hear tell of anything that tho Democraticp.ii jy was ashaniedof ? llJpjtrB of laughter. Idid nof,ffinViilLrTug"ll ns n party.' ButtTicra"m o some cood men in the Democratic party.Theio arc lens of, thousands of good Democratsin the State pf Ohio, to whom 1 lefcricdn moment ago, and who, if Iml.MnLo not, when they come tounderstand us 1 hone to be ablo to make themdo it by what kiln) qf influence thp Democratic puity isimplrcd in this campaign, willbo ashamed both nf their party nnd of the po-
sition their leader has taken in this light.Cries of ' Good" and applause. I want to
point out to my Democratic friends bcfoie Iuiocetd to discuss the Pcott low. that the in- -tliienco nt preKht inspiring and controllingthe paity, is not the inllnenecof tbo "old"' De-mocracy, and ns to that every Democrat on thisground will agree with me before I get through.1 want to call tho attention ot my Democraticfriends particularly to this, for tlio onestionpresented to tlioin tins jenr is not whetherthev will continued! botidaco to theold nartv.but whether they will hire out to this ticui De-
mocracy, or, what is better, whether they willconic over Info good company for u while.Ijugbter, .
Cincinnati's "nvsDY" iiem.tii roAnn.Tho legislation of our State was such last
winlcras lolcavojljoclty of Cincinnati with,out nny Health Tion"rd,'oud it became tho duty
nt least tlicy took it upmUhemsclves of theDemocratic Common Council of Cincinnati toprovido us with a Health Board. Well.jiow.under nny clrcuimtnnccs, tho providing of ncrcutcitvof time hundred thousand Inhabitants with fi Health Board is an importantdutv. It li one that auirht loba Performedwith Impartiality: only too liestmeu ought tobesclened; l)i'a highest, intercuts of the peopleomdit to bo looked uftur and subserved. Well.now, maybo'our Democratic friends did thisaiidmajlio tlfcv dliln'l. 1 urn going to readyou what they did. And then I am not goingto indulge in any objections to thero, or to themen tlicy appointed. I intend to leave itforDcmocrntitnwellasBcpuwl.caus to judgeof as they may see fit. I wnut to remark firit,however, that wbtu the Bepublicau party,having the appointing power, lias had occasionto appoint n Hoard of Ave members, as ourDemocratic Common Council has here, theyhave always, without exception, appointedthree Republicans and two Democrats In otherwords, thev havo triven the minority representation. And so, too, tbo "old" Democracy didtlio samo thing. Koycr bcforo within myknowledge or recollection has there been aHoard appointed for Cincinnati by a Demo-cratic appointing power that did not givo mi-
nority representation of two out of live. Thatlias necn a Kind m unwritten i.iw tout uotiiparties havo heretofore observed. But as Isaid a whilo ago a new Influence starts up thisyear and takes the Democratic party by thothroat mid calls it a " new " Democracy, andsays it Is going to lead It to a magnificenttriumph in the name pf personal liberty. That"new" democracy took that common councilby the throat, and when Democrats said " womust elect tliice Democrats and two Bcpub-lkniu.- "
that Influence said "No. elect them allDemocrats." And when tlicy set about elect-ing five leputablo cittern, us the law requires,thut influence said whom tlicy should elect MyDemocratic friends, draw nigh, for I want youto bear witnevs with mo that you ore under tholeadership ot a man who knew what he wastalking about when lie said thut he was leadinga "nuw" Democipcy,
Judge Fqiuker here read tho list of nmeaspf the Jiya Cincinnati saloon-keeper- s who weroappointed upon the Board of Health, andwent on to toy: You ktu they arcan .Jcmoirni, uutaisomatii is only n nues- -
tlou in each cas,a as to where ha kept libOreat laughter. Now, these, are tho
live nun that tha Democratic Common Council in this cur, 18BJ, delected and appointed toDC llioitcnitn uoaiupi iiiacny oi Miiriiiuati
nny year liiipoilant, but particularly so inthis veur, when, as) on nil know, wuurothrcat-enci- l
wild cholera; witlicholeiwfromBgypt,andearthquake from Jschla and Java. It's awonder wn did not have an earthquake In Cin-
cinnati. 1 think we will have one yet, aboutthe nth of October. Applause. tmt that isnot ull they jiavM done. Von nre nil familiarwith the alliance openly pioclalmcd uud cutab-lUh-
betweenthe LiejUOE.rr..vi.i:yi' amocutiov,
in the Convention they held at Toledo, andthe Democratic parly. Tliu Conventionwns called hi filename of Democracy a Con-vention tho professed object of which was toadvnncu Democratic IntoieMs a Convcutlovwhich, as lis flnl act, patued a resolution bnttllli il mv iiruyptMiuiu vu. iiiuiu nuv buihhrlehls in this country blither than the law:
by a second resolution proceeded o de-
nounce tbo Bcott tha equities of whichMr, vhi has so plainly put bcforo you, as aninfringement ol those rights. I foltvcry muchrelieved when I had read their declarationabont the interference with ticrsonnl liberty, toknow that it was ouly that kind of peronaliioejiy mat vioif inicnureii wuu,
JUTEB tlBADt's ci:TmcATr,"But on the Democratic ticket, as a candidate
for State Trifirr,U s g""'1 '""n bv ' -
of Peter Brady. Now, Tcter Brady has alwaysenjoyed n very good roiiutntlon, nnd I nm suroI don't want to filch it from him; and thereforeI don't propose to say anything about rolerthat Peter can complain of. Bui inasmuch ashe is on tha Democratic ticket) a cundldato forState Treasurer, and found It nccossary,.ni thopaper I am about to rend to you rccttos, to giveto the people of the State of Ohio n certificateof character ns a recommendation for lilin totho voters of the State, of course neither henor anybody else can make a complaint If Irend that certificate. That's what It was gottcuup for.
Petor Brady was n moraborof tho last Legis-lature. As a member of thnt body he Votedfor tho Pond Bill nnd the Smith Sunday Bill,hs it Is called an ac,t that provides thatrjundaysbouldboobscryedasndayof rest. Well, povv,this element that has taken charge of tho Donio-crati- o
party in 1883, ns soon ns it round out tliorecord of l'ctcr Brady, tumid tho cold shoul-der upon him, and gavo Mr. Brady to under-stand that If ha wanted to bo In good favor,,with Iho Democratic party, nnd to bo elected,!'he must "come Out" a littlo on n few importantthings. IIo kept his peaco for a long whfo;'but tho shoulder grew colder and colder, nndfinally he concluded that If he did not Wiuit toget "left" ho had belter do something. Andso Ida first movement was to put In an appear-ance at Toledo at the Liquor-dcalur- Conven-tion. I looked with a gicat deal of Interest tosee what Sir. Brady would havo to say, for Ithouaht ho certainly would not let tbo occa
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sion pass without nn effort to mollify this hoi- -
tuo eirment. Jiut ho was as dtimu as nn oys-ter, lie simply camo nnd went. But as thedays went by ho camo to un-derstand that whnt he probably thoughtwould be sufficient namely, putting in an ap-pearance to Identify himself with thnt associa-tion, tho ally of bis party was not sufficient,and that they wanted something with moremeat in it than that. Mr. Brady, 1 presume,was given to understand that he must glvo acertificate of character I don't know why elseho should have donu such a thing and so hecame forward with it. He bad it published inthe Wnchter am Erie, edited by a former Lieu-tenant Governor ot Ohio, Mr. Mueller, who hasrecently been down to Cincinnati Instructingus about "personal liberty." And it was otter-war- d
published in tho Rnnlish papersof Toledo, and afterwards throughout tboState. I will read It to you. It shows tbokind of certlflcato that the influence whichthat party Is under requires tho candidate forState Treasurer to give:
"We, the undersigned, ucrmnn-Amerlca- n
clthensof Bellevue, 0., nnd havonoticed for somo tltnn that our former Mayor.Peter Brady, has been charged by severalpapers, in nnd outside tbo State, with being ntemperance nian nnd n Sunday fanatic, andconsequently recognlro the necessity lo declnrothat since we knew him he has always been afriend of tho Germans."
That I don't blame him for. We're all goodfriends of tho Geimans especially in campaigntimes, when wo want their votes. Laughter.I, myself, hardly ever forget lo say that thyaro patriotic, g elti-reu-
And 1 don't say It ns mere idle word,either, but I ny it because It is the tnith.Everybody knows that, and everybody Iswilling to conccdo that. Therefore we don'tfind any fault with Mr. Brady for lxJugnfriend of the Germans.
"That he was alwayslnfavorof the Germanlanguage being tnuglil in our public schools,and that even previous to accenting office InBellcvue icaltinyj, irtttnhc felt Me if, puMtclyin saltnms, satittinl his njijKtite fur apiritiitMiliquors, and that even y lio conlml AN
in that direction; that "during his term nfoffice, which lasted seven years, lie nlwnvsshowed himself very liberal nm? tirtcrntriataloou-lcrpc- that ho never acted according (uthe wishes of tho fanatiis, who insisted on astrict observance of tho Sabbath, nnd tis neither a temperance
lint hemini nor n fcuiut.-.-y
lanutiLVAfter tho subsidence of the laughter which
erected the reading of this ccrtlHcate, .llulgaFornker went on lo say: Now, think of that,my Democratic friends, as a certificate nf Char-acter that has been wrung by tiie hlilueticA
your party from your party's candidate for the high ofl'iro of State Treasurer' aman who is nominated lor nit oiuce, tne dutiesof which will require him to collect andsafely keep nnd dlsburso honestly nil fiiotaxes, tlio millions of dollars oftaxes, thnt nto to lie raised in the Stite of Ohio1Think of a party being subjected to nn
wring from a caudidato a curtilicnte of chanv-t- er
kiich as that!, Xot that wo carp anythingabout bis going into Kilocms, one way or an-
other; but to leqnlro him to certify, to givutestimony by foity citizens who have signedthis, thut he la ill the. habit, oven Ivefoie lio waselected to office, wlicneverlie felt liko it and Iam glnd he did not do it wli?u lio d jd not feelliko it ho was in tbc habit ,of. -- drinking pullicly in saloons, of satisfying his appctitq forspirituous liquors!
As I said I don't intend to comment on tblt,"cirtilicalo," I don't care anything about' hispersonal habits or tastes, for I am not Koing tovote foT him anyhow, Laughter. 1 La peo-ple who are thinkiug of doing that, may mikaatdudyof thnt if they wuntio. Idonltraforto tbco matlcrs,eitlier,for the purposo pf depre--,ciatiii Mr. llrady in tho estimation ot tbopeople of the State of Ohio. Thnt is pot neces-sary There is a d soldier by the nameof Captain Drown, v ho lives. in Meubenvillc,who is running against Mr, llrady; and sd- -I
hough )ie has got only one leg. he will beathim by anyvvhtrofrom 2.'),QW to 30,000. Ap-plause. fcoitlanot material for us to kyowwhether Mr. Brady publicly drinks insaloons aud controls bis appetite or,noLI don't care anything qbout that.What Inm icfcrrinc to it for is to feliow thatwe aro opposed, not by thu "old," butbjn''new" Democracy; and It inn "new" Democ-racy of which I know tens of thousands of tho"old" Democracy will bo ashamed, whethersome peoplo are nsbamed of tome other peoploor not. Applauhe.J
jourcY iw'irvs'fl "coss" cosvcktios:But that ain't all. Tho opening sentences 1
read tn vhti recited that tho Democratic pattydeclared themselves to bo tiie party of purityand Civil Sorvicp lteform, and all that s.irtofthing. If n man were to rend only Democndlodeclarations be would bo led to mpposs thatall qf tho goodness as well a all of thoprcat-ncs- s
oT this country was training under-th- o
Democratic li.ig in this campaign.Hut they disprove this themselves,for thev break out occasionally notonly in health boards nnd "ccrtiliratcs" ofcharactor, but now and then tlicy hnvo conven- -
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it Is a convention. They bad ono the otherday in Cincinnati. I nm nnbKoing to dwellupon It. It hns become, history. Out of thoDamocrntlc organs and from their politiciansit is learned thnt It was a convention that be-
longed to Johnny Mcl.ean, the 'boss," ns hais called, of the Democratic party in thatcounty that It was captured nnd controlled bymm, as ucmocrais say, tiirougu tuo corruptuso of money. I don't know how that was, butsomo tilings wore, seen of all men. A friend ofmlno told me that ho happened In on thatconvention, and 1 will telf you whnt lie toldme abont it. He tnid he was onhi? way home, a littlo lata in thuday, about 4 o'clock. Passing tho High-lau- d
House, he thought he would step, inand see what thoy wero doing. Ho soon
so much Interested that lie sat there, incompany with Theodore Cook nnd Isaac M.Jordan, for an liourund tweuty-thrc- o minutesby thu watch, and during that timo hn said hecounted on the tloor ot that convention eigh-teen bloody-nose- d Laughter.Finally when another big ono commenced hosaiu ne rcn.ari.eci to Mr. uook, as ua was leav- -ing, for he thought he would go, that ho was surprised there should be so much tlKhtluic liutTheodore replied to him that he had coins late,that nearly all tho fighting had becu dnno be-
fore ho got there. Great laughter. Ho saidthat in the morning when the boys wero"fresh," laughter, they seemed qulto frisky,nnd fighting was tlioordcrof tlieday, renewedlauguierj, uut iney uaci gotten ureu, auuthat what he had seen did not amount to much.Such in part was that convention. Democratsns well as Republicans were disgusted witli thatkind of apolitical performance, ev en li (twosin the nnme of the Democratic party; and tbuDemocrats who wero disgusted, who did notwant to bo controlled bv a boss, commenced tocluim that that convention was n disgrace ontheir party; that It was and gotlicy loncluelul tlicy would havo another Con-vention. And so tho day beforo yesterday ameeting of tho "reputable" men in tl;e prtyhi the city of Cincinnati was held. There were,seventy or eighty gentlemen present, os I un-derstand it, at tho Burnet House, to considerwhether to call another conventionthat would fairly represent the Demo-cratic, party. There were present atthat convention Judg O'Connor, JudgnOliver, Mr, Hymen, and a great many othermen I might incutlon, as reputable as anjthat can be found in the Domocratlo party,Thoy arc "old liners" men who don't bellcvwIn that kind of tiling that ruled at the High-
land Ilouso licing practiced In a convention.And therefore titty dpclarcd for n now; con-vention. Hut how wero thoy to get It up toas not to huv.o a rendition of the disgracefulscenes perpetrated nt the Highland House?Ordinarily, when w wont to havo a conven-tion, calls arc ImuoJ for primaries, for the peo-ple of each word to elect somebody to reme-tc- nt
thpm. And they discussed thut thing,ami w uae uiu uiuy ray r
"Wo want n convention, but (he trouble jito havo it icspcctablc." Laughter.
Should they have Democrats there? Thatwas the question.
They said: "We daw not proceed In thatway: If we undertake to get up ft conventionin that manner we will have a repetition otthat which occurred nt the Highland HoosaTii m -' , -- , th Mine tb
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