Cleveland as defender of soldiers and unity in Ohio
A political tract praising Grover Cleveland's handling of veteran pensions compares his two years in office with Grant and Hayes and argues for national unity. It defends his vetoes, condemns Republican clamor, and urges Ohio voters to reject old sectional divides stirred by politicians like Foraker. It extols Cleveland's generosity, military history, and a peaceful postwar era.
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Grant
Cleveland
Ship of State
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Grover Cleveland
Cameron
Monroe
G. H. Esager
U.S
Glevaland
Ameas
War Office
Arsin
Republic
Arthur
Barger
Canada
Mexico
Ohio Agen
Ohio
Pennssl
Naif Munsions
Republic States
Worthingman
Battle of
Westerloo
Legen
Napoleon
Wellington
United States
North
Shiloh
Donnelson
Lincoln
Sumter
Union
Robert E. Lee
Albert Sidney Johnson
Joseph E. Johnston
MacClellan
Sheridan
James BE. Longstreet
Secu
McDowell
Slocum
Logan
McClernand
Shiela
Stedman
Blair
South
Army of the
Bull Iron
Joe Johnston
Beaurezard
Stonewall Jackson
Ree
Kirby Smith
Confederacy
Lee
Balves
Sherman
John C. Speekearty Wrein
Johnston
Tulinston
TM Wrens
Ace
Jeff Davis
Solid South
Foraker Aml
Fred Grant
Bazaine
Missouri Republcan
Alta California
Foraker
John Sherman
Captaia
Tuttle
Fairchild
Chicago Times
Republican Party
Little Rock Gazette
Herald
Sir Louis Republican
Tariff Reform calls for democrat voters in Ohio
It argues that tariff burdens fall on the people while monopolies profit, urging the Democratic party in Ohio to run a clear tariff reform campaign. The note cites General Powell opening his Ohio campaign at Hamilton on the seventh as endorsing tariff reform and stresses public understanding of why the rich grow richer and the poor poorer.
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United States
Democratic Party
Ohio
P. S
Powell
Hamilton
Foraker
Toledo
Erie
Boston Post
Great Financier Attacks Tax System and Real Estate Burden
The piece rails against tax schemes by Governor Foraker and calls for taxing concealed personal property to relieve real estate. It argues for real property revaluation only to ensure fair shares and urges assessors to target hidden personal property. It notes farmers’ stake and predicts strong Democratic gains with a critique of campaign rhetoric.
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Hias
Usc
Ohio
Foraker
The Roster Racket and Land Grants Debates
An editorial attacking the Foraker administration over roster work expenses and clerical misconduct. It argues Republicans burned prior roster copies and misused funds, cites $74,480.70 in roster appropriations, and condemns land grants to railroad corporations while praising Democratic restraint and land restorations under Lamar policy. It contrasts Republican and Democratic land grant histories and asserts Republicans caused vast railroad land losses to the public domain.
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Worper
Foraker
Cambridge
Powell
Hamilton
General Powell
Congress
Minois
Ilinois
Republican Party
Republica
Democratic Party
Tir
Foraker's Dazed Statistics and Campaign Claims
The piece denounces Governor Foraker's use of charity and state statistics as deceitful. It accuses him of reorganizing state charities for partisan gain, padding figures from a partisan board, and misrepresenting costs. It contrasts his table with the bureau of labor statistics data from 1885 and 1886.
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Foraker
Mr. Foraker
Toledo
Caldwell
Board of State Charities
Byers
Foraker Byers table errors on per capita costs exposed
The article scrutinizes the 1885 1886 per capita cost tables by Foraker and Byers. It highlights large increases at the blind asylum and Ohio Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home, a major decrease at the Columbus Asylum for the Insane, and accuses the report of fraud and partisan bias to aid Foraker’s Republican administration.
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Foraker
Blind Asylum
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans
Columbus
Foraker-Byers
Byers
Byers-Foraker
McHugh
Reform School For Boys
Foraker-Byers Board
Fraternal Greetings as Veterans Return Regimental Guidon
Connecticut veterans of the Sixteenth Connecticut reunion noted the regimental guidon captured in 1864 by the Second Alabama and returned by that regiment. Resolutions expressed fraternal greetings and love, and a letter from Colonel Cheney of the Sixteenth Connecticut will be sent to the Second Alabama.
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Connecticut
Tuttle Order
Hantrorp
Sixteenth
Alabama
Cheney
A Party of Mere Pretenses in Ohio Politics
The Independent voices strong critique of the Republican party and John Sherman, calling them labor oppressors and frauds. It attacks Governor Foraker for tax plans on farms, suggests Ohio drift toward failed home rule, and lauds Foraker as a top advertised politician while praising General Tuttle as once ahead.
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Foraker
Ohio
Ireland
Cincinnati
Fora
Boston Harbor
Tuttle
Loston Herald
Independent
Public Domain and Democratic Land Policy Debate
A Washington dispatch outlines the Interior Department’s restoration of public lands revoked from railroads and wagon roads, noting a shift to Democratic stewardship. The piece mirrors partisan arguments, cites figures on acres reclaimed, and quotes critics from Ohio politics, including Foraker and various Republican outlets.
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Lamar
Jloson Burgel
Washington
Stockslager
Secretary of the Interior
Bourbonism versus Stalwart Republicans in Missouri
The St. Louis Republican argues that Missouri Democrats are proud Bourbon Democrats who built the state and stay free from theft and corruption. It claims Republican stalwarts steal from government, seek military rule, and oppose liberty, while Bourbonism preserves freedom and outlasts knaves.
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Missouri
Bourbonocracy
Knaves
Bourbon
Rome
United States
St. Louis
Foraker's Self Conceit Sparks Silly Republican Talk
A Honolulu of opinion pieces criticizes Republican handling of the Foraker incident in Philadelphia. The editorial argues the chairman’s excuses about Mrs Cleveland and Governor Foraker expose vanity and cynicism, calling the story false and the politics mean. The column also scolds Tom Platt and the New York Times for manipulating state politics to secure control and warns that Plattism risks alienating Republicans and aiding the Labor party.
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Foraker
Philadelphia
W. VF. Herald
Cleveland
Washington Star
Fred Grant
Chicago Herald
Tom Platt
Empire State
Republican Party
Republican State Committee
Fred. D. Grant
Senate
United State
Thomas C. Platt
Grant
Colonel Grant
Tom Pratt
Pell
Platt
New York
New York Times
Fom
Piatt
Times
Labor Party
Buffalo
N. Y
Foraker advised to close wounds and stop public recounting
The Philadelphia Inquirer urges Governor Foraker to stop dwelling on private griefs and lacerations. It condemns his public airing of personal grievances as tiresome and asks him to heal privately rather than stand at street corners begging pity.
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Foraker
Billingsgate
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tepe
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Larkin McHugh
Perita
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