on together again, it is evident that he could now in the
same body rout the inflationists, horse, foot, and artillery.
Nothing but a victory in Ohio can put inflation again on its legs.
Let it be defeated in October, and the friends of a sound and
honest currency will have a clear field for at least the life of
the present generation.

Two years ago, the Democratic party came fully into power in Ohio,
in the State legislature, and for the first time in twenty years,
elected the executive of the State. They were also entrusted with
the affairs of the leading cities, and a majority of the wealthiest
and most populous counties in the State. It would be profitable in
us to inquire how this came about, and what are the results. In the
course of the canvass it is my purpose to show in detail how
unfortunate their management of State affairs has been. It will
appear, on investigation, that the interests of the State in the
benevolent, penal, and reformatory institutions have been
sacrificed to the spoils doctrine: how the cities, and especially
the chief city of the State, has suffered by the corruption of its
rulers; how public expenditures have been increased, until the
aggregate of taxation in Ohio, in this time of money depression, is
vastly larger than ever before; how the number of salaried officers
was increased; how the members of the legislature were corrupted by
bribery, notorious, and shameless; and how the dominant party
utterly failed to deal with this corruption as duty and the good
name of the State demanded. Fallacious and deceptive statements
have been made as to the reduction of the levy for State taxes, and
as to the appropriations. It is enough now to say that the
aggregate taxation in Ohio in 1874, was over $27,000,000, a larger
sum than was ever before collected by tax-gatherers in Ohio.

Altogether the most interesting questions in our State affairs are
those which relate to the passage, by the last legislature, of the
Geghan bill and the war which the sectarian wing of the Democratic
party is now waging against the public schools. In the admirable
speech made by Judge Taft at the Republican State Convention, he
sounded the key-note to the canvass on this subject. He said "our
motto must be universal liberty and universal suffrage,