Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — Foster. [ARTICLE]

Foster.

We suspect that Mr. Charles Foster, the administration candidate for Governor of Ohio, will find his race anything but an agreeable one. There are a great many open accounts outstanding against this active and meddlesome little man, and the present may be deemed a very good time for settling some of them. The stalwarts have a number of them on hand, old and new. The trade with the Southern Democrats by which those eminent stalwarts, Packard and Chamberlain, w'ent overboard, in order to get for Hayes the office of Mr. Tilden, was something to which they could never become reconciled. Notwithstanding the sweet words which John Sherman uttered at Cleveland, that cold-blooded and wily statesman is also known to cherish a strong hope of revenge. His relations wutli tlie parties who supply the bulk of the money to carry the elections for the Republican party are such that at a nod from him those sources might be instantly dried up and nobody be the wiser. Whether he will consider it for his interest to sink Foster and Garfield now, or wait lor some other occasion, when lie may not only destroy them but gain something substantial by their demise, nobody can foretell. His speech at Cleveland is no evidence whatever of his intentions. But with the stalwarts the case is different. They owe Garfield and Foster nothing but blows, and they make no secret of their desire to pay them squarely and fairly. If they can muster force enough in Garfield’s own State to knock down his peculiar candidate, and show that the convention which indorsed him did not represent, the true Republican sentiment, they will have given the administration a mortal wound. And they neetj not go out of party lines to do it; they have only to follow the example of the administration at Albany in its fight upon Conkling, and refuse to let the party lines be drawn at all. But the honest voters of Ohio have a bigger and blacker score against Foster than the politicians. We think we see yet the picture which Mr. Handy, then of the Philadelphia Times, drew of Gov. Foster emerging from a comfortable dinner the day after the October election last year, chuckling over the “business scare ” and the “ tariff swindle ” by w hich the people hail beeu defrauded oi their votes. He admitted that there was no foundation for either of those partisan cries, and for that very reason he was all the more amused aud delighted by their success. Perhaps some of the voters who were cheated out of their ballots then, and have since come to so clear an appreciation of the fact, may think it worth while to teach Mr. Foster a lesson in political honesty and sincerity at the coming election. — New Yerk Sun.