Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — RICHARD SMITH ON POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

RICHARD SMITH ON POLITICS.

Xtm Ohio Edßor Says it Was a Bad Tear' for Republicans. Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, the partner of Murat Halstead, has some decided views on political questions. Referring to the recent .Ohio campaign, he said: “This was not a good year for the Republicans in Ohio. Governor Foraker sacrificed himself ani his party, but we will be all right again by the time the Democrats have had control of things for two years. That ballot-box ousiness was awful bad but Governor Foraker got Mr. Halstead into it. It’s hard to tell just where it will all end. I don’t know any more about the matter, than has been made public, and Hke all the rest of you, am waiting for the investigation.” “Who will be the next Senator from Ohio?” Mr. Smith. “It looks very much as if Mr. Brice would. He has the money, you know, and that counts for a great deal these days. If that were left out of the question, I believe that John A. McMahon would be the Senator. Mac has no money to spend for such purposes. Do you know that this thing of sending millionaires to the Senate is becoming a serious business? Some of these days we will get back to my old theory, and allow the people to elect the United States Senators. One party is as bad in this respect as the other. All the Senators from the new States are representatives of big corporations and not representatives of the people. There are very few poor men in the United States Senate. For this reason you always find the Senators standing shoulder to shoulder on questions in which the interests of corporations are involved. Party lines count for noth ing in such cases, and this is what they call ‘Senatorial courtesy.’ That’s what I wanted Mr. Halstead in the Senate for, to break up this ‘courtesy,’ and he would have none it, too.”