M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-04-14

Inns Allies! The State Journals Po,
sitiOn in 1854.
We have before us the daily Odio
State Journal, Of May 4, 1854. L
contains lengthy review of the do.
ings Of the democratic Legislature that
had just adjourned. This review
sheds some important light on the in,
tluences which defeated the Democra.
cy in their attempts tc put proper safe
guards around the State Treasury
Il shows also where the State J0u1l-
~ tood when those efforts were be-
ing made. We give such extracts as
nro neutrality-suspicious. at this time
Aid srst, we copy the following:
We have told our readers what
important bills have passed, aud what
ones failed. We say in all fairness,
that the list of successful measures is
not so Objectionable as in common
with the business and conservative por-
tion Of the people ofthe State, we had
reason to apprchend. The Lcli at, Il
Of the session has shown that, when
one party has the entire control Of al,
fairs, and is placed where the respou-
sibility Of measures must rest upon
them, the conservative element will
appear. With more than two.thirds
Of each House, and with the entire
control Of all branches of State Gov
ernment, the WILD, RA OlCAL and
DESTRUCTIVE measures ofthe par
y have failed. Instance, TIE SUB.
TREASURY BILL 4
The truth is seen and known by
every man of observation, that there
is diuSion in the democratic party
ofOhio, and that this difference is
decp.seated and permanent"
The plundered tax.papers Of Ohio
need no stronger proof than is given
above, to show what class Of edit0J8
and what body Of politicians AIDED
John G. Breslin in decrying and de,
feating the efforts of democrats to
place the Treasury under the whole .
some checks proposed in the Sub
Treasury law. In the opinion Of the
State Journal all such measures were
"acjld, radical and de8tyUctjUr." 1t
thinks and hopes that there issuch a di
vision in the democratic party as will
forever defeat all efforts to apply the
public money solely to public uses.
Here is another paragraph:
SIN the Senate, Mr.. Atkinson " as
the chancellor of the exchoquer," and
from the beginning, was the exponent
of the peculiar financial views Of Au.
ditor Morgan. lie managed to carry
the Senate with him. But the result
OF their labor did not meet the appro-
baton of the House. We have de-
tailed the history OF the STRUGGLE
that ensued. Tie schemes cfthe Au-
dit0r acre dJsated"
How and by whom, mainly, the
t'8c6eme8 Of the Auditor" AID the
"wild, radical and Obstructive meas
ures" adopted in the Senate, were sue
ooOefully opposed and defeated in the
House, is thus confessed and boaSted
over by the Journal:
cat the head of the Finance Com
mittee Of the House, stood Mr.. Nc
Kenzie. With many good points,
bold, fearless, and honest in the avow-
a. of what he believes to he right, he
lacks the essential ingredients Of expe.
rionce, practical common sense, and
business tact, so necessary for a man
in his position. 1t soon became eyi-
dent that Mr.. GEST aca8 tho leaaing
man in that C0mmjttee, and impress.
ed upon it and upOn the House his
views and opinions"
So Mr.. Gest, an able Republican
member who lad served four years in
the Legislature, succeeded (according
to the JOmna59 in defeating the SuO.
Treasury law and other measures of
the Democracy!
But We give still another para
graph, and in this it will be seen that
the Journal claims that THREE RE
PUBLICAN LEADERS (whom it
names) managed the conservative el-
oment" in the House with such skill,
that the party organization and fdeli-
ty of Democratic members was brok.
en- down, and that hence many oftheir
'moSt obnoxious measures were lost.
In other words, those Republican lead
e's SO managed the wires as to defeat
the Sub Treasury law and all other
" "WiH, radical and destructive mea8-
0roS" calculated to guard the public
interests and deny to bankers and
spccEl the further uso OF what
did not belong to them. Here is the
story in the Journals own guarded
way Of telling it:
"Such is the present condition Of
affairs; such the condition Of the Lo-
eofoco party in Ohio. No man who
has been an observer of the iegisla-
ton of this session will deny that the
conservative element as maintained
by Nessrs. Lawrence, Gest, Eckley,
has had q powerful and, in several
cases a CONTROLLING INFLU-|