The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-09-29

The ExpeudiEu1-es. EOR q Pave
men1s Ar0und Two Sides OF the
Public Square Charged as q,
Crime on a DemOcratic LeEts-
Iature.
The Executive Committee of the
Radical party consists of the follow
ing members:
R. D. HARRISON, late of Spring
field, now of Columbus, Chairman.
RODNEY Foos, Clerk of the Su-
preme Court, late of Clinton county,
now Of Columbus, Secretary.
SYDNEY 8. WARNER, Treasurer Of
State, residing in Lorain county,
treasurer of the committee.
WIN. r. THRALL, Private Seereta-
ry of Gov. HAYES. ,-re-s
WIN DENNIsoN, late Governor of
Ohio, and ExNPostmaster General
and s-' '~
J. @. HowARD, one Of the editors
of the Ohio State journal, the three
latter all residents of Columbus. Q
A document, circulated by this
committee, bearing on its title page,
Published by the State Union Re
publican Executive Committee, is
! being circulated by thousands
throughout the State, Its object. as
| expressed, being 10 show the sex
| tEavagance, Wastefulness and Trick
cry of the Fifty eighth General AS
sembly." 1- a.E r-
On page 4 of this document, we
find, among. others Of q like charac.
ter, to show the WastefuI extraYs>
gance and utter disregard of the
public will by the Democratic
majority in the last Legislature an
appropriation of S., 500 tor q stone
| pavement on the north and south
sides of the State House Square, as
one of the objects upon which the
Indignation of the Taxpayers of Ohio
is to be vented. ~ -. 3. -., ~. r-,--
The city OF Columbus has hereto
fore paid all the expenses of paving
streets in front Of the State House,
and in front Of the Benevolent insti'
tutions, and it has been a severe tax
on the people. That the Legislature
should provide for the paving of the
sidewalk around the State House
square, was perfectly right and
proper. Yet these gentlemen, mem
bers of the Executive Committee of
the Radical party, and most of them
citizens of Columbus, seek to make
political capital out Of the very thing
that for years they have eensured
the Legislature for not doing. a. .-.
| The appropriation for the paving
on the north and south sides of the
public square, If too large, need not
be expended: The amount is to be
expended and the work is to be done
ttunder the direction'' of Gsv.
| HAYES, and If that functionary uses
more than is necessary to put down
g good pavement, then the sin Is his,
and not the Legislature that appro.
1 priated the amount the State House
officers declared to be necessary. Not
"a man of the committee making
this charge against the Legis1at ature,
but knew that the appropriation
against which they IeveIed1 their
abuse was emlnently right and
| proper. .-.. -...., ..-.-... .--.r-
But there is feeling in other
parts of Ohio against Columbus, as
4 there is in. every State a feeling
against the city in which the capitol
| is located. The feeling Is unjust,
i but what care these men Tor that
The doctrine that all Is fair in poll
1 ties,n is tbe'governinG one, and if by
exciting an indignant teeling against
Columbus, they can make. a single
vote in some remote city or town,
SAACsy- Will lCC1 % II S11oX HCI0 d4RAS
rewarded for their trouble, theil
/ deception and disingenuous conduct
j But the great wrong these citizens
I've exclude the carpet bagger5 or
the committee, whose sejourn vii
but last until their present term %
once expiSes-inflic5 upon the city
/ Dy their charges Is, that Iuture Leg
islatures, whose members are to be
held up to undeserVed censure i
they. vote for any needed improve
ment upon the grounds belonging tC
the State, IN the city of Columbus
will make them clIary in the future
of giving such votes, and the result
must be q refusal to do anything thai
will benefit the public institutions oI
the State, within the city limits, fol-
fear Of being denounced by men, who
make q TRACE of politics, abusing
| them for so doing = Ohio, statesman