Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-14
UPPER sANDUsKY, OHIO FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY ls7


reported by the officers in charge of
the State Inebriate ASYLUM of new
York induce me to recommend that
the General Assembly provide for a
full investigation of the subject.
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COL
LEGE.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College fund, created by the sale of
land scrip, issued to Ohio by the Ma
tional Government, amounted, on
the first instant, to $4O4,911 37JJ.-
The State accepted the grant, out
of which this fund has been created.
February 10, 1864, and is bound, by
the terms of the acceptance as mod
fled by Congress, to provide s'not
less than one college on or before
July 3, 1872, where the leading OBJ
ject shall be, without excluding 9th
er scientific and classical studies,
and including military tactics, to
teach such branches of learning as
are related to agriculture and the
mechanic arts" The manner in
which this fund shall be disposed of
has been amply considered by pre-
ceding General Assemblies, and in
the messages of my predecessors
in tile Executive Office. I respect
fully urge that such action will be
had as will render this fund availa-
BILE for the important purposes for
which it was granted. 1t is not
probable that further delay will fur
nish additional information on any
Of the important questions involved
in its disposition. Much tine and
attention has been given to the sub
ject of the location of the college
No doubt it will be of great benefit
to the county in which it shall be es-
tablished, but the main object of de-
sire with the people of the State can
be substantially accomplished at
any one of the places which have
been prominently named as the site
of the cottage. I therefore trust
that the friends Of education will
not allow differences upon a ques-
ton Of comparatively small impor.
tance to the people at large longer
to postpone the tablishment of the
institution in compliance with the
obligation of the State.
SOLDIERS RECORD.
| A large part of the work re
quired to complete the "Soldiers
Record" in pursuance of an ac
passed March II, 1864, has already
been done at an expense of abou
$4,000, and the propriety Of making
an appropriation sufficient to ena
bic the Adjutant General to com
plete it is respectfully suggested fol
your consideration.
SOLDIERS ORPHANS HOME.
During the war for the Union, ,th,
people Of this State acknowledged
their obligation to support the tam
lilies of their absent soldiers, and un
dertook to meet it, not as charity
but as partial compensation justly
due for services rendered. The ma
ton is saved, and the obligation tt
. care for the orphans of the men wht
died to save it still remains to b.
fulfilled. 1t is officially estimated
that three hundred soldiers or
) phans. during the past year hav'
been inmates of the county infrma
f ries of the State. 1t is the uniform
: testimony of the directors Of coun
J ty infirmaries that those institution
are wholly unfit for children; tina
, in majority of cases they are sad
; ly neglected, and that even in tn
best infirmaries the children are sub
| ject to the worst moral influences
l Left by the death of their patrioti
fathers in this deplorable condition
, it is the duty of the State to assum
their guardianship, and to provid
support, education and homes to al
who need them. The people Q
: Ohio regret that this duty has bee
so long neglected. I do not douh
that it will afford you great gratif
cation to give this subject early an,
. favorable attention.
REPRESENTATION OF MINORITY L
ELECTION BOARDS.
All agree that republican Gov
ernment will fail unless the purit
, of elections is preserved. Convine
ed that great abuses of the electiv
franchise can not be prevented un
:, der existing legislation, 1 have here
tofore recommended the enactmen
Of a registry law, and also of som
appropriate measure to secure th
4 minority, as far as practicable,
S representation upon all boards Q
| elections. There is much oppos
: ton to the enactment of registr
: law. Without yielding my own sci
e tied convictions in favor of such
f aw, 1 content myself, in this com
e munication, with urging upon you
e attention a measure of reform in th
e manner of conducting elections, til
e Importance and justice of which n
I one ventures to deny. The conduc
of the officers whose duty at elee
tions 1t is to receive and count tn
D ballots, and to make returns of tb
| result, ought to be above suspicion
e This can rarely be the case wher
e they all belong to the same politica
t party. A fair representation of tn
t minority will go far, not only to pre-
f vent fraud, but what is almos
c Of equal Importance, remove tn
Y suspicion Of fraud. I do not eS
: press any preference for any partic
t ular plan Of securing minority reE
resentation in the boards of judge
: and clerks of elections. Variou