The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-07-14

But tbs said that have pursued Mr..
Clark ever since that time, with malg-
nifty. l deny this. Soon after he made
the above argument, young man in
Chillicothe, crazy with whisky, slew
his own mother in the streets of Mr.
Clark's own city, spoke of this as
the result of not enforcing the liquor
law on tho Bottom. That the candid
reader may see a specimen of the arti-
cles which tho Gazette calls malignant,
l give the following, from the Standard
of March 80, 1865, two weeks after Mr..
Clark made that argument here:
FANATIcIsM SPREADING.
| The last number of the Waverly Republican
gives the proceedings of the Court recently held
in Pike county. One of the cases tried was the
State of Ohio VS.. Kinnlson. This young man
was soldier belonging to the SD Regiment. He
got crazy upon the rot gut whisky so plentifully
made on the Bottom, and murdered man named
Shanks. Knnison was sent to the Penitentiary
for three years, Another case was tried where
a doggery keeper threw drunken man out of
his doggery upon the pavement and fractured
his skull This man was fined twenty dollars,
and in q civil suit the jury gave verdict of Sl25
against him.
The editor Of the Republican in an editorial
which we give below, shows that fanatlcism Is
even spreading upon the Bottom, where Milton
l.. Clark boasted that there had not been pros
ecution against liquor seller during the past
ten years. Here is what the Republican says
about the beauties of the liquor business on the
Bottom, where it has been left to run its free
course and be glorified:
COURT WEEK.
Our town during the past week has presented
quite a lively appearance. Several important
cases came up for trial. and large number OF
people were In attendance, ana much feeling
was manifested in regard to their disposition
1t is q noticeable fact that the worst cases which
came before the Court could be directly traced
to the use of ardent spirits yet we are not IN
formed that the Court in single instance, raised
its voice against this crying evil. 1t no excuse
for this liquor traffic that the revenue laws OF
an occupation. The laws of the United States
emanate from the people, and can be modlhed
and repealed by them Mt pleasure. Let us pre-
sent you with couple of pictures, which those
who attended our Court during its present ses-
sion, will not fail to recognize:
| A youth, who has crazed his brain and destroy
ed his reasoning faculties by an excessive use OF
| ardent spirits, receives a real or fanced insult
from another, and in n fit, of drunken, frenzed
passion, he does deed which deprives another
OF life and forever destroys his own peace OF
mind. Would that young man have committed
the act had his mind not been crazed and his
passions aroused by whisky?
But again AceTtain man keepSa liquor shop
IA place where-from behind his bar, he deals
out death and destruction to his blear-eyed GUS
tomers-ruin and famine to their wives and dis
, grace and shame to their helpless children. One
of his customers becomes drunk, and Is some
. what noisy he wishes him out of his shop; he
cannot drink more, and he is no longer profit
able customer; he Is sdisgraclng ?) his house, and
will give 1t bad name; he puts him out by
force-throws him into the street like cur
fracturng his skull, and well nigh taking his
life-and why? Because the whisky he sold him
had turned his brain, and made him maniac
instead of quiet orderly citizen, as is his char
: acter when sober!
! Are these pictures real or are they fictitious
= We have no hesitancy in asserting that the en-
tire tax upon the manufacture and sale of whis
ky will not suffice to lqudate the costs devolv
, ing upon the State of Ohio in the prosecution o.
= offenders against her laws, the mainspring o.
whose crimes was whisky. And yet the mer
9 who deal out this poison to their fellow-men
; find an excuse in public sentiment as well as il
y | the authority of the laws We call upon thu
n . people to fr0wn down this liquor tratic-thi
n | traffic in mems minds and sous-in widow
u | sghs and orphans tears; exchanging them TO
a gold with which to line the pockets of him wh'
, Is so far devoid of the common instincts of hu
- manity as to dash the cup of happiness from thu
i lips of his fellow, and place instead the wine cup
i in every drop Of which Is hundred deaths ant
~ Il athousnnd miserieS.
Ever since Mr.. Clark made that ar
gument here, about the liquor law no
being enforced on the Bottom, there
t has been q great deal of drunkenness
a on that same Bottom, and especially
!, about Chillicothe. Such articles as tn,
$ following, which cut from the Chilli
d cothe Register of last Saturday, hav
e appeared almost every week in tn
Chillicothe papers:
I "a lively time was had at the Keith Grov
Picnic on Monday. A large crowd was present
and everything passed of pleasantly enough un
til about o'clock In the afternoon, when q Sc
ries of muses., superinduced by whiskey ant
beer and inherent rowdyism, commenced, an
continued IN progress for an hour OF so, VIII VIII
scarcely any intermisslon for refreshments. Tn
extra policemen that had been sworn In for th'
occasion were about as useless as so many dum
d mics, not to mention the fact that one of then
II was at least MS drunk as many of tho fighters
l. Until the arrival of Marshal Deuschle ON tn
l. ground the "plugs" had 1t all their own way
/; but Joe put quietus on the affair by arrestin
Il and sending TO the lock up half dozen or NOR
l. of fthe party, after which n very peaceable tim
II was had.
l. by II blow In the face from beer tumbler.
When such articles appeared, have
d generally spoken of them as the results
y of not enforcing the liquor law on the
! Bottom, and it has become kind of by
d word, and more of a joke between me
\ and the Chillcothe editors than any
c thing else, But learn that Mr. CLARK
: has taken these articles seriously, and
Q feels aggrieved about it.
J In conclusion let me say that Mr. Clarl
,s never said a word to me, or about me
) that was unkind or ungentlemanly. II
i he did, / am not aware of it. | have
!; not now, and never had, anything
!, against him personally, as he never gave
me any cause for such thing, 1 d.
( uot believe he is the best lawyer in tb,
State, and therefore first class lawyer
h but l have always spoken of him as an
' able lawyer. That he iS an honest and
: honorable man, I have always said
n both in public and in private.
t As Mr.. Clark thinks / have don
0 him injustice, and to show that I did
not intend such thing, will ask on
;. county convention which will NEE
a next week to request the delegates
}. appointed to the State convention, t.