The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-03-31
Corporation Extension.

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/ Corporation Extension.
EDITOR DEMOCRATIC PRESS :-"Anti-
Extension Republican," in the Demo
crat of last week, insists that the
proposition TO extend the corporate
limits of our village is a Democrat
ic measure" and in proof of it states
that prominent Democrats of the vii
lage favor the movement. He then
.intimates that because some Demo-
Gratis favor the measure, all Republi-
cans should oppose it. That may be
good logic to Anti" &C., but it
! won't pass muster with the Republi-
can party. II it will apply in that
case it will in others. know of one
or two prominent Democrats who
have purchased trees of various kinds
of a Republican dealer, and by the
same reasoning, these trees are catcu-
lated to disorganize and disintegrate
the Republican party, and Republicans
! should turn cold shoulder to the
dealer. Nice logic! No one but a
school boy, or one who should be in
the nursery, would think of using it.
No, sir, the real reason for this buster
land bloviationis that AMT, sc, knows
there are many Republicans who take
no interest in the matter one way or
the other, and if they can be made to
believe that it is Democratic move,
or that the Republican party is to suf-
fer from it !; they viii vote against it
and he therefore proceeds upon false
premises to base an argument, which
he thinks is unanswerable.
My reason for wishing the lines
around our village extended is, that
the late of taxation upon our village
property would be lessened in the
proportion as we would add to the
village duplicate, and as this landed
property adjacent to our present linz
its depends for its value upon the
prosperity, and improvement of the
village, it would be right and proper
for such property to pay its just share
of the expenses in making those i'm
provements.
Another reason suggests itself to
me right here. It is well recognized
fact that our Union School building
is entirely too small to accommo odate
the scholars belonging inside the vii
lage limits. If the boundary lines
are extended as proposed, our village
authorities can, and have no doubt,
will, establish primary schools in the
four quarters Of the village-thus Civ
ing the entire school building now
used for Union schools to the Gram
mar and Centre High Schools. BY
doing this, and taking the primary
scholars ont, we could organize a
school that would be matter of pride
to our citizens, and profit as well, for
foreign scholars would be attracted in
sufficient numbers to defray nearly, if
not quite, all the expenses of the
Seminary.
As to his, ,innuentlos of q bogus Re-
who is attempting to solicit
solid aid and comfort for Democratic
institutions, I am free to confess l am
n the dark; but I supposed if any
Republican is engaged in soliciting :
work for Democratic institution, he :
s doing it i'll a business way, and of :
course it is no business of mine, nor
5 it any business of eAnti,p &C.
Business is business, and politics,is
politics, and he who attempts to use
politics to iniure lawful business is \
Utterly. unworthy to be treated with
he courtesies of social life.
So far as my Republioanism is con-
erned, have-to say that L never was y
n favor Of disrupting, disorganizing ]
II dlslntegrating the Republican par
y. On the contrary, l travelled 800
alles to vote for and sustain that mar
y when "Anti," &C., and his corpu- 6
ent leader (WhoI am sorry to say
WINS and controls our, party organ)
Tere vainly attempting to ''disor- c
anlze, disrupt and disintegrate" the
anne by assailing in the bitterest
erms,, and demanding the removal of
ur chosen leader, Abraham Lin
DIN, WHO was it tried to disinte- G.
rate and disorganize the Republican at
arty last summer in the nomination
county officers, or before that, in the
ontest for the control of the P. o.?
know 1t was not EXTENSION. =.