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Honi Soft qui NAL y pense.
To the Editor Of the Standard

To tie Editor Of the Standard
As you was not permitted to remain in
the would be fusion convention held in
the Court House on Saturday last, per-
nit me to give your readers a few items
in regard to the workings and trickery
of the town ring-of both parties who
seem to think it to be their duty to pro-
pose and appoint candidates without the
Intervention of the people belonging to
either party.
1t appeared from the evidence brought
forth after you left, that caucus of these
leading spirits had taken place in the
room of Judge Evans, and that it was
then and there determined, that the
township and corporation offices shoul1
be divided between the two parties, and
that but one ticket should be placed in
the field. Now this all might have been
well enough, had there been a convention
oil the people called to determine wheth-
er they desired fusion ticket, and how
the Offices should be divided between
the two parties. But this would not
have suited certain individuals who were
expecting to be appointed by selected
committees, Of both parties, to fill certain
othces, whether the people wished it or
not
But must return to the proceedings
OF the convention. Judge Longbon who
had met in the caucus, and agreed upon
the fusion arrangement, and had voted
IN favor of it in the convention became
obstreperous, and moved reconsidera-
ton of the vote, which carried and the
fusion arrangement was voted down, to
the great dissatisfaction of the little toaon
ring Of both parties, who had gotten it up.
Now let us step behind the curtain and
see if there was not some trickery and
treachery contemplated by the ring.
Why was it that certain individuals be-
longing to the Democratic party, and
protesting to be leaders of the party,
were holding caucus with some of the
leaders of the Republican party in regard
to fusion ticket2 The township of
Lick is Democratic-all the offices are
filed with Democrats, and the only an
swer that can be given is that these indi-
viduals were ready to barter with ring
of the Republican party, and sell out all
the offices except the few offices benet-
cial to to themselves and their friends.
Why was it that certain individuals in
the Republican party all at once became
so magnanimous as to desire fusion
ticket2 The reason is obviousj few of
their friends could be accommodated
/ with offices. The Democratic organiza-
ton OF Ltck township would be weaken
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and trust, and who were better known
throughout the county than myself. On
the Monday previous to the an
nouncement of my name, Mr.. John A.
Evans came to my house. and stated to
me that the friends of prohibition had
canvassed the county, and as far as could
be learned, that | was the most available
man upon whom to rally the temperance
strength. l then consented to let my
name be used, on condition the announce
ment should be made subject to a con-
vention of the friends of prohibition.
Mr.. Davis would have been consulted
had he not previously given the friends
of temperance to understand that he was
not in sympathy with the movement,
and that he was opposed to all restric-
tions upon the manufacture of, and traffic
in Intoxicating liquors, as he considered
such restrictions an interference with
mans free moral agency. / believe men
are not generally expected to consult
pect that the prohibition movement
would meet with the opposition of all
such temperance men as Mr.. Davis.
1 am not apprised why Mr.. Davis
should think me cipher in the conven-
ton, unless, in this day of corruption,
theft and bribery, he considers fairness
and honesty Gas these are traits of char
acter he attributes to me) Disqualified
| ton. Mr. Davis also says that the friends
of prohibition charge Mr.. Tripp with be-
ing pledged to the liquor interest. This
charge did not originate with them, but
on the contrary with those who, like Mr.
Davis are opposed to all restrictions. 1t
is also claimed by others that Mr.. Tripp
| is good temperance man. Now ] sub
NIT, with these conflicting views among
the people. if Mr.. Tripp should be called
| to act in the matter, will not some body
| be deceived
AS to the other allegations made by
| Mr.. Davis, / never heard of them until 1
| by Mr.. Mackley. | will further state
that ! am not running in the interest of
either of the other candidates, but to de-
feat them both.
One word to DR.. Monahan's plan. To
illustrate what / mean, suppose teac h
my boy the lessons of truth virtue an d
temperance, in his youth. These princi-
pies grow with his youth, while he is
under my care; but after he goes out to
combat with the business of life, Dr. IT. E,
by his respectable, licensed saloon, to-day
gives him dram, tomorrow two. and
finally makes drunkard of him, he is
then sent to the County Infrmary at the
expense of the county, he is kept there
| s1tiL cured, as the DR.. says, then he is set
loose, and then Oil how easy it is for
the DR.. to make victim of him. Shame
on such temperance menl
Now l stand on the broad principle Of
common law, that man shall not use
his property to the injury of another, and
that the consent of the injured party i:
no mitigation of the offense, and that
governments were instituted among men
to secure the blessings of liberty, and
promote the common welfare
Ny trust being in God, Il will fight il
WIN. j. K1RKESDALL
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three in number. previously appointed,
were present, except one, and as their
names were called by the Secretary, they
came forward handing their book to
him, and the money to the Treasurer, all
of which were carefully examined. The
result was, 81 $50 II collected for the
Bible cause. In twenty-seven years, since
the organization of the society, it has
donated in cash to the American Bible
Society the sum of $24, 130 33 and ex-
pended in the purchase of Bibles So, 397 90,
making grand total for the cause Of
$26, ,527 90. The foregoing is exclusive
of the expenses necessarily incident to
conducting the operations of the society
in twenty-seven years. l know of no
society in the whole range of Bible
operations, taking into consideration ter
ritory, population and pecuniary circum-
stances, comparable with jackson and
Gallia, Welsh Bible Society in con tribut-
ing for the circulation of the Word of
God
Now, is it not desirable, yea would it
not be blessing to the good people of
Day ton, to be brought in communication
| by railroad with region so rich in coal
and iron, and christian benevolence2 l
think it would. w HERR,
Dist Sup't A. B. S. for Southern Ohio.
Oak Hill, March Goth.
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legally. He will see at once that this
Government treats him like man, and
and he will fight for the purity of the
ballot box.
But you will say that man ought
to be in this country long enough to
learn and understand our system of gov
ernment. No sense in that. All who
have lived among foreigners know that
they have done much more in proper
ton to their numbers, in dev eloping our
country, than have the natives And
they are equally true in the defense
of their adopted country. In the late
war, did foreigners stand back when the
hour of trial came upon us all7 Not
much My opinion was much strengthen
ed upon this point at the time of the
Morgan raid. Several thousand rebels
passed through jackson, all native born
citizens They were engaged in an effort
to destroy by war the Government of
their own creation, while twenty four
hours after they passed through, early in
the morning L was awakened by the
blasts of bugles and the clanking OF
sabres l went our and saw regl-
ment Of Germans going down the street.
These were great robust, earnest looking
men, infinitely the superiors, physically
and mentally, of the puny natives These
foreigners were fighting for the govern
ment of their adoption, against the eff
forts of the natives to destroy it.
l have much more to say, but l must
stop for this week.
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A Vindication of Truth.

BY the kindness of the editor of the
STANDARD, was shown card of Lot Da-
Wis. This paper contains so many state
ments not justified by facts, that feel
compelled, in vindication of truth, to
make the following statements:
1st Mr.. Davis states that John A.
Evans, one Handy Barton, and myself,
constituted a committee of three, and
appointed one of our number a candidate
for Member of the Constitutional Conven.
ton, without consulting the friends OF
temperance, and that secretly The facts
are these: | had been repeatedly solic-
tied, by many friends of prohibition, to
be candidate, but declined, for the rea'
son thQt did not think it would be a
fair test Of the temperance strength OF the
county. suggested +. L. Hughes, j.
w. Longbon, W. A. Persons, j. j. Evans,
George w. Fry, !, V. Steward, and many
others, who have held positions OF honor
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A bill against lotteries was before the
Ohio Legislature. The Cincinnati Com
nsercsol charged that Senators had been
bribed by the lottery dealers, wheroupou
the Senate ordered an investigation, and
NJ. Halstead, editor of the Commercial has
been sutlmonea to Columbus as wit
ness. We have NO doubt that the charge
is false. Now viii The people of the State
have to pay the costs of this investiga-
tionP If HalsteAd fails to prove his
charges, is there no way to make him
pay the costs made in consequence of his
slanders7 It ID about time that such
slanderefs as Halstead of the Commercial
and Boynton Of the Gazette were made
feel that s1ahdef of public men costs
them something, a. well as the people al
large
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PRozTBrTIoN.

There are manv--perhaps Q very large
majority Of the people who honestly be-
lieve that there is much strength and
virtue in written constitutions. We have
often stated that We have no faith in
them Take for instance the liquor ques-
ton. Now suppose that clause should
be inserted in the constitution, saying
that hereafter no intoxicating liquors
shall be manufactured or sold in the
State of Ohio Constitutions afix no
penalties for violations of their pro-
visions Let prohibition be fixed in the
constitution of the State, and no subse-
quent legislation on the subject and then
suppose that the liquor sellers go right
along with their business, as they would
be certain to do, what would @ prohibition
section be worth7 1t would remain q
dead letter. The only way to reach and
control, or prohibit the liquor traffic is
by legislation-by afixing penalties SO
severe, and then enforcing them, that it
would make the business ruinous
If you undertake to say any thing
about the liquor traffic in the constitu-
ton, the liquor sellers will continually
be raising constitutional objections to all
legislation upon the subject. But let the
constitution be silent upon this question
and then the Legislature will be free to
enact prohibitory laws just as soon al
public opinion shall be educated up to
the point of enforcing them.
Carry out the plan proposed to Mr.
Trip by the Good Templars, and tbs
plan which we suppose would be advo
Gated by Mr. KirkendAll, should he b.
!, elected-that is, to have separate con
{. stitution for EACH township, and this *
be changed as aften as each township
should change its vote upon this question
and you would render your constitution
ten times more ridiculous and contempt
ibls than written censtitutions now are
We have come 70 the above conclu
sions as Theoretical, and practical, anC
earnest temperance man, after twenty
Eve years Of study on this vital question
Qf course We may be all wrong in on
opapiepS.
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The last act of John t. Wilson's Con-
gressional life was to vote against an in
crease of his salary .---IrontoH Register.
This is mistake. His last official act
was to draw $1,000 for the past two years
services more than he agreed to take. He
daclared by his vote that he was opposed
to stealing, aud then carried off his share
of the "sTag. - Portsmouth Times.
; We do not believe it. John T. Wilson
is too honest man to receive and con-
vert to his own use Ave thousand dollars
OF stolen money. We confidently expect
to see his denial Of the above charge.
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TEMPERANCE.

In another article we have given our
views briefly on the policy, expediency
and efficiency, of getting the temperance
question into the Constitutional ConVen-
ton We know that very many good
men will disagree with US. We wish to
say, that constitutional provisions are
mainly effective so far as they restrict the
Legislature. How can the cause of tenn
perance gain anything in this way? The
cause could be seriously injured in this
way. Suppose the liquor men should be
strong enough in the Convention to con-
troll its action, and section should be
inserted that the Legislature should
have no power to pass any laws in any
way interfering with the manufacture or
sale of Intoxicating liquors. That pro-
vision would be perfect license to the
trade 1t is true, if the temperance men
had control, they might insert section
prohibiting the Legislature from passing
any laws encouraging or protecting the
! traffic. But then this traffic asks no
legislation in its favor 1t only wants to
be let alone.
Let temperance men lay aside all
fanaticism, and look at this question
calmly, and in the light of practical com
mon sense.
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From Webster.
WEBSTER, O., March 25, 1873.

WEBSTER, O., March %, 1873.
To the Editor of the Standard:
would be pleased to have some of the
readers of the STANDARD to give solu-
ton of the following question:
A young man, well skilled in numbers.
agreed with rich farmer to serve him
~ years, without any other reward than
the produce of one wheat corn for the
first year, and the annual produce to be
sowed from year to year, till the end of
the time. What is the produce of the
last sowing, allowing the increase but in
a tenfold ratio, and what will it amount
to at $l.25 per bushel, allowing 1850
grains to the pint.
FRANK GILLILAN.
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We have not seen single newspaper
in the United States that does not con-
denim the great theft perpetrated by the
late disgraced and disgraceful Congress.
The following, from the New York
Tribune, is specimen of the manner in
which the thieves are regarded:
PURGE CONGRESS OF THE ROBBERS.
We have already said that we deny the
existence of any moral right of members
of Congress to vote to increase their own
salaries We regard the act to be rob-
berry. 1t affixes stain of dishonor upon
every man who is guilty of it. We care
not who he is, whether he be Republican,
Liberal, or Democrat-we denouce him
all the same, and invoke the public con-
demnation upon him. We say, let every
man who engaged in it be driven from
public life Whether they be morally
weak or moneyless, or going out of busl-
ness when they leave public life; whether
they wish to make themselves partially
! even with colleagues who by hook or by
crook have got rich while they have not
or whether they be South Carolina rep
resentatives whose constituency live by
| thieving, and who would as soon vote
! themselves seventy-fve thousand dollars
as seventy-fve hundred; in whatever
! scale or company Gney are IOuANl, we say /,
Out with them. That there is here and
there respectable name among them is
only so much more a reason for the pun
ishment No name is respectable enough
to authorize fraud or shield robbery. No
name is respectable enough to be plead
in abatement of the sentence.
Unless there is stand to be made
here against public profigacy, it is as
well not to attempt to make it anywhere.
We ask for no partisan judgment. 1t is
no question of party. Men of all parties
are alike implicated, 1t is question OF
honorable action-of personal probity-
of manliness and public decency. There
are individual men in public life who are
destitute of these qualities. They are
always there But this action is not the
action of few such; it is the deliberate
action of majority of both branches ot
the Congress of the United States before
the face of all the world 1t is public
robbery, deliberately committed by the
whole political body wherein is centereo
the national authority. 1t is not indI-
viduals only who are disgraced. The
nation is disgraced by its representatives,
If the people stand calmly by and do mo-
resent this conduct, they have, in the
disgrace, shown themselves as demoral
lied as their representatives.
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The attention Of township trustees and
clerks. is called to the following. which
we find in the Columbus Journal:
Frequent inquiries are made as to the
manner of voting for Constitutional Con-
vention delegates. Attorney General
Pond, to whom the matter had been re-
ferred, has given his opinion that the
Constitution candidates must be voted
for separately from township tickets, de-
posted in Separate box, and the returns
to be made to the Clerk of the Court the
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The people of the State are very
anxious to know whether the Boesel
railroad law is constitutional or not. The
question has for some time been before
the Supreme Court of the State, but now
the Court has adjourned until the 18th
of this month, and no decision may be
made for weeks yet. And the railroad
question in this county under the recent
vote Of the people must await the de
cision.
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John A. Lloyd il Treasurer of Raccoon
t,wnship, Gallia, county When his house
was burnt at the great Ere in Centreville,
Mr.. Lloyd lost, in addition to some $40O
of his own money, and all his goods,
some $500 belonging to the township.
Senator Nash of Gallia county has intro
dueed bill in the Ohio Senate for the
relief of Mr.. Lloyd
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Gen. Jehn C. Fremont has been tried
in Paris, france, fer fraud in some Of his
railroad transactions, and sentenced to
Eve years imprisonment. They try men
there when not present. 1t is. probable
that Gen. Fremont will not visit that
country for some time.
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Hon. w. P. Sprague, of the Marietta
district, refuses to take his share of the
stolen money. Now let us hear from our
member, HoH, John 7. Wilson.
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| ]

Some sporting gentlemen are trying to
secure rooms in 1rohton to start keno
bank, or gambling hell
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George A. Waller is the Democratic
candidate for Delegate to the Constition-
al Convention from Scioto county.
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| DMIN1sTRATOR's NoTIcR,

~
Tho undersigned has been Rppointed and
qualified administrators of the estate OF
William Shield, late of Washington township,
Jackson county, deceased. Persons interested
will tlnd mo at my residence, IN said township.
April3-3w JACOB a. SELL.
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John NJ Lynn is the Democratic can
didate for Mayor in Portsmouth, and
Judge Pollitt the Republican candidate
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Hon.H.S. Bundy has been re-appointed
Trustee of the Lunatic Asylum at
Athens.
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INSURANCE.

NOTICE.-John Conner, one OF the heirs at
In law of William Conner, deceased, who re-
sides in the State of Missouri will take notice
that Priscilla Conner, eXecutriX of the last will
and testament of William Conner, deceased, on
the 26th day of March, A. D. 1873 filed her peti-
ton in the Probate Court within and for the
county of Jackson and state OF Ohio, alleging
that the personal estate of said decedent "a fn-
sufficient 10 pay his debts and the charges OF
administering his estate; that he died seixea in
fee simple of the following described real estate
situate In the county of jackson and State OF
Ohio, to-wit: The northwest quarter of the
in range Is, containing 40 acres more or less;
and that the petitioner, Priscilla Conner, as
said premises. The prayer of said petition Is
tor the assignment OF dover TO said Priscilla
said premises subject to said dover estate, for
the payment of the debts and charges aforesaid,
Said petition will be for hearing ON the 18th day
of May, a, ID. 1873, at one O'Clock p. NJ, or ~
soon thereafter rs leave can be obtained.
PRISCILLA CONFER,
Executrlx of William Conner, deceased.
BY II. IL. JONES, her Attorney.
April3--4w
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HOUsE FOR SALE.
John d. Hood has q house and lot for sale
Terms easyS lnQniTO ~ the Planning Anu.
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They are offering fifty cents per pound
for butter in Athens. and then cannot
get any.
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, INxECuToRS' NOTTcE.-Notice is hereby
H given that the undersigned has been an
pointed Executors Of sthe estafp0f Inhn Ro,PsS
man, late OF the county OF jackson ONO ,ie
eSassu' ALBERT SPuRtOCK,
WIN. JACKSON,
zAPIli . 'S-Sw Executors.
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The publication Of the Coalsmouth,
West Virginia Pioneer has been resumed.
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Consisting styles old young
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-01-20
Bills Before the Legislature.

The following list comprises the bills and rcsO-
Of public character that have been before the
Legislature up TO the 18Th inst n fl. L
An act 10 amend Chapter II, Revised Code, in
regard to the valuation of property.
An act TO prohibit the attachment Of wages or
hire for personal services.
A bill 10 exempt from execution process per
sonal property 10 the value of $500. This bill Is
printed In full elsewhere. !"
A bill authorizing the Maryland and Delaware
ship Canal Company TO construct canal through
this State.
An act to amend Chapter -, Volume IA, which
is the act taxing Investments
An act TO repeal the tax on railroad fares.
An act in regard TO shooting partridges, sc.
An act In relation to usury.
A resolution appointing a committee to frame
a general corporation act. -tH4s
Amendments to the law creating Trustees of
lthe Poor
An act TO prevent Justices and Constables from
levying fees not contemplated by law
A joint resolution appointing committee to
frame a law extending the jurisdiction of the
courts in divorce cases.
An act to incorporate the Rehoboth Beach Camp
Meeting Association.
An amendment to the act for the protection of
small birds
An act to amend Section IL of Chapter 10 of
the Revised Statutes, by allowing persons TO de-
duct encumbrances on real estate from their as
sessment return.
An act TO increase the per diem of the members
of the General Assembly.