Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-09-09
From the Ohio State journal.
Democratic Legislature White
washed.

At last our late lamented Democrat
ic Legislature has found defender. 1t
has certainly needed one for long
time. In it's lifetime the people dis
pissed it, and in its death they retoiced.
So incapable was it of any good to
the State that even Democratic papers
hesitated not to abuse it. Read what
some of them had to say. The Gin
cinnati Enquirer said:
It has placed premium on bribery
instead of fixing upon it the seal of
condemnation. The Legislature dis
bands exhaling odious odors. The
individual members have brought dis
grace upon their constituents and up
on the State.
We trust all the members of the
Ohio Legislature will reach home in
safety, and that few of them will ever
find their way back to Columbus.
The GAINESVILLE Signal said:
Tbs present Legislature IS strongly
Democratic in both ats branches.
It has become a stencil in the public
nostrils.
Every body is disgusted with it.
Even the Democracy are sick of it,
and are crying out for it to adjourn
and go heme.
1t is sore on the body pslitic.
The Akron Times said:
Go home, gentlemen, your constit-
uents want to see you, and the longer
you put it off the less pleasure you
will have in the interview.
The Toledo Democrat said:
The discussion in the House of
Representatives on the Wood County
bribery business, was simply disgust
ing and disgraceful. It certainly
equaled the worst exhibition of de
pravity ever given in the Legislature
of South Carolina.
The Lima Democrat said:
All the people should rejoice that il
is dead, and let none feel so poor as
TO do it reverence.
So odious was this General Assem-
bly, that the Democratic leaders re
solved that they could not defend the
men whom they had placed there
Therefore, in their State platform
they had no word of commentator
or sympathy for their Democratic CO.
laborers in that body. But the peo
pie have been thinking this matter
over. They know that the officers te
be elected are all State and county
They know that their own interests
demand that they should sustain tht
party that gives them the best officers
Therefore they have been examin
ing into the proceedings of the last
Democratic Legislature and the mort
+ they investigate the firmer they are il
the conclusion that the malediction
of the Democratic press were just.
, The result is inevitable. They havt
concluded to have nothing more to d.
with Democratic General Assemblies
The Democratic leaders see the hand
: writing on the wall. Something mus
f be done. The silence in which the
a hoped that all the misdeeds of tn
e Democratic Legislature would he fer
: gotten, has been broken. AT last the.
have resolved to make a defense Th
chosen defender is the Democrat
8 State Executive Committee" All da
e on Monday the Democratic Printin
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eight page document intended to max
n forever glorious the General Assem-
n bly, of which the GAINESVILLE Signl
$ Dem. only few months ago, salt
: cit has become a stencil in the publ
1t nostrils.'
n 1t is weak paper, as a defense
such body must of necessity be, y
as the Democratic committee are col
fident that it will be "a good enoug
y Morgan" until after the election, v
~ give it some attention.
.. This little document has startlil
~ headlines The conclusion of thei
= headlines is that this poor, dispist
% Legislature has saved to the tax pa
u ers of the State 81, ,939,17S 81. III
81 81 is good thing if true, and the Del
~ ocratic papers, which last spring we
" y frantically calling upon their represe
lu atiyes to come home, ought to hi
" their diminished heads.
Twenty -four thousand dollars W
0 f saved according to this little dO'