The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-06
4 S..OT FROM THE OHiG STATE
JOURNAL.

! i S.sOi ihOM lhE DHtC SlAIl
JOURNAL.
/ ggi.4i ihr Democracy has Dsas ia OLio-Cr.Rins
| si,uan-=rmrat IN in Every Departmental Coz
rrnoT asiir 10 sign his Name. hat Capable q
Swallowing a Record Of Forty isarS-An inra
| mouS chapter ia Nutshell.
We are having the full benefit of Dem
ocratic administration in Ohio. W.
have. - small reduction of iiie State levy
Accomplished 10y having tia, State drbt
In, nm tre 9rSt Of December neXt un
r-,y,drd for. and leaving the Cenira
Lnnatic Asylum half provided for, and
leaving the Sinking Fund not reimburs
cd for "A transfer Which saved $40, 900 III
Interest to the State. We have seen the
management Of tn" Central Lunatic
ASYLUM building fund taken out of the
Irti,ls Of an unpaid Board of reputable
Trustees, and put into the hands of an
extensive saIaried commission, with the
work DELAYED from inadequate appropri-
ations and inefficient management We
have seen Democratic Superintendent
of the Soldiers Orphans Home convict
eI of levi practices and permitted 10
r,.si,n. after IL short administration
which largely increased the running ex-
nausas of the Institution. We have seen
an attempt to oust the Superintendent OF
the Reform Farm, and put in partisan
successor, before his term expired. We
have seen the Ohio Penitentiary demo:-
allied in discipline and its net proceeds
reduced to nothing, while the number oil
eonvicts has been larger than at any
previous period in its history, and the pro-
crrdS Should have been coTrespondingly
increased. We have seen the Superin-
tnudcnt of the Northern Ohio lunatic
Asylum secretly examined on charges
similar to those against the Superintend-
ent Of the Soldiers Orphans Home, the
reporters for the press being excluded,
the witnesses discharged for testifyinS,
and the Superintendent allowed to
resign" We have observed the ruling
price-or 800 head for a Democratic
reform Legislature, and the suppression
OF a material part of the record of an
investigation, under the resolution OF
the body implicated. We have seen
Democratic Governor unable to sign his
own name, aud carrying on the eXecu-
tive functions by means Of n stamp sig
nature in the hands of subOrdinates.-
We have :. en- the only creditable per
formamce OF public duty in institutions
still under ;he administration of officials
appointed under Republican control
We have seen the Democratic party rent
into factions, and its platform the laugh
ing stock of Democrats and Republicans
alike, everywhere outside the State
We have seen n senile candidate for
Governor eat his own forty years record
in the vain hope of gaining votes ON
what is declared Ivy the National Dem
ocratic organ to be IAN absurd and pre-
pnsterous platform We have seen the
brains OF the party, even in OHIO, oppos-
ing the platform and denouncing it, or
IA grim silence toward it.
We have against all this, nearly twenty
wears Of Republican administration,
without pretense on the part OF It's BIT
terest enemies or malfeasance or mlslea-
saIIcc in any department-nay more,
with the enforced certificate of Gover-
nor Allen that the Democratic EXecu-
tive has been unable To find any evidence
Of fraud OF misconduct in office Oh the
part of any Republican State official.
And now we are asked to repudiate
this Republican State administration and
indorse the Democratic failure, because
the National Congress,-by the help o.
a minority of Republicans and a MAJOR
ity OF Democrats, has been Implicated
in the Credit Mobilier; because times
lre hard, (they are always hard-did you
ever know tige which was not hard9' |
because the crops arc short and men are
out of employment; because a Demo
cratic rebellion has cost hundreds oi |
thousands of lives and hundreds OF mil
lions of treasure: because Chase (wilo |
came near being the last Democratic can
tlidate for PresidenD created national
banks and an irredeemable currency
because there was too little rain last |
year ana tco muCh this year; because
the grasshoppers eat out Kansas. Nebrts-
lza and parts of Minnesota and because
because We aFe not ali happy and riehi
and for various other equally good ret-
sons.
Are you prepared to adopt this style
Ofreasouing? Then vote the Democratic
ticket. Ifyou prefer to accept the record
of the Republican party in the State Cd
of Ohio winch has extorted
praise from its most Interested enemies,
then vote the Republican ticket. As
men of sense, we aPpealto you. "Chooss
ye this day"