Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-09-09

ment, because the session was shorter
by twenty -four days than its prede-
cessor. Our friends, however, forget
to tell their readers that for twelve
years the average session of Republi-
can Legislatures had been only 106
7-12 days, while the average length of
Democratic sessions have been 1194
days; the last General Assembly ran
away for fear that few days more of
work on the part of investigating com
mittees would fully expose their cor
ruptions.
The little headlines of this remark
able defence also say that the Repub-
licans in 1872 and 1873 appropriated
1905, 1928 II, and that the Democrats
in 1874 and 1875 appropriated 81, ,381,- :
34I Sc, land thus saved $523, ,991 55).
We must conclude that the officehold-
ers on the Democratic committee,
through fear of the loss of their
bread and butter, have become frantic.
We know that John G. Thompson
and his lieutenants would not con-
sciouSly tell lie. How else then can
we account for this statement? An
examination of session laws for the
last four years shows that the Repub-
licans appropriated SIO,0S6,670 6S,
and that the Democrats appropriated
SO, 1894, 900 81, an excess over Re-
publican appropriations or 1907, $50
79. Thus it will be seen that accord
ing to Democratic logic their legisla-
ton cost the state nearly o million
dollars more than the legislation of
their predecessors, and their pretense
of having saved more than half a
million is falsity-a little dis
crepancy of million and a half of
dollars.
Our friends in their heedlessness
further say that the State Ievies of
1874 and 1875 are less by the sum of
81, 100000 than were the Ievies of
1872 and 1878. After making this
statement thoy forgot further to ex-
plain that of the State debt due in
January next nearly $650,000 will
have to be dishonored and 60 to pro-
test because the Democratic Legisla-
ture failed to provide money with
which to meet it. It would, perhaps,
been well for them to have stated that
when they went into power the Re-
publicans had left nearly million dol
lars IN the Treasury for them to draw
upon.
The last grand achievement which
fully accomplishes the vindication of
the late Legislature is the county fee
and salary law. Our friends squap-
dered good deal of printers ink over
this law, but after all failed to state
that that bill was introduced by Re-
publican, Jesse N. Oren, and was his
work. All the schemes devised and
introduced by Democrats in this di-
rection were failures.
In fact, this document is more re-
markable fer what it does not say thar
for what it does say. 1t is not ex
planned why the Democracy legislate
in the interest of gamblers by lessen
ing the penalties for this crime and re.
lieving persons who knowingly leased
their premises for such purposes from
all responsibility. II is not explained
why the Democracy, on page 156 o.
the last volume of laws, exempted
certain city bonds from taxation. 1
1t is not explained why the Democra,
cy, under a threat of withdrawal of
votes, cowardly bent its knees to a re-
ligious sect and made its demand a
part of our statute books. It is not
explained why the Democracy at th'
call of a few spectators and partisan
attempted to destroy one of the legis
lative bodies of the city of TeledO.-
Nothing is said in palliatiop or expla
nation of the miserable Wood county
business, whereby, in the closing day
of the Democratic Legislature, sham
and disgrace were brought upon tn
people Of Ohio.
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