The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-09-16
PORTSMOUTH ITEMS.


AT special meeting of the city coun-
Gil on last evening, the Street Railroad
ordinance passed, Stanton. Little, Mad
dox, Pixley, Cadot Warner, Peters, Will
helm, voting for the same, and Scarf vo-
ted against it. Rifenberriclz and Miller
voted blank.
The ordinance passed in precisely the
same form it was proposed by those ask
ing the franchises.
The gentlemen who have charge of the
enterprise, Messrs. w F. Adams, D. F.
Connell, B. F. Coates, S. E. Warmer and
Eggleston Lodwick, will doubtless push
| it forward with energy.
Last night Gen. Tom Young, candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, and Mr.. Chan
ming Richards, of Cincinnati, addressed a
large Republican meeting in the court
house square. The speakers made very
plain and convincing arguments in favor
of the questions advocated by the Re
publican party, and were listened
to throughout with marked attention.
One feature of-an the political meetings
ksid IN this county this fail has been the
| anxiety manifested by the whole people
to hear all that is said by either party.
The people are studying the political
questions of the day with zest and ar
dour never before known.
We have just finished reading Senator
Thurman's Cleveland speech. It is quite
descent from the plane of the states
man, to that of the partisan politician.
He says that the Democratic party nine
months ago carried twenty-five states on
the CRY of the corruption and extrava-
gance of the Republican party, and wants
the people to go back to the. questions
before the people last fall. He thinks
that the only questions now which ought
to occupy the attention of the people
are those of the usurpations of the Re-
publican party-its extravaganza and
corruption.
The Democratic party cannot, this fall,
by shouting corruption and extravaganza
at the Republican party, direct the atten-
ton of the people away from its false
and dishonorable position on the fnan-
cial question. Mr.. Thurman, with all
his astuteness, cannot, by talking of the
Republican administration in the South,
or its alleged corruption, conceal from
the eyes of the people the rottenness of
the Democratic party in the financial
question.
AS to the minor question of the pub
lie schools, Mr.. Thurman seeks to call
the attention of the people away from
that by discussing the question of mixed
schools in the South. and the debates in
congress in relation thereto Mr., Thur
man knows very well that the question
of public schools is not national in the
sense of Congress governing the same,
and that the matter of public schools has
always been question conceded to the
several states in their sovereign capaci-
ties, and yet he fills up his speech with
what was said in congress about mixed
schools, and charges the Republican par
ty with endeavoring to break up common
schools in the South by introducing
mixed schools there. At the same time
Mr.. Thurman well knows that the worst
enemy of the Republican party in the
South, and the strongest allX.of the De-
mocracy there, is the widely diffused ig-
norance and illiteracy therein among the
white people.
1t was this ignorance among the body |
of electors in the South, before the war,
which enabled the slave driving Democ-
racy to vote the Southern States solid
FOR the Democratic ticket.
But by discussing the question of
mixed schools in the south, Senator
Thurman cannot, to use the language of
,is interview with Theodore Cook, at