The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-29
LET US SEE.

Mr.. Pendleton, in his speech at Gallip-
oils, said
''The Democracy has had control of
| the State for two years, and we have had
an honest and wise and liberal admins
| tration. Gov. Allen has done his part
right nobly. both in the direct admins
tration of his own Office and in the infu-
ence he has exerted all around him
Gov. Allen went to turning out com
petent Republicans, to make room for
hungry Democrats. If he had put hon
est. competent, decent men in Office, we
would not complain, as we fully believe
in the old Democratic doctrine, thet to
the victors belong the spoils." But Gov
Allen appointed as superintendent over
the orphans of the dead soldiers, one d.
Jenner, at the Soldiers Orphans Home
at Xenia, and ne amused himself by run
ming his hands up under the clothes of
these orphan girls and young women,
thrusting his hands into their bosoms,
kissing them, &c. When these outrages
could no longer be concealed, Gov. Allen
and his. party, instead of having this
scoundrel properly punished, permitted
him to resign.
He turned out an efficient Warden at
the penitentiary and put in man named
Innis, who is still retained in office. This
man Innis has recently been purchasing
Catholic books for the Penitentiary with
the money of the people. and as an ex-
cuse, he says that there are in the peni-
tentiary 1900 copies of the Protestant
Bible, being St. James. translation, not
having sense enough to know the differ
ence between st. James of the New Tes-
lament and King James of England.
Only recently this Warden has been
guilty of an act of cruelty only equaled
in the glorious old days of the Demo
cratic stakeholder A convict named
Seibert concealed himself for time,
hoping to effect his escape We do not
see how this could be regarded as very
terrible crime, but the Warden, with his
own hands, cruelty beat the helpless man.
A reporter of the Columbus journal
gives full statement of this horrid af-
fair, under Gov Aliens good influence,
by one of his appointees:
'The Sunday News of yesterday an
nounced that Immediately after being
discovered Siebert was subjected to bar
| barous punishment by Warden Innis:
that by the order of the Warden he was
seized by five or six men and forced to a
position in which he rested on his elbows
and knees; that his pants were stripped
down; and that while he was held in this
position the Warden delivered five or six
| terrific blows on his naked fundament
with rough oak stave weighing eight or
ten pounds, the flesh swelling into
scarlet mass with each blow, and being
finally left in a condition of pommey-
all of which, it is alleged, was contrary to
law. The News makes this statement on
the evidence of gentleman who says he
was an eye-witness-an outsider who
happened to be at the prison on business.
The account briefly sketched above
does not give the affair as horrible col
oring as that which is given by two or
three men-especially by two who do not
belong to the prison force, but who hap
pened to be present-men not intimately
known to the writer hereof, but substan-
TALLY vouched for as men of veracity.
Their account of the performance is har-
rowing and inhammatory in the extreme.
II is stated that the prisoner made a great
outcry, and begged to be killed" as
relief from the terrible infiiction"
Innis justified his conduct by claiming
that fogging is not forbidden by law,
whereupon the reporter says:
while there is probably nothing in
the letter of the law to restrain whip
ping in the Penitentiary, there is a pub
lie sentiment against that kind of pun
ishment which comes next door to law.
Flogging in the Penitentiary was ex-