Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-05
DEMOCRACY IN OHIO.
What We Have Seen.

We are having the Iull DeneHtS VI DtIno-
cratic administration in Ohio. We have a
small reduction of the State levy, accomplish
ed by leaving the State debt due on the 31st of
December next unprovided for, leaving the
Central Lunatic Asylum half provided for,
and leaving the Sinking Fund not reimbursed
for transfer which saved $50, 900 in interest
to the State. We have seen the management
of the Central Lunatic Asylum building fund
taken out of the hands of an unpaid Board of
reputable Trustees, and put into the hands of
an expensively salaried Commission, with the
work delayed from inadequate appropriations
and inefficient management. We have seen
Democratic Superintendent of the Soldiers
Orphans Home convicted of lewd practices
and allowed to resign, after short admins
tration which largely increased the running
expenses of the institution. We have seen an
attempt to GUST the Superintendent of the Re
form Farm, and put in partisan successor,
before his term expired. We have seen the
Ohio Penitentiary demoralized in discipline,
and its net proceeds reduced to nothing, while
the number of convicts has been larger than
at any previous period in its history, and the
proceeds should have been correspondingly
increased. We have seen the Superintendent
of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum secretly
examined on charges similar to those against
the Superintendent of the Soldiers Orphans
Home, the reporters of the press excluded,
the witnesses discharged for testifying, and
the Superintendent allowed to resign We
have observed the ruling price of one hundred
dollars head for Democratic reform Legis-
lature, and the suppression of a material part
of the record of an investigation, under res
olution of the body implicated. We have seen
Democratic Governor unable to sign his own
name, and carrying on the Executive func-
tions by means of stamp signature in the
hands of subordinates. We have seen the
only creditable performance of public duty in
institutions still under the administration of
officials appointed under Republican control.
We have seen the Democratic party rent into
factions, and its platform the laughing stock
of Democrats and Republicans alike, every
where outside the State. We have seen a
senile candidate for Governor eat his own for
ty years record in the vain hope of gaining
votes on what is declared by the National
Democratic organ to be 'an absurd and pre-
posterous platform We have seen the brains
of the party, even in Ohio, opposing this plat
form and denouncing it, or preserving grim
silence toward it. We have, against all this,
nearly twenty years of Republican administra-
ton, without pretense on the part of its Bit
terest enemies of malfeasance or misfeasapce
in any department-nay, more, with the en-
forced certificate of Governor Allen that the
Democratic Executive has been unable to find
any evidence of fraud or misconduct in Office
on 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, s,-by the help of minority of Re
publicans and majority of Democrats, has
been implicated in the Credit Mobelier; be-
cause times are hard, Ghey are always hard
did you ever know a time which was not hard?);
cause crops are short and men are out OF
employment; because Democratic rebellion
has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and
hundreds of millions of treasure; because
Chase (who came near being the last Demo
cratic candidate for President) created Ma
tional Banks and in redeemable currency; be-
cause there was too little rain last year and
too much this year; because the grrsshoppers
eat out Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Mime
sofa; and because-because we are not all
happy and rich; and for various other equally
good reasons.
Are you prepared to adopt this style of
reasoning? Then vote the Democratic ticket
If you prefer to accept the record Of the Repu6-
lean party IN the State Administration Of
Ohi0 aohich has ertOrted praise from its most
interested enemies, then vote the Republican
ticket. As men of sense, we appeal to you.
Choose ye this day.'-[O. S. Journal.