The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-09-10
IFIom the Ohio State Jnurnai.I
THE DEMOCRATIC LEt:iSLATt RE
WHITETiSHEn.

,,.r;:.ii.ly s:.t,led one for q in,i., time
IT, iif,-liAI.- ili" people l'->pi>,-,i it. ii
ia IT. death they rejoice so incapab
was il of any good to the State that eve
Democratic papers hrsiiat-d not I
abuse it, Read what some of them lia
TO say Tie Cincinnati Ehluirer SAID
1t has placed q premium on bribery
instead of fixing upon it the seal of coI
dsmmatiOn The Legislature disband
eXIialing OdiOus Odors. The indiyidua
members have brought disgrace upo
t,-ir constituent. and npon the State.
W. trust all the members Of the Obi
Legislature will reach home ia safety
and that few Of them will ever find lhei
way hack 20 Columbus"
The Z:mesville SjgndI said:
''7He present legislature Is atToHgI.
Deniocratic in both its JyGarhes.
It has become "A stencil ia the publ,
no~trils.
Everybody is disgusted with it,
Even the Democracy are sick Of it, anC
are crying out for it to adjourn and gC
home.
1t is a sore on the body polite"
The Akron Times said:
! 500 home, gentlemen your constitu.
rnts want to see you, and the longer you
put it off tlIe less pleasure you will have
ia the Interview"
The Toledo Democrat said;
''l'he discussion in the House of Rep
.res"ntatives, on the Wood county bri-
berry business, was simply disgusting and
disgraceGul. 1t certainly equaled the
worst exhibition of depravity ever given
in the Legislature Of South Carolina.
The Lima Democrat said:
''Ali the people should rejoice that it
is dead, and let none feel So poor as to
do it reverence.
So odious was this General Assembly
that the Democratic leaders resolved
that they could not defend the men
whom they had placed there. Therefore,
i'll tlieir State platform, they had no word
of commendation or sympathy for their
Democratic co-l;tborers la that body.
But the people have been thinking this
matter over. They know that the Off
GERS to be elected are all State and cOun-
ty officers. They know that their own
interests demand that they should sus-
tain the party that gives them the best
aInining into the proceedings of the last
Democratic Legislature and the more
they investigate the firmer they are in
the conclusion that the maledictions of
the Democratic press were just.
The result is inevitable. They have
concluded To have nothing more to do
with Democratic General Assemblies.
The Democratic leaders see the hand
writing on the wall. Something must
be done The silence in which they
hoped that all the nIisdeels Of the Dem
ocr:ltic Legislature would be forgotten,
has been broken. At least they have
resolved To make a defense The chosen
defender is the ''Dcmucr;ltic State Ex-
ecutive Committee All day Monday
the Democratic printing presses were
busy ia running of an eight-page docu-
ment intended to make forever glorious
the General Assembly Of which the
GAINESVILLE Signal Orm.) only "a few
months ago, said, cit has become n
stencil in the public noetrils."
IL is n weak paper, as a. defense of such
"a body must of necessity b., yet, as the
Democratic committee ARE confident That
it will be "a good enough Morgan until
after the election, We give it some atten-
tiuI
This little document has startling head
lines. The conclusion Of these head lines
is that this poor, d,'aii-ed Legislature
has saved to- ihr tax payers of the State
81, 939, 17S Gl. This is good t!Llng, if
true, and the Democratic papers, which
last spring were frantically calling upon
their representatives to come hou.e,
ought to hide their diminished heads.
Twenty four thousand dollars was
saved according to this little document,
because the session was shorter 10y
twenty four days tlIHn its predecessor.
Our friends, however, forget to tell their
that for twelve Years the average session
OF Republican Legislatures had been
only IOG Z II days, while the average
length of Democratic sessions has been
1l9 / days; and they forget further to
say that the last General Assembly ran
away for fear that a few days more of
work on the part of investigating con-
mittees would fully expose their corrup
tions.
The little headlines of tiIi, remarkable
defense also say that the Republicans i'll
1872 and 1873 appropriated 81, 800, 323.
Is, and that the Democrats in 1871 and
1875 appropriated q, ISL, ,311.5G, (and
thus saved S523, 9Sl.5D. We must coli
clude that the Office holders on the
Democratic committee, through fear of
tl'e loss of their bread and butter, have
become frantic. Weknow that John G..
Thompson and his lieutenants would not
consciously tell a iie How else. then.
can we account for this statement? An
examination Of session laws for the last
four years shows that the Repui,Iicons
appropriated SlO,0S6. 67O.GS, and that
the Democrats appropriated $40. 994,-
001.9 %, an excess over Republican ap-
preparations of S9O7, $50. 40. Thus it
will be seen that according to Demo-
cratic logic their legislation cost tine
State nearly Il million dollars more than
the legislation of their predecessors, and
their pretensc OF having saved more
than half a million is n falsity-a little
discrepancy of million and a half of
dollars
Our friends in their headlines further
say that the State levies of 1874 and 1875
are less by the sum of 81, log, 600. 90 than
were the levies OF 1872 and 1873. After
making this statement they forgot fur
ther to explain that Of the State debt
due III January next nearly $3.50, 900 will
have to be dishonOred and go to protest
because the Democratic Legislature
failed to provide money with which TO