The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-04-08
From the Columbus Journal.l

one of some responsibility.
[From the Columbus Journal.l
| Cur present Legislature has done man
| things of which the people of Ohio ar
not proud 1t has left undone everything
that could have redeemed it. In all it
doings and misdoirgs, its failures to d.
| and its failures to not do. it has at leas
done one thing for which Republican
can render unfeigned thanks-it ha
made the very name of Democracy t.
stink in the nostrils of the people. Fo
that service much thanks.
For months SITS best friends have beer
beseeching of it as the best service il
could do to the Democratic party. that il
would die. 1t has lived, in spite of these
entreaties, until it is conundrum that
no man can answer, whether it can dc
most harm by dying with all its sins on
its head, or living on to further disgrace
its parentage. Ii it dies tomorrow it
leaves everything undone that could
have excused its coming into being; if it
lives on, it continues an intolerable bur-
den on the finances of the State.
The people will fix the responsibility
where it belongs-with the entire Demo
cratic State Administration. 1t is not a
supposable case that Governor Allen did
not have influence enough to control the
Legislature-the supposition would be
an Insult to his popularity and his capac-
ity for moulding affairs We cannot read
the record OF the State Administration
in any other way, than with one obvious
rendering: 1t came into power by a
scratch, and it determined to make the
most of its accidental opportunity, well
knowing that it would never have anoth-
er chance. The reckless disregard of
the public interests, and the contemptu-
Gus snubbing of public sentiment, can
have no other explanation. The Legis-
lature and the State Executive have pill
laged the State government as an army
might pillage a captuaed city or province
which it did not. expect to hold in pos
session longer than to "go through ii"
The Democratic Executive was forced to
testify, on coming into power, that after
twenty years of undisturbed possession
by the Republican party, he found no
symptom of peculation or fraud in the
conduct of the business of the State He
was hardly warm in his seat, before one
OF the offspring OF the Democratic ad-
ministration, administering one of the
most delicate and responsible trusts un-
der its charge, became an object of suspi-
cion and investigation, the result of
which was that the Orphans of our dead
Soldiers and Sailors, the peculiar wards
of the State, were shown to have been
outraged and insuited by the man set
over the.n in loco PARENTS, and it became
necessary to expel him from his Office.
Under frivolous pretexts, based upon
professional jealousies, the Trustees of
one OF our most important institutions
men of unsullied lives, working without
pay for the public, with a singleness of
purpose rare indeed~lnzsan any age-were
superseded by body of hi Sh llsasGriied of
ficialS who spent thousands and tens on
thousands in marring the work of their
New Boards were con
trived for other institutions, the mem
bers of which outraged even their own
partizans by shameless nepotism. The
chief penal institution of the State, from
being a source of revenue to the State,
became public charge. with a balance
against the State of tens of thousands
The management became so inefficient
that mere accident alone prevented a
disastrous outbreak, and so random in
it's character that its directors and its adj
officer cannot agree by thou
sands as to the amount of its receipts
and expenditures, and the public cannot
know whether one or the other is right,
or both are wrong. The only institu-
tions in the State that have escaped the
suspicion OF even the party in power are
those that have remained in undisturbed
possession of officers placed in charge by
4 Republican administration. The Leg
slative body, instead of giving indus
trious attention to necessary legislation
and making q prompt adjournment, has
dragged its miserable length along from
November to the last of March, occupied
iaAI oll Ia1 oh
yes of corruption against its own mem
bers. 1t has. for the first Time in our his
tory. introduced the feature of sectarian
legislation. 1t has so blundered in leg
slation that it cut off Democratic heads
with the blow aimed exclusively at Re
publicans, and is driven to spend the last
hours of the session in repairing the dam
ages. 1t has disfranchised an entire city,
boy the unparalleled outrage of abolish
ing the municipal legislative body, leav-
ing Toledo as the only city in the Union
without city Council. 1t has, for the
first time in our history, brought upon
as the reproach of bribery as an element
Of legislation; and not only so, but at
such contemplate figures that the price
of legislators has ruled in the market
from that of second class swine up to
that of scallawag steer. 1t has feebly
1OuSeNi the plSuSe III IuS pldtlOFIll, lHIt
t would give the people of Ohio a chance
to vote upon license amendment to the
and it has instead emascu-
ated the Adair law, at the expense of
many thousand dollars for blank books, |
and has taken away the right of local OPP
ion, by depriving cities, towns and viii |
ages of the right to indulge public senti- |
nent by prohibiting the sale OF certain |
liquors. In short, it has dribbled away !
Two long sessions in defeating almost ev |
ery measure of value, in forced investiga !
ions OF its own corruptions, in passing a |
ew measures of doubtful expediency, |
md in forcing through many measures
)t undoubted impollcy, wrongfulless and |
nalignity. at burdensome expense to |
he State, both directly for its own pay,
md indirectly for the results OF its work.
rhe people OF Ohio cannot conscientious |
y say Adjeu, Good bye, or Farewell, TO
such a body They can only say, Go,and
nay the Lord have mercy on your mis-,
srable souls.
A wag walked into a saloon the other
lay where three men were sitting around
he hreless stove, As he entered all |
yes were turned towards him. Ap-
taking a mental inventory of |
he number of people in the room, the
lew conner stepped up to the bar and
olandly ordered four glasses of beer.
rhe boots that had adorned the top OF
he stove now sought the floor, three