The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-03-09

Our readers have not forgotten one DR..
Jenner, who was appointed by Old Bill
Allen, to take charge of the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home. Hon. E. s.
Holloway, editor of the Columbiana Reg
ister, is a member of the Ohio House OF
Representatives, and in letter written
to his paper he says:
In May, 1874, DR.. Jenner took charge
as Superintendent, and scarcely had he
become comfortably located in his new
position, when the very atmosphere be-
came impregnated with his villainous
conduct toward innocent and unsuspect-
ing children, and ere four months of his
administration had passed by the board
that appointed him were forced to prefer
charges against him, and summon wit
nesses before an investigating board
composed of themselves, and represented
by able counsel, TO ascertain to what ex-
tent his villainous conduct had been car
ried. The investigation was conducted
in secret, and as far as possible all the
testimony suppressed; but enough come
to light to place DR.. Jenner beneath the
association of any gentleman or lady who
has any regard for character. The evi-
dence showed him to be guilty Of acts
for which he should have been sent to
the penitentiary, instead of being per-
mitted to resign and leave the institu-
tion in the manner he did.
Thus, in less than five months from
the time the Democratic party took
charge of the institution, it had sunk
from the high and commanding position
to which it had risen under DR.. Girls.
void, down to the very lowest political
cesspool; a place where Democratic eau
cuses were held, and place where Dem
ocratic rowdyism and Democratic whisky
became an intolerable stencil in the nos.
trils OF the cottage matrons and teachers
of the Home. Even the chief executive
OF the State Gov. Allen, on the occasion
of visit to the Home, did not escape the
contamination, but INDUCED in such a
scene of drunken revelry that his con.
duct as well as that of his associates was
ba disgrace to the State.
After the resignation Of DIR. Jenner,
which took place in October, 1874, Hon.
VIM. Kerr, of Granville, Licking county,
was appointed Superintendent. In this
appointment the Democratic leaders in
the Legislature boasted that they had
secured the best man in the State for the
position. What has been the result ?
Instead of temperate, moral, Christian
gentlemen being employed to take
charge Of the various departments, as
was the case under DR.. Griswolds man.
agement, we find those places filed by
drunken sots; men whose habits were
such that no straightforward business
man would employ them in private busi-
ness where there was nothing except his
property at stake much less the lives of
over six hundred innocent boys and
girls. Boys have been placed at work
under the oversight Of men who became
beastly intoxicated and had to be watch
ed and guarded by these boys while in a
state of delirium. Boys have had their
ears torn as q punishment by these
drunken demons and yet they are to this
day retained in their places, though
the facts are we'll known to the superin-
tendent. The superintendent himself
has been guilty of lifting large boys clear
off the ground and holding them sus-
pended by the ears for some seconds, as
punishment for mere petty offences.
Boys have been beaten by the drunken
sots placed over them until they have
been confined to bed in consequence
Men and women have been discharged
for no other reason than being of Repub-
lican sentiments, and their places filed
by persons without the first qualification
requisite to the station they were to fill.
For these reasons as well as many more
that can be fully verified, the interests
of the Home demand that it be speedily
re organized and suitable men selected
for the responsible positions they are re-
quired to fill.