The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-09-05
ORPHANS HOME,
HON. j. w. EYLAR PAYS HIS RE-
SPECTS TO A REPUBLICAN,
EDITOR,


General Durbin Ward, prominent Democrat,
condemns the 0'COnnOr law as unjust and lnde-
fensible If not ruinous to the Home He adds
however, that 1t must have been passed inadvert-
emily Now will Representative Eylar stand up
and answer If he voted for the 0'Connor bill in
advertently 2-Erd,
Mr., Eylar did not vote for the o'Connor bill
He voted for bill reorganizlng the Orphans
Home at Xenia, and 1t became law, but Mr.
0'Connor was not the author Of the bill, neither
did he vote for 1t, Mr. g. voted for the reorgani.
zatlon bill and would do so again and to any rea.
sonable man can defend his action. Under Re-
publican management and under the Republican
law which the Legislature amended, the inslitu.
ton was no longer Home for soldiers orphans,
and to-day It is filled up with many children
whose fathers were In no wise connected with the
army, while hundreds, perhaps thousands, of SOL
diers' children are living in the County Infirma
ries Of Ohio. From twenty one counties OF Ohio
there Is not q single child, Of any kind admitted,
while Green county has ffty.eight within It's spa.
cous walls, and six counties have 1876 Of the 6O4
children there. To remedy this evil, and to make
this Home q vertabe Soldiers Orphans Home,
the law was amended, In the Sixty. second Gen.
eral Assembly, Republican body, q Republican
Senator and an ex.soldier, seeing the abuses to
which this institution was subjected offered q
resolution winding up It's existence as a soldiers
orphans home. This resolution was rought down
by Captain Jim Owens, the gentleman who put
the obnoxious" amendments to the present law,
and the Home was saved. No Republican paper
ever had aught to say about this resolution, and
why? Simply because the Republican press of
Ohio is In the hands OF a set OF hypocrtical pha.
TFvla nWwa aatA AatN ,Na. .a-AF r
the recognizing bill. He was aware that the
Home was being improperly managed. He knew
that little children Of that Home were conducted
TO the lawn in front OF the Home on the evening
after the defeat Of the venerable William Allen,
and made TO sing "Well hang old Bill Allen on a
sour apple tree" &c. He was aware also of the
fact that 1t took 119 employees, one for every slx
children, at q cost of 800 per annum to run
this Home. He was also aware that It was Home
for all the Republican, dead beats of the Ohio
Legislature, who visited 1t In gangs to flrt with
the female attendants, and dance and hackride,
and feast at the expense Of the tax payers OF Ohio
During the month of February March and April
1877, these Republican bummers ran up bill for
tax payers Of Ohio TO foot Of S62 for music for dan
Ces; 800 for omnibus hire and S27 for lemmons and
vanilla. Mr.. Eyar knew all this, and much more
which he dare not tell, and came to the cOnclu.
sion that there ought to be q change and voted
| for 1t. Under the new bill no orphan has been
| turned from home, Notwithstanding very large
| per cent, Of them are not soldiers orphans The
| management of the Home has been changed but
| II has been put into the hands of brave Union
soldier, who will care for these orphans Just as
faithfully as Major Shaw, and besides will put
stop to many abuses which have grown up In that
institution at the expense Of the tax. payer. There
will be no insulting Of old, gray headed men, who
happen to differ in politics with the management
There will be no more roosting there by the
week, by the Dalzels, Thorps, Surgeons, et id
genus Omne. No more Republican scoundrels,
| with wives and families, will be allowed to 90
there and make love to innocent and unsuspect.
ing females under pretense Of marriage, as did
one Republican Representative whose name we
can give The reorganization was highly neCes-
sary and beneficial to the children as well as the
| people Of the entire State, and Mr., Eylar voted
for it.-PeOpleS Defender
Mr.. Eylar is editor of the Defender and the
member Of the House Of Representatives from
| Adams county.