Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-08

Brother Millikan takes us around the
track under whip and spur, in the Herald
of last week, because the trustees of the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home have
seen fit to remove Mr.. Shaw from the SUI
perintendeney. Well now, my dear sir,
we had nothing to do with the removal OF
Mr.. Shaw, nor had we anything to DO
with the eleeting of O'Connor to the Leg
islature; and we will say to you, right /
now, that we have no more regard Tor |
O'Connor than we have for Belknap, BAD
cock or the thousand and one other /
thieves that we might name who vote your /
ticket We claim to be Democrat, ana, |
as such, we have no apologies to otier 1or |
a thief, merely because he, at one Tune Ia |
his life voted the same ticket Wnlch we |
did Neither do we propose to march |
around after you during the present cam |
paign while you conunne 70 DloW y Con
nor! O'Connorl! upon your little bugle.
We are after larger game than O'Connor.
We prefer to assist in the taking of John
Sherman's political scalp. When hunt
ing bear, like Sherman. we can't afford to
waste our ammunition on polecats, like
O'ConnOr. We, of course, will excuse
you, for O'Connor is all the stock you
have in trade and we are willing you
shall make the most of him, but not so
with us.-Register.
In the above paragraph, which we clip
from the Ohio State Register, of last week,
it will be observed, by those who read our
article in the HERALD of the 25th ult.,
to which brother Kerr assumes to reply,
he wholly evades the issue we made in
our article, from the fact that it suits his
purpose better than to meet the question
fairly and squarely, without Iesorting to
convenient and characteristic quibblings.
We never indicted brother Kerr for the
crime of electing the notorious Demo-
cratic thief, Jack O'Connor, to the Legis-
lature of Ohio. We never charged brother
Kerr with having anything to do with
the passage of the O'Connor bill to reoF-
ganize the Orphans Home, nor the re-
moyal of Mr.. Shaw, or any other Repub-
lican in any of the State institutions, but
we do arraign the Democratic members
of the 63d General Assembly before the
bar of public opinion for keeping con
victed thief in his seat as a member of the
Legislature, when they knew he was an
ex-Penitentiary convict, until they had
used him to help them execute all the
dirty legislation they had time to do, and
of refusing to expeIl him until nearly the
last act of their inglorious session; and
we do arraign the Democratic Legislature
of Ohio, for passing a law which depriyes
the poor and helpless orphans of soldiers
and sailors who lost their lives in defense
of our Government of receiving the ben.
efits of q home, and educational advant.
ages, that had been generously and hu-
namely provided for them by more hu.
name and loyal Legislative body; law
passed by the votes of all the Democrati
in the Legislature, and the author of the
bill being the notorious ex-penitentiary
convict, Jack O'Connor; law that can
not fail to bring down the contempt ant
Indignation of our insulted people upor
the heads of the party that enacted tht
outrage-and the newspaper editor a
well, who, in sfhis little tin whistle,'' at
tempts to justify and bolster it up, or t.
defend the provisions of such an unjus
legislative act.
We repeat the charge we made in ou
article of the 25th ult.: that the O'Con
nor law, to which we refer, does prohibi
the orphans of soldiers and sailors iron
j., entering the Home until they are twelv
:. years of age, and that it does require tn
l uAOLuCAS VI pAdAA0J w HO may DC ACCClf
ing pensions, to pay over the same to tn
Trustees of the Home before they can re
ceive the benefits of the Home; and W
e call upon the editor of the Register t
n show to the contrary, if he can.
0 In brother Kerr's article Ito which our
of the 25th was a reply he professed ig
norance of the provisions of the O'Cor
!, nor law that he had not read it yet, an
= said;
''When the Republican editors publis
I that the Widows pension is taken frol
$ her when her children are at the Home
n they know it to be a falsehood."
l. Although the subject may be very ul
It pleasant to the editor of the Register, W
i intend, while he is after the scalp of sue
4 large game as John Sherman, to bio
"O'Connor! O'Connor!I'' upon our I'll
le tie tin bugle, and the only way for brotl
q er Kerr to avoid hearing our music wi
y be to keep his fingers in his ears.