The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01
Soldiers, Read +!
How the Ohio Democracy
Love the Soldiers and
Orphans.

At its recent session, the Ohio
Legislature, or rather the Demo
cratic majority Of that body, passed
law regulating or recognizing the
Soldiers Orphans Home, at Xenia
By the way, our readers will remem-
Der that this same Democratic ma
jority in the Legislature had ma
MIA for "reorganiziDg" all our State
benevolent institutions, by turning
out Republicans and putting in Dem
ocrats, without regard to fitness of
the latter-as in the well known
case of DR. Gundry, of the Central
LuDatic Asylum.
The author of the law "reorgani-
zing" the Soldiers Orphans Home,
was the notorious bounty jumper
and penitenGary convict, O'Connor,
of Montgomery county, who was ex-
PEELED from the House by his fellow
Democrats at the tail end of the ses-
sion, after they had got his vote On
all the party measures they wished
to pass. O'Connor was Chairman
of the House Military Committee
a very suitable place, of course, for
bounty jumper" as Chair
man of that committee, drew up and
reported the bill referred to.
In order to show our readers, and
especially the Union soldiers and
their friends, what kind of a law this
is, we copy the following extracts
from a letter to the Cincinnati Times,
written by Hon. J. NJ Dalzell, OF
Noble county, a Republican mem
Der of the Legislature. Read his
statement of the provisions of the
law, and its practical operation, and
then vote tue Democratic ticket next
fall, if you have the heart to do it.
Mr.. DalzeIl says:
"The O'Connor law also provides that all
children some three hundred under twelve
years Of age; all whose fathers and moth
ers were not pensioned (sOme fifty more;I
all whose fathers are living, but crippled
invalid, or gone to parts unknown (sCme
fifty mOre) must be put out of the Home
The bill expressly says such children shall
not be received or retained Those are its
words. Enforce these bloody and cruel
clauses Of the law and there would be two
hundred of the present six hundred sol
diers' children left in the Home All the
little ones Of tender age-scOres Of them
were babies-wOUld have togo out Indeed
the great majority Of inmates, as every one
knows who has been there, are mere IN
fants, under the age Of y years.
Think Of the Democratic party making
its war on little children!
"But, after all those were put out there
would be still forty or fifty others TO 90 ont,
namely, those whose mothers draw pen
sion. OCOnnor provides by his bill that
such mothers must transfer their pension
to the Home for the benefit Of her child
there, and then starve herself or 90 to the
poor-huuse, OF failing to do either, then
her child or children were to be sent home
to her! Could anything be more crueIS2
This is the Democratic law which received
the solid Democratic vote Of the Demo-
cratic Legislature, and against which, all
honor to the Republican party, every Re
publican vote was cast. 1 pointed out all
these thing to the Military Committee long
before the till was passed. They all knew
all about it. begged to amend it. They
laughed me to scorn, and putting it before