The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-10-03
ORPHANS HOME.

HON. j. w. EYLAR PAYS HIS
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A Severe Leakage of Solid Fact.
General Durbin Ward, prominent
Democrat, condemns the O'Connor
law as unjust and indefensible if not
rninous to the Home. He adds, how
ever, that it must have been passed in
advertently. Now, will Represents
tive Eylar stand up and answer, if he
voted for the O'Connor bill inadvert-
emily ?-[E Era. a.5f ..sa..
Mr.. Eylar did not vote for the
O'Connor bill. He voted for bill re
organizing the Orphans Home al
Xenia, and it became law, but Mr..
O'Connor. was not the author of the
bill, neither did he vote for 1t. Mr..
E. voted for the Reorganization bill,
and would do SO again and to any
reasonable man can defend his action.
Under Republican management and
under Republican law which the Leg
islature amended, the institution was
no longer Home for soldiers Or
phans, and to-day 1t is filed up with
many children whose fathers were in
no wise connected with the army,
while hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
soldiers children are living in the
County Infirmaries of Ohio. From
twenty.one counties of Ohio there is
not single child, of any kind admit
ted, while Green county has fifty y-eight
within its spacious walls,an SIX coun-
ties have 1876 Of the 6O4 children there.
To remedy this evil, and to make this
Home veritable Soldiers Orphans
Home, the law was amended. In the
SixtY.second General Assembly. a Re.
publican body, Republican Senator
and an ex-soldier, seeing the abuses to
which this institution was subjected,
offered resolution winding up its ex-
istence as . soldiers orphans home.
This resolution was fought 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 Re
publican press of Ohio is in the hands
of a set of hypocritical pharisees. Mr..
Eylar, as wc said at tho start. voted
for the Recognizing bill. He was
aware that the Home was being i'm
properly managed. He knew that lit
tie children of that Home were con-
Quoted to the lawn in front of the
Home on the evening after the defeat
of the venerable William Allen, and
made to sing "We'll hang old Bill AL
len on sour apple tree" SC. He was
aware also of the fact that it took lis
employees, one for every six children,
at cost of $2S,90O per annum to run
this Home. He was also aware that
it was q home for all the Republican
dead.beats of the Ohio Legislature,
who visited it in gangs to flirt with
the female attendants, and dance, and
hackride and feast at the expense of
the taxpayers Of Ohio. During the
months of February March and A pril,
1877, these Republican bummers ran
up bill for tax. x.payers of Ohio to foot
of $62 for music for dances, $50 for
omnibus hire and $27 for demons and
vanilla. Mr.. Eylar knew all this, and
much more which he did not tell, and
came to the conclusion that there
ought to be change and voted for it.
Under the new bill no orphan has been
turned from the home, notwithstand-
ing very large per cent. of them are
not soldiers orphans. The manage
ment of the Home has been changed
but it has been put into the hands OF
brave Union soldier, who will care
for those orphans just as faithfully as
Major Shaw, and besides will put
stop to many abuses which haye
grown up in that institution at the
expense of tho tax payers. There
will be no insulting of old gray-head-
ed men, who happen to differ in pol
itics with the management. There
will be no more roosting there, by the
week, by the Dalzells, Thorps, Sturg-
cons, ct i'd genus omne. No more Re-
publican scoundrels, with wives and
families. will be allowed to go. there
and make love to innocent and un-
suspecting females under pretense of
marriage, as did one Republican Rep
resentative 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 orit.-[People's
Defender.
Mr.. Eylar is editor of the Defender,
and the member Of the House Of
Representatives from Adams county.
THE TRADE DOLLAR.
Persons who Discredit IL do SO in
Violation of the Law.
A disposition has been lately mani
tested by some of our banks to dis
credit the trade dollar. They have
refused to receive it on deposit at all,
or to receive it at greater rate than
80 cents /; and some individuals, taking
note of this refusal, decline to estimate
this coin at a higher figure when ten
dered in payment to them. Now, the
banks and the individuals who do this