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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
A HINT TO DRINKERS.


What May be Saved by Turning Your Wives Into
Barkeepers.
Some one asks how the bar rooms can
be closed. Bar-rooms are not kept for
amusement. There is not a man in the
State who would keep bar if there was
no hope for profit. Let every man who
has brains enough to attend to his own
business determine not to drink at bar,
and the bar-rooms will soon be closed.
Men who are ashamed of their habits of
drinking, and who must have screen to
hide them, will not often have an oppor-
tunity to drink elsewhere, and one great
step in the temperance reform will haYe
been taken. Barkeepers on an average,
in this city, pay 50 per gallon for whisky.
One gallon contains an average Of sixty
five drinks, and at ten cents drink the
poor man pays $3.50 a gallon for his
whisky. In other words he pays So for
the whisky and $3.50 to man for hand
ing it over bar. While it would be
better for all men not to drink, some
men will have whisky, and my advice to
them is: Make your wife your barten-
der. Lend her So to buy a gallon of
whisky for beginning, and every time
you want drink go to her and pay ten
cents for it. By the time you hsvedrank
gallon she will have $3.50, or enough
to refund the So borrowed of you, to pay
for another gallon of liquor and have
balance of 81 80. She will be able to
conduct future operations on her own
capital, and when you become an inebri.
ate, unable to support yourself, Stunned
and despised by respectable society, your
wife will have enough money to keep
you until you get ready to fill a drunk
ards grave. But had you paid all this
money to barkeeper he would not have
given a cent to bury you, or crust Of
bread to keep your children from starv-
ing. Few people ever stop to consider
the cost of dram drinking. At ten cents
per drink, one drink day will cost you
$1,000 per year, two drinks day will
cost $73. three drinks $l09,50, and four
drinks $l44 A man came to me the
other day to pay the interest on note
for $l00 hold against him. Said he:
81 only receive 5000 year, and with
family to support am not able to pay
my debts" asked him to take pencil,
to make slight calculation for me, and
then asked him how often he drank at q
bar. His average was three drinks per
day, which, by his own calculation,
amounted to $lO9,5O or enough to have
paid both principal and interest on the
note, and have 81, so left. He was aston
ished at this discovery, and is now de-
termined to never drink at q bar again.
-Hom Z. C. CampbeWs Lecture.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

WHILE at Columbus, last week, we
learned that the school bill introduced
for the Teachers Association, by Repre-.
sentative Worley, was not likely to pass.
The bill proposes to create the Office of
County Superintendent, with view of
grading or effecting a more efficient su-
pervision of the ungraded or country
schools. We also observe that the Press
of the State pretty generally oppose the
bill. The idea OF creating eighty eight
new offices is calculated to cause alarm
and opposition. There is no probability
of the measure becoming law this ses
sion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
ACTION OF THE COUNTY COM
------- MITTHM

MITTEE.
The Democratic County Central Com
mittee of Stark met last Saturday after
noon in the Prosecutors room in the
Court Honse, with large attendance of
brother Democrats from all parts Of the
county, The object Of the meeting was
to take cuuntel, and determine as to the
mode of nominating county ticket to
be supported at next fal's election
There WAS full attendance of the COM
mittee, Mr. Lynch in the chair end Mr.,
Wety as Secretary.
A full and free interchange Of views
was had, many friends present being
called out by name, aud llpreeent being
allowed full and free opportunity. The
gentlemen expressing themselves all IA
vored change to the delegate plan, and
when the vote was taken by precincts
and townships, the rOte lOaS unanimous.
The resolution favoring a change to a
convention of delegates received an af-
frmatiye vote from every member OF
the committee as his name was called.
We certainly never attended more har-
monious and earnest meeting of Demo-
Gratis and we are confdentit will be pro-
ductive of good results.
While there is much that is commend
able in the popular vote plan of nomina-
ting, especially at first sight, there are
nevertheless serious evils and drawbacks
attending it. 0ftentimes the candidates
nominated by the popular vote plan are
not nominated by a majority of the votes
cast. Three or more candidates for the
same Office may so divide the vote that
the nominee has a bare plurality, and
far enough below a majority, Hence
the popular vote is not necessarily ma
iority rule in the party, more especially
when we consider the practices too of
ten resorted to.
In delegate convention every pre-
Cinct is represented according to its hon
est Democratic vote, and no man is de-
clared nominated unless he receives a
majority of the delegates in the conven-
ton. 1t will therefore be seen that real
ly the delegate convention plan may be
more Democratic than the popular vote,
and we are satisfied, judging by Stark
county, the convention Of delegates is
more Democratic and safer in all re-
speCts. Either arrangement may be
abused, and when either plan is corrupt
ly used, it is proper and right to adopt
some other, with view to fair and hon
est dealing, to promote harmony and Sc.
cure success.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

OLIVE the Nebraska murderer, who
took leading part in burning two citi-
zens to death, is perhaps the wealthiest
man ever arrested in the United States
for deliberate homicide. The Olives
own over 10000 head of cattle and vast
tracts of land. Olive appears to have
considered himself above the law, and
tortured his victims to death with as
much recklessness as he might have
shown in destroying a wildcat. He is
spending money unstintedly with a view
of evading justice, and the Sheriff of
Kesruey county, where the crime was
committed, is said to be entirely subser-
Went to the murderer. There can be
but little doubt as to the result of fair
and impartial trial.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

A New ENGLAND editor has been
heard to remark that with Garcelon for
the Governor of Maine. after standing a
very bad third in the tally votes, the De-
mocracy of that State may feel less in.
clined to loud and disagreeable talk
about minority President Baltimore
Gazette.
Hayes is not a minority President, but
fraudulent President. Honestly and
legally he is not President at all. Had
he been elected President there could
have been no reasonable objection to his
assumption to his assumption of the of.
fee, even though he had received but a
minority of popular vote. No sensible
comparison can be made between Garce-
lon, the constitutionally chosen Cover.
nor of Maine and Hayes, the Fraudu-
lent President Of the United States. N.
Y. Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

The distinguished John Randolph, of
Roanoke, said, when Henry Clay made
John Quincy Adams President in 1926,
that it was union of the Puritan and
the blackleg.
Politics does make strange bed fellows,
it must be admitted and we witnessed a
very singular combination in Stark coun-
ty politics last fall, nothing more nor
less than a cordial union between tenn
perance and whisky, Murphy and beer,
all supporting Mckinley, Heldenbrand
and the Republican ticket.
In Canton and other towns in the
county, and we learn, in fact, all over the
district, Murphy leaders and saloon men
supported Mckinley In Alliance, that
noted hot bed for temperance, there was
probably hardly saloon in tue town
but what supported Mckinley or Hell
denbrand, or both. We will not say this
was a union of the Puritan and the
blackleg, or the Puritan and the devil,
but by some hocus-pocus these opposing
elements worked nobly for Mckinley &
Co. We do not suppose that Murphy's
advocacy of McKinley's election at Ma.
vare hurt him in the least with his sa-
loon friends there. 1t takes the Repub.
lican Puritan to do this sort of business,
He can harness the devil and travel with
him. Such fellows, as Hamlet says,
could Circumvent God"
Black spirits and white
Blue spirits apd gray,
Mingle mingle, mingle,.
They that mingle, may.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

SENATOR CoNKLINe Of New York, last
week in Executive session, Aayed Secre-
tary John Sherman, and after he conClu-
ded his speech, Senator Thurman follow
ed in some remarks, giving Mr.. Conkling
to understand that John Sherman was
an Ohio man, and that Ohio men are too
precious to be killed off by withering re-
marks in a wholesale way, The Hayes
administration might do something
about it. We remember when disloyal
men were cared for in an offhand way.
Conkling had better look out--if he is a
Republican, and from the State of New
York.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

THE Geneva award bill, reported by
the Judiciary Committee of the House,
was set aside on Saturday last and bill
from the minority of the committee sub
stituted, and then passed by 112 to 79
This is triumph for the insurance in
terest, which was shut out by the major.
ity bill. The bill as passed, revives and
continues the Court of Commissioners
of the Alabama claims, and fixes the
judges at three and limits existence of
the Court to eighteen months. 1t ad-
mits the claims of insurance premiums
for war risks.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
A CELEBRATED CASE IN IRELAND.

Queenstown, Jan. l9-Dr. Kerwin, the
famous Ireland's Eye murderer, was re-
leased from Spikes Island Prison in this
harbor on Saturday, after q years incar-
ceration. The murder for which this
man was convicted, in 1851, was one of
the most celebrated criminal cases Ire
land has ever known. DR.. Kerwin was
very distinguished physician in Dub
lin. During the early summer of 1851 he
visited the island in the harbor of Dub.
lin known as Island Eye. Soon after, the
body of his wife was found on the beach
of this island. The woman had been
stabbed to death. The visit of the Doc
tor to the island was readily established,
but there was little or no evidence going
to show that his wife had accompanied
him. Indeed, the evidence throug ghout
was of cirCumstantial nature, and the
efforts put forth by the Doctors many
wealthy friends to save his life were un-
ceasing and multiform. The ablest legal
talent in Great Britain defended him.
The jury, after protracted trial, conviC-
ted DR.. Kerwin of murder in the first
degree, and he was sentenced to death.
The Queen, taking into consideration
the fact that the evidence upon which
the prisoner was convicted was wholly
Circumstantial, Commuted the sentence
to penal serVitude for life. From this
sentence he was released yesterday, as
before stated, but the greatest secrecy is
maintained among the prison officials
regarding his departure from the Jail.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

Ex.SEcRErARY of the Navy Robson,
who oficiated under Grant, was before
the House naval committee last week to
explain why he spent 80 many millions
in fitting up the navy, and to tell how
the oldlmateFiali ii the yards was sold.
He claimed he was frightened by Spain
in 1873, as there was danger of war, and
Spain was much better provided with
iron clads than the United States. Hence
his large contracts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

GEN. HAwLEY did not make the Con-
nectiCut Senatorship. The Republican
caucus nominated o. Il. Platt, a promi-
nent lawyer of Merfden. During the
supremacy of the Know Nothing party
in Connecticut, Mr.. Plstt came into Office
as Secretary of State, which position he
held for only one year. Averse to ac-
cepting Office, generally, he has, how
eyer, been several times a member of
the Lower House of the Connecticut
Legislature, and once its Speaker, and
also a member of the Senate.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

THE message of Governor Marks, of
Tennessee, says payment of no part Of
the State debt can be renewed until there
shall be an adjustment of it on such ba-
sis as will bring the debt within the abil-
ity of the taxpayers to meet. All the
States embarrassments are the result of
the late war and the usurpation of the
Government, and all imputations upon
her honor proceed from malice, interest,
or ignorance. The whole amount of the
debt in 1861 was So 768 sos, for which
the State was primarily liable.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

IT is now stated that twenty five car
goes of American wheat have been en-
gagged for Barcelona, Spain, The freight
on the cargo sent was$l0O 600, and on the
twenty-five cargoes engaged will be $3.50.
900, AS things are, this will 60 into for
eign hands, and is of great advantage to
the country that has this carrying trade.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

THERE is universal commendation Of
Mr.. Cox's census bill. 1t is generally
conceded that it will pass, and that, un-
der its operations, the census will be
taken more cheaply, reliably and expe-
ditiously than it could under the old law.
The work is to be begun and ended in
the month of June, and is to cost lot
more than So 900 at the outsipe.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

The Young Mems Republican Club is
styled the League. This is an appropri.
ate name. 1t league of office holders
and Office seekers. 1t is a league be.
tween the different Republican "rings"
to continue their mastery over the Re-
publican masses. 1t is league to per-
petuate such old Office holders as Sher-
win in Office, and "bounCe" any new
man, particularly an ex.soldier like
Hessler, who may apply.-PIain Dealer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
RESUMPTION, that is Conyertibility, is a
fixed fact-in New York city.

A VERY small cause may create great
trouble. A run on the Bank of London
was precipitated Friday, last week, by a
dispute as to cab fare, in front of the
bank. It drew a crowd, and from this
the rumor spread that the bank was in
trouble, and hence run.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

TIE Cheyenne Indians who escaped
from their prison at Fort Robinson, foil
ed the troops and got away. The troops
had returned but were to start again.
Five soldiers were killed and eight we're
wounded, Twenty-Five Indian bucks
and ten women and children were killed,
Some fifty Indians have got away. The
Press, generally, denounces the warfare
that slaughters squaws and papooses.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

RESUMPTION fails to materalize sub
stantially anywhere in this broad land,
except in New York city. This is great
thing Tor those who hold greenbaCks
there 1t is not a Sherman sham to
them. The sham is only to the people
generally
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

Gov. HARTRANFTs proclamation an
noRncing the names of members Of
Congress chosen at the late election, in
cludes the name of Robert Klotz, Dem
ocrat, from the eleventh district. This
district has been hitherto disputed by
Gen. Albright, Republican.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

"THE OHIO IDEA" is, that under Repub-
lican rule, the Government has been run
in the interest of the favored few, with
out regard to justice or to the best inter.
ests and rights of the people. We pro-
pose a return to Constitutional justice.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

The rabid Republicans are going to
control that party, and will control their
State convention, and probably nomin.
ate Garfield. This will give Sherman
the Senatorship if they carry the Legls
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

THE Pension arrears" bill passed the
Senate last week by vote of A to 4,
having previously passed the House,
This bill will take from the Treasury
eighteen million and half of dollars.
Itprovides for paying to pensioners the
arrears" which will accrue to them by
dating their pensions from the time
when the deaths or discharges from the
service, on account of which they are
granted, took place. The bill, however,
needs supplementary legislation before
it will have any real value; as the case
now stands, the work of the Pension Bu-
reau is so far behind that nothing but a
great increase of clerical force can bring
up it's arrears. Under the present laws
the great delay in getting applications
acted upon has been crying evil, while
the enactment of the new law will add
so tremendous mass of new work to
the bureau, as to further overwhelm the
small company of clerks that are under
stood to be wrestling with its business,
unless they are with great promptitude
literally reinforced.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

A New YoRK dispatch last week tells
us that the remains of A. T. Stewart
have been in the possession of his fami.
ly for more than week. The ghouls
received the modest sum of $50,000 for
their precious steal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

BIsMARCK's plan is to rid himself of the
Socialist deputies. Berlin is in state
of siege, and therefore subject to martial
law. AS soon as the Social deputies
make their appearance, they will be ex-
PEELED from the city.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

Hon. D. W. VOORHEES, was unanimous.
ly nominated Monday evening by the
Democratic caucus. Of the Legislature of
Indiana for United States Senator, and
he was also nominated for the short
term.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

IT is said Senator Stanley Matthews,
brother-in.law of Mr.. Hayes, will not
accept position upon the bench of the
Supreme Court, unless it is offered to
him.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

THE Illinois Legislature made one
mistake. As long as they had to send
one of the Logan 'amily to the Senate,
they should have made it Mrs. Logan.
She can discount John as person of
brains.- Gin Enquirer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

THE lower House of Congress last
Saturday concurred in the Senate
amendments to the Pension bill, and
passed the Geneva award bill.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23

REPUBLICANS say: "The GreenbaCks
are all wrong and unconstitutional. True,
we issued them, but it was necessity DUR
ing the war;" &c. But where was the
necessity" to treat the Greenbacks as
step children, when they were your own
issue? Why were these same green
backs degraded and deprecated by your
policy. They were good enough for the
People but were not good enough for
the Bondholders' interest-not good
enough to pay duties on imports-good
enough, however, for the bondholders to
buy bonds with.
As we had the Greenback currency,
where was the necessity" for National
Banks2 Will some learned Republican
explain this2 The National banks sure
ly were not a necessity" growing out Of
the war.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
A. MeGREGOR, Editor.

THE Republicans of the N. Y. Legisla'
ture nominated Roscoe Conkling unan'
imously.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
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ESTABLISHED A. D. 1888.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-09-26
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Josh 1s;i.in gsisms.

IF a young man kaiu't got we'll
balanced head | Ike to see him part
his hair in the middle
! dou't take any foolish chances. If
| wuz called upon to mour1 over a dead
mule | shuld stand in front of him and
do mi weeping.
There is no man so poor but that he
kan affvrd to keep one dog, and have
seen them 50 poa! that they could af-
ford to keep three.
| say to ? thirds on the rich people
in this world make the most on your
money, for it makes the most of you.
Happy thought.
| never arey agin success WREN |
see rattlesnaix's he'd sticking ont OF
whole. bear off to the left and say
to myself that hole belongs to that
snaix.
The intidel argys just as bull duz
chaned to pest. He bellows and
saws, but he don't get loose from the
post I notiss. Not much.
I thauk the Lord that there is one
thing in this world that money kan
buy, end that is the wag OF a dogs
tail.
notiss one thing, the man who rides
on the kars every day is satisfek Will
one seat, but he who rides once yea
wants four.
The man whom you kan get to writ
poetry or tell the truth until you ge
him haff drunk amt worth the invest
ment.
Whenever see a real hanlsom VIZ
man engaged in the wimmen's right
bizzness | am going to take oft IN
hat and jine the processhun. See if
don't,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-09-26
Times had Changed.


1t was in Main street saloon. and
mid day lunch was just ready. A di
lapidatad seedy looking customer,
whose raiment b,tokenod low ebb of
fortune aud whose appetite was not ap-
peased by third plate Of soup and
crackers in proportion, remarked to the
proprieto, Times amt like they
used to be in Montana in ga, when
you are selling ssure death at four bits
a swallow and | owned the richest claim
in the crrek I didn't think then that
| would ever walk up to free lunch
table and stand yer off for drink,
while | tried to satisfy raging appc.
titc on thin Cruel and hard tack. Yer
a good fellow, and / like yer for invi
ting one Of the old boys up to your soup
and telling him to wade in free of
charge, but yer taking some awful
chances on that whiskey Of yours"
The proprietor pricked up his ears and
inquired why. Yer see, some OF these
yere cold mornings, yer bar-koep will
fiud til, whole stock froze up. aud the
customers will have to thaw their cock
tails by the fire, sure. Speri,s will
freeze where yc dose 'em with too
much water, and besides that, yer
might give man the dropsy, or water.
log him or some other such foolishuess
that would kinaer injare you. reputa
ton You used to be more keerful ur
in the territory, aud kin remember
when yer made half barrel of whs
key last all Winter; We were snowe(
in and you we're doing the biggest kline
of trade tco, but kerosene and tobacco
war plenty, and the boys used to sa'
that one drink wer equal to cord o
wood for heating purposes. Yer mus
have different set Of customers dow
here, for you have got it to ninety be
low proof"
Some Of the b st patrons dropped i
at this point of the conversation. an
the proprietor staked his old pard TO
dollar and started him down 10 Walk
er's in search ofa square meal. II
WIS found an hoar later in from. of
: lower level dive, whoopjns. yelling, ap
ofering to lick any man in the towt
and it is presumable that he found
beverage that resombled his favori'
Montana rotaut,