Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-06-19
PARTISAN LEc1sLATIoN
speech OF Representative na19.u =
the BAH to Abolish, the CIDcS-,,..0. =.
oaEd OF Public Works, In the HonSs
al COlumbus, May IA, 1879. @'-''

MT DaIzell arose and began.
Mr.. SPEAKER: (Here the Sneaker
pointed to the clock on the wall and said
'sThe five minutes of the honorable mem
Der from Noble begins at3 Pr He will
please take notice of that. y @
AS Mr.. Dalzell arose he had the atten-
tion of the entire Aouse. Mr.. Dalzell,
bowing low to the Speaker, continued: I
thank Mr.. Speaker Neal for the kindly adj
monition that. the clock, like the world,
moves, and that "while we take no note
of time,'' it marks our progress in the
great and mighty work of codifying the
laws of Ohio. thank the Speaker for this
pregnant and suggestive text: Look at
that clock. 1t marks three-pretty late
in the afternOon-prettyl late, 1 say, for
this Legislature to be fooling away its
time on recognizing the Board of Public
Works. Thus, day by day, are the DEM
ocrats wasting the time of this House,
while outside Democrats lie and lie to the
people about codifcation OBTAINING us
here. We have codified nothing yet but
O'Connor, JEFF. Davis and the public in
stitutiOns of Ohio. This Legislature, fftly
named for O'COnnor, wastes all the gold
en- hours of May in defending JEFF. Davis
and recognizing the Board of Public
Works, and attempting to reorganize Day
ton. Thus have we spent the past five
days at a cost of 81, 900 to Ohio.
I have watched the Democratic party
policy, as a member, here two years.
From the past, 1 am authorized to suppose
we shall stay here till dog days in the
great Democratic work of 'scedifying''
the cities of Ohio. 1 don't wonder the
Speaker points me to the clock. 1 point
him and his party to that clock on the
wall. Its upper dial marks three O'Clock.
Its lower dial marks May IA. Still you
linger here disgracing Ohio with Demo-
cratic tricks and schemes to reorganize
our cities in the interests of the Demo-
cratic party, the devil and JEFF. Davis. It
is that alone that has kept us here. And
nothing else. All this talk Of @codifica-
tion'' is bosh. tits lie. Not a word of
| codiication have or you heard here 10!
these many days. Not one word. No
wonder the Speaker points to the clock on
the wall. 1t is high time this 18th day of
May, when all the people of Ohio are beg
ging us to adjourn and go home, when we
have stayed and stayed here longer and
spent more money by thousands than any
Legislature ever did in Ohio, that we con-
suit the clock on the wall. Where are the
codifying bills No man knows No man
cares. They are lost sight of. We never
hear word of them. Not one word. Yet
the people of Ohio are to be stuffed with
the lie that we have remained here two
hundred and ffty-seyen days at a cost of
$257 200, to codify, ye gods! the laws :!
We have not spent over twenty full days
at that. Our whole time has been spent
defending O'Connor, your leader jeff
Davis and the Democratic party, the devil
and gerrymandering Ohio, overturning,
degrading, disgracing, polluting, destroy
ing, prostituting, aye burning our public
institutions. It is time to consult the
clock on the wall. You have by your le-
gislation degraded some of our public in
stitutions to houses of i'll fame and prosti-
tuition. If that clock is not run down
yet it is certain that the patience of the
yeople is well nigh run down. Yes, !
look with the Speaker and the House and
the people at the clock on the wall,
while we linger here to make offices for
hungry and thieving Democrats, and for
no other purpose, while the codffication
of the laws is wholly, every day, neglect
ed. 1t is high time our last hour had
struck, but we have not so much consult
ed the clock on the wall as the interests OF
the Democratic party. This Legislature
drew its first breath in reorganizing
: | CO r inf
all its long and expensive days reOrganiz-
ing, and now its last fetid breath is slow
ly going out in recognizing Republican
cities into Democratic hands. 1t is that
which keeps us here while the dial plate
on the wall marks three O'Clock, May IA
We are codifying the laws! What an in.
famous lie! No, sir; we are codifying
O'ConnOr, JEFF. Davis, the devil and the
Democratic party. We are at this mo-
ment codifying Democrats in and Repub
licans out, while the pendulum swings il
= the clock on the wall. Yes, sir; we ar,
codifying Cincinnati, while the clock OF
the wall marks the hour when we should
5 go home!
, If that old clock there could speak wha
story it could tell of 257 days of Demo
| cratic Legislature LIDO not wonder tina
? the Speaker points me to the clock on tn,
: wall, while every eye in Ohio marks the
e swinging of its pendulum and the revolu
A tion ofits hours, hourly praying that tn,
S next may be the hour of the departure o
the O'Connor Legislature. And behin'
1 that clock on the wall, Mr.. Speaker, be
: hold the handwriting of the people on tn
0 wall. It is before all our eyes. Patiene
y is ceasing to be virtue. An organized
= political caucus may sit forever and con
!, coct all manner of partisan schemes, an
, the people only smile if it costs the publi
nothing. But if it costs 81 900 day, an
: proposes to itself no other object than t
n ''codify'' Democrats in and ''codify" Re
IS publicans out, the people cannot and wi
e not endure the expense of such a caucus
It This Legislature is such a caucus. Behol
h that clock on the wall, and the han
i writing of the wrath of 5000, 900 of angr
e people. Behold Here the gavel of tn
: Speaker fell, Mr.. Dalzelrs five minute
o having expired.l
c The partisan bill was then put on it
s. passage, many members excusing then
r selves openly for voting for it simply an
le solely because Dalzell had expressed son
ID homely truths about the Democratic bod
n and made them mad enough to vot
sr wrong.
IN General Garfield, in speech in Il
House yesterday, in referring to milital
RS interference at elections, said that the ol
~ ly instance of that kind that he ever kne
or of, occurred in 1863, under rather pee
d. liar circumstances. While he was befo