Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-19

turnpike superintendent system. Th'
bill came over to the House on Satur
day, as amended, but as number o
members desired to have their counties
inserted with Fayette, the bill was, foI
that purpose, referred to the Commit
tee on Turnpikes, where other counties
will be added, when it will pass thu
House and will then have to 60 bacl
to the Senate, where it will pass an(
become law in a few days.
Demands from all quarters Of thC
State are coming up for pretty gen
eral reorganization of the public insti
tutions of the State, and committees
are investigating the management tt
ascertain whether there are other goot
causes than political for going into
general reorganization. Enough is al
ready known of the management O1
some of these institutions to make re-
organization justiiable. A very strong
demand comes up from the Reform
Farm for boys, at Lancaster, for thor
ough reorganization of that institution
as well as from the Insane Asylum al
Athens, and the Penitentiary. The
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
at Xenia will be thoroughly looked
into, and if things are not found in
good shape there, measures will be
taken to cure the wrongs.
There is a feeling among the Repub'
licans that, as they are in the majority
and have the power to control and man.
age the public institutions, the respon-
slbility rests upon them for their proper
management, and, being responsible,
they think it proper to trust the man
agement of these institutions in the
hands of their political friends rather
than to leave them in the hands of their
political enemies. But while this may
be true, it is also true that our public
institutions should not be governed in
the interests of any political party at
the expense of the best interests of said
institutions, and it is natural for each
party to think that they would be best
managed under the control Of our party.
This is natural, whether it be true or
not.
Petitions for local option and temper
ance legislation keep coming in at the
rate of from 5000 to 1000 day, but as
yetnothing has been done, except re-
port from the Temperance Committee
on Mr.. Young's bill, which, according
to the rule, was laid over for one day.
This bill provides that persons who are
or may be engaged in the traffic in dis
titled or malt liquor or wine shall give
a bond in any sum not less than $500
nor more than 81 800, with good secu-
rity to the satisfaction of the Probate
Court, and it imposes heavy penalties
for selling without having given such
bond. The penalties for violating any
of the provisions of this proposed law
are severe, but none too much so. If
this bill should become a law it would
shut up more than One-half of the
liquor shops. 1t seems to have more
ravorites in the House than any meas
lre that has been proposed for the tenn
perance reformation, but its fate may
be death.
Among the numerous and immense
petitions for local option presented in
,he House on Thursday last was one by
Hon. Mr.. Licey, of Medina county,
which created good deal of merri-
nent. It measured fOrty-three feet in
ength, and was pasted on thin muslin
10th, making four columns of the pa
Der fOrty-three feet long, making l72
olid feet of names on the several pa
)ers. 1t was rolled In one roll, and at
ached thereto were three neat little |
white and blue. Two page
,oys at the lobby took hold of one end |
# the massive roll and two more started |
With the roll and marched down the
main aisle to the Clerks desk, the two
'oys remaining at the lobby holding
he end of the petition, two more hold
ng it up In the middle, and the two
With the flags holding the other end of
he 43-foot petition. 1t contained 1851
ames, and was certainly formidable
rray Of popular sentiment in favor of
Doal option, and this, with the thou
ands upon thousands of similar petit
Ions of the people Of this State, it
GEMS to me, the present Legislature
annOt afford to ignore. The people
emand careful Legislation in favor of
as a means of protection
gainst traffic that the Constitution
nd all good citizens acknowledge to be
great eyil-aye, the greatest evil le-
ultlng from the traffic in any other
rticle upon the face Of this earth.
am responsible for a paragraph in
he last HERALD In which 1t was stated