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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

The new constitution Of Georgia limits
Legislative sessions to forty days every two
years, which time has been found ample
to accomplish all needful legislation.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12
OLD Mother Symptoms prophecy, that

OLD Mother Symptoms prophecy, that
The world to an end shall como
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one,
is going the rounds of the newspaper press,
accompanied with confrmatory signs of
various sorts; and some credulous and su-
perstitious people are making themselves
miserable by anticipating it's literal fulfil
ment.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
RECORD OF CRIME.

A thief who had robbed daughter of W. p.
Sheldon, a banker of B "ooklyn, N. Y, of we'd
ding gifts, was found unconscious and dying in
the parlor of an unoccupied house adjoining,
having fallen from the roof through the sky
light
Frank McNear of Danbury, Iowa, has skipped
to avoid prosecution for the seduction of Miss
Sara T.. Bowser, postmistress of Danbury Miss
Bowser has resigned She is spoken Of as q
young lady of education and previous good
character. McNearis supposed to have gone to
Jackson county, where his wife is visiting
In Brooklyn, N, Y, Jas. Walsh, aged nine
teen, killed Barbara Groenthal, aged seventeen,
because she refused to marry him. He pro-
cured dirk and went to the house of Jas. Car
Isle, where tho girl was living, called her to
the door and stabbed her to the neart She died
almost instantly. After the murder Walsh went
init suicide by drowning, but was fshed out and
taken to Long Island College hospital It was
not known at the time that he was murderer,
but he confessed and was removed to police
station.
A wholesale and cold-blooded murder oc-
CURED one mile south of Otis, Indiana, last
Friday night James Augustine and family have
sessed of considerable property, and generally
had good deal of money in the house. During
the afternoon Henry Augustine, nephew Of
James, came from Chicago to make them visit,
and tried vainly to get them to drink from a
BOTTLE which proves to have contained poisoned
whiskey About IL o'clock at night he got up
from his bed, sought the bedroom of James
Augustine, and leveling revolver, began firing.
Mrs Augustine was SO badly wounded that she
expired to-day. James Augustine was shot in
the breast and will probably die Henry ran
from the room after firing several shots. The
sons hearing the firing, came down, and Chris
tan Augustine demanded of Henry, whom he
met in the kitchen, what it meant Henry re-
piled with bullet which killed Christian in
stant]y. He gave parting shot at the younger
brother, James, which only made slight flesh
wound, and then cody went to his uncle's room
right and wanted to help them James, the
son, got the revolver from him, put him in the
kitchen and locked the door. Henry escaped
barefoot and hatless.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

PRESIDENT Jackson first declared that,
ITO the victors belong the spoils" This
unworthy barnaCle was fastened rpon
the government long before the Republi.
can party was bOrn.-RepoSitOry.
Will the Repository inform us where
and when Gen. Jackson made use.of the
expression aboveP 1t is true Gen. Jack.
son, on assuming the Presidency, found
the official appointments were almost all
Federalists; and he proposed that his
friends, constituting large majority Of
the American people, should aid him in
administering public aff4irs. "To the
viCtors belong the spoils" was acted on
b. Gen. Jackson's predecessor, and this
old Federal barnaCle was the parental
ancestor of the Republican party; and it
is the same party of wrong and monop-
oily it's parent was, It's geneaology is
easily traced, and the Offspring az like
the parent as one pea to another. This
Republican party started out Know
Nothing party, and now in New England
1t exhibits the same proscriptiVe policy.
The Republican party is the lineal de-
scendant of old alien and sedition law
Federalism.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

The Democratic party is one Of doc
trine; and its book of doctrine is the
Constitution. The Democracy are moi
a higher law party. We know of no
higher political law than the Constitu-
ton. This is our fundamental law, and
should be strictly construed. Once let
Congress and the other Departments Of
the Government learn to disregard the
plain requirements of that instrument,
and there will be no limit to irresponsi-
bic power. An aristocracy of wealth
will be established under some pretense
or other, possibly protection to Ameri>
can labor! The sleek knaves who get
farmers to sign notes pretend to be nice
men, and aim to promote their interest
and gain, Political knaves work in this
way, pretending to the people they want
power in order to legislate money into
the laboring mans pocket.
The Constitution of the United States
is the fundamental law that constitutes a
government prescribing the variou, de-
plrtments thereof and limiting their
powers, The object Of this Constitution
was to form a more perfect Union, estab-
!ish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty.
1t will be seen the purpose was not to
build up monopolies, those enemies of
justice and oppressors of labor. Justice
involves equality; and it is not justice
unless all are equal before the law. If
farmers wool is protected 80 per cent,
woollen manufacturers protected 100 per
cent:-where is the justice2
1t should not be forgotten that govern
ment is supported by the people; not the
people by the government. Govern
ment is the administration of public af,
fairs, and those who administer the gov
eminent are the agents of the people.
These create no wealth; their official la
bors being wholly unproductive of
wealth. Government therefore, is
burden at best, and hence the necessity
of taxation to support and carry on the
government. There is no miracle or
mystery, then in government. And to
a proper understanding of governmental
affairs little common sense only is re-
quired.
In this country we have our township
governments, our city governments,
county governments, state governments
and the general government. All these
are founded on the natural authority of
the people, with nothing miraculous or
mysterious in it all. This important
point should never be forgotten, for it is
a great step in favor of the rights of
mankind.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

Probate Judge George M. Grasser Of
Newark, Licking county, in this state,
was nominated for State Senator by the
district Democratic convention held at
Newark on Friday last. The Judge was
nominated on the 44th ballot. getting
the vote Of Licking, Muskingum, Perry
and two from Delaware, making 143;
Marriott getting 28 votes from Delaware,
Judge Grasser was called out, and re-
sponded neatly and happily, thanking
the convention for the unexpected hon.
or. He is now serving his second term
as Probate Judge, which will expire next
January.
We congratulate our friend Judge
Grasser, and the Democracy of the dis.
trict on the action of the convention.
Judge Grassers candidacy was sprung
to settle controversy, which it did.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14
A PROHIBITION TALK,

The Christian AdUoCate of this city raps
the Ohio Republicans very gently over
the knuCkles for the evasion of any de.
liverance on prohibition or local option
at their recent convention. Consider.
ing the resolution of the convention was
put forward as bit of double meaning
hypocrisy, intended to unite the Germans
and the Prohibitionists, each holding
antagonistic views on the question at is.
sue, the AdUOcate's rebuke is remarkably
gentle, and only another evidence of the
difficulty in rebuking sin in our own
household. Our esteemed evangelical
contemporary devotes space to some very
'rabld talk about an alleged exodus of
population from Kansas because of the
prohibition law in that state OF course
there is no such exodus. People find it
much easier TO disregard an impractica.
BILE law than leave the state to be rid of
its stringent regulations, and that is pre-.
cisely what is being done in Kansas.
Prohibition was carried in that state By
the votes of the rural population, and
not those of the cities, although twas
for the latter the new liqror laws were
chiefly intended. The result is prose-
cutions against beer sellers of Leaven.
worth Topeka and other cities, have
proved abortive in the Clearest cases.
The Atch 'nson Telegraph mentions one
case in which six uncontradiCted Witnes.
ses testified to having drank LIQUOR in
the defendant's bar room, yet Jury con.
sisting of nine white men and three ne.
groes, and containing not single Ger.
man, returned verdict of not guilty.
Thus encouraged, the liquor sellers, many
of whom closed their shops in MAY, in.
tend to resume business, and disposi.
ton is manifested to bid defiance to the
new law. In the country, where there
is no call for prohibition, it can be enfor.
ced with some measure of success, but
in the larger towns and cities the law is
now fnd always will be dead letter,
This is the case in Maine today. It ia
not necessary to preach sermon on the
decentralization that sets in, when the
statute books are filed with laws 80 i'm.
practicable and obnoxious they cannot
be enforced, and when open violation is
advocated by individuals and classes OF
repute, as an unwarranted infringement
on their personal rights. The evil OF
such state of aft irs is apparent, and is
a leading reason why, earnestly wishing
as we do, all success to temperance
movements based on reason and good
sense, we regard prohibition laws as pro.
ducive of more harm than good to the
cause they seek to advance.-PN8. Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

The halfbreed candidates for the U. s.
Senate at Albany are two members Of
Congress, Miller and Lapham. They are
comparatively obscure, and persons hith'
erto Of only local prominence. 1t is
strange the caucus did not take up Mr..
Evarts and George William Curtis; or
some such men. The N. Y. World gives
the secret of the bitter nomination thus:
"rhe Republican forest in this state is
not overstoCked with Senatorial timber,
but while il Contaioe Mr.. Evarts and Mr..
George William Curtis, to name only
two men, there can be no excuse offered
either for Mr.. Miller or for Mr.. Lapham.
There lie, however, this difference. Mr..
Lspham is obscure merely. For aught
anybody knows he may be good hus.
band, loving father, tolerable lawyer
III he happens 10 be a lawyer and a
faithful citizen. The case Of Warner
Miller is different in this, that Warner
Miller has once or twice emerged from
the shadow Of obsCurity, with Consequen.
ces by no means favorable to him. War.
ner Miller has served a term in Congress
possibly two, os:eLsib!y as the represen.
tatve of the people of one of the Con.
gressionsl districts of this state, but real
ly as the representative simply of a Ger.
tain mandatory of wood-pnlp which he
owns. H mission in Congress has been
to increase the profits of this manufac.
tory, by maintaining the oppressive and
sCandalous duty on Nood-pulp which
was imposed through insdvertence, and
the repeal of which hse been prevented
only through log rolling. If Mr.. Warner
Miller should be chosen to the Senate,
it is to be presumed he will represent his
wooden pulp factory with sing gle.mpnd.
ed devotion with which he has renresen.
ted it in the H Juse. The legislators who
are 80 much opposed to monopoly "and
so extremely soliCitous that the great
industrial interests of the country shall
not be represented in the Senate, will
present pleasing spectacle when they
vote that Warner Miller's wood.pulp
factory, which is real aud burdensome
monopoly, shall have a Senator all to
itself"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

A HUNDRED thousand and more Offices
are to oe filed by the President of the
United States. This is fearful patron
age to WELD, and give, rise to strife and
struggles, The recent murderous attempt
on President CART eld brings the whole
matter forcibly to the attention of the
American people.
The demoralzing tendencies of the
spoils system are conceded, and certainly
reform is needed" as was 80 powerfully
shown and claimed in the National Dem
oCratic platform Of 1876. Reform should
be based on the fundamental condition
that the subordinate Offices of the Fed.
eral Government are open to all citizen
Of the Republic, be they Republicans,
Democrats or Greenbackers. The JEFF.
tersonian quali6Cations-is he honestP il
he capableP-are the only ones that can
be allowed to determine appointments to
office. Are our Republican friends ready
for this move forward2
Assessments on officeholders for polit.
ical purposes should be reformed out Of
existence. The Democrats in the last
Congress had a thorough going bill on
this subject up for consideration from
Committee on Civil Service Reform,
They desired to paps it, in view Of the
approaching Presidential election, and
it would have stopped many scandals
that must now afilict the hearts of some
recently converted, But Republican
opposition to this bill went to the length
Of breaking quorum to defeat Its pas.
sage.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14
The Chea pest in the Citv!
PROBATE Judge Heldenbr4nd lats,y an.

PROBATE Judge Heldenbr4nd latgly ap.
pointed Mr., Yohe, teacher in the Canton
schools, to the position of County School
Examiner also Mr.. Tsggart, teacher in
Canal Fulton, to the same position. These
gentlemen are appointed in place of
Messrs. Wilson and Allen resigned. We
have no objection to the gentlemen ap.
pointed, but jnst now, when Judge Hell.
denbrand is trying to engage Democrats
to vote for him, it would have looked
better if he had appointed one Democrat
to the Board. OF course, Mr.. HeIden-
brand will not, under these Circumstan.
Ces, expect a Democrat to vote for him.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14
FOSTER.

We suspect that Mr.. Charles Foster,
the Administration candidate for Cover
nor Of Ohio, will find his race anything
but an agreeable one. There are a great
many op n accounts outstanding against
this active and meddlesOme little man,
and the present may be deemed very
good time for settling some ofthem. The
Stalwarts have number of them, old
and new, The trade with the Southern
Democrats by which those eminent Stal
warts, Packard and Chamberlain, went
overheard, in order to get for Hayes the
office of Mr.. Tilden, was something to
which they never could become recon.
ciled, Notwithstanding the sweet words
which John Sherman uttered at Cleve.
land, that cold blooded and willy states
man is also known to cherish a strong
hope of revenge. His relations with the
parties who supply the bulk of the mon
ey to carry elections for the Republican
party are such that at nod from him
those sources might be instantly dried
up, and nobody be the wiser. Whether
he will consider it for his interest to sink
Foster and Garfield now, or wait for some
other occasion, when he may not only
destroy them, but gain something sub.
stantial by their demise, nobody can fore.
tell. H 8 epeech at Cleveland is no evi.
dence whatever of his intentions.
But with the Stalwarts the case is diff.
ferent. They owe Garfield and Foster
nothing but blows, and they make no Sc.
cret OF their desire to pay them squarely
and fairly II they can muster enough
force in GM fields own state to knock
down his peculiar candidate, and show
that the convention which endorsed him
did not represent the true R publican
sentiment, they will have given the Ad
ministration mortal wound, And they
need not On out of party lines to do it;
they have only to follow the example of
the Administration at Albany in it's fight
upon Conkling, and refuse to let the par
ty lines be drawn at all.
But the honest voters of Ohio have
bigger and blaCker score against Foster
than the politicians. We think we see
yet the picture which Mr.. Handy, then
of the Philadelphia Times, drew of Gov.
Fo ter, emerging from comfortable
dinner the day after the October eleC
ton last year, Chuckling over the "busi-
ness scare" and the tariff swindle," by
which the people had been defrauded of
their votes. He admitted there was no
foundation for either of tho partisan
cries; and for that very reason he was all
the more amused and delighted oy their
success. Perhaps some of the voters
who were chea ed out Of their ballots
then, and have since come to 80 clear an
appreciation of the fact, may think it
worth while to teach Mr.. Foster lesson
in political honesty and sincerity at the
coming eleCtion.-N Y Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

The attention of Republicans who
tend to think the debt of OHIO has been
skillfully and judiciously managed un-
der Gov, Fosters administration, is invi.
ted to the following from the Chicago
Times:
I'm double-leaded editorial of con.
graduation to Gov, Foster upon the great
succ's of his financial policy, the Cleve-
land Leader falls into ludicrous misap-
prehension Of facts. 1t says: "Our state
debt, amounting to something over $4.
100000, has been refunded at 81 per
cent, the lowest interest ever drawn by
the bonds of any STATE in this country,
and / per cent less than the lowest fig
ures ever reached by our N tional bonds.
This great swing to our state is solely
due to the careful, business,like manage.
ment OF Gov. Foster. A year ago, wnen
the subject oil funding the state debt
was under consideration, several offers
were received to take our bonds at 4
per cent, but under the advice OF Gov.
Foster, they were not accepted" An
investigation Of the facts will show that
the rate Of interest on these bonds
was 4 per cent, and that the wild.eyed
editor the Leader, finding that they were
sold at premium of 81 per cent, jumped
at the conclusion that the premium was
the interest. Endorsement from SO dis.
eliminating an editor, who uses double
leads to make his error the more con.
spicuous, can hardly be regarded as val
liable. II would be proud day for Ohio
il, like Illinois, it could boast that, in.
stead Of paying 81 per cent interest, it
paid no interest at ALL"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

Hon. John Moffat, formerly Commis
sioner Of Immigl alton for Tennessee
proposes cheap excursions to the South
The parties will start from various coun.
ties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan
Indiana and Illinois, and go via Cincin'
matt to Chattanooga, visiting mountain
scenery and going to the town Of Mof'
fat, hundred miles south of Nashville
where the party can rusticate as long
as they desire. Parties Of 50 to zoe
wishing to negotiate will address A. l.
King, corresponding secretary, Chagrin
Falls. Ohio.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

The Repository wiseacres do not at.
tempt to explain the prostration and ruin
that overlook the iron interest in 1873 a.
Sc 7. Why did this occur under a tar
iff for protection? Are we not told such
a tariff is panacea against such results7
Many of these suspended iron mills
have not yet been started, and never
will be- This remark applies to the AL
lance rolling mill. Facts are stubborn
things, and our amiable neighbors do
not care to grapple with the facts. They
have poor or treacherous memories; or
must think other people have.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

HE Republican party two years ago got
the temp eranCe vote of Ohio by claiming
to be the real. bona fde temperance par.
ty. Charles Foster PLAYED this game. In
fact this was the game all over the state
Senator Hartshorn, R pre- sentatives Sny.
der and Conrad and the rest made th
same promises, They promised local
OPTION. Daring the previous Democratic
General Assembly, the Republican mem
bers were avowed and earnest friends OF
local option. In this way was Foster
elected and the General Assembly made
Republican in both branches. In this
way was Stark county carried for the
Republican ticket.
Once elected however, the Republi.
can majority were in no hurry to pass
Local Option. During their frst session
a year ago last winter, they did not touch
temperance. They waited till after the
Presidential election, and during Their
second session, last winter, showed their
hand-and of course defeated Local O 0.
ton.
In the Republican state platform, late
Iy adopted at Cleveland, is a resolution
favoring Constitutional change, so hat
the Legislature sh ould have full control
of the liquor question, or rather favoring
the submission of such change to vote
the people Of the state. This is only
another scheme to delude the temper.
ance people and get their votes again
this fall The Republican tricks, how.
ever, are likely to fail. Their double
dealing on temperance is too manifest to
be again successful, even if they do vary
the trick.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

AS usual, the doctors managed to get
up fight over the Presidents case, re-
sulting in the dismissal of half dozen
or more of eminent medical gentlemen.
At present DR.. Bliss holds the fort, and
the President, we presume, will be just
as well off under his treatment, as if the
whole posse of family physicians had
their sweet will in dosing and probing
him. This is a case of surgery, almost
purely so, and DR.. Bliss, who has it in
charge, is confessedly an expert in his
profession 1t is said Of him he possess
es the three great qualities essential to
make great surgeon-a lions heart, an
eagles eye, and lady's hand. He is
not regarded as over sanguine for pro-
fessional man, but he has ever been no.
ted for the rare quality of inspiring hope
in his patients. DR.. Bliss is now about
50 years OF age.-(Alliance Review.
We believe it was of DR.. Bliss that the
late Edwin M. Stanton said, For great
doctor he is the biggest id fool ever
knew"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

In late discussion in the British
House of Commons, on punishment for
crime, Mr.. Cropper, in his remarks said:
1t seems to me that when the sentence
of death is carried into execution we Of
ten punish, rather for the results of the
crime than for the crime ITSELF We wait,
for instance, to see whether the crime
was a murder or savage assault. II
the person who has been attacked chan
ces to recover, the ofense does not
amount to murder, and yet the crime
must have been the same on the part of
the criminal. In such a case man
ought to be punished for the crime, and
not for its results
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

Thos. Key Pugh, son Of the late U. S.
Senator Geo. E. Pugh, is supposed to be
in the hands Of the Apache Indians in
Mexico. He was on his way in the stage
from El Paso, Texas, to Chihuahua
in Mexico, and was captured July goth
All the other passengers were killed, and
it is feared young Pugh will be. The
authorities of the United States and
Mexico have sent troops after the IndiN
ans, hoping to save him.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14
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