The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-04-20
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A BIEL has passed the Legislature
and is now law, closing the public
schools on Decoration day.
REPORTS from various quarters rep
resent the small fruits seriously injured
and the, e,wheat crop as much damaged.
SAEM BEPuBLICAN Robert Lou
den, at Tea Garden, was kicked on the
head by horse, but not seriously
hurt. They have somevery hard heads
down in Old Columbiana, eh.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee in session at Columbus on
Friday, fixed upon Wednesday, June
7th, as the day for the holding of the
next. State Convention of that party.
Now that Saint Smiths Sunday law
has been adopted by our wise Legisla-
tors, there will be an immense demand
for jugs and bottles every Saturday.
Was it designed to start boom for
glass and pottery business?
TIE grand jury of Franklin county
has indicted Bloch and Wright, two
members of Ohio's model Legislature,
for bribery. Well, 81 let no guilty man
escape" They both belong to the
party of great neral ideas.
Protect the manufacturing monopo-
lists from competition by high duties
on foreign goods, but leave them free
to import cheap Chinese labor to drive
out the. American working men, is
the doctrine of the Republican party.
The Republicans are Mortified at the
barbarous practices of the Mormons,
butare infatuated with the "heathen
Chinee" who can discount the disci-
pies of Brigham Young in all that
class of wickedness.
THE Ford brothers, who assassinated
the notorious bandit, Jesse James. were
arraigned in the court at St. Joseph
Mo, on Monday, on an Indictment
charging them with murder. to which
they plead guilty, and they were inn
mediately pardoned by the Governor.
THE Auditor of State aud Attorney
General concur in the opinion that the
Personal Property Assessors for the
year 1882 have no duties to perform
under the provisions of the Pond law
and official instructions to that effect
have been issued.
Ten cities that last Fall gave Repub
lican majorities aggregating $500, or
the 3d turned around and gave Demo
cratic majorities aggregating 1920
making u change of 25, ,76O, or enough
to wipe out Fosters majority in the
State last October.
A PROMINENT Brewer of Cincinnati
in an interview in the Enquirer, sai1
that Tall the brewers of that city wer,
Republicans, and had given liberally
of their means to help along in every
State campaign, Not only that, bu
they were solicited for funds for cam
paigns in other States-even to pul
through Malone in his repudiatior
scheme in Virginia
THE Pond law requires all saloon!
to be closed whose proprietors don
pay the amounts specified and give til,
required bond, but if they pay ant
give bail they are permitted to con
tinue in the business of selling. Still
the friends of the act say it is not
license.
THE German citizens are beginnin Ms
to realize which of the two great polit
ical parties in this country is the legit
innate descendant and genuine repre-
sentative of the old proscriptive anC
intoierant Know Nothing party o
happy memory. Well, the longer al
lives Il man the more he finds by Jim
miuy out.
lT is the boast of the Republican
leaders that their party abolished ne
gro slavery, but they have little to b.
proud Of in binding the laboring, pro
ducing people of the land in thrall Il
the monOpOlists and privileged orders
or compelling them to toll side by side
or in competition with the rice and ra
eating Chinese Coolies.
SOME of the goody good Republican
papers assert that the Democratic par
ty is in favor of " free whisky" Tha
may be very smart, but they know
to he a mean cOntemDtible lie Rn
the recent reverse to the party of al
the purity, piety and patriotism, ,woul
seem to indicate that in the past it
It's managers have been pandering t
and cheating the liquor men.