Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-10
BUCKEYE BLOTa
Pointing Out the BIemishes in Ohio
Legislation.
Sumptuay lass--edueated Soions--Gerry~
wandering g--Democratic Prodcts--Sam
Cos's Old Dstrict--Saappipg Tur-
tie Ioe--charIey Moore.
WHEELING BOYS; SEEING THE. SIGHTS.

your last report which would'be of interest
to. the general reader. AnleItraordnarily
large namber of amendments to tie code
of civil procedure wiz be enacted before
tbs. .6QaI. s4tonvc'yestiSi.- .-s,r On Ine~butII
flying: commission (whish furnished soft
placesfor played out poltticians) will have
to be gone over again in year or tws, as
one or tive more sessions of the General
Assembly will undo almost the entire labor
OF that august body.
The great effort OF this session seems 10
be especially directed against that poost'
constructed job Of coditication.
SuDptaary Laws.
A good deal OF time has besn spent in in.
PRODUCING, debeting, amending, and tam
pering with bills which relate to domestic
affairs which are wholly beyond the reach
of legislative power. The temperance
question: has proasIced largs crop of bills
and now. All amendment to the constitution
OF the State has passed, whiclSprovides for
regulation of the sale Of intoxicating
liquors.
The Senate Judiciary Committee amend
ed the original amendment By inserting
the most absolute and stringent clauses
that could possibly be devisedI by the most
enthusiastic tetotaler and recommended its
adoption.
One would think to read the amendment
so offered, TO be submitted to vote OF the
people, the authors forgot that any such
thing as al organic law ever sxisted-that
the Declaration of Independence, and even
the Constitution OF the State, are not bar.
- . bo ,v,t - A.
and fanatic who undertakes TO. regulate the
habits OF men and women by
the pains and penalties OF statutes
Never Read IL.
Since this. School Board Eings control
Lea latures-and all the fancy branches
of ming are taught in our schools, there
is little opportunity Of imparting to the
youth OF the country much knowledge OF
its laws, or the Chararte and nature OF the
government under which they live. The
consequence is that there arr members in
the Lower House who have never read the
fundamental law or the Constitution OF
their own State, yet they can call for beer
or Limberger in German. or ask for chew
OF tobacco in very paSSable French. These
are the men who are amending the code Of
civil procedure; men who know no law but
the law of necessity-men who are forever
jumping up and yelling out. "Mr. Speaker"
MIR. Speaker" and making long speeches
full OF emptiness.
Ierremy DiddIers-
The pious members of the Republican
side are now at work in the Gerrymandcr
business, and their subdivision, of the
State into Congressional districts, reminds
ono OF Marx Twain's celebrated railroad
map, showing the route Of the URiop
Pacific before it's location, which ran
through every mans farm l5Omiles north
and south from a certain tparalell. Or, in
other words. they are trying to make the
Congressional prizes go all around. In
districts where there are two or three as
pirants, they are dividing up and agreeing
on what particular post of profit each ought
a county office, some with post
office, q few with first class
consulship and some want TO go as minis
ters to European countries, so they can
cultivate their minds and bring home new
fashions and new manners. Almost every
body would be glad to see all Of them go To
some country where they could be taught
some kind Of manners, as they seem to he
wanting in that attribute in good many
ways.
Can't See It.
These arrogant and noisy gentlemen for
get that there are other people i'll the COM
monwealth beside themselves. 1t is only
when they find block of Solidly Demo-
cratic counties confronting them that they
recognize the existence OF such party.
These highly educated crankS forget that
this State, through the honesty OF its
Democratic masses. produced in the person
of Allen G. Thurman, the most lofty
and incorruptiblc statesman OF the age.
| They probably forget that Democratic men
| of letters. Democratic laborers, husband
men. artiZans and mechanics, in their
unity of action and purity Of purpose pro-
| duced
George II, PendletOn.
| not only a prince among men, but states
| man, and a scholar, lofty among the iottl.
! est, cultivated humane, yet genial and
of good fellowship among the humblest OF
! his fellows
And strange though it may seem. the
| Republicans with all their boasted claims
of intelligence, religion, and patriotism
have never been able TO produce in this
State or any other, so perfect type OF an
| American gentleman. Yet this
Fine Haired Party,
! i'm the face Of all the crowning triumphs OF
the Democracy, affect 10 despise them IN
their redistricting schemes. II is all right.
Let them gerrymander. The. REGISTER well
remembers when the same kind OF an
iniuuity was practiced 10 disfranchise Ohio
| Democrats by blocking out districts, and
BY burying the musical, the versatile, the
humorous. the beloved, and the ever Joy
full Sam Cox, under sixteen hundred Re
publican majority in the capital district.
During the incubation OF that wicked
and cowardly scheme Sam would say:
Boys, if they don't pile up more than
fifteen hundred majority on top oil me
we'll null through" But when the lot
was finally consumated, and ,GOD Repub
Iican majority stared Samuel in the face
he looked little dubious at first. But
like a wise Justice OF Shakespeare. he be
tboupbt himself OF an If" .lf," said
sam, I'VE all pull togother-pull hard anG
long-vithout thought of defeat, we will
win, even with / 600 majority against US
The boys did pull hard and long and al
together, and the result was that sunset
! Cox was returned 10 Congress TO serve nj
fourth term in that body,
Geo. L. Converse,
the member from this district at present
Who Is now serving his second term, va
the law partner Of Sam Cox at this bar. ant
in some respects resembles Mr.. Cox Unde
the present redistricting bill Mr.. Conyers
would only have about 100 majority Y
| overcome. He can do that just a. easy
Mr.. Cox overcome his l,6oo, and .
He viii DO Ft
There are good many other district: u
the same shape. and il will be almost I'm
possible, under the present state Of affair
in the Republican party, TO get more tina
half of the congressional delegation.
Joe Geiger,
Fosters State Librarian. for he is not tb
neople's. as Foster didn't recognize the fac
thai the people cared much about books
long as he was their Governor, has raised
| hornet nest about himself. All the co
respondents in and about the capital a
down on Joseph But those who repr
sent Republican papers are not allowed a
individual expression concerning the sta
librarian, so their efforts find place !
! the waste basket, and Joseph rejoiees- ~
! has ALWAYS been a-kind friend 70 the NE
; isTxE and it can not well, in this connecti9
! 90 back on him. but there
Beef Eater.
!, Charles Moore. who came over mere ITO
, Cambridge. in Guernsey county, and pa
e died around in life insurance, and one tnii
: and another. with good many ups az
downs. but mostly downs; finally, hoveve
Whsn he was out OF money, he drew on !
cheek and has been living on u Tor t~eh