Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-10-18
The h Election.

New York Herald, Oct. 10.
The result of the Ohio election
cannot be forefold from the latest
returns received at this writing. The
report from Iowa are still more
meagre, but Che State is too strongly
republican to leave The issue in
doubt.
Whatever the final returns IN Ohio
may prove to be, the result will be
no test of party strength on national
questions. National issues were
made by both platforms, aud in the
beginning Of the campaign wele ta-
ken UP by speakers of both sides on
the stump; but the dominant issue
was Il purely local one, and as the
day OF election drew nigh all others
we're lost sight Of in this. That was
the liquor question, embodied in
what is known us the second amends
ment to the constitution, which pro
| hibits the manufacture or sale of in-
toxicating liquors as a beverage. The
republican party did not declare III
favor of prohibition. Their speakers
did not advocate it. They wanted it
to be regarded as a non-l artisan
issue. But the party was committed
to rigorous measures for thu regula-
ton of the liquor traffic and was
| looked upon as friendly to prohibition
If not operly in favor of it. 1t had
passed the Pond License law Of 1882,
which the Supreme Court held to
be unconstitutional, and the Scott
"tax" law Of 1883, which The Court
declared constitutional. 1t had yoted
TO submit The prohibition amendment
to the people, and it was naturally
expected by the advoc ties of temper.
ance and feared by the lieuor inter>
ests that any legislation that might
be passed to give effect to the amend
ment, III case of its adoption, would
come from that party.
The democrats, on the other hand,
were openly against prohibition
They were also known to be opposed
to the existing liquor law, which has
taken from the SELDOM keepers of the
state taxes aggrcgating more than
two million dollars. They naturally
counted, therefore, On the liquor and
beer vote: including a very consldera-
tle German contingent which on
other issues has always been rrepub-
lican. ssh fns
A Scramble for Hangmans Place.
Tho death of Marwood, the public
hangman, made a vacancy in the
English Civil Service, and it became
necessary to fill it by some form of
competitive examination. There were
numerous candidates, all of them
Jealous and cnterprising. One of
them avowed his willingness to hang
either his brothers or sisters, or any
one else related to him, without fear
or favor. Another represented that
he had bcea making l~ay-fgures of
various weights and hanging them
for the sake of practice, fixing a block
of wood as a head on a pole and at
taching to it wire springs to represent
The verteb1a Of the neck. Sons of
the applicants laid stress upon their
height, others upon their weight, and
others again upon their diminutive
size, their nerve or their activity, and
two Of them seemed to depend upon
their ''gentlemanly Department.
Tho sherilfs of Icndon or MiddIesex
did not fnl it easy to choose the best
man. but after a dress parade of sew
enteon applicants i'll the corridor of
the Old b lilly, and subsequent criti-
cl inspection of five in executive ses>
sion, they appointed James Berry, a
salesman in boot shop. who had
once been allowed TO assist fhe'puW
lie hangman in q particularly nice bit
Of work in Leeds.