The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-07-19

THE Council of the village of Bed.
ford have passed prohibition erdin-
ance by unanimous vote.
ACCORDING to Republican logic, vice
is virtue when it pays a license tax.
For particulars, see Scott bill.
BY the falling of derrick in stone
quarry near Lemont, ILL.,, on the 18th,
four men were caught under the heavy
timbers and instantly killed.
THE Republican Central Committee
OF Portage County have fixed the time
for holding the county nominating
convention of that party on Thurs
day, August 23d.
THE Republicans of Iowa didn't
follow the example of their brethren
of Ohio, who try to play double on the
liquor question, but put straight
prohibition plank in their platform.
THE Republican Congress reduced
the duty on wool that the farmers have
to sell, and increased the duty on
wooden goods, which the farmers have
to buy, because they 80 love the working
men.
THERE are some tried men among
the leaders of the party of great NOR
al IDEAS" but the difficulty is they
employ so much "soap" in the inter-
est of the grand old party'' that they
slip through the hands of the triers,
who fail to convict them.
THE way taxation of the liquor traf-
fic regulates the sale of intoxicants, is
TO increase the quantity sold. The
higher the tax imposed the more sales
will be required to make the business
pay. But this is the Republican plan
of mitigating the evils of intemper-
ance!
EVEN in Iowa, the Republican par
ty, with its 10000 majority, seems to
be in q weaving way. Its extreme po-
sition on prohibition has alienated the
Germans, while its protection doctrines
are driving thousands of farmers, who
are mostly :" free traders" from its
ranks.
THE Republican managers are hard
to please. Last year they were terri
bly, down Oh Newman because he was
regular "moss back" and now they
are bowling against Hoadly because
he is not.a lifelong Democrat; and
they refuse to be comforted. 'Tis sad.
THE only hope the Republicans seem
to entertain for their success this fall
rests in their ability to persuade a suffi-
cient number of Democrats to not vote
for Hoadly to give them the victory.
But they are quite likely to slip up on
that little calculation.
SOME of the Democratic journals are
becoming alarmed for fear President
Arthur will be candidate for re-eiec-
ton Trenton (Mo.) Republican.
In this neck of woods it is otherwise.
It is the Republican papers that fear
Arthur may be q candidate.
IN one part OF the State the Repub-
cans are shivering with pretended
fright at the fear that the Democratic
House will reopen the tariff law, while
i'm the wool districts they are anxious
ly telling the feeced victims that their
Interests must be readjusted.-Stark
Co. Dem.
NOTWITHSTANDING the decision oi
the candidates for Supreme Judges on
the Republican ticket, the leaders o1
the "grand old party" are having
hard time in proving to sensible pco
ple that law which allows or permits
the sale of Intoxicating liquors to bt
drank on the premises where sold, il
not license law. But they are only
trying to prove that in certain locali
ties,
HORACE BROOKS, the oldest prisoner
I'm point of service in the Ohio peni
tentiary, died in that institution OIL
Thursday morning, of cancer. HI
was sent to the penitentiary for life
from Cleveland, Nov. 10, 1851, for mur
der in the second degree, for wreckinl
a train on the G. & p. r. r., which
ran through his farm, causing the LOST
of several lives.