Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-09

cratic friend says we made provision {
pay for that institution, and do not as
that there be an extra tax for it. BU
what is the provision? They have Pre-
vided that this institution, that is to cos
anywhere from a million and a half t
possibly two and half millions (for 20
know how such matters go), shall b
paid for and maintained out of certai
portion which they have set aside for th
purpose of the revenue to be derive,
from the Scott law. Osughter.) An,
at the very minute when our Democratic
friends made that provision, they knew
that they we're pledged to the people O
the State of Ohio who owned them, t,
repeal and destroy the Scott law. AnC
at that very moment they were plottin,
and planning for its overthrow and ab-
rOgation, which overthrow and desiruc
ton they have subsequently brought
about. But having brought it about
they leave their enterprise unprovided
for. Having committed the state to it
having made it necessary that the mex
Legislature, if we would keep good faith
shall burden the taxpayers of this state
in order that that $1,5OO.OOO may be
raised, and that institution built, and that
enterprise carried out. Now, L say that
is not sincere; it is insincere. Either
that, or it shows reckless disregard OF
the best interests of the people of the
state, or incompetency to successfully
deal with their affairs.
Well, now, 1 do not intend to dwell
upon these things tO>night. 1 intend
simply to call your attentio to them,
and there are two or three such matters
that want to invite your attention to,
and will then give way to the other
speakers who are to follow me.
Did you ever hear tell of the Koehler
pipe line billp You have of "coal oir' l
know; but the Koehler pipe line bill is
the one l refer to. Well, now, let me
briefly tell you word or two about it.
1t was measure that provided for COM
petition with the Standard Oil company
in the transportation of oil, and when
you touch the Standard Oil company in
this Legislature, you are touching some
thing sacred. Immediately after that
had been introduced in the
House by Mr.. KOehler, there was such
opposition as that, although it had the
merit that recommended it to every fair
mind, and had the unbroken petition of
every other oil refiner in the city of
it barely passed the House.
but finally it got through. But when it
got through and was delivered to a mes
'enger to carry it from the House, right
across over there to the Senate, where
Bob Kennedy is going to preside the
next two years, Qaughter), that messen-
ger boy that for fifty years had neither
ost a paper or lost his way, was so UNI
fortunate as to lose that document en-
.irely. Naughter.) Search was made
,very where, but 1t could not be found,
md finally the author of the bill, when
le discovered that he could not find the
original one, substituted q copy, had it
made out in due form and prepared for
to the Senate and sent it to
he, Senate by messenger. But they
we're 50 fearful of the surrounding that
hey would not let that messenger 90 to
larry it unlsss he be accompanied by two
guards, one on each side of him. laugh
er.) He finally reached the Senate and
le delivered it to the presiding officer,
whose duty it was to lay it before the
senate for further action upon it, but |
Who, instead of doing that, slipped it
nto his pocket and kept it there for tive
IT three days until he was compelled to |
Iisgorge it, the whole affair being of such
lisgraceful character as to induce Sena'
or O'Neill. reputable and able Demo-
rat, one of the most so in the State of
)hio (and here again let me remind you
ana speaking upon Democrat authority |
o rise in his place in the Senate and de-
ounce the whole thing as an indelible
isgrace.
But now another thing. When this
democratic party came into power we
ad what is known as the contract sys+
sm in Ohio for utilizing the labor in
be peniteltiary. Under that system
he penitentiarv has not only been self
0ut the last year of Governor
'OSters administration it made q net
rofit of $4,000 that went into our state
to help relieve the burdens of
le tax payers throughout the state.
Applause) Well, in that respect the
)ntract system that was then in force
as a perfect suceess-a popular success
but in another respect it was objec-
enable. 1t brought the degraded con-
let labor of the penitentiary into unjust
nd offensive competition with the hon.
It labor on the outside, and the Demo-
attic party came into power committed
} remedy that wrong. That was the
edge and promise they had given. But
,w did they do? They rubbed the sore
hen they ought to have applied plas-
T. Instead of remedying that wrong, i
ley gave us another contract system sc-
riding to Tue piece plan, which brings
at labor into more immediate, more
rect, more offensive, more OdiOus and
ore ruinous competition by far with
Inside honest labor than the old system {
Id. in addition to that, has made the
30 longer self-sustaining.
At has created a deficiency, and the {
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