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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Twenty years ago the number of
insane persons in the United States
was only 24,O42. In 1879 it had
reached 37,432, and in18S0 treat
ment was required for 91,O5O luna
tics. From 1870 to 1880 the increase
in insanity was nearly $50 per cent,
while that ofthe total population was
about 26. These figures do not how
ever, represent actual increase, but
during this period q large number of
insane persons previously concealed
were brought to public notice by
more thorough Investigation. In
America, apart from several large
county asylums, there are eighty
State and forty institutions for the
care of the insane, with q proper ca
pacity for about 10000, but contain
ing 1912, thus leaving probably
$4,000 to be cared for elsewhere. The
proportion of insane is greatest in
New England, while the increase as
been more rapid in the Western
States. In the State of New York
there are thirty five institutions for
the care of these unfortunate people,
accommodating 11,343 patients,
while it is said that there are. 1900
provided for at home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
Brown Co. Democrat.

A few years ago when preachers
made stump speeches against the
Democrats, and drove most Of them
from the church, they were applaud
ed by the Republican press and pol
iticians. 1t was all right then 80 long
as they were in accord with the Re-
publican party. But now that some
of them choose to set up in business
fer themselves and take a hand in
politics against the Republican par
ty, the pap-suckers of the grand old
party" have suddenly discovered that
it is wrong for preachers to take part
in politics. And they ven denounce
the churches, Sunday-schools and
temperance organizations as Demo
cratic aid societies. We now really
begin to doubt whether all the mo-
rality in the country is in the Repub-
lican party. Don't you?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The Hon. Mills Gardner of Fayette
county, formerly a Republican mem
Der of congress and several times q
member of the Ohio general assem-
bly, has written the following letter.
Mr.. Gardner was talked of for the
nomination for Governor by the Pro
hibitionists, but at the time Of hold
ing the convention there was an ele
ment of uncertainty about his posi-
ton. Mr.. Leonard was chosen instead
of Mr.. Gardner. The letter of Mr..
Gardner bears date of June 80. He
says in it:
1 cannot endorse the action of the
Republican convention. I take it for
granted that the Democratic conven-
ton will do NO better. A great many
temperance Republicans have not yet
got over their mad spell, occasioned
by defeat last year. A good many will
cling to the party because of the cleo
blOll VI u OultSo OGutSS SCLdIOE next
winter. My w judgment is that
temperance Republicans ought to
withhold their votes from the candi
date for governor. at least, if not from
all the ticket, and thereby teach the
party that judgment must begin at
the house of Israel. 1 believe that de.
feat for the party is better for it now
than victory. They will accept vic.
tory rs the triumph of the taxation
principle, while the truth is that the
sentiment of the great majority of
the party today is opposed to it. ]
believe the party will be defeated
this year. AS for myself, I denounce
the platform, and cannot lend any in.
~fiuence toward it's success. Perhaps
a large vote for the Prohibition tick
ct would be the best education il
could give them. MILLS GARDNER.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
Scandal NIongers in Politics.
Jersey City Argus.

Major John A. Rudd, formerly of
st. Louis, and all old line Democrat
and ex-Confederate, was discussing
the subject ofscandal mongersi in poli-
tics, with Gen. Shelly, of Alabama, at
Wiliiard's Hotel, when the ARGUS
correspondent Joined the party and
became an interested listener. Said
Major Rudd: "The scandals put in cir
culation during he last campaign con-
corning Cleveland and Blaine remind
ed me of the scandalous stories circu-
lated about odd Hickory Jackson by
his political enemies. Gen. Jackson's
candidacy extended over a period of
years and he has been the subject of
far greater scandal than any that have
been uttered against either Blaine or
Cleveland. Henry Clay, too, became
a target for scandal-mongers, and tits
said he WINGED under the accusations
of his evil tongued enemies. The gal
lantries of Aaron Burr were easily
condoned, but his political offences,
like those of Clay, and Blaine, are mat
tiers that people remember and the
most brilliant talents are not sufficient
to polish over. Old Hickory was a
blunt, honest man, against whose po-
litical integrity, no breath ofsuspicion
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

ever came. He was forward al the
avenger ofthe common people--the ad-
vocate of human rights-as against
those carpet knights in silk stockings
who were contending for what vas
termed the line of safe precedents.' A
man presuming to come within the
charmed circle ofthe Republican court
without experience, was an inn ovator
against whom ridicule and scandal
must be hurled without mercy. To the
carpet knights Old Hickory was a sort
of wild man of the woods; a military
chieftain ofthe frontier; a cut-throat !;
a libertine and a gambler. He had
hung six militiamcn /; he had slaughter
ed twenty-five hundred Englishmen
before, his breastworks at New Or
leans; he had laid violent hands upon
the Spanish colony of Florida ; he had
debauched the wife of another man
and silenced the husband by threaten
ing to cut off his ears. When tainted
of these things by Gov. Server he had
drawn his pistol on his Gus and
pursued him through the streets of
Natchez, firing as he ran. Besides this
it was charged that after living in open
duulteTy, ue uau IlaTrleu tllt paTtllcT
of his crimes and now proposed to
bring her to the White House with her
arms akimbo and perhaps smoking the
corn cob pipe, of which it is said they
were both immoderately fond. All
these things were heralded forth in the
press and by the cross-road orators,
but there was hone brave enough to
accuse Gen. Jackson of dishonesty.
His sins and virtues were all on the
surface and in the full glare of day,
while the offences of his competitors
by which one of them made the other
President, and himself Secretary of
State, was concoctcd in the dark. Mr..
Clay made himself useful to Mr..
Adams and was by no means q dead
head in the enterprise Scandalin pol
itics is not a new or original feature.
1t is as old as the hills, but 1 firmly
believe the day is not far distant when
it will be made o heinous offence be-
fore the law to drag a man and his
family into public gaze and disrepute
to subserve either ersonal or politi-
cal motives"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The law officer of the Post OHic e
Department has given an opinion
that is of the greatest importance to
the incumbents o fthe post offices and
to the government itself. 1t is to the
effect that any postmaster who de
votes to his private purposes the pos
tai funds in his hands, although not
requiled to deposit them until a spec
flied time, is guilty of embezzlement,
and liable to punishment by fine or
imprisonment. The rule thus adopt
ed is the only safe one, and that is
that government money must be kept
separate from the personal funds of
the postmaster, and not used for any
purpose other than those of the gov
eminent,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
Sound Ideas ON the Civil Service.

From President Andrew Jackson's
First Annual Message, Dec. 8, 1929.
There are, perhaps, few men who
joy Office without being moro or less
under the influence of feelings I'M
favorable to a faithful discharge of
their public duties. Their integrity
may be proof against improper con-
siderations Immediately addressed to
themselves but they are not apt to
acquire a habit of looking with in
difference upon the public interest,
and of t%olerating conduct from which
an Impractical man would revolt.
Office is considered as a species of
property, and government rather as a
means of promoting individual inter-
est than as an instrument created
solely for the service of the people.
Corruption in some, and in others a
perversion of correct feelings and
principles, divert government from
its legitimate ends, and make it all
engine for the support of the few at
the expense of the many. The du-
least admit Of being made, SO plain
ana simple mat Ineil VI intelilScuce
may readily qualify themselves for
their performance, and 1 cannot but
believe that more is lost by the long
continuance of ME in office than is
generally to be gained by their ex-
perience. I submit therefore, to your
consideration whether the efficiency
of the government would not be pro-
NOTED, and official industry and in
tegrity better secured, by a general
extension of the law which limits ap-
points to four years.
In q country where offices are
created solely for the benefit of the
people, no man has any more intrinsic
right TO official station than another.
Offices were not established to give
support to particular men, at the pub
lie expense. No individual wrong is
therefore done by removal, since
neither appointment to nor c%ontinu-
ance in office is a matter Of fright. The
incumbent becomes an officer with a
view to public benefits, and when
these require his removal, they are not
to be sacrificed to private interests.
1t is the people, and they alone, who
have O right to complain when o bad
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
New Orleans Picayune.

While the north remembers that
Gen. Grant received the sword flee,
the South will not forget with what
generous and sol .ier y courtesy he
returned it. We cheerfully recognize
his high place in history, and we can
not think otherwise than regretfully
of the misfortunes that saddened the
last days Of his life. 1t seems but yes
terday that he came back to us from
his triumphant journey around the
world, and after finding no land so
remote that his fame had not proceed
ed him there. Brethren of the north
and south let US join m%ournful hands
together around that newly opeL ed
grave, remembering that while all
earthly goods are ~evanescent, honor,
truth and love are e~ternally secure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
Gold Movements.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
the movement of gold coin in and out
ofthe United States shows that at the
end of June, 1884, the United States
Treasury held $134,631,649 in gold,
and the New York banks $64,1S9,6OO,
making a total of $19S, S21, 249. At
the end of June, 1885, the Treasury
held $119.4OS,2 900 in gold, and the
New York banks $113, $50, 600, max
ing a total of $224,464,S $40, and show
ing a total increase of $34,643,571.
The excess of imports over exports
of gold during the fiscal year ending
June 3O,1SS5, was $1S,213,S04. The
production of our mines is $30,000,-
900 annually. These two items
amount to $4S, 213, s04, which is $13,
569, 1877 more than the increase in the
stock in the New York banks and
in the Treasury. The difference
represents less than the amount
consumed in the arts and man
ufactures, and besides there is a
considerable allowance to be made
for the coin taken abroad by travel
ers to Europe. This would indicate
that gold is neither being kept out OF
the country nor boarded III private
hands, but flows into the banks and
into the Treasury faster than it goes
out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

JUDGE FORAKER, the Republican
candidate for Governor Of Ohio, is en-
deavoring to awaken enthusiasm"
amcng the Republicans of the State
by waving "the bloody shirt" and
making silly statements concerning
the "perversion" of the electoral vote
of the South from Mr.. Blaine. The
New York Times very concisely ex-
presses its opinion of Foraker's can
vass when it says that it regrets ''to
see that he has so low IN estimate
OF the intelligence of his fellow Re-
publicans in Ohio as to feed them
this sort of stuff"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Some of the Republican papers are
endeavoring to boom Blaine as the
Republican candidate for President
in 1888, but the Buffalo Erpress don't
want it that way. It says:
"We don't want to enter upon! the
next Presidential race handicapped
with a beaten horse. We don't want
to fight another campaign ID we did
the last, on the defensive. We don't
want a man who has been a standing
candidate for President since 1876,
rejected by two national Conventions
and Endorsed by one, only to lead the
Republican party to defeat the fret
time in a quarter of a century.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

AS there have been some refer
ences in Republican newspapers to
Governor Hoadly in connection with
General Grant, it may be well to re-
produce a sentiment from Hoadly's
address at West Point on the 25th of
last month:
"Without believing that peace is
necessarily rust, or wishing for war
to justify our judgment, we are sure
that ifthe hour of conflict shall come,
the work will prove itself, and that
the cadets of your instruction will
not be found less fit to lead armies
than their predecessors, and that
they will be worthy graduates Of a
school from whose halls went SHER-
MAN and SHERIDAN and THOMAS, and
that great and magnanimous sold
Ter, by the bed side of whose suffer
ing every true American heart
Northern and Southern-political foe
and political friend, now bleeds in
sympathetic SORROW"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Il looks as if there would be a diff
ference of opinion at the Democratic
State Convention, as to the endorse
ment of the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland. We don't see that
either the coal-oil gang or "moss-
backs" ought to object. Both fac
tions have been very cleverly recog-
nized in the distribution of the
spoils.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Gov. Hoadly has issued his procla-
nation respecting the death of Gen.
Grant. His funeral will take place
next Saturday. The proclamation
recommends that "upon that day the
State House and all public offices
and institutions of Ohio, State, coun
ty and municipal, be closed, and that
the 9Th day of August be devoted to
commemorative services in honor of
Ohio's foremost SON." The fulfill
ment of this order will be sufficient,
and proclamations of village Mayors
for any other observance is simply
superfuous and unnecessary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06


The Republican press of Ohio is
busy establishing the fact that prohi-
bition don't prohibit but in every
case increases the amount of liquor
drank and the evils of intemperance.
A certain James G.. Blaine, of
Augusta, Maine, is usually regarded
by Republicans as pretty good au-
thority, and he says:
"The people of Maine are industri-
Gus and provident, and wise laws
have aided them. They are sober,
earnest and thrifty. Intemperance
has steadily decreased in the State
since the first enactment of the pro-
hibitory law,until now it can be said
with truth that there is no equal num-
Der of people in the Anglo Saxon
world among whom so small an
amount of intoxicating liquors is
consumed as among the 100000 in
habitants of Maine"
The difference between Mr.. Blaine
and his party in Ohio is none of our
funeral, we leave them to fight it out
by themselves. The Democratic par
ty has the courage to declare itself
on the liquor question. 1t is in favor
of a well regulated license system.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The Register of last week calls at
tention to an. article on the subject
of our financial condition under dem
ocratic rule headed "Bankrupting
the State" 1 .this article is includ-
ed 5000, 900 appropriated to help feed
and clothe the thousands Of poor
sufferers along the Ohio river during
the late floods. The attempt to make
capital out of a charitable appropria
ton is the quintessence of meaness
and political %knavery.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
The following is a list of the survi-

The following is a list of the survi-
wing relatives ofGen. Grantin South
ern Ohio, the first named an uncle
and the others cousins: Samuel Simp-
son, Bantam, Ohio; R. B. Simpson,
Walnut Hills; Mrs. Geo. B. johnson,
Walnut Hills; Judge T. Q. Ashburn,
Batavia, Ohio; R. NJ. Griffith, Bethel,
Ohio; Benz. Winans, New Richmond,
Ohio; Mrs. Mary Burroughs, Ban
tam, Ohio; Mrs. Catch, Milford,
Ohio; Lewis Griffith, Germantown,
Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

In making their farms the settlers
in Ohio and Indiana destroyed mill
ions and millions of dollars worth of
black walnut. Miles and miles of
fence are laid with black walnut
rails. One old farmer says that only
thirty years ago he began making his
farm, and that he had worked eight
years in clearing it of the walnut tim
Der, eighty acres of which he burned
up. After thirty years of cultivation
the farm is worth $4,000. If it had
its walnut timber back it would be
worth more than $1,000 OO
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Many of the Cub N cigar factories
in New York, employ readers to re
cite the news of the day to the work
men while they are engaged at their
tasks. In this manner workmen learn
the wants Of the day, and the system
has resulted not only in making the
workmen feel more kindly toward
their employers, but has given them
opportunities for learning what is go
ing on in the world in a n they
could not enjoy any other way.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

officer is substituted for a good m
He who is removed has the same
means of obtaining aliving that are
enjoyed by the millions who never
held IN Office. The proposed limita-
ton would destroy the idea of prop
erty, now 81 generally connected with
official stations, and, although indivi-
dual distress may BIO sometimes pro-
duced, it would, by promoting that
rotation which constitutes a leading
principle in the republican creed give
healthful action to the system.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The Republicans persist in assert
ing that the Prohibitionists are allied
with the Democrats in this campaign,
yet last winter, says a writer in the
Enquirer, when the question of sub
hitting prohibitory and license
amendments to the constitution were
before the House, and thirty out of
forty-five Republicans voted for pro-
hibition, and sixty out ofsixty three
Democrats voted for license, and
while three Republicans voted for
license when there were not enough
Democrats present to carry it, every
one of them ran out of the House or
lodged, when the Democrats were all
present, and when the three Republi
can votes would have carried the pro
position and submitted it to q vo'e
of the people.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Arkansas has a law providing thas
q saloon may not be set up within $40
rods of q church. 1t is said that the
ingenuity of the thrifty Arkansians is
equal to the emergency. and that they
get around the prohibition by putting
up the saloon first and then build
ing the church right across the way.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The selection of persons to act as
pail bearers at Gen. Grants funeral
is a severe blow to the bloody-shirt
orators. It is the fulfllment of Grants
famous prayer, "Let us have peace"
On this topic the Commercial Adqer
tiser says:
"Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, who
commanded the Southern Army at
Bull Run, at Seven Pines, at Atlanta
and in the real of Vicksburg when
Gen. GRANT was beleagueriug that
stronghold, will walk by the side Of
the hero's corpse, in company with
Gen. SHERMAN, Gen. SHERIDAN and
Gen. LOGAN.
"Gen. BUCKNER, too, who met Gen.
GRANT, in the Fort Donelson campaign,
will be ono of the pail bearers in rev.
erent attendance upon the last rites,
and that'is what the dead commander
would almost have wished. He fought
for peace, not conquest; for the coun-
try, not for the dominance ola part of
it: for the restoration and perpetuity
of the Union, not for the s%ubjugation
of any region.
"The two facts, that it has been
thought fit to invite Generals JOHN
sToN and BUcKNER to serve as pail
bearers, and that they gladly accept
the opportunity to render honor in
that way to the great Union command
er, afford the final proof that the Civil
War ended in a victory of infinitely
hikher worth than any mere physical
triumph could be; a victory of the
sentiment of patriotism and union
over temporary anger and discomfort,
a victory of the American instinct OF
love for the republic over mere pas
sion. ~
"The triumph is one in the result OF
which the Southerners rightly claim a
share. The restored and strengthened
Union is theirs not less tharrours to re-
joice in and to transmit as q precious
heritage to their children. Their ad-
vantage not less than ours was
wrought by the result of the war, and
for once in the history of man both
sides feel, before the generation thai
fought the battle has passed away, that
the outcome of it was the best that
could have been. 1t was the good for.
tune of Gen. GRANT to achieve a con-
quest which involved no subjugation
and left no enemies to deplore the
event."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

Rev. DR.. Leonard, the Prohibition
candidate for Governor, says that his
party will make a larger showing
this year than eve before, and will
be able TO rebuke the Republicans
for their weak and straddling course
on the liquor question.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The cause of non-church at
tendance, as given by the experts,
may be summed as follows: "The
men have to work all the week, and
they recreate on Sunday. They can
not dress as we'll as those with whom
they must associate, and therefore
stay away. They think secret soci
cites are As good as the church. They
are unable to pay for the privileges
because of the high prices of things
which they must have. The large
salaries ofthe ministers disgust some.
Some feel that the minister is a hire
ling, and therefore seeks to upbuild
his church as a doctor seeks to in
crease his practice, not from love of
souls, but to increase his salary.
Some employers of labor are so bad
in the treatment of their employees
that the men do not want to 60 where
they shall meet those in whose real
Christianity they have but little faith.
All the letters indicate that especi-
ally in the large places africans feel
that they are not welcome in churches
~frequented by the Weather class.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The effect ofthe Pail Hall Gazette
exposure is being felt far and wide.
In New Orleans, Mayor Guillotte
has issued orders to the police to
search all houses of ill fame, and ar
rest all girls under seventeen and all
boys under fifteen years of age foul d
therein.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

The Seymour Democrat says: In
diana doesn't want the earth. What
is wanted and demanded by the peo-
pie of this State is more Democratic
postmasters, men who know q direct
ory or a fast mail when they see it,
and who are in perfect accord with
the Democratic Administration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

- The Cincinnati Volksblatt, the
leading Republican German newspa-
per, has renowned Republicanism,
and says editorially: "Our position
is one of neutrality. We will fight
measures not parties"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

According to information given to
the Christian Union by a large num-
Der Of clergymen, not more than FIVE
per cent. Of American africans in
cities Labitually attended religious
services of any kind. All but two cf
the letters say that the attendance is
diminishing, and all but n that the
neglect is not from unbelief in Chris
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06
The Circleyille Democrat saws

The Circleville Democrat says
James Hall, a life convict in the Ohio
P~enitentiary, from this county, has
been granted a pension, dating from
May 23d, 1854, from which time he
receives Sc per month, until June
18th, 1881, and from that date until
May 10th, 1885, So per month, and
$40 per month thereafter.