Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-01
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So when Dan Dalton came to count he
said that BreaShearS's 726 was manitestlH
an oversight; which it might well have
been along about > OF o'clock
in the morning. when the judges
and clerks were tired out and bunged
up. Dan said it had evidently been the in
tcution of those nocturnal officers of the
election 10 boost Brashears 200 votes along
with the rest and that il was clearly his
duty Ia construe these returns according t"
the intention of the turner's lof TO 81. And
Daniel did so, with a high hand and an out
stretched arm, with brass cheek and pop
eye
Otherwise Brashears was defeated. The
736 did not elect him. Ii left him some 80
votes short of his opponents total. Dan
said il was prepOsterous TO suppose that
those tired and bunged officers, labOring
there at those figures long after the middle
of the night. intended to permit BrashearS :
opponent to be elected. 1t waSa conclusive
presumption of law. he said. that
they had merely overlooked BrashearS'>
726 when they were heaping 200 upon ii
everywhere else along the line in the night.
Daniel decided. therefore, that he must take
the will for the deed: and he counted the
30 a. geo. and elected BrashearS.
50 Brashears stands i'll the senate But
how does he stand in the poorhouse? About
$3.50, similar according.
He is the secretary and manager of a big
coal company. There was an advertisement
for bids TO supply coal TO the inirmary.
There was a number of bids the lowest Of
which was at cents per bushel- Brash-
ears's bid was 81 cents. By some process
of clairvoyance peculiar TO the poorhouse it
was perceived that there was bid y a cent
un Ter BraShearS.
The bids were for that description
of Pitt>burg coal called ''SecOndPoOl."
which is of a superior quality. Well.
through the operation of this pOOr-hou>e
clairvoyance. Brashears's bid was seen
aS it i now seen in writing-tO be the
lowest; for II was accepted. and the writing
shows that his original 9]9 somehow got
itself Transformed having an s. put be
fore it, having the i crossed out and
having 10 put after and below it-intO
5. 9-IO. 4 facsimile in the Commercial
GGzcttc exhibits the transformation.
Then, in the description of the coal. there
is this gap, carefully made with a scratcher {:
so 900 bushels screened
NouShiogheny coal of best quality &c
The gap is supposed to have contained the
words Second Pool"
The coal that Brashears delivered
under this clairvoyant bid is
said tn have been. not Second
Pool" but of a quality such as could
scarcely find purchaser in the open mar
ket in Cincinnati. City Comptroller Eshel-
by, having learned this, stopped paying
warrants to BrashearS's company; and hence
these developmpnts-hence Brashears. and
hence these tears.
The democrats of the house, every man
of them. voted against the bill for taxing
the traffic in liquor. Every man of them
would vote against bill for prohibition.
Every man of them would vote against
bill for local option. But every man
of them would vote for a proposition TO
amend the constitution in favor of license,
because every man of them knows that
such a proposition would be defeated
overwhelmingly by a vote of the peo-
pie. They are against everything except
the impossible thing. and that they are for
with all their might 1t is not necessary 10
comment on this. 1t comments on itself.
We think the GAINESVILLE COuriers outcry
about the speeches of Parsons in this city
unnecessarily dreadful. We DO not per
ceiye the very awful danger there is in let
ting a man speak his mind ''in this land of
the free The Courier must not forget
that this land of the free" is a land of free
speech, and that as for its bugbear of COM
muniNm. which it calls on all honest
good people to aid in stamping out" it is
well TO remember that il cannot be stamped
out by stamping out the freedom of speech.
1t must be met by the free and rational
methods by which We have TO meet all other
objectionable things in a republic.
&enia is going TO have water-wOrks.
Her council has given the job of construc-
ton and running TO a home company" ." Of
which Hon. John Little and Hon. Jmo. p
Martin are the head, although another
company offers to do the same job in all
its details. for 81. 900 year less. and give
ample security for the prompt and >ati>fac-
tory performance of the work. The Ga
zeftc wants 10 know why this is thus. and
quotes Mr.. Little as saying, and applaudo
hun for Saying. that he doesn't want any
such ''raiToading through council"
The supreme courts approval of the gov
ernor'S execution of the Cincinnati police
commissioners and disapproval of the may.
or's execution Of the chief, appear. in the
abSrmce OF the syllabus. to be syllabub The
syllabus Will not be given out till next
week: when it may be seen 10 reduce the
seeming inconsistency to whipped sylla-
bub.
Sam Small has been doing Chicago the
past week: but sam Jones arrived there and
got into blast last evening. The first sam
made an excellent impressions; but the sec
Und sam made a sensation. That is the
difference: and Chicago will feel it more and
more in her bones, and marrow, and ell
trails, and finally in her lost soul.
Chairman Cowgirl intimates that some
thing terrific may be expected to drop from
the Payne committee within the coming