The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-07-01
Judge David Davis, of Illinois, died

orS. He was appointed Associate
Justice in the United States Supreme
Court by President Lincoln, in 1862,
and has been in public life ever since.
He was elected to the United States
Senate IN 1877, and upon the success
sion of Arthur to the Presidency. was
made President of the Senate, and
acting Vice President. Mr.. Davis
election to the Senate was regarded by
the more knowing Democrats as very
shrewd trick, as he would otherwise
have been one of the Electoral Com
mission, and being considered as an
Independent, the Democrats would
naturally hope for more from him
than straight-out Republican. Dem
ocrats place the Judiciary on so low
plane as that. Certain it is that when
David Davis died one Of Americas
grandest men was laid to rest.
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Judge Thompson was re-nominated
for Congress by acclamation, at Iron
ton, on last Thursday. The Conven-
ton was an enthusiastic one, and upon
the nomination being made long
letter of acceptance from the nominee
was read. The letter is full of good
things, but too lengthy for publica-
ton in our crowded columns. The
Judge has made an excellent Repre-
sentative, and the Democrat who
comes out against him in the coming
campaign will only be wasting his
time.
"Wonder if the Blaine family think
the people Of the United States are a
set of idiots"
It is not altogether impossible that
they may have come to some such
conclusion as that, shortly after the
last Presidential election.
As to the testimony in the Payne
case, while there might be enough to
hang a man on circumstantlal evl-
dence, there is too much Of it that is
of the character Of that relating to
DR.. Fierce, Of Vinton County. Fierces
conduct is considered one of the strong
points in the case, and by the testi-
mony of O. T. Cunning it was proven
that before Fierce's election, while he
was making the canvass of Vinton
County, he went to Cincinnati and got
\ two hundred and fifty dollars from
Mr.. Pendleton in person. 1t seems
that Democratic craftsmanship was in
the market, and the Coal Oil crowd
won.
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At Lima, Ohio, there is a fierce
wild man" ro aiming the woods. He
'has long hair and beard, filled with
burs, and utters blood-curdling shrieks-
A little boy was scared into spasms,
and altogether the wild man is
bowling terror. There seems to be
but one way to escape seeing this
frightful monster That is for the
Allen County Democrats to water
their whisky.
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Old Pap Payne seems to be good
deal in the same condition old man
Winchell was when he was arrested
for stealing Radcliff's wheat. You're
puiltyi" said WinchelFs LAWYER.
"Hush!" said the old man" they
can't prove itr
The President has boarded a pleas
ure-yacht, and gone to sea. II is
thought that he is trying to escape
the smell of Coal Oil, recently stirred
up in Washington.
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Francis Murphy, the Temperance
apostle" says there is too much tenn
perance work with hatred OF the
saloon-keepers in it. 1t would be in
teresting to know how a man could
preach the Gospel and love the Devil,
at the same time.
*
Ben. Butterworth paid his respects
to old man Payne, in an address before
a Senate Committee, one day last week.
The old man IS accused of having pur-
chased his seat in the Senate, and his
accusers think they are abundantly
able to prove it. If such is the case,
the old man should be led out quietly
and kicked across the Potomac River.
But there is one feature about the
whole business which it is not pleas
ant to contemplate. Though we may
prove that the old man purchased his
seat, we have to publish before the
world at the same time that the Leg
islature Of the great State of Ohio was
largely composed of set of con-
temptible scoundrels. 1t might be
serving Payne right, but it would be
a sad reflection upon the way things
have been run in Ohio. The ray of
consolation that they are all Demo-
Gratis, however, comes to cheer us. The
Committee voted against making any
investigation, Senators Teller, Evarts
and Logan, voting with the Demo-
Gratis. Right here is where some Re-
publicans are making complete ex-
hibition. The three Senators are Bit
terly attacked, with all kinds of ridicu-
lous insinuations of dishonesty,
bribery. and so on. The fellow who
makes such insinuations against men
like Logan will himself bear a good
deal of watching. Those who affect