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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-07

(CheSter Bulletin.
The law, as it stands, is a very one-sided
affair, and is, if anything, worse than it was
at first. 1t opens broad road to rascality,
and collusion and fraud will be frequently
practiced. The landlord in most instances,
will be compelled to waive his first lien in
favor of the merchant in order to obtain
supplies. This will cause more trouble, and
the old law with all it's evils, will still exist.
Little or nothing has been accomplished,
in our opinion, by this bill. The law should
have been repealed IN tOto This is what
the people want, and they will not be salts
fed until it has been accomplished.
[Laurensville Herald
We don't know whether the enactment of
this law will improve the labor of the coun-
try or not. 1t certainly will not improve
the tenants credit, and it seems to leave
the merchant "out in the cold."
charleston News and Courier.
There was, as customary, a long discus
sion of the Lien law. The bill to repeal the
law did not pass, but u new measure was
adopted which gives to the landowner an
absolute first lien for rent. After him comes
the laborer, with his lien on the crop,
and after the landowner and the labor
er the merchant who furnishes money and
supplies will take his turn. There will
necessarily be considerable diminution in
the advances made to small farmers, and
we apprehend that the Priority law will
cause considerable dissatisfaction, if not
distress, for which the Legislature will
justly be held responsible. We are con-
strained to regard the action of the Leg
islature as inimical to the small farmers,
both white and colored, and these small
farmers can exert a vast power in politics
when they choose.
[Abbeville Correspondence Columbia Register]
The merchants here are much exercised
over the priority of the lien bill, and de-
nounce it in round terms. They seem
to be Of the opinion that the bill gives the
bill that allows the landlord and the labor
er liens on the crops without the contract
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

be shown for the memories of de-
ceased Congressman without inter
rupting public business. An
nouncements of deaths should be
made at the close of a daily es-
sion, and either Sunday or evening
sessions should be held for eulo-
gies. A reform of this kind has been
presented in the House and will
come up soon for discussion.
Representative Rankin came to
Washington in a dying condition.
He had an intense desire to take his
seat in Congress again and he was
sworn in with the rest ofthe men,
bers, saying he must accomplish
this, ifhe died the next minute. On
the opening day of the session, by a
supernatural effort of the will, he
dressed and went to the Capitol,
took the oath, and drew his seat,
making while he did so, some reck-
less remarks about his approach
ing death. It was too severe a tax
upon his strength, however, and he
was taken to his home which he
never left again. He occupied rooms
in a house adjoinging the residence
ofPostmaster General Villas. When
negotiating for his winter quarters
here, the land-lady asked him if he
wanted the rooms for the winter
EYES," he replied, deliberately, "a
will agreee to keep them for the
winter, or as long as I live but rem
stops the day [ am buried"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says
the Democracy of the Union will
never permit another Republican s
to Z crime. Neither will the Democ-
racy of the Ohio Senate allow their
constitutional rights to be taken
away. The rules adopted by a ma
jority cf the senate say that all con-
tests shall be submitted to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections,
the committee to which they right
fully belong. The Democrats in the
senate are right in this matter, and
they will see that the will of the
majority is respected and followed.
The Democratic majority in the
senate will make an investigation
into all the alleged election frauds,
and will not decide the cases as the
partisan majority in the house did,
who executed judgement upon the
Democratic members without trial
or evidence other than Of Republi-
can criminal manufacture. Such
proceedings were never known but
to outlaws who believe that might
makes right.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The recent decision of United
States District Judge Brewer, of
Kansas, puts a new phase on pro-
hibition laws. Ifhis opinion is sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court it will
prove a formidable obstacle to the
prohibition movement and one on
which the advocates of that cause
have not hitherto counted. Judge
Brewer holds that no state can
either by legislation or ~constitu-
tional amendment, prohibit the Ii
quor traffic without paying for the
private property thereby destroyed
or injured. "This building, machin-
cry and fixtures" he said, "were de-
signed and adopted for the making
of beer, and nothing else, for which
purpose they were worth fifty thou
sand dollars for any other purpose
not to exceed five thousand. Thus
the defendants are deprived of their
property to the extent of forty-fve
thousand dollars by the prohibition
law. Before the state can suppress
the business it team payfor the prop
erty destroyed" This is indeed
something new, and as the case is
to go to the Supreme Court its final
determination will attract very gen.
eral attention. 1t is proper to say
that this point has never been rails
ed before the Supreme Court, al
though there have been instances
somewhat analogous.
.DdytOn Democrat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04
Dayton Dem,obrat.
REPRESENTATIVE Wasbburn. of !

Representative Washburn, ofLo-
rain county, has a constituent who
desires him to introduce a bill di-
viding the people of Ohio into two
classes, drunkards and a%nti-drunk-
ards. The bill provides that who
ever desires to become a habitual
drinker shall go before the probate
judge of his county and make an
affidavit that it is his wish to be-
come a habitual drinker, and for
the certificate issued he shall paw
fifty cents, and with this in his
possession he shall or can 60 any
place in Ohio and secure liquor,
but if he should fail to produce
this certificate the party that sells
the liquor can be prosecuted, for
the first offense $50, for the second
offense 800, for the the third Of
Tense $3.50 or imprisonment, or
both at the discretion of the court.
Under this bill the Office of probate
judge would be a bonanza, but tits
said that he intends the bill to be
amended so that when the fees have
reached $1,000 the probate judge
shall pay over the excess to the
county. poor fund.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The Ohio State Register and a few
other subsidized ruarl papers like it,
seem to think it smart to say that
all democratic papers that refuse to
believethat Senator Payne was hon
estly elected to the Senate, and de-
mand an investigation of the cleo
ton, are run as Republican papers I!
Honest and fair Democrats don't
regard them that way-thank the
Lord. Only the venal and the cor
rupt, and such as want party success
by any means fair or foul, and even
over the grave of all that is honest
and decent in politics, look through
such narrow and bigoted glasses as
Brother Kerr.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The Cincinnati Enquirer and the
Dayton Democrat, seem to be quiet
ly "snoozing" together under the
same cover, in regard to the Dona-
vin-Payne exposure, while on other
political matters they are as far
apart as the north and south pole
and hate one another as the Devil
does holy water! Why is it? The
editor of the. Dayton Democrat
knows the seat of Senator Payne in
the United States Senate was pur-
chased, as clearly as he knows any
thing without seeing it, and why
don't he use the influence of his
paper for its exposure? Where is
your Bremen?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04
"EBOOGle, Candidates.

The able editor and level-headed
thinker, Tom Hubbard, of the
Bellefontaine Examiner, in an edi-
torial article of his paper has some
thing to say of the Doodle element
in politics that meets our hearty
endorsement, as follows:
The Examiner demands of Dem
ocratic Conventions of every grade.
whose nominees it is expected to
support, that they present reputa-
BILE candidates-men of merit, with
capacity for the duties PERTAINING
to the offices for which they are
named-men who will command
the respect even of, their political
foes. Such men maintain the hon
or of the party whether in victory
or defeat. 1t has come to.pass of
late years that the wholly mercen-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

A bill to amend the law against
gambling has been introduced into
the General Assembly, which will
interest a large class of merchants
throughout the State. 1t provides
that ''any merchant, manufacturer,
importer, retailer Or dealer, doing
business within the State, who shall
offer, give or sell, or authorize or
permit any agent, salesman or en-
ploye to offer, give or sell to any
purchaser or customer, any ticket,
check or checks, or other tokens or
memoranda, entitling such a pur-
chaser or customer to demand or
receive money, or any article of
value, shall be deemed guilty. of
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not more than
one hundred nor less than five dol
lars, or be imprisoned not more
than sixty nor less than ten days,
or both, at the discretion of the
court"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

airy and unprincipled element of
either party are permitted to have
undue influence in party affairs,
and especially in the matter of
nominating conventions. This is
what is now popularity known as
the Doodle element, and it is al
ways rampant for the candidate
who will put the most money into
the campaign, no matter for any
thing else. But a single idea actu-
ates this element; and that's Doodle.
AS a result of this, we find a multi
tude of little round empty heads
bobbing up on every hand for high
and responsible political positions.
Inconnection withthese little round
empty heads there is, IN every in
stance, a pocket-book and bank ac-
count annex, and it has come to be
the rule that these are permitted
to triumph over the poor mans
merit and ability. In short, it is
the truth to say that the represent
atives of mere Doodle in this coun-
try, have assumed the right of pre-
cedency in the matter of political
preferment, overthe representatives
of intellect, education and force OF
character. In this issue between
Doodle and brains, between the or
namental and the useful in public
trust, the Examiner will stand by
the J~effersonian test, and will re.
quire of Democratic conventions in
general, as essential to its loyalty
to their nominations, that they
present for Office only such candi.
dates as are "honest, faithful and
capable" 1.-THE bastard aristocracy
Of lucre, by dint of the methods
above mentioned, are designed tC
triumph in this country owe thu
nobility of intellect and manly
merit, the Examiner will not be
party to hat d~isgraceful conclu
cIOn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The grand jury of Franklin
county in it's report filed on the
22nd, says of the tally sheetforgery
case, in precinct A, Thirteenth ward
of the city of Columbus: "Our
Prosecuting Attorney, Mr.. Cyrus
Huling, has been untiring in his
efforts to ferret out the guilty par
ties, and for that purpose has
brought before us thirty-nine wit
nesses, including all persons either
known to have or supposed to have
any knowledge of the affair, each
of whom was subjected to a most
rigorous examination, all, we are
sorry to say, without fixing the
crime or indicating to any degree
of certainty who the guilty parties
may be-"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

Cleveland Plain Dealer:-Pig is
a name that could be truthfully APP
piled to many a Republican office
holder, but it remains for Harrison
vile, Mo-, to produce a real razor
back by the name of J. D. Pigg, an
ex-Republican postmaster, who was
recently sentenced to the states
prison for two years. An exchange
adds that under a very unwise pro-
vision of the statute he was ena-
bled to marry the girl and escape
the pen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

About one man in twenty of all
those who enlisted in tbe late war
are reported as receiving a pension,
exclusive of the dependents Of de-
ceased soldiers. On the list of July,
1875, the number of pensioners was
234,S12, and theincrease within the
ten years next thereafter was no.
304. A large number of pensioners
died during the ten years, reducing
the net increase to much less than
that number.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04
The Postmaster General has d:

The Postmaster General has di-
rected that photographs come I'M
der the designation of printed mat
ter, and are therefore to be rated as
third class matter, instead of being
in the fourth class and rated as
merchandise, as has heretofore been
the case. Under this ruling photo
graphs can now be sent through
the mails by the payment of one
cent for two ounces instead of one
cent an ounce.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

1t is the Republican theory that
In politics might makes right and
that the end justifes the means,
in pursuance of this doctrine the
Presidency was stolen from Samu-
ell J. Tilden and nine members of
the Ohio Legislature have been I'M
seated without a hearing. Now
since the Republican party can do
these infamous things, let the DEM
ocratic House of Congress admit
Frank Hurd to his seat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

Are you willing to tell what you Know about
who secured the amendment of the law re-
quiring the commissioners to let all contracts
involving an expenditure of more than SioV
to the lowest bidder, and substituting S5oU as
the limit, which just covers your yearly bliiot
$3.50 for printing the commissioners report
one weekly. p. Mirror.
Have not the slightest objection
in the world if we knew anything
about it. Suppose you enlighten
the public through your "better
publication in the county," Butt if
you are as ignorant about it asyou
exhibit yourself to be in the para
graph concerning our bills foreoun-
ty printing, we advise you to keep
your mouth closed. There is suf-
fcient ignorance displayed IN it to
salty any common sense reader
that you know nothing about what
you have been chattering like a
monkey over, and you are just
what we said you were in the start
la donkey! Now for the facts. We
nerer did n cents Uortb Of county
printing under the law you refer to
above, which is in relation to the
printing of supplies for the Clerk,
Auditor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Recor-
der, and Probate Judge, such as the
public records, blanks, etc. The
Indianapolis and Dayton houses
have regularly gobbled up such
work, because their bids were air
ways too low for either the DEMO
GRAFT or Register to get in! The
commissioners report is not pub
lished under the law alluded to
nor by contract, but by the square
and under another law entirely, so
that when you assert that $500
covers our yearly bill for the report
you lie, either willfully or ignorant
ly, and you can take your choice,
for lie it is. The length ofthe report
regulates the price-some years it
runs over 800 and some years less
than $500. A Republican Legisla-
ture passed the law requiring its
publication and fixed the price pei
square, and said it should be pub
lished in two papers in each coun-
ty of opposite politics. ThatishoW
the DEMOCRAT comes in for a share
of the taxpayers money used fol
such luxuries. Our Republican
neighbor of the Register draws, pre-
cisely the same amount as WEI do
for the report. The commissioners
of every county in the State make
the report out as is done in Preble.
publish it in two papers and pay
for it out of the county funds as
directed by the law but we know O.
no other locality in the State that
contains such a consumate crank
idiot or fool, as this publisher of 6
paper, who is willing to exhibit
himself as suchin an effort to paw
up the earth over it.
We are now through with the
county printing matter, Mr., Con
ceit, and your idiotic drivelings
over it. -e!qaG -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

ming a Republican paper. He is in the same
fix as Donayin-a disappointed ofice-seeker.
However, we thought betterof Brother Gould.
Ohio State Register.
Mr.. Ohio State Register, all we
want in the Payne matter is a full,
free, impartial investigation, that
will bring out all the facts and re-
veal fraud and corruption if any
were committed. When we believed
Republicans purchased seats nthe
United States Senate, we denounc-
ed it as infamous. Should it make
any difference when Democrats do
the same? Isthere anything wrong
in it? Anything undemocratic?
Does that make the DEMOCRAT a
Republican paper? Are you OPP
posed to such a course. If not,
There is no difference between the
DEMOCRAT and Registers demo-
cracy. Why then do you make
such a lying assertion against a
contemporary? More than two
thirds of the Democratic papers in
Ohio, the solid unpurchsable ones,
occupy the same ground. We are a
Democrat, but with independence
enough to denounce wrong in the
party when we know it. Weare no
"toad under the harrow" We go
where true J~effersonian Demo
cratic principles point the way
when they cease to lead we cease to
follow" They don't point in the
way of corruption. We have al
ways opposed and fought corrup-
ton in the Democratic party. We
denounced the methods used in the
election OF Ex-senator Payne before we
had the remotest idea of being an
applicant for office, but because we
were a candidate, we did not pro-
pose to become a craven coward,
eat our own words, and sanction
political rascality and villainy of
every character and grade. A great
many members of the Democratic
party land of the Republican, too,)
have no more sense than to believe
that to run a Democratic paper and
be a democrat, a man must endorse
and swallow everything the leaders
of the party do, no difference how
rascally orinfamous. Brother Kerr
seems to be one of that kind. We
are not. If the, principles of the
Democratic party are preserved and
kept pure, it will not be by such
papers as the Ohio State Register.
that seems ready and willing to en-
dorse any outrage thatleads to party
success-but by honest and indie
pendent Democrats who refuse to
sanction wrongs committed by the
leaders of the party. The Demo
cratic leaders ofOhio ought to learn
a lesson from the fate of the Re-
publican party. But they seem OBJ
livious to the "hand writing on
the WALL" and defeat is the result.
Had the Senatorial election been an
honest and square transaction, Ohio
would not to-day be disgraced by a
revolutionary General Assembly
because the Democrats would have
made a clean sweep of everything
If brother Kerr don't know this we
pity his political intelligence. Cor
rect the lie!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The New York Sun says: In the
whole record of political violence
and reckless injustice, it would be
difficult to find a worse case than
the act of the Ohio House of Rep
resentatives in expelling the Dem
ocratic members from Cincinnati
in order to put John Sherman's re-
turn to the United States Senate
beyond all danger of defeat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

Representative Little is after the
Bohemian oats boys, and has in
troduced a bill to the House pro-
viding for a fine of 800 to $500
upon all persons found negotiating
notes or other commercial paper
given as compensation for any ce-
real sold at more than twice its
actual value.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

Mrs. Hendricks has receivedfrom
the officers of the United States Sen
ate the massive iron inkstand used
by her husband in his private room
at the Capitol at Washington. It
is a handsome and unique work of
art and is worth at least $500.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

When Lieutenant Governor Bob
Kennedy's term of office expires,
he will sink into as deep oblivion,
forgetfulness and contempt, as
fraud Hayes, who accepted the stol-
en- Presidency.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

We have no doubt some Demo-
cratic frauds were committed at the
elections in Hamilton county, but
we can't work ourself up to the
point to believe all the Republicans
down there are dear, sweet, meek
eyed Christians Oh, no.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

The Boston Herald (Ind.) re-
CARDS it as highly edifying to hear
Senator Hale preach against the
partisan distribution of postofices
in Maine. A Democrat hadn't sold
a stamp there in 20 years up to the
9Th of March.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04


"Now and then a CLEAN of light shimmers
the darkness. Sporadic honesty in
Democrats is visible in the rifted clouds
of blackness that shroud the party. Below
we give a sample, clipped from the Democrat
of the 2lst inst. Save it, for it NAV be a long
time ere you see its like again.
Our irate neighbor comes out pretty
squarely. and endorses Mr.. Donavin as a man
of ceractty. This perhaps is a freak of hon
esty superinduced by hatred of Bremen, who
is presumed to have played a part in defeat
ing said neighbor for Collector. -Regester.
Neighbor Register, we denounced
the election of Senator Payne as
corrupt at the very time it took
place, and you know it but are not
honest enough to say SO.
We are not aware that Mr..
Bremen opposed us for the Collec-
torship, but on the contrary hadhis
word that he favored our appoint
ment!
We will frame in solid gold the
first article that ever makes its APP
pearanee in the Eaton Register
against any political villainy per-
petrated by its party leaders. Time
and again has the party defied the
law, disregarded all rules and pre-
cedent and appealed to violence
and revolutionary acts to gain poll
teal advantages, yet the mouth of
the Register remained closed in CEN
sure tight as an unbaked clam! If
the Republican party throughout
the last twenty years has kept one
political precept in view more than
another, it is that the "end in poll
tics .justifies the means" 1t has
acted upon the precept consistent
ly and constantly. And as a mat
ter offact it has carried ten elections
by fraud and intimidation and
trickery and the corrupt use of
money-where it has carried one
honestly. 1t has expended a hun
bred dollars in elections in Ohio
where the Democrats have expend-
ed one, and lying, cheating, brib-
cry, corruption and bulldozingh have
been the tatics by which it continu-
ed to maintain itself in power long
after an honest majority of the peo-
pie had condemned it. The party
has by means of one knavery and
another overcome honest MAORI
ties, maintained itselfin power and
set at naught the will ofthe people.
1t introduced the custom ofappeal-
ing from the ballot to the partisan
courts, and of setting up extra cleo
toral tribunals to undo what the
people haddone bytheir ballots. 1t
began the use of money in elections.
1t has been the author of every
species of fraud and scheming and
trickery and intimidation and cor
ruption known to politics in the
last twenty years, and yet if the AL
mighty were to come down from his
White Throne and write these truths
in living letters, the Eaton Register
satellites would rise up and assert
they were lies! Then, what in the
name Of common sense and deem
cy is any n to gain by attempt
ing to answer the chatter and pala-
yer of such narrow, bigoted, per
verse and unconscionable creatures
as the writer of the two paragraphs
heading this article?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

Since the Presidential succession
bill has become a law John Sher-
man, as President pro tenn. of the
Senate, is no longer in the line of
succession to the Presidency.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

A bill has been favorably report
ed to Congress appropriating $780,
600 for a Grant monument in New
York; Great Governor! What
next for the Grant family?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04

If Mr.. Donavin fails to turn up
before the committee Investigating
the United States Senatorial cleo
ton, the honest Democrats of Ohio
should know WHY.