Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-11

The meanest and most terrible Ct crimes
is assassination. and the $ ooting Of Rev.
Mr. Haddock. of Sioux City. Iowa. while he
was engaged in the good work of PruSeCut-
ing the saloOn-keepcrS for breaking the liQ-
uor laws enacted by the republican legiSla
ture of the state. was a daStardly deed. Mr..
Hadduck. il seems. was a third party pruhi-
htiuni>t. and the pruhIhiuoni~tS of the
country seem to have jumped Ia the ConClu-
sion that the saloOn-kreperS of SioUN CITY.
were the real authors of the crime. The in
ference WAS easy but until there is at least
little evidence nt some sort To
connect them with the assassination.
they must ht held innocent. II Is hardly
likely that saloon men will enter upon So
suicidal policy A. Ia attempt Ia Kill of
persons who make efforts Ia enforce liquor
laws Should they do - they would array
against them the entire population of the
United States. and the saloon business
would br wiped out within year, for the
American people are opposed to a>Sa>>ima-
ti"n, ON general principles, and in special
cases. The authorities uf Sioux City are
eNhau>ting all possible means tu find the
assassin. and will punish him wnen found.
But even a Saloom keeper should not be-
hanged for murder until he is found guilty.
The Dayton .J"DundI claims that Senator
Sherman. although Ohio'S ''talIest states
man. does not live. a. has been recently
Gained. on the highest point in Ohio, and
it quotes from the report of the geological
survey ot Ohio, published in 1873 page 4S?)
as follows:
The boundary lines Of Logan county are
all nearly level. and hold an elevation Of be
tween 90 and ~ feet above tide water. fall
ing whe e the Miami goes out on the west tn
about ~ feet. but the center has been up
neaved until the summit on John W Hngue's
farm. one and one-half miles east Of Bellefon-
tainp. has reached the height of on" h"HsIHd
6rc LpsErrd and fprfy fret Il $40. which equals
l.Ire feet above low water at Cincinnati and
- feet above Lake Erie. and is The h'ghe" p''"'
grf uioISUrFf ~ Bh,u.
The J0UrHuI also quotes from the volume
the statement that "Richland county is sit
uatcd on the highest point of the dirjdC be
tween the waters of Lake Erie and the Ohio
rver." Again says Geology: About seven
miles west Of Mansfield, and near the west
ern line of the county, is an Isolated knob,
which iS designated by residents in the vi
cnity as the highest land in the county and
ia the state. 1t is, however, by the barOme-
ter. only 24O feet above Mansfield, or So
ct above the lake while two-and-a-half
miles further east the surface rises by a
more gentle inclination thirty feet highcr.'
Il chland is Senator Sherman'S county.
The filst package of republican campaign
ammunition for the campaign of 1886 has
been put upon the market. II is in the
form of pamphlet OF So pages, from the
pen of y. Dumont, of Washington. ID. C.,
and can be had of the author. on the pay
ment of eighty-fve cents. The author takes
up the one hundred and one pension bills
and their merits a. shown in the reports of
the committees thereon and v0luminouS
evidence submitted in favor of the needy,
suffering and deserving veterans or their
widows. and in contrast TO these places
the unSympathiShg and insulting veto
messages of President Cleveland, which
will certainly rise tO torment him if he
should be a candidate for reelection. Com
memtng on the matter Of this pamphlet,
the ohio State journal says:
1t is urged that the President in many eases
a ted on the recommendations of Pension
Commissioner Black. who is said himself 10
iraw the highest Of penSioHS-Slh per month.
.csIdes his salary of $50. To get such a pen
Sluu. even with his rank, he must have sworn
10 total disability, and IL is hard 10 see how i
naG can be worth s5,sU per year who has ties
.liiri To his own total disability. Their are
hundreds Of atldayiIS on file with the yet' Ell
rcu>IUn bills a. L. the disabilities OF the bene-
.CiarieS. and vet they are Of no avail in the
'piuI"n ~ the present chief executive. who IS
me iirSt civilian Ia occupy the presidential
hair since the War.
The prohibitioniSts are boaSting how
lively they are. They are lively. We ad-
nit that-as lively as waspS. and make
tbou; a. much honey and do quite IS much
mischief. These political partisan prohib-
IiumiSts have been operating about dozen
wears, and yet they have never pro
uib.ted anything they have never, a.
party. closed a single saloon. They have
lone a good deal of blowing about the tri-
umphS of prohibition and the effectiveness
and good results of prohibition. in Maine,
Kansas and iowa. in which states all that
has been done has been done by republicans,
and IN Georgia aud other southern states,
where the prohibition principles have materi-
allied by the aid of democrats and repub-
iicans. without respect Ia party lines. What
they have really accomplished i'll behalf of
prohibition CreverSedD is to put the whisky
democracy in power, in the nation and in
several of the states. and tn really make the
>al"on business safe and profitable.
The Bellefoutaine Republican, alluding
tn the surprise" manifested by the Jackson
Standard and IrOnton Register, ''Over the
character of the magazine articles relating
to the war, that are appearing nowadays.
a perusal OF which raised the query in their
minds whether there had really been any
war OF any generals. says:
II our brothers Will study the e. articles and
search for the truth ef history, they will find
that there WAS war, and that there were gen
erals. hut they will also learn that the generals
did not do all the fighting or win ALI the victu-
rir-; they will find that the generals. like the
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that they made many bluuders; that their mis-
tales cost Us large percentage of the lives
that were lost: that the valOT Of the troops
wuI many battles that the inc0mprtency or
hlUnders nf the generals would have lost; and
that IL is time the glamour that was thrown
over the scenes Of the war were removed. and
The American soldier. not the genera ;, Was
given credit for saving the union.
There will be a large audience at the
First Lutheran church, tomorrow morning
to greet Rev J. B. Helwig. ID. d.. on his
return to a Springfield pulpit. Lewis Mil
.er. Akroms leading citizen, said TO a
Springfield man. not long ago: You have
taken one of our best men from u.s." The
inevitable reply was: We know that,
mighty we'll"
The island of Cuba has not disappeared.
Tie report that it had was a chestnut.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ii is reported that the Puritan is making
ready for an ocean race with the Galatea.