The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-06-25

THE Democratic State Convention will be
held at Springfield. Tuesday and "Wednesday,
August 26 and 27.
THE Grand Lodge l 0. o. F.. in its recent
session at st Louis. after heated discussion. by
decided vote, decided that no saloon keeper
should be admit ed into the order hereafter.
I'm accordance with presidential courtesy
says the Columbus Post. MIR. Harrison ought |
to inform Mr.. Cley Gland that the danger he ap
pretended from surplus has passed away
aad SO has the surplus
JUDIcI AL decision has been rendered that a
person has no right to leave team standing on
the street without control of some kind and
that when damage to person or property re-
suit from negligence, the owner of the horse or
team of horses is liable for the damage.
Ir is not often thst this planet is favored with
a richer celestial display of planets than is now
afforded to anyone who takes the trouble to turn
his eyes heavenward on a clear night. Venus
glows and sparbles like an electric light in the
western sky as soon as the sun gives her
chance to display her charms. At the same
time Mars rises in the east and is on view
throughout the night, having as aicompanion
after midnight the mighty Jupiter, which. how
ever, the red mass of Mars almost rivals in
NIcKNAMEs do not frighten the farmers this
year. If, to demand a tariff tax limited to the
wants of the government run economically.
which means Democratically administered, is
" free trade.'' there are thousands of heretofore
timid farmers in this country who want to be
considered free traders.'' to that extent at
least. If free trade means a sure cease of tariff
robbery and extorticn. they want more OF it
very rapidly.
FOR the first time in the history of all censuses
of this country the enumerators are forbidden
after the taking of the counts to give the figures
of their respective districts to the newspapers.
This is in accord with about all the previous
doings of the Harrison administration. The
instructions are that no revelations are to be
made at home. and that the official reports mus
first go to Washington, where probably they
will lay for year before the results are made
known. How do the people like thisa Doesn't
it look very much as if the Harrison admiuis-
tration was enga ged in running the census
bureau as a partisan piece of furniture. and
that the statistics gathered Will he unreliable
and stuffed for partisan purposes.
WHATEVER politicians and others may think
or say about Gen John Beatty, he still persists
in saying some pertinent things. Here is a
COED specimen:
"This is the time when it behooves the poIit-
ical leaders to act wisely. Party ties hang
somewhat loosely on the voter. He has been
humbugged oftener than he likes. The farmer
is finding that low prices and high taxes leave
him withous an income. The iaborer discovers
that while he is getting 81 q day for himself,
the men " hom he helps to elect to office are
drawing per diem of SIS to $40 from the pub
lie funds.
Mechanics and mill men have ascertained
that the blessings of a protective tariff have
been so largely diverted from themselves to the
Andrew Carnegies that the latter build castles
in Scotland to entertain the advocates of higf
protection with princely munifcence and dis
port themselves otherwise in all the spiendor;
OF ROYALTY.
"Of course these humble toilers are wst
enough to know that the principle of protection
is well founded anG should be maintained, bu
they have also sense enough to know that thi
principle should not be SO manipulated as tt
drop all its fatness into the pockets of the few
while the husks. dry bones and ofal go to th'
great majority"