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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25
sHERIFF'S SALE.
Thomas F. Butler VS. Josiah Pence ct al.

In the Court of Common Pleas of Hooking
County, Ohio:
Notice is hereby given, that the undersign-
ed, Sheriff of Hooking County, Ohio by Vir-
tue of an Order of Sale issued out of said
Court in the above entitled cause, and to him
directed MS Sheriff of said County, will at tho
door Of the Court House in Logan, on
Saturday, Aug. %, A. ID. 1891,
Mt o'clock p. NJ. of said day, offer for sale at
public auotion, the following lands and tene-
ments, situate in Hooking County, Ohio, to.
wit:
Being part of the north west quarter of
section number 35. Also part of the south
west quarter Of section No. 3d. and more par
ticular described as Fractional Lot No. (2)
two southeast part thirtynve acres
Also Fractional Lot No. | southeast part
four acres.
Also Fractional Lot No 3, northeast corner
twentyfour acres all being in range lS, Town
ship IL, section 50.
The above described lands TO be appraised
viz:
First Tract All the above described lands
excepting therefrom, the following described
parcel or lot, viz:
Commencing al the southwest corner of N.
II. Pcttits farm running north along the line
eighty tST rods thence west % rods, thence
south so rods thence east % rods to place of
beginning, containing II acres being part of
the southeast quarter OF the northwest quart
er OF section 85, township IL, range Is Hook
ing County, Ohio.
Second Tract. The II acres above described:
lst. tract % acres appraised at Sll2.5O
2nd tract y acres appraised at al6638
Given under my hand at Logan, Ohio, this
y. W. WRIGHT, Sheriff
John Hansen, Atty for Pttf,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25

A SILVER dollar will buy as much
clothing, provisions or other goods,
as a gold one. Then let us have
more silver dollars and less bank
debts.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25

Hon. JAMES f. NEAL will man
age the Democratic campaign.
He has been made chairman of the
State executive committee.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25

THE Democratic campaign will
open in August and will be vigor-
Gus and aggressive.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25

MCKINLEY's mOnstrosity has de-
creased the price of wool, and in
creased the price of wooden goods.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

Governor
JAMES f.. CAMPBELL.
Lieutenant Governor,
WILLIAM V. V.MARQUIS.
Auditor Of State,
THOMAS e. PECKINPAUGH,
Attorney General
JOHN p. BAILEY.
State Treasure
G. +. ACKERMAN.
Supreme Judge,
.GUSTAVUS II. VALID.
Commissioner of Schools
CHARLES c. MILLER.
Board of Public Works.
JOHN M'NAMARA.
Food and Dairy Commissioner,
II. S. TRUMBULL.
Common Pleas Judge.
TALL SLOUGH.
Representative,
WIN. p. PRICE.
Sheriff,
d. w. WRIGHT.
Commissioner,
ALEXANDER A. JUNIPHER.
Inflrmary Director.
JOHN NJ. BUCHANAN.
Coroner.
DANIEL HEFT.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25
Democratic Senatorial Convention.

The committee Of the Ninth and
Fourteenth Senatorial Districts
met at Cleveland on Wednesday,
July 10, 1891, and decided to hold
the next Democratic Senatorial
Convention at Athens, Ohio, on
Thursday, July 30th, 1891,
at II o'clock IA. m, for the purpose
of nominating one candidate for
State Senator and transacting such
other business as may come before
the convention.
The representation in said con-
ventiOn will be based upon the
vote of Thaddeus Cromley for 1890,
and will entitle each county to one
delegate for every 100 votes, and
one delegate for every fraction of
so or more votes cast for Cromley,
as follows:
Athens County. y...........1S votes.
Fairfield County. 45 votes.
Hooking County ..... % votes.
Monroe County y............1 vote.
Morgan County. ty..........19 10 votes.
Noble County (part ..... votes.
Washington County. ....4 Al votes.
Total. ................. 155 votes
Siuned;
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25
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We have on hand between 40 and SO dozen Mems,
Boys and Childrens Straw Hats, which we have plac
ed counter to close out at less than manufacture
ing prices. This is good opportunity to get yourself
and your boys straw hats you get them at your
own prices. We was also on hand 255
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25

JOHN G. PARKER,
NJ. A. DAUGHERTY,
A. II. WILSON,
j. B. TANNEHILL,
w. l.. FINLEY,
w. T. HARNESS.
Committee
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25
Mems Suits

In light weight and light eoIors, Which we have reduc
ed in price from $40 to $780, Now is your time to
make $3.50 a suit of clothes by calling early before
the best patterns picked out. We also have
lily 600 Boys and Chdrens Suits, which must be clos
ed out within Is days at prices lower than were ever
offered in Logan or Hooking County The same bar
gains in Mems, Youths, Boys and Childrens light
pants Leaders in that line also Ladies' and
Cents Misses and Childrens footwear. Don't forget
to visit and inspect goods and get prices
before purchasing elsewhere, guarantee to
you from $50 to $500 on mans SUITS from 100 to
800 on Boy or Chid's suit and from soc to 81 on
every pair Of Shoes bought ofus, a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

The policy of the Republican legis-
lators in Pennsylvania for years has
been to secure State revenue and school
fund without touching and and home.
The Democratic policy in Indiana starts
with the farm and the home, and lays
upon them the bulk of taxation. The
Democratic policy in Indiana is tending
toward the land-tax theory of Henry
George. while the Republican policy in
Pennsylvania has relieved land and
homes of all State taxation and imposed
the greater part of it upon rights, privi-
leges and franchises.
When the taxpayers of Indiana shall
have paid the first tax imposed by the
laws of the late Legislature they will be
more fully impressed than ever with the
fact that, for the creation of burdens,
that body has never had a superior. If
they do not seek relief through a Re-
publican Legislature it will be due to
the fact that the gerfymander of the
last Legislature in the apportionment of
Senators and Representatives has de-
prived a majority of the people of a re-
publican form of government in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26
TIE LAWS MUST BE ENFORCED.

The ~Shelbyville lynching ought not to
from the press against the outrage. 1t
is time something were done to purge
the reputation of the State from the
blot that is being fixed upon it by these
repeated acts of lawlessness. They have
occurred in other counties and not al
ways with the pretext of Furnishing
crime. Already the State has suffered
detriment and disgrace from the i'm
preston created abroad that it is in
habited by q lawless people and that
as they should be. This is largely an
undeserved reputation, for the mass of
people in Indiana are as ~law-abiding as
those of any other State, but
it must be admitted that such
occurrences as the White Cap out
RACES, the Daviess-county barn-burn-
ings and the Shelbyville l~ynching do
give the State a bad reputation away
from home. 1t is time they were
stopped, and the way to do it is to pros
CSutO ahu PohiSh ~ PCAPttAoeOAos v
will not do to say there is not power
enough in the law or moral force enough
in the community to do this. That is
not true. The law is strong enough and
the people are honest and brave enough
to bring the perpetrators of such crimes
to punishment if the officers of the law
will do their duty. This is where the
fault lies. Courts, judges, prosecutors,
grand juries and petit juries fail in their
duty. Lawyers who, by their oaths,
are officers of the law, and should be the
deadly enemies of crime, become It's de-
tenders, aiders and abettors. We need
a more vigorous enforcement of law.
There is no better time or place to be-
gin han right now and in S~helbyville.
The people of that city should hold a
mass-meeting and demand of the
authorities that the perpetrators of the
recent murder be brought to justice.
They should instruct the judge and
prosecutor to do their duty, and pledge
themselves to give the officers all need
full support. If necessary they should
raise a fund to defray the expense of dis
covering and prosecuting the leaders of
the mob. Let them show themselves in
earnest, and set an example to other
communities of the enforcement of law.
There is a great opportunity for the
people of Shelbyville to redeem and dis
tinguish themselves if they but knew it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26
TWO SYSTEMS OF STATE TAXATION.

The literary department of the Demo-
cratic part of the State government has
been writing a series of articles for the
Sentinel for the purpose of proving to
the people of Indiana that the tax law
of the last Legislature is a statesmanlike
and beneficent measure. Indeed, the
author of these articles seems to be of
has yet been invented. From the Dem
ocratic point OF view it may be so; but,
unfortunately for the taxpayers OF In
diana, the Democratic wisdom in regard
to taxation is not TIE highest manifesto
ton which has been made. One is i'm
pressed with this fact by reading the
resolutions of the late Republican con-
vention in Pennsylvania, setting forth
the achievements of the Republican
legislatures in that State in regard to
taxation.
The tax law which the Sentinel writer
SO enthusiastically applauds depends
upon realty, that is, upon the farms,
homes, etc, for the greater part of the
State tax and the State school fund.
Under the system of taxation which the
Republicans have devised for Pennsyl-
vania not a dollar of the entire expenses
of the State and school fund is derived
from a tax on land and homes, but Is
placed upon corporations and other
wise raised by licenses and taxes on in
h%eritances. To the enc that capital in
vested in railroad securities and loans
may be taxed, railroad corporations are
taxed on the money they borrow. Col
lateral inheritances pay nearly 9 per
cent. of the State revenues, and the
taxes on limited partnerships, corpora
ton stock and the gross Incomes of cor
porations aggregate nearly 30 per cent.
more. Foreign insurance companies doing
business pay about $500, 600 a year. Bank
stocks and the like pay 100000 more,
while various licenses bring in the bulk
of the remainder. Personal property
pays a very small portion of the tax.
and. as before stated. land not one cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26
VIOLATING THE CITY CHARTER.

Section 40 of the city charter makes it
the duty of the Mayor to "call together
the heads of departments for c~onsulta-
ton and advice upon the affairs of the
city, at least onc a month";" and to re-
quire each head of department to make
a monthly report in writing. 1t also
says, records shall be kept of such
meetings above provided for" and rules
and regulations shall be adopted (which
shall prescribe q common and systematic
method of ascertaining the comparative
fitness of applicants for office, position
and promotion, AID of selecting. ap-
pointing and promoting those found to
be best fitted, without regard to polit-
ical opinions or services
The things explicitly required by this
section are. first, monthly meetings of
the heads of departments; second, a
permanent record of such meetings;
third, monthly reports in writing from
each head of department.; fourth, the
adoption of civil-service rules for the
appointment and promotion of persons
applying for position. The object of
the section evidently was to keep a cur
rent record of city affairs and of the op-
erations of each department., to have
monthly reports accessible to the pub
lie, and to place the city government on
a civil-service basis in regard to ap-
pointments and promotions, which the
charter says shall be made without re-
gard to political opinions or services"
The entire section has been ignored
and disregarded by Mayor Sullivan. If
any meetings of the heads of depart
ments have been held no record thereof
has been kept. No monthly reports
have been called for or made, and no
rules have been adopted in regard to
appointments and promotions. The
charter has been in force five months,
and if this section had been complied
with there would now be records of
five monthly meetings of the heads of
departments. called by the Mayor, and
the files would contain five monthly re-
ports from each one. There is nothing
of the kind. Neither have any civil
service rules been adopted, as required
by the charter. The whole section has
been CONTEMPORARY ignored and openly
~disregarded. BY what right does the
Mayor thus violate the organic law of
the city?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

vance has been dropped, so many in
stances proving the contrary having
made the assertion ridiculous. 1t
would hardly do, for instance, to say
that his remarks to the veterans at
Whitehall. n. Y, yesterday, were pre-
meditated, since the presence of the
soldiers on the waiting train must have
been an unexpected event. Yet those
remarks were quite as happy and as
well suited to the occasion as if they
had been written out days before and
advance copies furnished the press asso-
Citations, as is the fashion among less
gifted orators.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

a~ugurating necessary reforms. He
would require steamships to furnish
more room for immigrants on humane
considerations, as well as increasing the
cost of transportation and thus prevent
ing. to some extent, the immigration. of
paupers. He would debar illiterate
adult males and illiterate unmarried
women, making this distinction because
he would not separate from her husband,
who 10 moi illiterate, his wife, who is.
He favors the proposition of increasing
the head tax to $40, and even higher.
He quotes the statement made to him by
a United States Senator, who is a pro-
tectionist, to the effect that .'the logical
result of our protective tariff policy
must be the protection of labor through
the restriction of immigration, and is
"sure that thinking men will agree with
him." and is certain that those who
satisfactorily arrange the many in
tricacies of our tariff law can formulate
a plan to meet this evil" On the other
hand, Henry George, the great ex-
FOUNDER of land-tax and free-trade the
cries, is a firm believer in free immigra-
ton so far as the Caucasian race is con-
cerned. He declares, with his character
istic disregard of common-sense logic,
that the effect of the coming to this
country of 'the whole population of
Europe would be but to raise wages and
increase our prosperity"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

In response to some inquiries pro-
pounded by a New York paper, Presi-
dent Gompers. of the Am erican Fedora
ton of Labor. has given his views re-
garding the restriction of immigration.
He has given the subject much atten-
ton, and his testimony before the
congressional immigration committee
showed that he had studied the problem.
He believes that immigration should he
restricted because il checks the devel-
opment of the people of this country
and relieves the country which the i'm
migrants leave of the necessity of in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

JOHN w. BOOKwALTER, writing In the
Forum about libraries and other important
educational facilities for farming CON-
munities. has this to say about an Indiana
institution whose value and Importance
was never fully appreciated by those whose
duty it was to provide for its support and
continuance:
do not know who secured the law to estab-
lish township libraries in Indiana. but may
every blessing rest on him. For he did a won
derful work, and the man or committee who Sc
rose to an inspiration. How many rainy, days,
how many long winter evenings, how many
noon hours did spend in poring over the Abbot
books in which scientific principles were popu-
larry explained. The recSllectiOns OF the vast
library-a mere handful of boOks-to which L
trudged q long distance through rain and snow
to get an occasional coveted volume leaves
lence and wisdom OF man cannot devise a more
beneticent fundamentally than som general
scheme whereby instructive and entertaining
books may be made readily accessible to the
youth Of the rural portions of our country.
Many q man whose schooldays are long
past could doubtless tell n similar story,
but it unfortunately happens thai these
libraries are now mostly q tradition. In
some districts remnants of them exist, but
legislatures have been too busily occupied
with schemes of little Importance and with
| selfish aims to see hat this invaluable ad-
iunct to the schools and to social life was
kept up for later generations. and boys AMI
girls of this age, not less eager and hungry
for books and entertainment. nave no such
| resources as had Mr.. Bookwalter in his
youth. A short time ago o number Of men
and women of the State met in this city to
form an association for the promotion of
reading circles among farmers and their
families. The reading habit is formed in
youth. and If farmers and others are to
nave a taste for books 1t must he acquired
in their early years. The most effective
work tho association can do is TO put books
within the reach of farmers families. and
they can do this In no better way than by
reviying the township-hbrary system and
using their influence in its behalf IN the
proper direction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

81 presume,'' said the Prohibitionist ''that, like
most of your unfortunate class, you arc a slave
to q perverted appetite"
NO." responded Mr.. Hungry Higgins; 81
can't say as am. About the only time when
old Billy Appetite seems to get the best o. me is
on wash days, when the women won't hand out
No rruh,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

F~AIR-MINDED Democratic newspapers
there are a few of such, though they
are published far from Indianapolis
frankly acknowledge that President Har-
rison's public speeches are marvels of
good taste, both as to thought and die
ton. Those that are not fair minded
find no point OF attack in the speeches,
and are simply reduced to silence con
corning them. Even the sneering charge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26
Strong for the Administration.

InterV1ew-Nl n EX-tOnRresSman McComas.
Western people are getting stronger and
stronger for the administration. They have
seen the President in his true light by per-
sonal contact, and 1t was good for both.
They are realizing how remarkably free
from scandal his administration has
been as compared with that of
Cleveland, Ii is strong and vigorous. too.
The people will support the Republican
party, for they see big crops. and are salts
lied with Mckinley prices. l think the
people of the West are for Harrison.
Blaine is strong and you hear q great deal
of him, but the impression seems to be
throughout the West with the people that
Mr.. Blame is for the administration and
loyal to the President. 1t is certain that
the administration is growing stronger day
by Gay throughout the great Northwest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

II will interest our fellow-citizen, ex-
Governor Gray, to learn that Colonel
Morrison, who is known as Horizontal
Bill" has been out in Illinois visiting
Senator-elect Palmer and other Demo-
cratic leaders, fixing for a Morrison
boom for the Democratic presidential
nomination as Mr.. Cleveland's residuary
legatee. Colonel Morrison is known
outside of Illinois.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26
Farmers Arc NotFool..

New York Telegram.
Tho farmers of this country are not the
fools many took them for" said William
FELTON,, a wealthy farmer of Michigan. at
the Sturtevant House. when there came
a cry for bread from Europe. and we have
such great crops. why everybody said we
would hold our wheat. They were wrong.
We held onto just so much of il as would
prevent the spectators securing control of
1t and boosting the. price to tho sky. We
intend to get q fair price for our grain. bnt
beyond that we do not want 10 squeeze
any body. Our crops are good. and we
shall reap sufficient reward without killing
our goose by boosting the price"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

THE law-abidIng people of Shelbyville
owe it to themselves to assist in remov-
ing the stigma which some of its lawless
citizens have brought upon the State.
They should demand the rigid enforce
ment of the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

On Saturday 5000, 994 bushels of grain
were in the warehouses, against $780,
773 bushels a year ago. The visible sup
ply of wheat in the United States on
Saturday was II, 949,4 69, against 1885,
Ss5 bushels a year ago. Considering the
.luch larger crop and more active de-
mand this season. these figures seem to
indicate that the farmers and small deal
ers are holding back their grain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

WHILE the press of the Sullivan COM
bine has infinite cheek, no member of 1t
has yet had the unparalleled hardihood
to give the Democratic candidate for
municipal judge apositive recommended
ton. Every respectable Democrat who
is spoken to about it asserts that the
nomination is a bad one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

THE evening organ of the Democratic
ring appears to be badly "rattled" by
the Journals casual remarks concerning
the n~atural-gas job that it is helping
along so industriously. 1t goes off with
an agonized whirr, as if a main spring
had suddenly uncoiled in its sensitive
interior
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

MAYOR SULLIVAN, democratic Coun-
Gil, the we gas companies, Boss Frenzel
and the News are the main factors in
the movement for the repeal of the gas
ordinance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

The lax enforcement of law encour
ages the preparation of shocking crimes,
and these in urn give rise to lynching.
The remedy lies in q fearless and vigor-
GUS enforcement of Jaw.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26

SOME time since the Journal con-
densed from the Milwaukee Sentinel an
account of q worsted cloth factory in
that city which produced goods of so
fine quality that they sold. in New York,
in competition with the best imported.
Not long since the free-trade Chicago
Herald, with the evident purpose of dis
a cut of the Milwaukee factory anda
column and a half ridiculing this Sin
fan. industry of the Mckinley act"
The proprietor, Mr.. Benedict, regarded
the enterprise as an experiment and did
not build a large factory, but did get
the best machinery. and does turn out
the best goods, of which the free-trade
malignant made no particular mention.
This seemingly malicious assault upon a
Milwaukee enterprise led a number of
business men of that city to look into the
matter, and they have made a statement
showing that the small worsted-mil in
Milwaukee is making the best quality
of goods, and that the proprietor has
made arrangements to add more ma
chinery to fill increasing orders. At
tention is called to this incident to inn
press upon American citizens the almost
malignant hostility of the o~ut-and-out
free-traders to enterprises which will
put the United States in the front rank
of the producers of the best goods in
the world. There is no language with
which to fifty ~stigmatize such assaults
upon private enterprise as that which
the Chicago Herald has made upon the
Milwaukee worsted factory.