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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-25
TerrIflo Rain and HaIIstorm.

WELLsvn.LE, o., July 25.-A terrific
rainstorm accompanied by hail and
vivid lightning, passed over the city
Thursday night. Trees were uprooted
and many small buildings blown over
and cellars flooded by a rush of water
that exceeded anything ever seen here.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-25
ralk with the States Attorney.


A working majority of the miners
has asked another conference with Gov
ernor Buchanan. The governor has in
timated that. while he will not meet
them as conference committee, he will
not reject them, but will listen to what
they have to say. The exact proposition
they will present to his excellency at this
meeting cannot now be foretold, but
enough can be learned to state that they
will make their final proposition and de-
liver their ultimatum to the governor.
While they will agree that the con-
victs may be carried back to the mines
and remain unmOlested and will make,
as they think, great concessions to the
governor, they will insist that they have
some rights that must be respected, and
these tEcy will present to the governor.
While he may not entertain their final
proposition he has indicated weakness,
or shown great indiscretion in his delay
i'll fulfilling his announced intention of
sending the convicts back to the mines
and this has probably emboldened the
miners to make another proposition.
The miners say it is their last move for
a settlement
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-25
Hot weather Al Portland. OREGON.

PORTLAND, July 25.-Thursday the
thermometer reached 1O2 degrees In
the city at p. m, being the highest
ever recorded here.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-25
FIERCE FLAMES.
Two Destructive Fires in nCincInnati-Fire
Losses Elsewhere.


CINCINNATI, July 25.-Fire broke out
at o'clock Friday morning in the build
ing formerly occupied by Proctor &
Gamble IA a soap factory, extending
from Central avenue to the canal, dis
tance of 400 feet, with frcnt of 200
feet.
From there the fire crept toward
Maescher & Company's big meat pack
ing establishment on the north. Despite
the deperate efforts of the tiremen the
flames soon enveloped the rear of the
building.
The stubborn contest lasted for an
hour, and finally the exhausted fremen
gained the victory but it was daylight
before the flames were fully extin-
guished.
The Proctor & Gamble building is a
complete wreck. The brick walls on
the Central avenue side, near Charlotte
street, We're standing, but all else was a
mass of ruins, while three feet of water
flooded the lower floor.
Most of the roof of the Moescher
building was burned off, while the rear
was entirely destroyed. The greatest
damage is by water The cellars were
full of packed meats and expensive re-
frigerators. The water which deluged
the building all settled in the cellar.
The loss will reach $40, 900, which is
fully covered by insurance. The build
ings We're owned by Proctor & Gamble,
and were occupied by them until they
removed to lvorydale. The meat pack
ing establishment is owned by John Y.
and William Maeschcr.
Horse Collars Destroyed.
At 10 o'clock Thursday night fire
was discovered in the upper floor of the
building at 10 West Pearl street, occu-
pied by the horse collar factory of De-
Camp, Levoy & Company. The fire
spread with great rapidity, the loose
staw on the upper floor making easy food
for the flames. The building was de-
luged, and in an hour the flames were
under control. The loss is $i5,0 600, which
is fully covered by insurance.
The tobacco house of Henry Miller 81
Company, adjoining, was slightly
scorched and the stock was considerably
damaged by smoke
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
The Outlook In Ohio.
Columbus Post

Columbus Post.l
The results of last weeks munic-
ipal elections in Ohio show the big
gest Democratic majorities OBJ
tanned since 1858 at any spring vo-
ting. The Post has made the most
diligent examination of the returns
in every county and finds the fol-
lowing to be the correct figures:
On the heads of the tickets voted
in the cities and incorporated towns
and villages the Democratic major
ity is 9,726, and on those in the
townships the Democratic majori-
ty is 6,341, meking total Demo-
cratic majority in the State of
1906. The Republican newspa-
pers went off half-cocked and
crowed too soon over their election
of Mayor in Cincinnati by the
bare vote of 1873. They should have
waited until the number of smaller
cities and the rural districts were
heard from. 1t is almost forty
years since the Democracy of Ohio
achieved such grand victories at
the April elections and the notable
triumphs Of last week augur a
complete sweep of the State next
fall with IA good ticket and an eff
cient Executive Committee.
From now on let the lines be
closely drawn and let harmony
prevail because the people
are with the Democratic
party on the great issue of the
Countrywide tariff. Nothing but
blunders in unwise nominations, or
wretched management of the
campaign can lose the Democracy
this State in November. The skies
are now bright and let the party,
encouraged by the brilliant success
Of the April elections, march on
ward and with an eye single to
still grander victories next Fall,
and Ohio will then be permanently
landed in the column of the Demo-
cratic party-the party whose prin-
ciples are those of the people and
working men on all the vital issues
of the day.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
April Politics.

st. Louis Republican,
The April elections in Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan and other States of
the West and Southwest show
Democratic gains but no Republi-
can disorganization, and it is safe to
say that will be none. The Repub-
licans will take united party into
the campaign of 1892. That it will
be a much smaller party than they
took into the campaign of 1888
there is every reason to believe,
but what there is of the party will
be compact, determined, desperate.
Those Republicans of 1888 who
have made up their minds not to
follow Radical leadership will not
show as "disaffected element" un-
til the polls are reached, and they
will not show there in 1892 to any
such extent as in 1890.
This much may be inferred from
the April returns. They show no
sign of Republican disorganization.
The party leaders generally have
the party well in hand. This was
not the case in st. Louis, where the
party is disorganized, but the re-
suit here is offset in Chicago, where
the free use of money, probably
furnished to Carter Harrison from
the Republican National campaign
fund, has checked the Democratic
advance and caused factions in
both parties. The vote cast for
Harrison is undoubtedly drawn
from the Democratic ranks to a
slightly greater extent than that
of the loss sustained by the Repub-
licans to the Independent Know
nothing ticket.
The only significance however,
which properly attaches to these
local elections is as they show or
fail to show party disorganization,
And almost without exception they
show that both parties are compact
and well organized. The advan-
tage is with the Democrats, but it
is advantage of the kind that re-
quires to be constantly and vigor-
ously improved. They have a pros
pect of all the success they work
out for 1892, but there is no pros
pect of success through inaction,
still less through blunders.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
Enormous Extrnrngnnce.

The last, Reed Mckinley, Con-
gress made appropriations which
aggregate a little in excess of
$l,OO0,OOO,OO0.
1t is safe to say that if the Secre-
tary of the Treasury were required
to pay out this enormous sum in
silver dollars, it would not be paid,
for if he were able to handle the
money at one dollar each second
on each working day of the year
and work ten hours a day, his term
of Office and that of twenty-one
successors would expire and the
twenty-second would find the un-
finished task on his hands and oc-
cupying his undivided attention
for more than three fifths of his
term.
To state it automatically 500
pr. minute, is $4,000 pr. hour and
$4,000 pr. day. l,000,000,0004- 10000
=sS years, 233 DAYS, 7 hours, As
min9tes, and 40 SECONDS,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

NOTICE TO NON RESIDENT LAND
N OWNERS. To the Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church as char
tered by the State of New York, and to the
Church Extension Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church as chartered by the State
of Pennsylvania:
You are hereby notified that at the March
session, 1891, OF the Commissioners of Hook
ing County, Ohio, John b. Roads and others
filed their petition for a county road, as fol-
road, known as the Peter Lasly road on the
lands of John n. Smith, in the west half of
the north east quarter of section No. 32, town.
ship No. IA, range No. II, Hooking county,
Ohio, from which n sugar ~ inches in dame
ter, bears ,outh, 3S15 degrees east, 1861 links;
thence in an easterly direction along the line
surveyed and plated. filed and recorded in the
Auditors office of Hooking County, Ohio, in a
proceeding to lay out and establish a county
road, instituted by John b. Roads ct al in the
year 1890, over the lands of the Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church as
chartered by the State of New York. and the
Church Extension Society of the Methodist
Espiscopal Church, as chartered by the state
of Pennsylvania and upon which lands Dan
el Ricketts, holds life estate, to n point in
the county road, known as the Funk road on
the lands of said Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the said
Church Extension Society, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and said Ricketts, in frac
tional lot No. |, Section 3S, township II, range
II, from which Il hickory tree inches in di-
amcter, bears south S215 degrees west % links,
making distance of II chains and SO links
and there to end" That the viewers and u
surveyor of said road, were appointed by the
said Commissioners; and that said viewers
and surveyor will meet at said John N.
Smiths, on the 9th day of May, 1891 at 10
O'Clock, a; M, to enter upon the discharge of
their duties: JOHN b. ROADS,
Principal Petitioner.
March 80, 1891.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

ed program of the Senatorial dis
tricts and refused to consider the
amendment that was proposed by
Gov. Campbell and which was
drawn up in conformity with the
plan contemplated by the coustitu-
tion.
There is no pretense of denying
that the apportionment was made
strictly for partisan purposes "The
Republicans of Ohio" are told by
Republican paper of this city, that
"the result must be eminently sat
isfactory" to them, as "the commits
sion fixed reapportionment which
insures Republican house of rep
resentatives and except under most
extraordinary circumstances, a Re-
publican senate" 1t has been ar
ranged according to the same ac-
count that the next senate shall
have eighteen Republicans and
thirteen Democrats and the house
sixty-four Republicans and forty
three Democrats. With this ar
rangement the Republicans think
they need borrow no trouble about
the next United States senator
being Democrat and they are also
satisfied that they will be able to
gerrymander the state for con-
gressional representation to their
liking.
The scheme may not work as
smoothly as the conspirators imag-
inc. If the apportionment stands
the test of the courts, to which it
may be sujected, the people may
have something to say about the
matter when they get a chance at
it. 1t is not impossible that the
next legislature may be Democrat
ic in spite of the elaborate precau-
tions taken Messrs. Ryan and Poe
to prevent it, and that the scheme
to secure a United States senator
and congressional delegation may
miscarry after all. But should this
prove to be the case the conspira-
tors will not have utterly failed, if
the apportionment is not thrown
out by the courts, for it cannot be
changed within ten years and after
the first burst of popular indigna-
ton it is calculated the gross
unfairness of the thing will be for
gotten and the next four legisla-
lures will be securely Republican
according to the designs of the par.
tisan trainers of the scheme.
The gerrymander is an animal
that thrives best under Republican
protection.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
An Admitted Gerrymander.

Senator Lowry proposes to con-
test the new Senatorial apportion-
ment of Ohio. This is right and
we believe that the Supreme conrt
will hold the apportionment uncon-
stitutional. On this subject the
Cleveland Plain Dealer says:
"The apportionment of the State
for legislative purposes, which was
effected by the Republican Secre-
tary of State and Auditor, forming
majority of the apportionment
board, is one of the most indefensi-
BILE gerrymanders on record. 1t
was accomplished by bold disre-
gard of the method provided in
the constitution or, at best, by an
evasion of the constitutional re-
quirement. 1t was not the act of
the board, for when the board met
the majority came in with a print
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

No mind can fully comprehend
the magnitude of the sum, and no
sane man will argue that an eco
nomical administration of the af-
fairs of the government requires
the expenditure of any such enor-
nous amount.
If the Republican party were
given unbridled sway for few
more years the United States would
be placed on a par with some of
the governments of the old world,
which dazzle the eyes with the APP
pearance of splendor while the peo-
pie are crushed with an almost un-
bearable burden of debt and taxa
tion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

turned ain the same ship. If prac-
ticable," that brought them over.
Under this claim twenty.one con-
sumptive and other wise undesira-
BILE Italians were returned to an
italian steamer by the barge Of
fee officials. The agents protested
that as their steamer was not re-
turning directly to Italy, it was
not practicable" for them to un-
dertake the charge of the consump-
tives. The barge Office people have
replied firmly that the agents prob
ably meant "proftable" instead of
"practicable," and that the law
would be strictly enforced on that
construction. The issue was thus
Joined and will be tried in court.
The object of this branch of the
law is, of course, to prevent steam
ship companies from participation
in the fraudulent importation of
public charges to this country.
That the companies have hitherto
practiced this species of blockade
running to their own great profit,
and the equally great cost of the
United States, the character of i'm
migrants during recent years is
proof enough. Regularly employ
ed agents have secured Southern
Europe, and especially Italy, for
this class of contraband business.
The steamship companies, being
all owned by foreigners, are not
apt to abandon this profitable traf-
fic without a struggle, but there is
cheering prospect that the Unit
ed States authorities will prove
equal to the emergency.
We accept as another encourag-
ing sign the action of the italian
societies in New York, which have
notified the barge Office officials
that they would have the towns
and villages of Italy placarded
with copies of the new law, so that
Italians contemplating coming to
America may know the conditions
on which they can be admitted to
the country. Such action is under
taken in spirit wholly commend
able, for it concerns Italo-Ameri-
cans quite as much as other Amer
leans that the powerful current of
immigration should not be further
polluted.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

tations" and thus "stifle home man
ufactures and home productions"
A few minutes later he declared
that "the new tariff law puts no
fetters on trade" but Tgives us wi
der, freer trade than,we ever en-
joyed under any tariff law" Where
then, is the protection to home
manufactures and produ ctions?
Mr.. Mckinley said that the "tes-
timony of history" is that panics
apd prostrations of trade cannot
take place "under the sway of eff
cient protection" How about the
great panic of 1873 under q As per
cent. tariff? Were there no panics
and depressions Of trade, strikes,
lockouts and bankruptcies in the
commercially disastrous decade
between 1880 eHtl~ 1902. Did the
high tariff render unnecessary the
intervention of Secretary Window
to check the financial distress last
year? Is the present condition of
trade and industry a justification
of the policy of taxing nation
into prosperity?
There were too many importing
merchants and shopping women In
the audience to warrant Mr., Nc
Kinley in repeating directly his
favorite fallacy that "the foreigner
pays the duty" He shaded this
off into q statement that "the for
eign product bears the duty"
The speaker was perhaps deferred
from claiming that the foreign pro-
ducer pays it by the WorJd'S in
inquiry why, if this be so, he did
not repeal all internal taxes and
put the whole cost of supporting
our Government upon the foreign
er.
Mr.. Mckinley did venture to pre-
sent the double-edged fact that a
drawback. is giveh to our man
ufacturers upon dutiable raw ma
terials used in making articles for
export. But'he failed to explain
why, if a tariff be not tax en-
hancing the cost Of manufactures,
such drawback is needed. Or
why foreigners should be given
American manufactures cheaper
than our own citizens.
Mr.. Mckinley made O halfway
denial of the patent fact that the
law has accomplished it's object in
raising prices. If it did not, where
in would it protect? And has he
repented of his contempt for cheap
ness expressed upon a hundred
platforms in 1900?
Waterloo will not be reversed by
such weak and conflicting argu.
ments as the "Napoleon of Protec.
ton" is now advancing.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

THE only claim the Republicans
have to Rhode Island is that of mi
nority rule, on which they usurped
control in New Hampshire and
through which they are keeping in
a hold over Dictator in Connect.
cut. The fact that the Democrats
carried Rhode Island for Governor
on a plurality as usual shows that
it is as usual a Democratic State,
but under the Republican method
of declaring the result, there is "no
election" in districts which give
Democratic pluralities.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
Immigration improvements.

The immigration of paupers and
bad characters to our country to
undermine our workingmen or fill
our prisons and poor houses, has
awakened much discussion over
the land. Since the new immigra-
tion Jaw went into effect on April
/, some new complications have
arisen which were unknown under
the old law. One clause of the
new inactment, provides that de-
barred immigrants are TO be re-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

THE experiment of trying to
elect 1.-two Democrats to the Mayor
atty in Chicago at the same time
has apparently failed. The Repub-
lican candidate claims election by
1900 plurality. The total vote cast
for the two Democratic candidates
was 86,3l1, against 1850 votes for
the three other candidates in the
field. In the Aldermanic contest
% Democrats were chosen and II
Republicans. Whilst the voting
shows that Chicago is safely a
Democratic city, it also demon
strates that it is not prudent to go
into fight with too many Gener-
ais.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
Edmunds Takes Leave,

st. Louis Republic.l
The only reasonable explanation
of the resignation of Senator Ed
munds is the fact that credit was
no longer to be derived from the
service of the Republican party.
More sensitive than Mr.. Blaine and
less pertinacious under discourage
ment than Mr.. Sherman, Mr.. Ed
munds leaves these two as the last
of the historical leaders of the Re-
publican party, because he himself
is not able as they are to adapt
himself to the humiliation of its
present leadership. He could not
endure, as Mr.. Blaine does, to be
treated as an underling by men
who even contempor aneously are
judged as fifth rates, who will
hereafter be hardly judged at all in
the kindly obscurity which will
conceal them individuality when
history is called on to consider the
results of the folly and insolence
which constitutes the moving spirit
of their Radicalism.
In party so controlled Mr.. Ed
munds had no more to hope than
has Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Sherman.
Unlike them, he prefers retirement
to humiliation, and the choice is a
wise one. 1t almost redeems u long
career in which there has been
much that was small and mean;
much that was narrow and vindic-
tive; much that marked intolor-
ance in generals and sectionalism
in the most minute particulars. But
all this was simply characteristic
of Republican Senator from Ver-
mont. 1t is one of the remarkable
anomalies of petty sectionalism in
our politics that the man so lately
guilty of the gross and despicable
dishonesty of the Vermont maple
sugar job should in his retirement
from the Senate leave behind an
unchallenged record for personal
honesty. In this, Mr.. Edmunds
always had and always felt his ad-
vantage over his rival, Mr.. Blaine.
And in the same respect, the pub
lie estimation of Mr.. Edmunds is
higher than that in which Mr..
Sherman is held.
But taking the three together, no
one will question their superiority
to the Quays and Dudleys, Harri-
sons and Wanamakers who have
succeeded to the control Of the Re-
publican party. When the retire
ment of such a man as Edmunds
leaves Quay in the Senate, Harri-
son in the White House, and Wana-
maker in the Cabinet, all Republi-
cans are justified in feeling that
their party suffers an irreparable
loss in losing the services of Ed
munds.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

CHEAP sugar in the last week
has turned every grocer's shop into
an argument for the Mckinley tar
iff and protection.-FhiLa. Press.
An argument for "protection"
that consists in the abandonment
of protection gives a wrench to
ones mentality. On the same prin-
ciple, no doubt, free wool would
have turned every clothier's shop
into aprotective panegyric!-Phila.
Record
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

The raw sugar tax was transfer
red to clothing and other manufac-
tured goods. But merely taking
the tax from raw sugar gives six
pounds more in the dollars worth.
When free trade in raw sugar does
this, it leaves the Republicans per-
fectly free to go on claiming that
"the tariff is not tax" but they
will have few and unbelieving lis
teners.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
THr McArthur Democrat .Et,

THE Macarthur Democrat En-
,quirer has changed hands, Mr.. A.
E. McGrath, having sold the same
to our young friend, F. p. Magee.
We are sorry to lose Bro. McGrath
from the Editorial fraternity, but
at the same time extend the right
hand of fellowship to the new pro-
prietor, and welcome him into the
fellowship of Democratic journal
lists.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

WE feel assured that an improv-
ed modification of the Australian
ballot system will be passed at
this session of the legislature and
will govern at the next election.
The heelers and ward wrestlers
may as we'll cast their eyes about
for another job for the business of
,cat-hauling at the polls will be no
mole.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

THE spring elections in Ohio
show that the tendency is still
strong to swing into the Democrat
ic column. This tendency will be
confirmed into a certainty next
fall should the Republicans be fool
ish enough to run Mckinley for
Governor on the platform of the
Mckinley bill.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18

AS the design Of the dollar is to
be changed, it should be modern
lied to suit a Government of Pro-
gressive Republicanism. A Pink
erton with a Winchester would be
appropriate for one side and the
miniature of a 54-per-cent. Custom
House for the other.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
1, 600, 900, 900.

GEN. SPINoLA, congressman from
New York city, died in Washing
ton Tuesday morning. Gen. Spin
ola was an able gentleman, a sound
and unflinching Democrat, who
ably represented his constituents
in the lower house of congress for
many years.