The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-02-04


and could be bound right up and be
ready for delivery instead of being from
six months to year in getting out
If the state owned its own printing
Office, it would have only its own work
to attend to. and that work would not
have to be put back for outside printing.
While there might be plenty of chances
for corruption in such an institution,
there would be no more of it than the
state is able to cope with, and the num-
erous advantages would more than COM
pensate for whatever disadvantages
there might be in that particular.
But that awful instrument, the state
constitution What are we going to do
with thatr Simply nothing. And that
settles it.
Farmer Members.
The farmers interests seem to be
pretty well represented in the present
legislature, and no mistake. The farmer
members have made up their minds that
they want the law regulating the paying
Of damages for sheep killed by dogs
changed, 80 that the trustees instead of
county commissioners shall take the
testimony and make the proper returns.
The introduction Of the bill and the sub
sequent discussion turned the house
nearly upside down the other day, and
postponement of the discussion was
finally forced by the omnipresent peace
maker. Those members who were
brought up in cities had the satisfaction
of learning something about sheep, as
we'll as some of the tricks that the
honest farmer takes of getting rid of
siCkly animals at the county's expense.
Partisan Jokes.
Heated politics does not seem to find
much play this session. Inasnuch, as
| the minority party is so far in the mi
nority, this is not strange The members
confne their partisan thrusts to jokes
on each other between sessions. The
other evening dozen or more Demo-
Gratis were engaged in pseudo caucus
on their side of the house, when a news
boy came along and yelled the evening
paper. One Of the members bribed the
boy to go over ON the Republican side
and yell:
Evening Dispatch, all about the
grand jury report
1t only took one yell from the boy and
the loud laughter of the Democrats for
the Republicans to "catCh on" Soon
the jokers were busily engaged with
their caucus, when a quick-witted Re-
publican member bribed the same boy
to go over to his friends on the other
side and, when he arrived right among
them, he was to call out at the top of
his voice:
Evening Dispatch, all about Brice
bouncedl I"
1t is needless to say that the Demo
Gratis enjoyed the outcome of the joke as
much as did any of the rest.
The Rush for ONCE.
Probably never in the history of the
state has there ever been such a rush for
office as there is at present. Able-bodied
men, whose appearance beAe theiI
actions, are racing. pellmeaMb eaMb1N yer each
other to be appointed guar ,e0eni'
tentiary at SIS "a month ann NWahem,
selves. Just why any peroYT TO can
do any other kind of work wants tC
leave home and live in Columbus foI
such a sum and for work in such sur.
roundings passes all comprehension.
Why, know a man in my county who
has a nice little country store business
who is anxious to be guard at the pen
itentiary, and he thoughtthe salary wa,
but $50 month. Another man chased
me for two days to get my name to {
petition to be appointed to this same
sort of job. Then there are the hun
dreds of other places to be given out by
or through the governor, and really il
looks as if all the men who had voted
for Mr.. Mckinley were going to swooI
down on him and ask for job.
The governor arrives at his Office at 10
o'clock. About o'clock the advance
guard of office-seekers makes its appear.
ance. A half dozen men Of all sizes and
conditions will lounge about the corri'
dor. Others will hang about the en-
trance to the state house that is nearest
the office. Some more bold will sidle
into the outer reception room, where
/ Private Secretary Boyle works his strong
4 English brogue on them, and either gets
them to go away or to take seats so that
he can steer the governor by them to his
private sanctum in safety.
When the governor arrives he meets
every one with an air that seems to say
that he is glad to see them, and each one
thinks that he is about to get that office
in spite of his fears and doubts. The
governor fits from one TO another until
he is near his private office door, wheI
he lodges in, where he can look over hii
bushel or two Of mail and receive those
visitors whom Mr.. Boyle has to let in
such as members of the legislature, STATE
officers, personal friends and the like
This has been going much this way evel
since inauguration day, and it is likely
to keep up for some weeks to come, if
indeed, it ever stops during the term o
office. Governor Mckinley says he ne
ceives about the same amount of maj
that he used TO receive as congressman
so that he is not unused to tackling bil
piles of letters from all sorts of peopl
on all sorts of subjects, though now tn
same subject, namely, Wanted, Office,
seems to run through most Of them.
A New PostOftce.
C1lonel Fred Blanl1ner is as happy a
4 boy with new top. He has succeed
ed in getting new postoliice for botl
houses. That of the senate was in a
the beginning of the session and that o
the house has been placed in position
within few days. The change iron
old pigeon coops and wood boxes +
handsome ones of iron and glass
marked, to say the least.
A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE.
The Rival Story TeIIerS.
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