Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-28

As the ordinary scale for piece work Is
from thirty-fiye cents TO forty-fve cents
in this state, the reader might naturally
think that the state was really getting
its money worth IN one thing at least;
but not so, it is getting no more than it
pays for, and some think not that.
There is quite a trick in the printers
trade, and it takes a printer TO under
stand II in its minutest detail; but when
say that the printer who has the cor
tract hires cheap help by tho week and
charges for his work by the piece. any
one can see that therein hes the milk in
the eocoanut. And whPn the state pays
fifteen cents thousand ems, it is getting
no more than fifteen cents worth. And
work for fifteen cents, that, TO be done
right, ought 10 cost two or three times
that much. is generally very poorly
done. That's the case now.
The state ought to own its own print
ing Office the same as it does its bindery,
and the same as the general government
and many other states do. Then the
journal could be printed every day and
be found on the desks of every member
the next morning. At the end of the
session, the journal would be finished
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 that? 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, SO that the trustees instead of
county commissioners shall take the
testimony and make the proper returns.
The introduction of the bill and the SUBJ
sequent discussion turned the house
nearly upside down the other day, and
postponement of the discussion was
finally forced by the omnipresent pear 3
maker. Those members who We're
brought up in cities had the satisfaction
of learning something about sheep, as
well as some of the tricks that the
honest farmer takes Of getting rid of
siekly animals at the county's expense.
r- Partisan Jokes,
Heated politics does not seem tic fni
much play this session. Inasmuch, as
Z the minority part.- is so far in the mi
nority, this is not strange, The members
confnea 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 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: a2c 10 4"
Evening Dispatch, all about the
grand jury report ''92
1t only took one yell from the boy and
the loud laughter of the Democrats for
the RepuDl cans to "catch on" Soon
the jokers were busily engaged with
their caucus. when 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: n9r..'t' @..u i
Evening Dispatch, all about Brice
bounced 7" % --@ra
/ 1t is needless to say that hesDemo-
Gratis enjoyed the outcome OF the joke as
much as did any of the rest.
The Rush for Office.
/ Probably never III the history of the
state has there ever been such rush for
Office as there is at present. Able-bodied
men, whose appearance belle their
actions, are racing pellmell over each
other to be appointed guard in the peni-
tentiary at $50 a month and board them
selves just why any person who can
do any other kind of work wants to
leave home and live in Columbus for
such d sum and fer 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 a guard at the pen
itentiary, and he thought the salary was
but $50 o month. Another man chased
me for two days to get my name to q
petition to be appointed to this same
sort of job. Then there are the hum
dreds of other places to be given ont by
or through the governor, and really iii
looks as if all the men who had voted
for Mr.. Mckinley We're going to swoop
downon him and ask for q job. Ana.
THE. governor arrives at his office at 10
o'clock. About'9 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
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. ssr p
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, when
he lodges in, where he can look over his
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 lihe.
This has been going much this way ever
since inaugurationday, and it is likely
to keep up for some weeks to come, if,
indeed, it ever stops during the term Of
Office. Governor Mckinley says he re.
ceives about the same amount of mail
that he used to receive as congressman,
SO that he is not unused to tackling big
piles of letters from all sorts of people
on all sorts of subjects, though now the
same subject, namely, Wanted, office,
seems to run through most of them.