Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-17

settlement OF Caledonia small INSTALL
ments OF sums still due to her by her
forcibly removed clients The meet
ings of the syndicate are kept strictly
private. However communicative Nine.
Gay may have been up TO u o'clock,
when that hour draws near she prompt
lly elects the strange visitor. sees him
/ off the premises and closes the sacred
portals upon him.
IN intelligent philanthr0pist, George
/ Berry. has affirmed that it is impera-
tive to suppress judicial condemnation
for vagrancy. The mere fact Of beg
ging with or without simulated in
tirmities. with or without false state
ments, should not be punished in a
prison, but in workshop; there should
be no degrading legal condemnation,
but merely a certain amount of compul-
sorry labor to be accomplished. He
affirms. not without reason, that the
prison cell and the penitentiary must
| be left to the offender who has Sinned
against the penal law, and that public
charity must take upon itself the task
of regenerating the immense number
of Migrants who, having committed no
indictable crime against the law, are
nevertheless guilty of professional
mendicancy. and therefore a danger
to society by their example.
In no other country in the world is
so much given and done for the poor
as in England; nearly every charitable
institution is supported by voluntary
contributions; every special appeal is
responded to with a broad munifcence;
and yet in no city of the world can
there be seen so much fragrant and
unblushing poverty as in London. 1t
meets you in the fashionable quarters
and parks, on the race courses where
the aristOcracy gather and where
thousands of pounds change hands, at
the doors of theaters where women
pass out dazzling in priceless diamonds.
Arrests there are without number; the
police move on the lean and ragged
youth who places his dirty hands on
the silvered handle of a splendid
equipage to open it, but the very next
day and far into the night the same
hideOus contrast occurs, the same
scenes are enacted; the same beggary,
sham or real, is Haunted; the same
prison cells receive their incOrri gible
inmates, the lazy, fraudulent impOs-
tors; and in the obscure haunts in
which the remainder congregate to
wash off their painted sores, to
straighten their cramped limbs or lift
their bent forms, the same scoffing
laughter is heard deriding a system
which is equally impotent to repress
them or force them into honest labor.
NEAL WILL OPPOSE MCKINLEY.
Ohio Democrats Nominate 4 Free Sill
yer Man for Governor.
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 1O.-Ohio demo-
Gratis today nominated Laurence Il.
Neal for governor. Only one ballot
was taken. Neal is the free silver can
didate.
The ballot stood: Neal 49, 1-2, Tay-
lor 81 II, Baker 169, Clark 62, Lent
Is. Necessary to a choice 4O5. The
rules were suspended and Neal was
nominated by acclamtion.
Col. W. A. Taylor, of Columbus, was
nominated by acclamtion for lieuten-
ant governor, and the platform having
been read, the convention apjourned
until this afternoon to complete the
ticket.
John w Slater, of Starke county,
was nomina ted for judge of the SUI
preme court.
B. @. Blackburn, was nominated for
treasurer and John P. Baily for attor-
ney general, for member Of the board
OF public works, L. B. Wilhelm; food
and dairy commissioner, 2. 2. Mexico
wan.
The platform favors national banks
being permitted to issue currency to
the par value of the bonds deposited.
This is a victory for the Cleveland
men. Tie platform declares the finan-
cial situation is the unfortunate legacy
of a republican administration. 1t is
the natural result of the Mckinley
tariff, the Sherman law, extravaganza
of the party lately in power, and the
fostering of the trusts and corrupt
combinations by that party, all combin-
ing to shake credit, create diSrust
in the money of the country and para
lyZe it's business.
Liberal pensions are favored, but the
granting of pensions for partisan pur-
poses needs to be corrected, SO that
the unselfish valor of the American
soldier may be untarnished. The ''un-
business like administration of the
state affairs under Gov. Mckinley" are
condemned and official scandals and
defalcations deplored. Reckless ex-
ravagance of the sixteenth general
assembly is denounced. After express
ing confidence in Senator Brice the
pla torn concludes: ''The country has
abiding faith in the integrity, patriot
ism and exalted courage of President
Cleveland. True to the people and
watchful of their interests, he will en-
force honest and economical methods
in the conduct of public affairs and
secure to every section of the country
the blessing of good government"
In the Caucasus mountains there are
many wild unciyiliZed tribes of people