Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-05-09

paited the dancers on the back and coached
them into regular plantation hoe down.
The kicking became 50 Attitudinous that
Matrou Kissinger could stand it no longer
and the ladies left shocked at the
DISGUSTING tR0IEs
they had witnessed. Alter they had gone
the Deputy Warden was made master Of
ceremonies and patfing the girls on the back
and joining in the high kicking himself,
exclaiming ''go in'igirls," move on chill
dren," and the like. The Slate Journal
headlines were piled high and dry over the
artiale as follows: Hot Carmencitas; But
They Are Experts in the Old Plantation Jigs
and Southern Dances; An Entertaining
Exhibition in the female Department of the
Ohio Peniteutiary; Witnessed by these Who
Can Appreciate Comedy Lines of the Ter
psichorean; But it is Followed by aWoman's
Spat.
II seems that the next day the matron and
assistant matron had high old time about
the matter. They engaged in hair pulling
one holding the affair was scandalous and
the other that it was moral show which
every woman in the state should have seen.
Finally the chaplain called and pursuaded
the two ladies to kiss and make up.
Ever since this scandal others have follow
ed in quick succession. Two chaplains have
been removed, one for taking liberties with
female prisoners and one FIR borrowing"
money from male convicts and never return
ing it. The number of
BLOODY FIGHTS
among prisoners within two years has never
been equalsd. At least half dozen guards
have been assaulted, one nearly dying from
his wounds. The mArderous attacks of con-
victs on each other have become alarming,
scarcely week elapsing without an attempt
ed murder among the inmates. The public
still remember the
DESPERATE BATTLE
that took place one quiet Sabbath morning
on the pulpit before 1000 convicts wher, in
Deputy Warden Playford snd Assistant
Deputy Warden Stackhouse engaged in dead
ly conflict just as the chaplain was about to
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down, rolled off the platform and beat each
other black and blue before they could be
pulled apart by the warden and his other
officers including the preacher With
/ SUCH AN EXAMPLE
it is no wonder the state prison of Ohio has
been disgraced by half hundred battles be.
tween prisoners, 1t is no wonder Warden
James has barred the prison against out
siders and even
EXCLUDES NEWSPAPER MEN
from the interior lest they should see fol
themselves the scandals of this nefariouf
administration. The record of the McKin.
ley warden shows more escapes, more at
tsmpts to escape, more tunnel work, more
cutting and stabbings, more clubbings ant
deadly assaults, more barbaric punishmentl
by officials, more drownings, more torturet
by the Cumming bird" more brutal beat
ings on the bare body with hard wood pad
dies than all the other administrations with
in generation combined. More
l. CHILDREN WERE BORN
behind the walls within three years thar
ever was known before. Worse discipline
more insubordination, more discomfort ant
more cases OF insanity have characterized
the reign of McKinleyism than was eve
dreamed of by the widest Of partisans.
is the only administration wherein convic
procured his freedom by acknowledging th'
paternity of babe born of female prison
er and thereby became aseaps goat and sav
ing one of the highest II not the highs
official of the prison from disgrace and dis
charge. The details of this transaction will
make rich rea' ing later. The story of poke
gambling and betting on election amon
convicss has already been told in previou
letters. When the people of Ohio come Il
{ realize just how their public affairs have beel
conducted by the satellites of McKiniey the
|, will rise up in their Indignation and ange
and put an end to the burning disgrace an
shame inflicted upon them.