The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-16


resented the United States government
in the consular service but for the vague
fear that Ohio would get one too many
Of the federal plums.
And he would have made q good con-
sui, too, in any part of the world. In
the prime of life, bralny, energetic, and
with plenty Of pluck, he would make
typical representative of the rugged
manhood of Uncle Sans domain any
where.
Pickaway was organized in 1910, and
during two or three sessions of the leg
islature was placed in representative
district with Ross, the two, jointly,
sending five representatives. Then for
10 years or more Pickaway and Hook
ing were linked together with two rep
resentatives.
The comfy has nearly always been
represented by men of moro than local
prominence. including such names as
Richard Douglass, John Emmitt, Val
entine Keffer, James and Felix Rem
nick, Francis Muhlenburg, Thomas j.
Winship, William B. Thrall, Augustus
J.. Perrill, j. E. Vanmeter, Chauncy n.
Olds, Jesse D. Courtright, j. 6. Nc
Schooler, Ansel Il. Walling, Charles L.
The latter gentleman, one Of the best
known legislators and newspaper men
in the state, is one of the three men
who are to be classed as "long termers"
since the adoption of the constitution of
1851.
Prior to that time, long termers were
common, one of them, John Bigger,
serving 13 terms in the senate and eight
terms in the house, while some 40 others
served from 10 to 16 terms.
But since 1851 comparatively few
served three terms, and rarely one as
many as four. Only three served more
than four terms, Aaron A. Van Cleaf,
five terms in the senate and one in the
house DR.. James Scott of Warren,
eight terms in the house, and Nelson
II. Van Yorhis of Athens, six terms in
the house. The latter was speaker and
subsequently member of congress.
Now that adjournment day has been
definitely fixed, subject, however, to
change, for the 9th inst, there ara
symptoms of general wash day or two in
one or both of the houses, upon which
occasion the dirty linen of the members
will be hung on the clothesline for the
inspection Of spectators
There was an exhibition of the kind
the other day in the senate when Sena-
tors Avery and Laning exchanged com.
pliments of the lefthanded kind, and
could hardly be restrained from getting
into each others hair.
There is a good deal of bile which
must be thrown off sometime or other,
and the jobs are now being chased into
such close quarters that collision is
~, 10 ,nl, To-
restraining themselves, as a matter Of
policy, but will probably not be able to
do so in the final scramble for the tag
end of the spoils.
Some people affect to believe that we
have made no progress in Ohio in the
last 93 years, even i'll the matter of
selecting United States senators. With
In that period Ohio has sent men like
Thomas Worthington, the bluff and
broadminded governor who founded
the state library with the money he
saved from the contingent fund of his
Office; John Smith, who got mixed up
with Aaron Burr and Blannerhasset,
and had to resign to escape expulsion !;
Edward Tiffin, governor, legislator and
statesman Return Jonathan Meigs,
governor and cabinet officer; Joseph
Kerr, the brilliant Chillicothean Alex
ander Campbell, one of Brown cOunty's
most notable citizens; Stanley Girls
wold of CuyahOga; jeremiah Morrow,
the sage of Warren county, the re-
nowned governor and historic first
member of congress from the state ;
Benjamin Ruggles, who served 18years ;
William A. Trimble, statesman and sol
dier, who died in Office from the wasting
| effects of wound received 10 years
previously at the battle of Fort Erie in
| the war of 1912 Ethan Allen Brown,
| governor and congressman; William
Henry Harrison, Who became president (;
Jacob Burnet, the jurist and historian !;
| Thomas Ewing, the brilliant orator and
distinguished cabinet minister Thomas
Morris, the profound lawyer; William
| Allen, the great commoner whose statue
graces the rotunda of the nations capi-
tol Benjamin Tappan, one of Ohio's
| premier statesmen; Thomas Corwin,
the eloquent "Wagoner Boy" Salmon
| p. Chase, governor, secretary of the
treasury, chief justice; Benjamin f.
Wade, bluff old Ben Of Ashtabula ;
George Il. Pugh. learned, polished and
prlInant John sherman, who outranks
all American statesmen in the long
tenure and distinction of his services at
Washington; Allen G.. Thurman, "the
noblest Roman of them all; !" Stanley
Matthews. the great LAWYER and pro
found thinker; George II. Pendleton,
statesman, diplomat, matchless gentle
man Henry b. Payne, whose name has
been as familiar DIS household word
for half a century, and CALVIN S. Brice,
strong minded, tenacious and genial to
= degree.
But all these men were sticks. Not
one OF them ever appeared to represent
the lobby before the legislature OF Ohio
after their election--nay, 10 their un'
doing be IL said, never before their elec-
sion even.
In 1895. In the middle NJ Ianua-v