The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-08-10
Mckinley.
viii stump The State for Hanna.

republicans are far from feeling tht
confidence they express OF carryinI
Ohio this year IN fact, they fee
so doubtful Of the result that in ad
ditiOn to the whole power Of the ad
ministration being to help Bos
Hanna to carry the State, nearly
every republican OF national prom
inence in the country has been ask
ed to make speeches in Ohio during
the campaign, and as they know
that TO decline will be TO incur tht
illwill of the administration most
of them will comply with the re
quest. Mr.. Mckinley, it is said ii
Washington, is going to SO far for
get his dignity as to make speeches
for Hanna, and Gar Reed has pro
missed to take the stump for him
1t is fully recognized that defeat
for Hanna will be defeat for Mr.
Mckinley, which would be very
humiliating in his own State dur.
ing the first year Of his admins
tratiOn.
Every honest man has person
al interest in the proceedings
against John Wedderburn & Co.
on the charge Of fraudulent pract-
ices, now going on before the U. S.
Patent Office. The Patent Office
has fully proven number Of its
charges of fraud against Wedder-
burn & Co., any one of which would
furnish ample grOung for their dis
barment from practice before that
office, and lawyers who have at
tended the hearings are unamious-
ly of the opinion that the firm will
be disbarred. The nature of their
defense has made il clear that they
are relying upon the skill and
of their lawyers, rather
than upon disproving the charges
Of fraud against them, in their
scant hope OF wriggling out of their
bad scrape. If they are disbarred,
.heig paper, the National Recorder,
will be shQt ogt Of the mails.
Prof. Henry W. iSlligtt, of the
Smithsonian lHstitqtion, who
,laims to know so much about the
sealing question as any man living,
'hargcs in the plainest and most
'mphaiie lbpguage that the confer
nee TO be held tbis fall on that
ubject will be u fake pure aad
impie. He says that Ambassador
lay begged Lord Salisbury to al
oW tile British naturalists who
ave for six years been studying
he seals on our islands to meet
ur naturalistS at Washington and
ompare biological notes, in Older
o hide eX-Secretary Fosters hum
iating failure to get his questi on
and that Salisbury
greed. He says further that the
ocalled conference will have no
uthority to do anything whatever
)wards a settlement of the quest
IN. Prof. Elliutt's assertions have
ttracted wide attention, and if
hat he says is true they deserve
till more. Meanwhile Prof. Eli
1t will probably lose his Smithson-
IN job.
Mr.. McKinley's amendment to
he civil service rules, forbiding
le dismissal of persons from the
assified service except for cause
nd upon written charges, has not
revented n number of democrats
the Government Printing office
citing Il rough deal. True, they
ere not dismissed, but some Of
lem were furlonged for an iudef-
lite period, and nine of the most
proof readers in the Office
all democrats-were transferred
the case. "There are more ways
killing dog than hanging"
When mathematics are brought
bear upon Mr.. McKluley's ex
nsion of the civil service rules it {
'esn't seem 10 have been worth
10 glorlfcation given 1t by the
orshipers ct the shrine OF civil
rvice cant. He has increased
70 exemption from civil service
lies in the Internal Revenue Ser
ce from 63 to 2l9 places, and
lille extending the rules to 100 {
Nv places in the Customs service
has exempted 3IS places in the |
me service. Il
If it's anything with money it,
is administration is ready to be I
and doing even in midsummer I
lis week the State department /
esented an ultimatum to Peru, /
rough the Peruvian Minister, re- Q
iring that the McCord claim of @