The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1899-10-05

tOiu ucy VI WHO NouuoJ' haO hoo cNOh
up against 1t and is willing to he
good ever after. When Mr.. Petit
was elected Prosecuting Attorney
in 1896 he thanked the people for
the honor bestowed upon him, and
promised them that as long as he
Is In such Office he will fill II to the
utmost of his ability, with out fear
or favor, and the fellows that have
core under his rod of law have
mostly plead guilty to save time.
He is there to represent the State
of Ohio against lawlessness and
transgression of the rules of society.
Every man in the county that
knows anything about II, will say
that Mr.. Petit has been most ex-
cellent Prosecuting Attorney. The
matter of the drawing of illegal
fees was discovered by him and he
Immediately took up the matter.
The bond was given for an investi-
CATION and the committee is now
at work on the books of the county
and illegal fee drawing at an end
through his efforts. He did not
shirk his duty. He faced 1t and
did it, and none but the slanderous
tongue of falsehood can say to the
contrary. Mr.. Pettit's opponent is
Porter Price who is nice, quiet
fellow. He was recently admitted
to the practice of law and has never
had case yet, not even before
squire. If he is accidently elected
he will have an elephant on his
hands that will cause him to re-
sign and turn it over to somebody
else. He was nominated because
all others declined, and admits that
he would not know what to do with
the Office If he got 1t at this stage
of his law career, but that the rum
ming for office will advertise him a
little. We wish him success as a
lawyer, and there will be time,
when he has practiced law a few
years, that he can come before the
people and stand as a real lawyer,
and ask for something.
George Jacoby Is commissioner
Of Hooking county, and we are
positive that he will succeed him.
self for another three years. Our
convictions are founded on our
judgement of the good sense of the
people. We believe the people as
general rule know what is best
for themselves, and lean that way
pretty hard. George Jacoby is a
Democrat by principle. There was
time in 1894 and 1895 that this
great party Of the people was drift
ing away from the traditions of her
fathers and founders and George
Jacoby, as the Bryan of Hooking,
placed the stamp of condemnation
upon the brow of Democratic wrong
doing. He was a democrat, but
when that party was wrong and
plunderers were knawing at her
very vitals, he rose up the giant
that he Is, and was first to ring out
his voice to right the wrong, and
reconsecrate the party to the grand
Jacksonian foundations of equal Fl
nance and Americanism. Many of
our party condemned him, as did
they William Jennings Bryan, but
now they look back and thank the
Lord for some such brains OF livid
light to open our eyes and load US
out OF bondage. AS commissioner
George Jacoby has not been excell-
ed by any predecessor. He enter
ed office when this county was torn
up over corruption in that Office,
and he had a hard duty to perform
but he worked steadily all these
years and now no censure is heard
about the Commissioners Office.
He is business man, and a man
of wide affairs, and began at once
to look to preserving the county
funds as he would his own check
book. Lawyers fees were exhor.
batant printers bills heavy and had |
been paid without question. Law
yers and printers and others were
human and willing to take all they
could get. Jacoby set about to work
out plan to reasonably curb the ex.
penses of the county, and drew up
a reasonable and acceptable scale
of prices, and has in the past
three years saved the county thous-
ands of dollars along this line and
retained the good will of those con.
cerned. This is but one branch of
business that has come under his
careful observation, and saved the
taxpayer hundreds of dollars. In
the mean time he is q laboring
man himself, a coal miner and
knows the price of labor, and every
aborink man that has ever worked