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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
BECOMING Sane.

One notable effect of the great Rus
sian naval defeat is the returning
sanity Of Washington bigwigs. Ever
since the war began they have been
giving all the aid possible by word Of
mouth and by written expression of
opinion to the Japs, Notwithstanding
the fact that during the civil war Rus
sia was the only old world power
friendly to the United States. Now
the Washington bigwigs appear to be
waking up to the realization of fact
which humber folk have heretofore
modestly suggested, which is this: If
the Japs finally lick the Russians, they
will be so puffed up that they will be
going around with a chip on their
shoulders shouting for a fight with any
body and everybody. AS we are among
the nearest neighbors by idioticaly
holding on to the Philippines, just as
apt AS not we will be the first nation
they will tackle, and we will be In a
pretty pickle fighting 1000 miles from
a base for thing we never ought to
have had, which has been positive
curse to us ever since we got it and
which we ought to get rid of at the
earliest possible moment. These ideas
are beginning TO percolate through the
fuddled brain of the Washington big
wigs. The dispatches from that de-
lectable city state two facts of I'M
portance on this subject; % That the
bigwigs are not pleased ut the di-
mensions of the Jap naval victory.
They wanted the Japs to win. but not
so overwhelmingly; (2) That the big
wigs are hurrylng battleships, torpedo
boats and munitions of war to the Phil
ippines.
When l was boy l knew an old
rhap named Jake Stein in the Chapline
river hills in Kentucky who owned
fine filly which was too skittish to suit
him. He wanted to tame her. SO he
told his son to hide behind tree and
when he rode by on the filly to jump
out and yell 1Bool' Tbe junior obeyed
orders with such enthusiasm that the
filly ran away with Jake, threw him
OFF and nearly broke his neck. When
he revived sufficiently to take notice he
said, II told you to say 'Boog but that
was too big boo for the fillyw Young
Stein had overdone his part in the play.
SO did the Japs. Consequently the
Washington bigwigs are surprised ana
displeased. poor things. Both they and
old Jake Stein ought to have had more
sense. Congressman Hull OF Iowa did
solae weeks ogo nature to make Ger
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
Roodlina and Graft.

boodIing ana Gratt
Thnt there has been q great upheaval
In these latter days on the subject OF
boodiing and graft goes without say
ing. Many good but timorous souls find
in that ali infallible sign that the world
is growing worse. that we are rushing
headlong to 'the demnitien bowwows'
and that chaos is about to come again.
But they ought to cheer up. Boodlers
and grafters we have with us always.
They do not and never will constitute
a majority. We of this generation are
more determined to punish them-that's
all. Hence this hullaballoo All who
are blue because of the worlds degen-
GRAFTON ought to read and reread this
extract from James Madison's report
of the constitutional convention Of
1887:
DIR. Franklin said he was sorry to differ
from his colleague, for whom he had q
very great respect, on any occasion, but
he could not help It on this. He had had
some experience of this check in the ex-
ecutive on the Legislature under the pro-
prietary government of Pennsylvania.
The negative of the governor was con-
stantly made use of to extort money,
No good law whatever could be passed
without private bargain with him. An
increase In salary or some donation was
always a condition, till at last It became
the regular practice to have orders In his
favor on the treasury presented along
with the bills to be signed. so that he
might. receive the former before signing
the latter. When the Indians were scalp
ing the western people and notice 90 II
arrived the concurrence of the governor
in the means of self defense could not
be got till 1t was agreed that his estate
should be exempted from taxation, So
that the people were to fight for the se-
curity of his property while he was to
bear no share of the burden.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
Political Announcements

Mr.. Editor:-Please announce my name as
q candidate for the nomination on the
Democratic ticket for Sheriff of Hooking
County. believe 1 am personally known
throughout the county, and was born and
raised a Democrat in Benton Township, and
am democrat from the ground up. The
name Wright may be familiar in office hold
Ing In this county. but myself nor any of my
relatives ever held Office In this county. I
ask for your support at the primary.
CHARLES A. WRIGHT.
Mr.. Editor-Please announce my name as
candidate for Sheriff of Hooking Comfy,
subject to the decision Uf the Democratic
primary election.
GEORGE B. WILLIAMSON,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

brave and land of the free. Should
Fairbanks succeed in making himself
the farmers candidate the cake Of Mr..
Secretary Taft, Mr.. Secretary Shaw,
Mr. Secretary Cortelyou, Senator For
aker and all the rest will be dough.
Cincinnatus was snatched bodily from
his plow to be made dictator of Rome.
Diocletian doffed the imperial crown to
luxurate in his cabbage patch, They
While Secretary Taft is visiting the
mikado, while Senator Foraker is try
ing to corral the Buckeye Republicans
during Secretary Taft's absence In the
orient, while Secretary Shaw is exploit
ing the theory that n man can get rich
by being taxed to death and can lift
himself over the fence by tugging at
his own boot straps, while the bread
and butter brigade are trying to in
duce Colonel Roosevelt to run for pres
ident again, not for his good, but their
own, Mr.. Fairbanks will be quietly but
buslly making presidential hay while
the sun shines ON his Hoosier farm.
The first thing his competitors know
pictures of him in overalls and cotton
shirt plowing corn or shocking wheat
or rounding up calves will begin to ap-
pear numerously, and the Republican
agricultural mind will naturally turn
to Fairbanks. Truth to tell, he Is grow
Ing as candidate, and he is well up to
the front in the running. The anarch-
ist incident up in Michigan will help
him, for people will reason that if he
in the vice presidency is parsonage
of sufficient Importance to attract the
attention of the enemies of all govern
ment he must be of presidential stat
ure.
The vice president seems to be happy
in being able to express the well ac-
cepted Republican articles of faith
without offense to any of his brethren.
He ventures on no new wrinkles. He
follows beaten and familiar paths. His
forte is moderation In linguistics. If he
is n stand patter, the revisionists don't
seem to know it. If he is revisionist,
the stand patters haven't found it out.
Mr.. Secretary Taft injured his pros
poets by his "buy where you can buy
the cheapest" proposition. He was too
sudden. He Jared the stand patters.
OF course they needed jarring, but it
was like punching a bald hornets nest.
Mr.. Secretary Shaw, thinking that Taft
had killed himself, which he had not
done, jumped into the breach and be-
gan to yell stand patism so vociferous-
ly that all the revisionists lined up in
stanter against him, and they will fight
him viciously to the last ditch. While
all this was happening the vice presi-
dent was making pleasant Republican
speeches constantly, avoiding Charybdis
and Scylla, offending nobody and gain
ing ground all the time. No Republican
can find fault with his political ortho-
doXy. Now he comes in the balmy
month of June, while the multitudinous
voice Of the graduate is heard in the
land, and says sweetly, 81 like farm
ing" speech in one sentence which
will cause his stock<to jump several
points. Personally the vice president Is
all right Only his politics is bad
awfully bad.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
Champ
Letter {
Especial Washington Eettor.l

lSpcCluI washington Eettor.J
RN England they may not use the
expression soft snap" but they
have the thing itself. Tile speak
ership of the house of commons
is most decidedly of that nature. The
incumbent holds OH till he dies or re-
sigifs. No matter if the political com
plexion of the house changes, the
speaker continues to WELD the gavel
and draw the salary, which is $4,000
per annum. If he chooses to resign,
he is entitled to peerage and to a
pension of $4,000 year. Mr.. Gully,
who has just resigned to accept the
peerage and pension, has been speaker
for many years and appears to have
been as successful in that line as his
grandfather was in pugilism Here
our speaker holds for two ycnrs on a
salary of $4,000 and retires ON no pen
sion. OF course, when the political
complexion OF the house changes, a
new speaker is elected. In England the
speakers duties seem to be wholly
judicial. With us his duties are large
ly political, very slightly judicial. Yet
we have as speaker men who are fully
equal mentally to the English speakers.
Some of the men who have presided
over the American house of representa-
tives have been of the first rank. One
president, James Il. Polk, and several
unsuccessful candidates for the presi-
dency, among them Henry Clay, James
q. Blaine and Thomas Bracket Reed,
have filled the chair at Washington.
One vice president, Schuyler Colfax,
was an ex-speaker. Two speakers, Ga
lusha A. Grow and ]. Warren Kiefer,
We're defeated for reelection to con-
gress. Grow re-entered the house after
an absence of thirty-four years, and
now Kiefer returns after an enforced
retirement of a quarter of century.
The speaker of the American commons
has far more power than his English
prototype. He is easily the second Of
ficer of the government in point of
power. Sometimes he seems to have
more power than the president himself.
Mr.. Speaker Cannon exercises all the
power which his position bestows.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

|
Ohio, adopted at meeting of said Commit
tee held on the l7th., day o. June 1905, the
| Democratic Primary Election for said
County Will be held on the
I7th., Day of August, 1905,
between n, the o,a'ous ho%rs OF = o'slSct
| standard time) for the purpose OF nomina 1.
Ing ono candidate for each Of the following
ofiices: Representative to The General As:
sembly If Ohio, Probate Judge, Clerk OF the
Courts, sheriff, Commissioner, Infirmary
Director and Surveyor, one County Central
iPp ssSs ei hs
cratic Electors OF the respective precincts.
Said primary election Viii be held under
the rules and regr lations herein provided,
but not strictly under the laws relating to
primary elections In Ohio.
Said primary election shall be held at the
usual Voting places In the several precinct q
| and the Village OF Logan shall constitute
one voting precinct with the voting place
a. the Court honse IN said Village The
precincts of Green Township shall hold
their primary election at the usual voting
place In said nrst precinct. The Dem0cra-
tic electors OF the first precinct OF Starr
shail hold their primary election at Union
Furnace. The Democratic electors OF the
second precinct OF Starr and that partof the
tnird precinct thereof south OF the Hooking
River shall hold their primary election al
the old election house in said Township,
The Democratic electors OF tina. part OF said
third precinct OF Starr north OF the Hook
Ing River shall vote at the usual voting
place OF the second precinct Of Green Town-
ship.
Murray city ana Coalgate Precincts shall
constitute one voting precinct with the pol
ling place at Murray city.
Jobs and Blatchford Precincts shall con-
stitute one voting precinct, with the pol
ling place at Brush Fork Junction.
The Central Committeeman of each Pre-
cinct shall appoint a supervisor and one
troll OF the primary election In that Pre-
cinct, except where or more Precincts a re-
united with one voting place, then the Gem
tral alGommitteeman Ofthe Precincts 80 un.
tied shall select one supervisor and one
clerk for such Joint voting Precincts. in.
all Joint Precincts, the Central Committee
men thereof shall furnish ballot boxes for
each 1.-THE precincts composing such jOint
voting places and the electors from the re-
spective precincts thereof shall cast their
hailots In the respective ballot boxes pro-
All persons known to be Democrats who
Will be eligible to vote at tire November.
1895, election shall be entitled to vote at the
primary herein provided for.
Candidates for the County ofiiceB must
TO the date of the primary election, In order
TO get their names on the ticket.
The several supervisor Will make due re.
turn OF the vote cast IN their respective pre-
Logan, Ohio. not later than ! o'clock p. m.
on Monday. the l4th, day OF August. l006.
The Democratic Central COmmittee Of
Hoctlng County Will meetat Logan; Ohio,
on Monday. August the l4th., 1905 at
o'clock p IN. for tho purpose Of canyassil,0
o. II. MATTHIAS.
W. A. HENDERSON. ''s'
Chairman.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
Astonished,

One of the most interesting Republic
ans in congress is Hon. Frank G.
Wachter OF Baltimore. Like Yorick,
'he is n fellow of infinite jest" but he
is not in a joking frame Of mind just
now. Colonel Roosevelt has Jared all
the humor out of him by proclaiming
that he is about to appoint Hon. Charles
]. Bonaparte to be secretary of the
navy. When Wachter heard this he
was SO overwhelmed that all he could
do was to murmur, Il am astonished"
What he said when he recovered his
speech Is not recorded. Perhaps, to bor
row an idea from Cushman of Wash
ington, one would need asbestus paper
on which to set forth the hot language Of
Wachter when he really expresses his
inmost thoughts on this burning sub
ject, for Wachtcr Is fighting Repub-
lican and has no use for mugwumps.
Indeed, he is not the only Maryland
Republican "astonished" at the eleva-
tion of Colonel Bonaparte. The aver
age Maryland Republican believes
with all his heart in William Il. Mar
cy's dictum; ITO the victor belongs the
spoils," and he wants the spoils and
wants them right away. Now, If Colo
mel Bonaparte believes anything at all,
lie believes in civil serviee--which is
the abomination of Maryland Republic
ans; hence their bad case of multi
grubs which produced the astonish-
melt of my genial friend Wachter.
TO be deprived of the spoils or to have
them In driblets from the hands Of
Colonel Bonaparte, who was until re-
Gently Democrat, rlles the souls of
the faithful In Maryland, my Mary
land. There will be no pleasure in life
for them so long as Colonel Bonaparte
handles the Maryland pie. Who can
blame Wachter ct al? They have
borne the heat and burden Of the day.
They have fought tooth and nail for
Republicanlsm for, 10, these many
years when Maryland was hopelessly
Democratic. They would be something
more or less than human If they did
not resent the promotion of the man
who first and last has done them many
a bad turn. Perhaps-who knows?-
the hands of Providence to break up
the Republican party in Maryland, a
consummation devoutly to be wished.
So all good Democrats will eXclaim,
"On with the dancer When Wachter
and his fellow stalwarts recover from
their "astonishment and timber up
their linguistic guns things in Republic
an circles are likely to sizzle some
what, but If Colonel Bonaparte fights
as we'll as did his granduncle 1t is by
no means certain that the Republican,
stalwarts will be able to do him up.
Anyway, it is pretty fight as it
stands. The more one studies the Re
publican Maryland situation, the more
h, admlres the astuteness of ex-United
States Senator Louis Emory McComas
In taking himself out of the fight per-
petual and into the quietude of life
position on the bench.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
L. W. HULL,
r. ID. KELLY.
The Highroad to Embezzle,nent

~ o0Vs"oE EDWIN WAKEFIELD OF \,
You handle for other people getlt out
and into their Golfers quickly youVcan lmnge
other peoples money stock propertywith yourlwn lEEP
THEM APART. ~ -
TINS MlNelINo OF OTHER PLEsAMoNEYA WITH YOUR
OWN THE START EmsEzzuNo ANpi IT "a Inur
THAT THERE ARE THOUSANDS EMaEz-lSzRs 7a,oAv
In the olden days student eouirupe
OF Greek and LATIN Tut the studentyof today sa
knowledge and young gh ed idy
THINGS of finance and business life
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
A Farmer Candidate.

The head Of Mr.. Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks is level. He
wants TO be president. There is no
concealment about that desire. He is
going to spend the summer on the
farm. Il like farming" says Mr.. Fair
banks. and II certain other ambitious
patriots are up TO snuff they will con-
slider TINT declaration seriously and
prayerfuifs There are 100000 farm
ers, more or less In this home OF the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

fain warning predictions along this
line, whereupon the American Jap
Fympathizers jumped him so numerous
fy that he turned like. craven and fed,
leaving the reporter who had inter
viewed him in the lureh. IL Hull had
had nerve enough to stand UP to his in.
teryiew he might have had some stand;
ing as prophet. but he fiunked.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
The rickEr.

JOHN N. PATTIsoN.

For Governor.
JOHN N. PATTIsoN ciermont County.
For Lieutenant Governor.
LEWIS B. HOUCK. Knox County.
For Supreme Judge.
HUGH p. MATHERs, Shelby County.
For Attorney. General.
JAMES A. RICE, Stark County.
Fer state Treasurer.
CHARLES e. MASON, Butler County.
For Board Of Public Works.
p. e. AcGoVERN. Montgomery County.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

EDITOR OHIO DEMooRAT: Dear Sir-You
are by this authorized to announce my
candidacy for Office of Probate Judge,
lsecond terml subject to the decision of the
Democratic Primary. Allow me also to ex-
press grateful appreciation OF former sup
port
FRANK p. MARTIN.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
CLERK OF COURT,

Editor-Please announce my name as O
for Clerk Of Court, subject to de-
cision OF the Democratic primary.
d. M, SOLIDAY.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
CITY CLERK.

We are authorized to announce the name
of WILL e. PAYNE as a candidate for
Clerk OF the Village OF Logan, subject to the
decision OF the Democratic Primary.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

Editor, OHIO. DEMOCRAT: Pleas announce
my Oandidacy for the Office of Prosecuting
Attorney of Hooking County (second term)
subjects to the decision OF the Democractic
primary.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
COUNTY COMMIssIONER.

COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
Mr.. Editor-Please announce my name al
O candidate for Commissioner OF Hooking
County, tsecond term) subject to the
Democratic primary election.
FRED WEYMUELLER
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
Tariff XieWs.
The Boston Herald, an independent
newspaper. recently said:,

The Boston Herald, an independent
newspaper, recently said:,
One of the ablest of the newspapers of
the Union in its editorial department
comes from the extreme west. The Port
land Oregonian. published there, though
accounted a Republican journal and re-
garding itself as in agreement in its gen.
eral positions with the Republican party.
has yet enough of that natural accom-
paniment of ability, independence, to pre-
sent claims to better classification. 1t
has discussed the tariff question always
with candor, and in its latest considera-
ton of the subject we find 1t saying:
american tariff practice differs from
European in two important respects-our
constant expectation to violent changea
and our aversion to necessary slight
changes. - Our unwillingness to re-
wise the tariff in specific spots when JUS
tice and expediency require is partly due
to ignorance of our professed statesmen.
who study ward politics more than they
do commercial needs; partly to super
stitious worship of figures and punctua-
ton marks in tariff bills and partly to
more or less corrupt subservience to tho
great protected corporations"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

The Roosevelt-Taft Panama canal
pronunciamento as to the purchase OF
supplies where they can be obtained
the cheapest seems to have added my
venerable and vitriolic friend from
Ohio, General Charles II. Grosvenor.
Perhaps it's the heat Whatever it is
that ails him, he predicts that congress
will be convened In extraordinary ses-
sion Nov. IL, which is Sunday! Some
body ought to kindly lend the general
an almanac.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13
Democratic County Primary
Election.

Pursuant to resolution of the Democra.
tic Central Committee of Hooking County
Ohio, adopted at a meeting of said Commit
tee held on the i7th., day OF June 1908, the
Democratic Primary Election for said
County Will be held ON the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

Mr.. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie
NJ. Shaw is a great stumper and
brilliant postprandlal orator, but as a
prophet he is not bowling success.
Quite the contrary. All along he has
been predicting that the deficit would
not exceed $4,000, 600, whereas ut the
end Of May 1t was 36,O5O, 900 and still
growing. All the Republican stump
speakers and papers should promptly
and abjectly apologize to Hon. Henry
G. Davis for the abuse they heaped on
him last fall for telling the truth about
the deficit Will they do it? Not much.
They haven't decency enough.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

Whatever else may happen In the
wide, wide world, 1t can never be
claimed that the. Chicago Journal is
not optimistic. 1t dlscourses Of 1.-THE
Russian Republic" as cheerfully as
Colonel Sellers spoke Of that vast for
tune which he was to amass in Asia
by selling his infalllble remedy for
sore eyes. But the colonel died poor,
and there is no Russian republic. and
will not be, we fear, for some scores.
perhaps hundreds, Of years. or course
1t is to be hoped that In the course OF
human events Peter the Greats realm
will become republican, but as yet II is
Cossack, with no republic in sight.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

When General Henry V. Boynton
died the country lostson of Its brav-
est soldiers and one of its best citl-
zens. A kinder heart never beat in
human bosom. He was gentleman
In the best sense OF that much abused
term. He was foremost In every good
word and work. lie helped along many
a man In an honorable public career.
He was nm exemplar OF the good, the
beautiful and the true. He always did
what he thought was right for rights
sake.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-13

The country will be relieved to know
that Hon. Whitelaw Reid, ambassador
to the court of St James, after being
kept, like Mohammed's coffin, suspended
betwixt heaven and earth for ninety
days by Hon. Joe Choate, has at last
reached his post of duty; not that any
body cares particularly where White
law may be at any particular time, or
whether we have an ambassador to
England at all, but because the people
generally are weary of the whole mess.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-06-30
3ritktuH.

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bann mar i9 jest nod tleiner."
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