Year: 1875

Governor Allen can scarcely be proud
OF the record of his Reform Demo-
cratic Legislature 1t would be diff
cult to point to a single act of that body
which is calculated to excite admiration.
On the contrary, the evidences that it
has been corrupt-that members have
really thought little or nothing of offers
to purchase their votes-are abundant.
GordOn's investigating committee are
throwing some light upon this subject.
They are making public facts which
must surprise the people; and what is
true of the Wood county enabling act,
is also true of every Important measure
yet presented to that body.


The friends of any important measure
have found it necessary to use money
and extraordinary means to keep mem
bers in their seats and secure their votes,
while the opponents of such measures
have used money and every conceivable
device for keeping members away from
their seats. 1t is not an unusual thing
for the outside friends of a measure to
station sentinels at every possible door
of escape from the Hall, in order to hail
and arrest lodging members. While the
friends of a bill are thus at work, the
opponents are using money and every
possible pressure to induce members to
absent themselves. Men are hired to
keep drinking members drunk; dis
points demanding their immediate pres
ence on account of important business,
sickness, etc, and thus the fight is
waged-One side struggling to keep
members in their seats, and the other
laboring with equal zeal to get the Hon
orable dodgers away.


Scenes of this kind have become so
common, that certain members are ex-
pected to be seized with gripping pains
whenever an important question is
brought up. Thus, between this class
of moral towards and the purehasable
members, the Legislature has become
stencil in the nOstrils of the people, a
disgrace to the State, and a greater bur
then than the Democratic party can
carry. 1t has sealed the doom of the
party in this State for years to come.
The people want no more of it. Such
weakness and corruption have never
before been exhibited in an Ohio Legis-
ature, and the people will doubtless
guard against its repetition by eleeting
honest and competent Republicans in
the future. Governor Alien himself
testilies that during all the years of Re
publican rule in Ohio, the affairs of the
State have been managed with great
ability and marked fidelity. But what
can he say of this brief term of Demo-
cratic rule Where can he find sin
gle act worthy of commentator And
how can he possibly apologize for the
mass of corruption which has charac-
terized the conduct of his Reform
Democratic Legislature l'-TOiedO Blade.


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THE STORE THAT NEVER ADvERTIsEs.
The following doleful description of
store that never adv. rtises, is commend
ed to those merchants who think they
can do business without patronizing the
printer:


The store that never adyertises is prob
ably one of the most solemn and dreary
spectaeles to contemplate that is ever
spread out before human vision. From
the outside it resembles a hearse house
with mournful variation. Occasionally
some one steps in to inquire, with be-
coming solemnity, if there has been a
death in the family, or to ask where that
store is that the paper tells about. But
aside from these and few withered GRO
nies who drop in to discuss the causes
which led to the Revolutionary war, the
quiet of the place is never interrupted.
One of the DroprietoTs, if there are two,
posts the last years account in chalk on
a shingle, and another tells how folks did
when he was a young man, a story
which, il told well, makes first-rate Ie-
gend. They don't keep any clerks and
only half keep themselves. Timid boys
say when they go by the store, that the
place is haunted, and the hurrying busi-
ness man refers to it as that old place
where Slow & Easy used to keep store a
great many years ago. The only differ
enee between day and night is, that in
the night you are more liable to bump
your head against the faded out sign
board that drops from the door facing.
and which was once luminous with the
gay colored word store" Such instan-
ces are terrible warnings to men Of the
present age, not to try to do business
without advertising.


To EUROPE BY BALLOOS.-Wiliiam
II ReiknaD of Cincinnati C;eor0e /,