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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1883
Page
4
The text outlines goals including prohibition of intoxicating beverages, enforcing laws impartially, civil service reform, prudent public spending, and a free, unrigged ballot free from machine influence fraud and bribery. It emphasizes integrity in government and election administration.
The state rallying cry denounces liquor sales and taxation as Prohibition spreads. In Wayne county the straight Prohibition State ticket earns 78 votes, while the people declare they will not support liquor licenses or taxation.
The Wayne county tally from Tuesday shows a total vote of 9,264 with 5,113 cast for Prohibition.
A campaign note declares a square fight with the whisky power in Wayne County and asserts victory by a 2,500 vote majority. The statement frames the issue as a decisive local contest with potential impact on policy.
The 1882 value of corn in Ohio reached 59,064,910 dollars, compared with 49,323,200 dollars for wheat, the next crop in value, highlighting corn as the leading agricultural product in the state.
The article states that Tre Scott Law was repudiated not for burdening liquor traffic but as a miserable compromise, signaling political or legal disapproval of the measure.
The Cleveland Leader remarks that calling pro prohibition advocates “a few fanatics” understates the organized effort. The quote signals growing tension in Ohio as constitutional prohibition supporters push for reform amid strong opposition.
In Unity Ohio a mother absent from home, her child overturned a kettle of hot fruit and suffered fatal scalds, dying within moments of the accident.
The author urges the government to phase out old portraits on stamps and adopt images of a locomotive steamboat race horse reaping machine balloon ascension and baseball to inspire the rising generation and ambitions.
The piece notes the Northwest offers vast potential like a gold mine, yet cautions that success in new regions requires the same energy and enterprise seen by pioneers. It asserts opportunities exist nationwide, but mining them demands sustained effort.
The article notes the United States remains largely free from foot and mouth disease and pleuro-pneumonia, while Europe faces widespread cattle losses. Ireland and England report thousands of deaths from the foot disease and a Russian lung plague has killed about a million cattle since 1879, signaling potential higher demand for American beef.
A harsh parental warning argues letting boys roam at night leads to entry into penal institutions. The piece claims schools are corrupting and urges close supervision from dusk until bedtime to prevent treachery and crime.
A dated October 11 1883 from OuE LAND Ohio claims no decision yet in local counts. It asserts the people favor righteousness while noting the outcome rests with political enemies and factions.
Wayne County shows the Democratic ticket elected except Wasson defeated by McClarran by 763. Prohibitory Amendment carries by 481. State results: Hoadly elected by 10 000 to 12 000. both legislative houses Democratic. Second Amendment appears adopted pending official count. Iowa reports Republicans winning prohibitions. Gov Sherman elected by 28 000 to 30 000. Republican lead over others 12 000 to 15 000.
A pamphlet urges voters in Wayne County to record names of politicians who oppose the Second Amendment and to spoil them when they run for office. It claims the Second Amendment supporters will deliver a thousand vote majority in favor of aligned candidates.
A well known town citizen drifts toward drinking despite pleas from his young wife and child. Returning for money, he is moved by his child’s bedtime prayer as the scene of home and love confronts him. The child’s faith and a mother’s plea for sobriety haunt him as Mamie mumbles in sleep that God answers like a telephone.
Early returns show heated race between Foraker and Hoadly with Democratic gains later narrowing. At midnight, both parties claim varied leads while city results in Cincinnati and Cleveland may decide the governor race. second amendment likely to pass.
Dispatches from Des Moines and surrounding counties report early returns in the Iowa governor race with Sherman ahead in several wards while Democrats gain in others. Reports note weather delaying transmission and list county and city tallies including Des Moines wards and Burlington results with Democratic majorities in counties and mixed gains for Republicans.
A Natchez dispatch reports sixteen deaths from smallpox at Marville plantation in Concordia parish. The Times-Democrat notes a malignant fever, yellow fever, spreading from Brewton toward Pensacola. Doctor Cochran urges strict quarantine between Brewton and the world as heat and drought persist.
In Newark on October 10 Democrats elected Joseph E. Haines as mayor by 685 over Republican Henry Lang. Common Council remains seventeen Democrats to Republicans, with a Democratic alderman gain. Board of Education shows sixteen Democrats and thirteen Republicans, a Democratic gain of three.
Indiana dispatch reports McMaster Republican leading Indianapolis mayoral race by 250 votes with Republicans winning clerk and assessor posts by 750. Treasurer race undecided. Geiger Democrat likely victorious. Board of Aldermen 7 Republicans to 3 Democrats. Chicago endures swarm of gnats described by the Tribune as winged insects filling eyes and noses.
A Wadsworth Nevada stringer reports a man offered to drink what anyone would pay for. After buying whisky and consuming eleven glasses, he fell into a stupor and could not be revived. He died within six hours.
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