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Show ADAMS COUNTY'8 EXAMPLE OF 8ELF-REGENERATION. Sw ccplng reforms hayo. at time been accomplished through Iho power of a concreto example, when the evil seemed seem-ed most prevalent and most difficult to combat. Judgo As Z. Hlnlr, holding court In Adams county, Ohio, has furnished fur-nished such an example, nnd there Is reason to believe that tho result of his work will be felt In hundreds of , counties and In many different states. 1 'mt Our comment, therefore, Is not for the purposo.of holding up, that county to an unpleasant notoriety. On tho contrary, con-trary, Adams County Is to be praised nnd congratulated. With no threat, or hejp, or suggestion sugges-tion from the outside world, Adams llncsCounty lying somowhat off tho main lines of travel and left a good deal to Its own leadership and Its own conclusions has shown moral and social power to regenerate Itself. When election day comes round again . as, for example, 'next year, when u President of the United Stntcs I ft to bo chosen as well as many other officials of narrower jurisdiction Adams cotfnty will have a restricted electorate of perhaps 4,000 votes, as compared with t,ho 0,000 votes nvdll-ablo nvdll-ablo 'for recent elections. But thq 4,000 next year will go to tho polls with ji finer pride In the honor of being be-ing sovereign American citizens than has ever been felt heretofore In nny county pf the United States. They will have had tho thing brought home to them: some 2,000 citizens, of Ad-ams Ad-ams county who have heretofore Indulged In-dulged In the practice of selling tholr votes, will havo been kept away from tho polls by sentence of disfranchisement disfranchise-ment for a term of five years. From "A National Lesson from Adams County," by Albert Shaw, In tho American Am-erican Review of Reviews for February. |
