The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-08-24
The Harmonious Democracy In
harmonious.
SPLIT BETWEEN THE DEMOCRACY
ANDTHE OHIO EAGLE.
ROLAND IN TROUBLE.
Pronounced Incompetent 20 Edit tn
Eagle by hts own party.

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Elsewhere will be found a commu-
nication giving an account of a scene
which occurred on Monday last at the
Court House in this city. The Demo
cracy had assembled to appoint dele,
gates to the State Convention. and to
tratify the nominations made on the
previous Saturday at the primary elec.
tion. When the Committee on Reso-
lutions reported, and the third resolu
tion was read. a storm arose in the Court
House, which drenched the editor of
the Eagle to the skin. The third Re-
solution endorsed the Ohio Eagle as the
organ Of the party and pronounced the
Democracy ofits editor above question,
but in the opinion of the party. Roland
had not the ability required to conduct
the editorial department of the paper,
and the Committee therefore recon-
mended that he eithor sell the Eagle or
hire some one competent to edit the
paper. The editor of the Eagle sub
mitted minority report, in which not
only his Democracy but his ability
were endorsed bv himself Upon these
two reports arose discussion in which
it appeared that the Democratic Cen
traI Committee of the County had ad-
dressed a letter to the editor OF the Ea
gle requesting him to sell the paper
or hire an editor. To this letter were
appended the endorsement and sigma
lures Ct thirty or forty leading Demo
Gratis from the different townships of
the county, among them Judge Van
Trump, DR.. Olds, DR.. Berstler, C. d.
Martin, and, in brief, all those recog-
nized as leaders in the party. After
a stormy debate, in which there was
much personality and ill.fceling ex.
hibited, the third resolution, with tho
amendment by Roland endorsing his
own ability, werc tabled by vote, we
understand, of SO to 80.
The Convention was decidedly in fa-
vor of the matter of the third resolu
ton, but somo of the leading spirits
were opposed to acting upon it in Con-
ventlon, especially in the preserce of
largo number of Republicans"
The editor of tho Eagle therefore
stands charged by his own Central
COMMITTEES, by Democratic county
Convention, and by numbers of lead.
ing Democrats with being an imbecile
and an incompetent editor Nobody
has been so unsparing as himself in
charging others with imbeciity and
ineflicicncy, and ho has no right to
complain when the discovery is masle
that he is himself what he supposed
Others were. All looks yellow TO the
jaundiced eye. This is cruel yet just
treatment. The Ohio Eagle has been
II poorly-editcd paper, and the only
thing that ever gave it any Importance
was its rank treason and its bitter and
and sptcful opposition to the Govern.
mont and the Union cause. 1t has
mover been equal 10 an occasion. We
defy any one to show us an editorial
on any of the. e.great events of
the past four yours, which was up to
the spirit of the occasion. Once in n
while, dry articles discussing the To-
gality or copstilutionality of certain
acts have appeared in its columns
from the pens Of several brcacss law.
yers who hang round tho concern, but
the majority of its editorials haze be en-
ungrammalical and abusive personal
articles, or unfair and poorly written
locals. Tho remainder of the paper
was made up Of articles copied from
tho New York News, tho Day Book
and the Cincinnati Enquirer.