Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-26
Don OmIrore. Junior.

II lmuOIJdl anu COutFtDutcu muOhSO"o " 0hN
eradication of those ridlcnlous notions Of
Chlvalry, at one time SO prevalentin Spain
The author. depicts the valorous Don
as one of the Knight errants, who, by din'
of his single arm, determined to redress
the wrongs and heal the grievances of man.
kind in general. The many mlsfortune'
and sad mlshaps which befel CERvANTEs
hero, have not been warning sufficient ,tc
prevent man in our day and generation
from engaging in similar undertaking
Don QuIxoTE's notions were not buried
with him. After the lapse of a few hun
dred years. an individual appears on the
stage who bids fair to deprive CERvANTEs
hero Of his laurels. This individual signs
himself IN" in the columns OF the Journal
and II mental temperament and similarity
of ideas are evidence of Identity; If ike
begets like, then any impartial observer
would pronounce IN" to be the lineal de-
sdendant and heir-at-law of the famous pnt
unfortunate DoN QUIxoTE.
Before going on his travels in search OF
adventures, DoN, senior, supplied himseli
with dilapidated dray-horse, yclept ko-
zinante, with Squire, SANcHo, ana an
ASS. Don, Junior, in imitation OF his great
prototype and progenitor, accouters him
self with similar companions. He chooses
the, "heavy man" of the Journal for a
SANcHo, the "sub" editor for Rozinante
and General CoNLY for an Ass. IN" has,
it must be admitted, method In his mad
ness, and must have made his selection
during one Of his lucid intervals, for most
assuredly no one could for moment doubt
the propriety of the choice, although he
might question the wisdom OF the under
taking. ...r
Thus mounted and equipped an" pro-
claims to the world and the rest Of man
kind, al will denounce corruption wher-
ever it may be found!" and brandishing
aloft his terrible quill rushes into print
with as much zeal and as little discretion as
DoN QUIxorE senior exhibited in his Gel
ebrated contest with the wind mills. Now
DoN Junior has one advantage over Don
senior, for he, the said DoN Junior, need
not traveI to find corruption. He will find
an ample theme for his "caustic /" ink by
looking up the antecedents of the former
editors of the Journal. If charity begins
at home, DoN junior should fumigate
that institution before he leaves its odorous
precincts. II DoN junior has the slnceri-
ty which madmen are said to have ana
does not wish to hurt the feelings OF the
Journal there is still an ample field in
which his prowess may be tried and proven,
namely, the Republican Party. In its ranks
corruption is the rule and honesty the ex--
ception; for il, as DoN junior asserts, "cOr-
rapt men array themselves with the party
in po,oer," it follows as natural sequence
that the Republican party, being in power,
has the great majority Of corrupt and bad
men in its ranks. And if franklin is a
Democratic county, still the Republican
party, having control Of the nation, have an
excess of corrupt men in its ranks, in pro-
portion as the whole nation is greater and
more powerful than single county. Now,
instead of denouncing the corruption of
county, if DoN junior wished to eradicate
the evil, why not denounce National
corruption and National peculation?
Can you, DoN junior, Republican,
consistently with your assertion, de-
nounce Democrats for practicing on 3
,mall scale, the lessons which your
party has been teaching and practicing
since its advent into power? If DoN is
sincere he should strike at the root Of the
syil and not at branch of it. Then when
he, as a member of the party in power,
,an show clean record for his party, it
will be time enough for him to denounce
Democratic county officials. Physician,
zeal thyself from that leprosy Of corrup-
ion which covers your political carcass
rom head to foot. Then may you consist
,ntly set yourself up as acensor of aparty
whose worst and most corrupt men would
lave to serve an apprenticeship In iniquity
before they could descend to the level Of
he Republican party, fostering in corrup-
ion as it is. II DoN junior, in the stretch
# the human fancy, could be supposed to
ave grain of common sense we would
ust hint, take the beam out of your own
,ye before you point out the mote in your
leighbor's. But we are led to suppose that
Don Junior buckled on his armOr with
sincerity, but his resolution failed him at
he sight Of the load of iniquity with which
he Republican party was burdened.
On casting his eye over its record, he be-
ield party whose acts are libel on Re-
publican form of government: a party
which traded in the lives and blood of the
soldiers and coined money from the tears of
,he widows and orphans. 1t is not to be
wondered at that N.'sresolution failedhim,
aud that despairing of removing or OF over
turning the mountain Of corruption in his
own party, he became appalled, at the very
sight thereof, and comes to the Democratic
party for purer air and lighter work. DoN
Junior boasts of being soldier, and ought
to be Drawer. All soldiers are not brave,
and unless DoN was good soldier, he
ought not to flaunt laurels which he never
won. For we happen to know that DoN
junior never smelt powder, except in ne
hundred day service, and then only at safe
distance. Now, thou hero, not of an hun
drsd battIes, but of an hundred days Thou
knight ofthe 4sofrowful fgure,n-cOntinue
your avocation! pursue your conquests
and cease not till your efforts in literature
equal your achievements in arms, win