The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-08-23

| ian Rock
| Tsrprlan, ats,t goal Of Tressons rscs,
| The promontory whence the Traitors isap
Cured all anbtloD,"-
but failing, in this grateful and chdTttdbts
attempt upon the life of their general, they,
however, succeeded in driving him from
Rome, and compelling him to take refuge
with Rome's worst enemies. And Rll this
because tho fellow hadn't sense enough to
conform to the customs of his country and
the times His NANNY, told him no was
a fool for behaving "a he d,--and think
she was right.
Now, we, Americans, don't do things
exactly as they did in Rome. We havO
our own peculiar ways and means of SEEK
ing after and securing office and these are
various.
Chief among these is--udkino eontfnsaL
eLdi,H Now, this term, continual claim"
is toW phrase, which you, beiL g mere sol
diers, and not lawyers, can't comprehend
without an explanation.
In England, in the olden tino when one
man sold to another a tract Of land, he
made to the purchaser what was called
:
livery IL, deed and livery in ldW. The first
was performed in this way: the seller and
D purchaser went upon the land together, and
being there, the seller handed the purchas-
I er a clod or turf, or twig, or bough, taken
= from the land using at the time words TO
e this effect--"I deliver this to you in tho
& name Of seizin of all the lands and tena-
;,, ;u ~ I s,,
= IdW was performed in this way: the parties
@ did not go upon the land, but in sight Of IL
=, only, when the seller said to the purchaser,
J., -"I give you yonder land, enter and take
. possession" But 1t sometimes happened
" that at the time this kind of livery was
made, there was third person, some big,
70 burly Englishman, in possession, who
I claimed the land himself that II the
n purchaser should undertake to enter and
ir take possession, as the seller had 80 politely
invited him to do, he would be almost
b. sure to get his head broke with quarter
\ staff, which was great ugly cudgel much
nr after the style of an Irish shiUdLdh. In
,t such case, in order to make his livery in
of law available, it was required of the pur
n chaser, once q gear during the lifetime Of the
ID seller, to go in sight of the land and IA
90 near to it as he could without getting his
Id head broke, and yell out as loud as ho
cd could, az claim that land"l This was
st called "mdking continual claim"
" In politics, in this country, continual
m claim" is made much in the same way
~ The candidate selects some Office that no
h, wants, which is generally some one that
Mt he is utterly unfit to fill This, however,
usually makes in his favor rather than
L against him, in accordance with that an
l., cient and consolatory saying, "The bigger
- the fool the better the luck" Hav-
1s ing made his selection, he attends the next
convention called for the purpose of nom
=. mating a candidate for the office in ques-
~ ton, and says 81 claim that office please
~ nominate me for it," He is not nominated,
" however this time; but two or three good
natured friends say: "You shall have it
eh next time" At the next convention for
~ the same office, he punctually attends, and
~ again he says, 81 claim that office; please
o' give it to me; ought to have it, for I ,cdS
iie beaten last time" lie doesn't get the nom
~ ination this time either but a few moro
ieA friends promise to go for him next time
49, He attends and makes claim Mt the next
,P convention, and the next, and the next
~ and the next and on for long years, in
IVA some cases,-his claim growing stronger
and stronger by reason of every successive
failure, until his repeated defeats assure
- him victory, and he is finally nominal
he 1.,, :.
VI how many failures enttle n man to a nomi-
nation, or in other words, for how many
years continual claim" must be made
But have known men who made claim to
a particular office for trc1'ty-1re years, be-
- fore they got it; and I know others who
have been making continual claim to par
ticular offices for about hre,,ty gears, who
have not yet got them, but who appear now
w to be in fair way for succeeding,
~, moro especially as l cannot observe that
their energy and perseverance are, i'll the
least, diminished.
ere Now, we are here to-day only cndeavor-
'ar- ing to conform, in SOME Iiiehsure, TO this
, or custom of our times and country. We are
0 of making, on behalf of the soldiers, n sort o
ock first general claim, which weintend to fol
all low up by continual claim, in the proper legn
cit and political sense Of the term. Snrely
two there is nothing imrnodest i'm all this!
fter There are many minor modes Of elec
g tioneering, which are merely anTtqlary Il
was that of making continual claim. I canno
md mention them ALL but one world partic
can ularly mention, and especially recommend
ink for your adoption. It is we'll sanctioned
this by custom, and you are entirely safe il
in practising it, 1t consists in giping DINNERS "a
rad the title great me', from, the ro'ToHs toTn
do ships Of the county. 1t is very efficient, ant
nus is extensively practised. BY observing
and where certain Justices and e1-Justiees o
o of the Peace take their dinners when thol
him come TO town. during the months of April
as MAY and Jnne, ] can generally tell wh'
ople are TO be candidates at tho next County and
lake District Conventions. roit-..t. .trt3L
or 1t may be said, and viii be said, that !
ked is not necessary for this Association TO taxi