Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-07
A Good Deal MIXED.

As politics make strange bedfellows, so
a great fire may result, for a time, in queer
comminglings. While the Enquirer pee
pie are constructing 2 new establishment,
in place Of the one burned. that paper is
being printed at the Times Office. The
editorial corps of both papers occupy the
same room We can imagine the embar-
easements that must occasionally result
from such a mingling of political antipodes
Abolition editors on one side of the ia
Die, and Democratic editors on the other,
peppering away at each other with deadly
lead (pencil), and thrusting vicious stabs
At each other with flashing steel (pen), to
say nothing of the clash of ~resounding
scissors, which play no unimportant part
in the engagement. Just think, nothing
but a narrow table between such fiery
belligerentsl One side trying to haul ten
states into the Union by the collars of
their gray Jackets, and the other side en-
deavoring to keep them out by Juggling at
their abbreviated coat tails. Between
thnm, the states are having a tough time
of If.
enquirer editor is Mortified to find him
self writing an article in favor of the Civil
Rights Bill, and discovers that he has got
on the wrong side of the table. Times
editor, making a similar mistake, catches
himself e~ulogizing Andy johnson.
The clippings get mixed up on the
way to the composit0rs, and if it were
not for great c-ircumspection on the part
of the respective foremen, each paper
would copy and indorse the most per-
nicious doctrines. Suppose the pressman
zhorY1A mint Fha En,,r-r-1 ~ - g1Ia opl
the Times on the other, the mistake not
being discovered until several packages
had been sent of with the early mails.
Who can picture the CONSERVATION which
would seize the respective prcprietors ?
Boiling with rage, they rush to the press
man with one voice. The Indignation of
the Enquirer folks is only equsled by the
shame of the Times people. Both assert,
with equal bitterness, that they were
never so Inundated before.
1t must be very confusing to visitors,
this singular fellowship. A Copperhead,
from Holmes county, rushes in, grasps
Times editor warmly by the hand, under
the impression that he is editor of the
Enquirer, assuring him that "Holmts
county can'ttbe drafted" He don't know
the wal is over. Malignant radical mis-
takes Enquirer editor for Times editor,
and, thinking to curry favor with him,
chuckles over the destruction of the
Enquirer establishment. Eeis summarily
kicked down stairs by the combined edi-
tors of the two papers.
What a scene election night must pre-
sent as the returns come in, each side of
the table trying to figure out a victory,
and each side, of course, claiming it. A
frantic struggle between the Times maj
and the Enquirer man, as each tries to
thrust his flag out the same window
compromised at last by hanging them
from different stories, which is quite ap-
propriate, from the fact that they tell DIFF
tereHt stories about the election. a brass
band is played in front of the Office. The
serenade is claimed alike by the Times
editor and the Enquirer editor. They ap-
pear at different windows and return their
both speaking together, which con-
fuses the band to-such an extent that they
march off in several directions, each man
e different tune. 1t is a terrible
mix, take it altogether Cincinnati Com
,nercidL.