Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-01
sUDDEN VIRTUE.


The Democracy Of this county have a
&c of virtue whie is NO les unusual
it is sudden. Sc extremely virtu-
Ous have they become that the Demo-
cratic name is itself a stench in their
nostrils. They are 50 c ~ssci-atieas
that they refuse to put forth county
ticket which does moi bear the SEM
blanee of Republican respectahility
They viii not even ALLOW It to be put
forth as from fheiF own Immaculate or
gan, lest it shall be suspected Of moral
taint Every day horrl6ed Democrats
are beset to ote FOR a ticket which is
paImed on as Repgahcan, IL order 20
give 1t the prestige ofhonesty.
Norris thisalls Oar emoeratiebroth-
or o6tbe Bell and Habben sch oil can
not abide q person ii Office who is not
Of sanity virtue. With morsl IDEAS
inhibited Al Democratic ana
-tsmperahee groceries, he shudders At
The corrupt associations connect ID with
the highly improper business % keep
ing horses and buRgies for hire, and
stands aghast az the idea hat the judi
cial ermine should be sOiled BY a thing
80 plebeian. He feels himself entirely
above getting a livelihood by such ig-
noble means as the livery, although
g stealing the livery Of Republication
70 serve Democracy in" (to slightly
vary the guotaiionb he considers entire
" proper, honest and legitimate. John
Morrissey ma be q fit and proler per
son TO be enG asa Democratic represent
tafive to Congress, and perhaps our
Democratic friend may take pride in the
illustrioifs statesman of the broken
ne.es But when It comes to the selec-
ton of any person for a county position
who does not bibernate in the Herald
Office, or spend bis Sundays sancii-
~moniously at shoub's. Democratic
friend is greatly shocked.
THIS tit of virtue has come upon the
Democracy since their Senator al Con-
vention. II has made its appearance
since the Republican County Conven-
ton. The fact that it did not brebk
forth until more than four weeks after
that Convention shews that il is a la
bored effort. Such remarkable virtue
could not be brought forth in a day, nor
N a week. The process required time,
and the Investigation, in order to be al
ali profitable in results, had to lie elah-
crate.
At first there was but one nf our
nominations which seemed objection
able to these immaculate Democratic
managers, but now their virtuous wrath
eztendssto every n of our candidates
for important offices, and has euImina-
ted in an effort to defrat our entire tick
OF, The fact Is, we have no candidate
who comes up TO ths standard o Dem
ocratic virtue, or who entirely slits he
Democratic party. This is melancholy.
| but il is not unusual.
ItloC&s a little suspicious, however.
that in selecting republicans tn vote
for, our Democratic friends had 70 take
"th~estoues which the builders raj cfed.'
The great moral obliqui Of onr candi.
dates to the Democrats vision, consists
in the fact that they are the regular
nominees Of the Republican C,lnven.
ton. Had the Republicans on theil
county ticket received our nominations
aud our nominees been defeated, tht
latter would have been taken upby th,
Democracy with equal readiness, AND
the former have been denounced by
them with equal violence. We hav,
not a candidate who would not hav,
been q saint and martyr in Den4aerati,
estimation, ifhe had only been defeated
iBy our Convention.