Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-09
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
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ty, which are opposed TO the hepuDll-
can Rings and Cliques, which have
been in existence for many years, and
he wants these opposition Rings
squelched. Of course the pretended
discovery is merely chimerical, exist
ing only in the diseased fancy of key.
We have no means of knowing how
the idea affected him, when it entered
his Imagination, except as he has ex-
hibited himself in several articles On
the subject in the last number of the
Register. From these we infer that
he was about in the condition of the
old gentleman and his wife who had
unwittingly gorged themselves with
green persimmons, which a country
poet, who saw them shortly after their
repast, described as follows:
"Old Joe was rarin' up
Behind and before,
The old wife vas rarin' up
Behind old Joel"
AS we have said, this presents a
picture to us of how he must have
appeared when the idea struck him,
and we hope he will not be offended
if we make some suggestions as to
how he must have appeared to him
self, when his heart was indicting the
good matters contained in the edito-
rails aforesaid. We will illustrate
himself to himself, by relating a cir
cumstance that was told us by an eye
witness.
During the wal, a detachment of
troops was comfortably encamped'
The weather. was cold and they had
built rousing fires to sleep by. Among
them was a company of colored troops.
These were soundly sleeping around
what remained OF a burning log heap.
A chunck had fallen out of the heap
and lay in close proximity to the feet
of one of the colored soldiers. ALI at
once this soldier bounded into a sit
ting posture, and while yet half asleep
yelled out "Dar is a foot a burnin'."
Nc one moved, and he repeated in a
louder tone: "Dar is a foot a b%urnin."
But the other sleepers snored on. De-
termined to arouse them he yelled
still louder, "I sayl Oar is a foot a
burnin'." Still no one needed him.
He suddenly grabbed his right
doubling his body in such a way as
to bring his nos in contact with the
thick skin on the bottom of it, in
manifest disgust,growled OUT, 'Humpl
its amyzfootzgdat's burnin!" Now,
Ikey,sin the blindness of party zeal,
forgetting The dangerous character of
the fires of dissatisfaction that have
been kindled within his own party,
by the Rings and Cliques of which he
has in times past and still is a mem
Der, and which has controlled the
nominations of his party for years,
feeling that something was hurting
him, and being insensible as to the
true cause of his pain, all at once
bounded up and yells out, "There is
a Democratic (Ring) cat under every
batch of mealp No one seemed to
hear him. He next yelled out still
louder: "There is an overriding De-
mocratic Ring in this county," Still
no one heeds, and in despair he again
roars out: "Will the people of Preble
county surrender to a Democratic
Cliquci!" And still the people are
not needing. Now if key will make
a strict and honest examination at the
right place, he will ascertain how the
Ease stands, and the next thing we
will hear from him will be, at is our
own Rings and Cliques that have
wrought our ruin!" He will know
it, whether he says it or not.
AS to Democratic Rings or Cliques,
they exist only in the Imagination of
key. He gives no facts to sustain
the faith that is in him. There arc
no such things in existence, as Rings
or Cliaues that control Democratic
nominations. The fact is the doors
are open to any Democrat OIL indie
pendent who, wants to run for any
office, and the Democrats nave never
failed to support any good man of
their party, or as an Independent, who
who has seen proper to announce
or to have himself announced as a
candidate. But if no democrats offer,
and good and competent Republicans
announce themselves as Independent
candidates, for offices for which in
competent Republicans have been
nominated by q Clique, the Democrats
as a rule will support the competent
Independent candidates. Or if good
and competent Republicans, like Barn
hiser and Whitesides are in Office and
have in the discharge of their official
duties, acted promptly and in a gen.
tlemanly way towards all citizens
without respect of party, the Demo-
crats, do not consider it a sin to vote
for such gentlemen and keep them in
office, especially when they know that
the gentlemen named were not the
choice of the Clique of which key is
a member, and were given the Repub-