The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-10-08
IFrom the Chillicothe Gazette.
Sir Orator Puff.

Ulrich Sloan Esq, heyoung High
land County Expounder of Modern
Democracy, opened the campaign in
Ross by speech at the City Hall on
Saturday evening last. By Mr..
Sloan's side, on the stand, sat Hon.
L. 7. Neal, the gentleman that Mr..
Sloan had spent two or three hours
in calling hard names at the HILLSIDE
70 Convention. Mr. Neal is the man
that, on that memorable occasion,
Mr.. Sloan took special occasion to
to denounce as ''publc thief, sal
ary grabber, and a participant IN
grand larceny" Mr.. Sloan is the
man that, in the bitterest TRADE that
ever fell from human lips, denounced
the Ross county delegation as "a
swell mob" 'ipaid herae1tnae'', +" and "a
mob of street walkers and bummers."
Mr.. Sloan is the man that John NJ.
Vanmeter referred to when he spoke
of "a STRIPPING who is hardly old
enough to cast vote; who, in fact,
has not been long enough in the
State to entitle him to a vote, and
who has not been long enough out
of the Republican party to pretend
to instruct old men as to what is, or
what is not purity"
1t is, therefore, not a matter of
surprise that Mr.. Sloan addressed a
beggarly array of empty benches on
Saturday evening. We have no dis
position to deny Mr.. Sloan's capabil-
tiles as a speaker, but in presuming
to address a Ross county audience,
side by side, check by jowl, with the
man whom he, only short time ago,
SO bitterly denounced, we think he
makes calulations upon human igno-
rance, stupidity and credulity, that
has no home in the breast of the
Ross county Democracy. What has
occurred to make Mr. Sloan change
bis convictions in regard to Mr..
Neal? Has he received any fresh in
formation upon the subject? Was
he acting lie, then, or is he acting
it now? We ask the voters of this
county whether any confidence can
be put in the words of q man who
talks one way and acts another?
What must be thought of a man who
takes the stump, and labors for the
election of man whom he honestly
regards as a "public thief" We
,andidly say to Mr.. Sloan, and to the
Executive Committee of
Ross county, that every time that
gentleman addresses a Ross county
audience, he makes votes for Mr..
Meals opponent.
We will also say that in taking a
seat on the stand with Mr.. Sloan,
Mr. Neal exhibits an indifference to
ceilings of honor and pride, which
loes him no credit. We are not
politician, but we imagine our greed
or Office would have to be very
strong, to compel us to stand up be-
ore a public assembly and eulogize
man who had openly denounced us
Is everything that was mean and
,ontemptible-one word of which he
las never taken back or apologized
or. This may suit Mr.. Meals con-
7ictions of honor and propriety, but
We take satisfaction in the thought
hat there are few men in Ross coun-
" in whom those finer senses are SO
defunct. We observed
hat there was o remarkably small
number of the leaders of the Ross
county Democracy among Mr.
5loan's audience, and we fancy could
,hev but have heard Mr. Meals eu-
ogy upon the man who was his
worst abuser, even they would have
,urned their heads in disgust, or
lung them for very shame.