The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-08-13
An Independent Candidate
against Neal.


There is a strong feeling among
many Republicans, as well as Demo
Gratis who don't like Meals "Salary
Grab" record, in favor of running a
candidate in opposition to Neal, on
an independent platform. The Chill
licothe Register of last week says
that Mr.. L. G. Delano, of Ross coun-
ty, has been prominently spoken of
as the right man to make the race.
Mr.. Delano is extensively engaged in
farming and stock raising, is well
known to the people of the District.
and is personally popular wherever
he is known. The Register thus
speaks of his qualifications:
POLITICALLY he is non partisan, not
believing that either the Republican
or Democratic party comprises in. it
self all that is good or all that is bad
in the politics of the country. Per-
sonally he is generous to a fault,
with character above reproach, and
possesses a head eminently '1evel
and well filed with that excellent ar
ticle, Common Sense. By profession
he is a farmer and stock raiser, and
for number of years has been a
member and is now President of the
State Board of Agriculture. So far
as community of interest goes, he is
therefore practically a Granger,
while everybody else in the District
who knows him would be willing to
trust their interests to his sterling
honesty, good judgment and sense of
fairness.
'sHis popularity is co-extensive
with his acquaintance which simply
makes it immense. He has never
sought Office, nor, as far as our
knowledge extends, never held Office
until he was selected by Gov. Allen
as member of the Board of one of
our State Asylums. The idea of run
ming for Congress, we presume,
never entered his head. His whole
time is given to farming and other
interests, and if he was induced to
enter political life it could only be
done by the combined efforts of his
Democratic and Republican friends,
after the manner of the movement
which has been actively canvassed
here and elsewhere during the past
week"
The Chillicothe Gazette, the? Re-
publican organ of Ross county, says:
$50 far, we can form no conclusion
as to which will be the policy of the
Republican Convention that meets at
Hillsboro on the 18th, and of course
cannot therefore speak for the Re
publican party in the district; but of
one thing our citizens-Democrats
and Republicans alike-can rest as
sured, that if Lincoln G. Delano
should be brought out by that por-
ton of the Democracy who are op-
posed to Mr.. Neal, and he should be
able to secure an Endorsement at
Hillsboro on the 18th, Mr.. Meals own
promising chances for being return
ed to Congress would fade from our
vision like dew before the morning
sun. The possibility of MIR. Delano
permitting his name to go before the
people as their Congressional candi-
date, has been the one topic of con-
versation in political circles here for
the past week or more. The discus
sion is mainly upon his acceptance,
for already there are many Demo
Gratis who concede his election, in
case he will accept the nomination.
The Chillicothe Post, Democratic
paper, fully endorses the Registers
complimentary remarks on Mr.. Della
nos character and qualifications, and
significantly adds:
"Mr. Delano is not candidate for
Congress, and does not want to be.
If he becomes a candidate it will be
only because SUCH PRESSURE WILL BE
BROUGHT TO BEAR UPON HIM BY MEMBERS
OF BOTH PARTIES, that he will con-
slider it his duty to accept"
This is a candid admission that
there ARE Democrats who MAY bring
pressure to bear upon Mr.. Delano
to be candidate, and our private
opinion is that the Post would not be
very sorry if they should, nor if he
were to accept the nomination, altho'
it flies Meals name at the head of its
columns. If we remember rightly,
the Post, during the campaign of last
fall, indulged in some editorial stric-
lures concerning the drawing of his
'sfront pay" by Mr.. Neal, which bore
a striking resemblance to the famous
cloth resolution" of Mr.. Sloane, in
the late Democratic Convention. Is
it not so, Mr.. Post?
At any rate the Posts language is
evidence enough that there is consid
cradle disaffection towards Neal even
among the Democracy of his OWL
county, and goes to confirm the idea
that his defeat is by no means i'm