The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-10-07
From the Circleville Union ]
Old Bill Allen.

The speeches made by the party moqntebank,
who rejoices in the above name, as reported in
the Cincinnati Commercial, by their manner
and matter, are disgusting every decent man
who reads them.
reeling about the streets; and the great feat of
his life has been to rise superior to his guzzlng
the habits of an unprincipIed, low-flung, DEM
agogue; profane, slanderous reprobate, and
his habits in this respect have only been con-
firmed by age. "A retirement, enforced by his
own party, with opportunity to reflect upon
his SINS and cultivate the amenities Of a gen.
| tleman, seems only to have infiamed his ego
| tism and confirmed the vicious habits remain
ing as the de6Tis of his former intemperance
Whig citizens of Chillicothe met to confront a
! against their wives and mothersI and their de-
/ liberations were brought to an issue by one of
| and a scoundreI, for asserting the ladies of
| Chillicothe once offered to present Gen. w. H.
| Harrison with petticoat. This summary de-
nial stopped the slander, and its 4tfeFeF never
repeated it. ,-.-,
! ed States Senate, in the palmy days OF the pro
| slavery Democracy, Allen was put upon the
ton of settling the Oregon and British Posses
sions line came up. Allen, in the committee
and on the floor OF the Senate, sWelled, strutted
| and clustered around like gobbler in a barn
| yard, protesting that be would never agree to a
line below latitude q degrees and 40 minutes.
| No! he would die hrst-"Fifty-four forty or
| fght!' was his ultimatum. But, 10! the COM
mittee, on reconsidering the question, came
down to 1880, where the line remains to this
| day, and always will. Aliens disgusting as
! sumption, braggadocio and bluster, on this
memorable occasion, brought upon him the
| sharpest ridicule, and the late Senator Critten-
den administered TO him an eXcOriation which
stamped the victim as a reckless braggart, and
made the decent portion of his own party so
! ashamed of him, that he was retired as soon as
possible TO private life.
AS the proprietor of the old Macarthur estate,
| a life-interest in which fell into his hands by
| his marriage with the widow COonS, the old
| Generals eldest daughter, Allen learned that
ga spade is a spade" and aspired to the dignity
of Granger, In some arts of the State, the
| honest old farmers have been made to believe
| that the old demagogue is really a sun-browned
4 farmer whereas he works bX an "OVeTSeer,' u
how to eat "a pone of Bread" as he calls it,
than to raise corn. In fact, soon after getting
possession of them, he tuned the old Near
| thur hills into grazing lots, sort of farming
which requires the least labor and skill
Since Cri1tenden's terrible tongue-lashing
sent him into petiracy, Allen has tried TO be
elected to the U. =. Senate several times, but
some more acceptable partisan preferred
before him. When the civil war broke out he
started off right, to drum up recruits against he
rebels: but he was soon admouished that that
presently found advocating Valandigham fol
Governor, and in full communion with the
Northern Democrats who were giving aid and
comfort to the Southern traitors.
After the Democracy failed to elect the mar
whose person and principles they had beer
abusing and traducing all his public life, (Hor
ace Greeley President, the old fogies of the
party, hungry for office, were constrained Il
nomir ate Old Bill for Governor, trusting to thu
Crusade fever and the lasstude of the Republi
On ns for success. They gratified by n plu
rality vote of about 800, by which their typica
tstatesman" was successful. And, in the frs
, flush of his neW position, he conceived he Nigh
safely tell the truth tor once, and appear mag
| nanimous by certifying TO the honesty of tn
Republican administrations and statesmen o
Ohio, which he did in the most thorough ant