The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-09-27

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considered sound Democratic doc
trine. How long is it since the De
mocracy were bowling abouta q "third
term" for Gen. Grant, and denounc-
ing him as desiring a third term in
order to make himself dictator? We
used to hear q great deal about "ro-
tation in Office" as a leading Demo
cratic principle. When the Hon. l..
T. Neal was a candidate for a "third
term" for Cas5ress, in this district,
how bitterly Mr.. Uric Sloane and
other prominent Democrats opposed
| his denomination on the ground that
he was seeking "a third term"-eon-
trary as they then claimed to sound
principles and Democratic usage
But now the Gazette finds it conven
lent to forget all this, because it de-
sires the reelection of Mr.. DeBruin
as county Auditor for a third term,
and hence it announces the newly
discovered Democratic principle, that
''it is the undisputed right Of the
American people to keep a man in
office as long as he is eligible, and
they please"
The time has been when it was
thought that after man had held a
profitable county Office like that of
Auditor, four years, he ought to be
satisfied to "step down and out" and
give somebody else a chance, and
we know of quite number Of people
who are still OF this opinion. We pre-
sumo this was the old-fashioned no
ton of that good old-fashioned
Democrat, Hon. John L. Hughes,
when he offered a resolution in the
late Democratic County Convention,
against nominating candidates for a
third term, which was promptly voted
down by the friends of Mr.. DeBruin.
What makes the matter worse in
the case of that gentleman, is the
fact, that Immediately before his
election as Auditor he was Prosecu-
ting Attorney for sie years-thus
making a continuous term of ten
gears of ofice-holding without any
interval ! eve stated it at eight
years in last weeks News, but since
find we did not take into account
his first term as Prosecuting Attor-
ney)
:'Ten heres Enough" is the title
of a celebrated work on Farming, Of
which some of our readers have prob
ably heard. "Ten Years Enough"
WILDE the verdict of the people in Mr..
DeBruin's case, delivered at the polls
on the second Tuesday of October.
Highland county has never had a
better Sheriff than Billy Newell, nor
has the Office ever been filed by a
more clever or obiging gentlman, as
all who have had business with him
will readily admit He has been as
lenient as he could be in the dis
charge of his responsible duties, and
has made many friends, who will
vote to give him a second term.
If President Hayes were to die,
perhaps no man in America would
lament the event more bitterly than
Dana, of the New York Sun. He
would be put to his trumps to find
another subject to write about. He
has worn ''the Fraudulent Presi-
dent" theme threadbare, but he
doesn't know it, and so keeps rub
bing away.-[GeorgetOwn (COl.) Mi
ner.
That's SO, Brother Patterson, and
it reminds US of a little story" as
Mr.. Lincoln used to say. A big,
good-natured HoOsier was
married to small woman, whose
temper was like that of a wasp. She
got into a habit of abusing her ''big-
ger half most numerically with her
tongue, whenever she was little
out of humor, which happened quite
often. He would never say a word
to her in reply, but just laugh at her.
One day when she had been giving
him 'Hail Columbia = friend who
overheard the racket asked him why
be put up with her abuse so good
naturedly. "Oh, said he, at seems
to do her a heap Of good, and 1t
don't hmtme-so I. just let her taZkE'