The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-01-26
Georgians I'm Trouble.

Congressman FELTON, has for some
time past been a ranking thorn i'm the
side of Georgia Democracy. And the
Augusta CoHstitutionaba grimly dubs
his new party The olfice-seekers par
ty.n To which it must be very naughty
to belong. Such is the inference at
least, and thus it raises the presumption
that no truly good Democrat ever sought
an Office. But as it is it is notorious
that several, if not more, Democrats,
including such brilliant moral lights as
the sage of Gramercy Park, Boss Tweed,
Gentleman George and Hamburg Butler
have sought Office the, inference is that
they were not truly good, but being
Ottice-seekers, must have been truly bad.
To which conclusion there will be little
or no dissent But if the Georgia office
seekers are all to have a party of their
own, people outside of Georgia will be
curious to know what will become Of
the Democracy, or who the office seek
ers will have to fight, provided they
preserve the peace among themselves.
The Chronicle, in another article,
saws:
Georgia is anchored safely I'm the harbor Of
Democracy. No mongrel squal of hungry
office seekers can move her from her moor
ings.
Precisely how she became anchored
without the aid of ofiice-seekers is not
told Presumably if there are Office
seekers among the Democracy they are
not mongrels-so much at least is to be
inferred from the Chronicle. They are
ours of high degree, without a mongrel
strain among them all. But in the
course Of human events the Chronicle
may wake to a powerful realization of
the fact that there are appliances which
can move ours of the highest degree to
a very rapid pace, no matter how fixed
ly their caudal appendages may be an
chOred to a tin can, of which fact the
Chronicle, Notwithstanding its backing,
seems even now to have a faint per
ception, for elsewhere it seriously asks:
Will the efforts to Mahonize Georgia
succeed?'
The Post and Tribune begs to assure
it that if all the olfice-seekers of
Georgia are with DR.. FELTON,, the effort
to Mahonize Georgia will succeed, and
further that if a free vote and fair
count is granted to all Georgians OPP
posed to the Democracy in that State
there is no possible doubt of it. The
Chronicle endeavors to gull itself and
its readers into a contrary belief thus:
" The people of Georgia, satisfied with
their present political status, are devot-
ing themselves manfully to the develop
ment of the material resources of the
State"
But in another article on the same
page it says:
What Georgia needs most in the next decade
Is rest from political excitement More work
in the field the mine and the workshop will
bring an abundant harvest to our people. Men
who make a living by trading I'm politics are
enemies TO the peace and Well-being of the
State.
All of which adds to the unenlighten-
ment of the people. In truth the arti-
cles of the Chronicle taken together
the fat and the lean-the boastful and
the dolOrOus--plunge the average read
er into a sort of double distilled dark
ness. And the more one reads of it the
darker it grows.
This much, however, can be CLEANED
from it all. There is Malone move
ment in Georgia. The Bourbons are
ignorant of its size and voting capacity.
They boast of their power to crush it.
Inwardly they wonder if they can do it.
they resort to their long tried
weapOn-spume-which they fling upon
it vigorOusly.-DetroU Post.