The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-09-19

HTLLSBORO. OHIO:
Wednesday, September 10, 's3.
"WHO ARE DEMOCRATS 9''
The Cincinnati Enquirer Roads Send-
tor Psndiston Out of the Party.


thy of a careful perusal aud consideration
The Enquirer goaded perhaps to deeper
alton, has thrown of the thin mask, aud
openly assailed Senator Peudleton. It is
well known that for some time it has not
been friendly to him, but hitherto its at
tacks have not been fully defined. On Sun
day, however, in q three-colunn double
loaded editorial, it assailed him violently.
In that studied deliverance we read the
following
'llfy. Peadlston is not a Democrat. lie
has not q sentiment in sympathy NTH the
masses Of the toiling people ioho c0mpose the
great mdjOritV IF the Democratic PARTY.
We have been accustomed, 10, these
many years, to antagonize Mr.. Pendleton
as Democrat aud to oppose aud oriticise
his principles. There never was any rea-
son to question his Democracy or to suspect
thot he was not partisan of the strictest
sect. Always a gentleman, indeed, and
always honorable, aud consequently re-
spected by his political opponents, yet he
never failed to stand by his party and to
defend it when it deserved to be condemned
There is not one Of its distinctive measures
that have been before the public in the last
quarter Of a century that he did not sus-
tain, and many of these, we have often
thought because they were party measures,
rather than from the promptugs OF his
better Judgment.
If any important observer were asked to
name the leading Democrats in Ohio he
would be apt to class Senator Peudleton
with Judge Thurman, and to say that if the
former is not Democrat neither is Thur
man, nor Ward, nor Geddes, nor Payne,
uor Jewett nor Groesbeck nor any one OF
that class known ag vheel-hUrses--the meu
who have borne the burden Of the party
through the heat of the day, sharing itb
defeats and its victories. But now we are
told that Republicans aud Democrats too,
were deluded. That for twenty-five years
in war aud peace, in cloud aud sunshine,
his political opponents have autagouized a
man as a Democrat who was not a Demo-
crat, uOt even when Mr. Washington Nc
Lean groomed him for the Presidency on
the Enquirer platform of greenbacks ful
The million. This is enough at first glAuce
to shake ones faith in human nature, and
20 form the conclusion that Democratic
principles, instead OF being everlasting, are
as uusubstautial as the mist that disappears
before the morning SUI, or to use a better
metaphor, RS changeaDle as the weather
cock which moves before the blowing
winds.
It is also calculated to raise the inquiry :
If Pendleton, who has been in the DINO
cratic harness and at the front of his party
Tor more than third of a century, is ! OF a
Democrat, where shall we look for the
5imou-pure article Surely not to Thur
man, or Payne, or Ward or Groesbeck, OF
Jewett. Through whose veins, therefore,
flows the simOu-pure Democratic fluid Z
| Let us examine
In the year Of grace 1881, there appeared
at Columbus a new prophet, aud named
! Bookwalter, as a candidate for Governor,
with bag of money. He was nominated.
He claimed to have cast his first Demo
cratic vote for General Hancock, but this
was disputed and was not established and
| the only thing absolutely certain is he be.
came a Democrat when he became a candi
date, and it is believed that be cast his first
| Democratic vote for himself This gentle
man, whore Democracy is at least two
years old, is now assuming to run the Dem
Ucratic machine in the state of Ohio in con
nection with the Cincinnati Enquirer al
one end of the State aud Farley, Of Ceve
| land, at the other. 1t was his money that
packed the Highland House Convention
aud rent the party in Hamilton county anC
| produced 0 result that can only hO apollo.
! gized for, at best, by any honorable man
! In ClevrLnd on Saturday the same nhu
euce lcked the Cuyahoga Democn ic Con
vcntiln, ana disrupted the party there also
| rhua the M ney Of this newborn Demo
.r,r used lbs uuscrupuluu5 machine men
who e objective polut is piuuder, haI
destroyed harmony Of things in the TIVE
argehJ c.unlleB of the StRte.
Next Nr come to Judge Hoadly, thu
Democratic candidate for Governor HI
yns irly nehCred into the Democratic par
y g. 1876. when he espoused the cause OF
| rrhieu q reform. II q is an older Demo
,rrt thap 80, kwulter by five years. Blu
uuuk b ok tier, he is on record agaius
! 'vtry di5u i1Iye measure supported 10y tn,
| d DruoIrr,tIr rty since he became q vote
iI,.l hr became Democrat In all tina
iur hs wde ON the opposite from th'
D-wnrauc panty, and against such me,
and l=rnr, ,s Thurman and Peudletou.
Then lhrr, IRE the great Democrats, uu
Ter VIII S 'i.tluence the men who have le
the party 70! 20 many yonrs are remande
10 the rear on read out of the ranks alto
gether,
The oracle, too, by which this work
being done is The Cincinnati Enquirer II
uuk uAL bthllA hh W A4lHiiAtAo as AbtlllbAitt-
or to question its right to the party diets
torship. but ii is our privilege to 8tate facts
and these justify the statement that for
1ong time the backbone Of the party in thi
county has not regarded it as a reliable oi
gan of Democratic principle aud in proc
Of this it is ouly necessary TO state that tn
oldest And strongest Democrats in this cit
established the News in order that th
party might have an organ it could trus
Foremost among the men who put thei
money in this enterprise is Judge HoRdly
He is a stociholder, aud one of the dire,
tors of the News Company A roll of tn
stockholders dnld show how widesprea
the belief was in this city among Dem'
orAts that the Enquirer, as a party pApel
WAS intrusive rthy.
Now come the same Enquirer, and Bool
walter, a two-year old Democrat, wit
Hoadly, a seven-year-old- convert, ard a
sumed to read the Thurman and Pendlsto
school Of Democratic prophets out of IL
| party, and TO set up dictatorship in II
State Of Ohio.
Under these circumstances it is the priv
p lege Of Republicans and Of thinking Den
, ocrats to ask " no are Democrats and VIII
; is Democracy2 Are the men who have ju
rvoeond tbn flvarl,oIH ,N tha v,owfv to 5sr1