Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-01

fine temperament, and the instincts ot .
guujcmau; aud broad aud genial cul
tnre has graccd these native qualities.
But We are willing to be pardoncd tot
stating that he is poor stuff for demo
cratic politician. And We need not pause
to explain whether this statement is q
compliment to him or to the democratic
party.
lie has a pressure Of convictions and
no safetyyaye OF utterance. Consequence
is, when he is heated with the oratorica
fire he expl des dangerously. No slyness
is possible where George Hoadly's tongue
is loose. The still hunt, that iavorite
democratic device for shaking the
bushes, can not hold him in leash. The
only way to keep him from soaring the
game is to muzzlc him and drag him of
A friendly ague in the nick of time took
him away and saved him from defeat in
the first run. If he had run on he would
have been beaten 1t was only when he
ran of that he won.
In his second run he was overwhelmed
by several things, most of which can be
traced directly to his mouth. Possibly he
might not have been elected this time, even
had he kept that shut during his whole
term of office. But bis acts as governor
had not been bad, his personal popularity
was large; his republican and aboIitionist
record recommended him to the coored
voters; the free-thnking Germans liked
him; the prohibitonlsts were a help to
him; and, with all these favorable things
and his mouth closed, he would in the cir
cumstances, have been candidate hard to
beat
But the openings of his mouth beat him
easily. Every time he opened it he put his
foot in it. Whether he pushed his pen or
pushed out his tongue, his speech bewrayed
him Even when he was pointing him
self at his friends, ever so innocently and
playful ly, he found he was loaded and went
off and hit somebody in the vitals
Mullen, the Cincinnati police officer, who
had arrested hundred and fifty colored
voters and kept them in prison all the day
Of election, was serving the term to which
he had been sentenced on his own plea of
guilty Hosdly headed the petition tor
his pardon, and Dragged of it on the
stump. This put his old abolirionist rec.
ord in fine light before bis friends the
colored people Of the state
He did this probably to Offset his recon.
msndation for mixed schools. When he
put his pen to that recommendation he
signed away ten thousand democratic
votes, at least. That was bright calcula-
ton for democratic governor who wanted
to be reelected. The old an,i-mixture.
simon-pure, white-msn' s.government vo-
tiers tore his name of their tickets, tram
pied 1t undertoot, and spit upon it,
He opened his mouth and out popped
a glorifcaton Of the Stsndard-Oil legisla-
ture and a justification of all lis acts
This was honey to the Pendletonian demo
Gratis, naturally.
The delectable young man who own ed
that legislature he eulogized as his eio.
quenr Young fiend.' He thus won the
owe Of the thousand or so democrats in
Franklin county who were intending to
d sinfect their ballots of that young mans
name.
He patted Leonard af'ectionately and
denounced prohibition. This front-cutting
and rear-reaping movement 60 borrow
Champion figure from home) moved down
the truly rural coIdwater democrats by
the thousand and rsked them in to the
third party.
SO he went on uttering himself and ut.
tsrirg away every chance OF election he
had ever had. Never had been such an
utterly utter ufterance of all candidate
since politics began. Mr.
Hosd'y gave himself away viea Uoce and
fell out Of his own mouth,