The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-14
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AN ONO MAN.
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WASHINGTON, April sl3.-The Post ad-
mits al Ohio man, who evidently belongs
to the ranks OF the disappointed, To make
the following remarksi fk
~ am not q believer in the doctrine that
the chief end Of man is to get an Office, but
lido believe that a Government position Is
q station Of the highest honor anu worthy
the ambition OF any citizen OF tho Repub-
lie. This being true, am welded e, the
opinion that, alter worth aHd Qpaliaes-
ton are considered, the distribution
OF the offices should be made as nearly
equitably as possible among the States.
"Bnt do the Democracy of the Union
owe nothing TO Ohio Democrats for the
past7 Where were the SpaTtaps found
who, when personal liberty was itnperlled,
and lLr. Sewgrd's little bell was ordering
the imprisonment Of citiyens for legitimate
criticism, but in Ohio, where It's d, m
ocracy moved en- masse upon the Capital
and threw the gauntlet OF defiance in the
teeth OF the oppressor byma6ng the .ex-
lied YallandiEham its candidate for Gov
ernor, serving lo.ieo thst the, ,ineahe hate
OF sectional passion could goafo .furtherR
That simple act Of Spartan heIoism pre-
vented civil war In the North, for no
further arrests for opinion were made
in the States loyal 10 the Union.
Who but the 1nainching Democracy
Of Ohio, alter the disastreus aEeely eal9-
paign Of 1871, when the clamor Of leading
men aud organs demanded the wiping out
Of the feyered old historic name and the
substitution Of Liberal Republicans, in
digDantly Ienldistpd the tressop AND the
traitors, and, under the lead of thE gTand-
est galaxy OF statesmen any State has eyer
known, nominated for 0byernor the most
perfect personifcation Of Democracy then
IiiYipe-its greatest interpreter lillian
Allen, aud Tor the first dme In twenty
yoars broke through tho Replbllcap cor.
don, and by electing him gave an irHpetqs
which swept nearly every Northern State
into the food tide OF Democratic victory
1The prestige OF unhroken Republican
success was gone, and again In 1874, Ohio
led the Democratic column Of triumph
and blassd the way 70 the victory Of 1919,
which fraud turnea intA Dead Say trliE,
becoming ashes on pqr Ups. 4Sail and
sgsin, at an expenditure Of means and q
sacrihe unknown TO other sections, Ohio
has pierred the skiEpEsA line n the enemy,
carried the advanced positjong 49d lett
the November States with no more serious
task than TO look after the demorallSed
stragglers and pick up the abandoned
stoyes. Therefore 10 talk Of nonIecogni-
ton Of Ohio Democrats would be a. II
Napoleon had Destroyed the Gid Guard
after It's Temporary check at Lodi and lost
lis immortal serylce on the future nelds Il
won.
II know that three Presidents, q splen-
| did company OF Cabinet Ministers, So:
preme Court justices, Foreign Alnlstars,
Generals and other distinguished public
servants stand charged 10 Ohio upon the
rolls Of recent administrations, and that
the Ohio man has become R tradition in
Washington bpt these buckeyes were all
picked from other trees. The men who
have fought the battles and led 10 victory
the Democratic hosts have not even hsd
1.-The poor privilege Of Lazarus lting up
the crumbs which fell from. the official
tables.
"Yow, 1 do not wish this to be under,
lstood as . whine for otHciat place, II 4