Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-05-21
AND THE CONVENTION.

A great deal of mind has oozed into
print as to the location of the state con-
venton in this town Springfield has got
herself ably edited and freely advertised.
IN. B. This is business and next to
Republicanism, there is nothing that the
Champion" champs the bit upon and
prances about as she does about business.
Springfield is just modest enough to be
grateful for anything decent that brings
her into notice and is the wllingest little
city for free advertising that the State
ever saw. We have her permission to
thank the brethren of the guild for the
really liberal way in which they have been
shedding ink tor the irrigation Of her
growth and glory, so to speak, and as it
were
But few of the brethren have printed
and published unkind things in relation to
our town as The choice OF the committee.
Springfield is grateful TO them too, if that
was the best they could do for her. She
knows that there are people who speak
disrespectiully OF the equator, as not be-
lieving in the thing But they thus bring
it to the attention of the enlightened world,
and make them believe in it all the more.
Even so it is with regard to the brethren's
little disgruntlement about the Champion
City" as the location of the Republican
state convention this year. 1t is ike the
artistic discord in nysrcal composition:
it hel ps make the music.
But the critical brethren have exhibited
their sourness a little too late. The thing
is done; and all their subsequent grumb-
ling will not undo it. AS they seem to
think that Columbus is the only appropri-
ate place for state convention, they
should have opened their batteries before
the committee decided From the way
the convention was yanked out Of Colum-
bus and pumped down on the northern
edge Of the state last year, they might
have anticipated that that city was in
similar danger this year, and should have
sounded the alarm ere there was everlast-
ingly too foregone a conclusion on the
subject.
But now-what is the use of growing
now? And what is to be gained by being
so sour-crusty toward Spring field? This
town wanted the convention, and she
went for it. (It she thought she could
get the world, she would likewise 20
for it) She persuaded the committee
that she could take care of the
convention, and she thinks she can Let
the sarcastic brethren, who think she can't,
come and see. Then, If they find the town
Is not roomy enough for them, or if they
find their insides too roomy for the town,
or If they ge; stopped out OF bed, or il any
oi them are treated ungentlemanly at the
station-house, and so forth, why let them
go home and disembottle themselves OF all
their bile-vials of Indignation and scorn.
We shall use our best endeavors to stand
it; for we shall have had the convention,
at any rate.
And, come to think OF it, why shouldn't
we have the convention2 Why shouldn't
this institution go the rounds of the state,
wherever it can be conveniently accom-
modated2 The Republican convention is
an educator and exhorter, while the Demo
cratic is an awful example They should
both be on wheels, perambulating the
state as precept and warning to the people.
by dint OF these conventions Columbus
has been whiting, whiting down her
enormous Democracy till she now has a
Republican mayor. The holding OF the
convention at Cleveland last year breathed
. new inspiration OF Rspublicanism into
that citv The holdino nj IA ha.a III, ,o...