The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-08-19
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS OF OHIO.

To omit to refer to the Democratic editors
| of Ohio, who for over fifty years have heen
| in the din as well as in the front of the
political battle, would be like omitting the
"Prince of Denmark" in Shaksperes play
of Hamlet" The old gray-haired Democrat
will tell you how nobIy Samuel Medary and
George W. Manypenny battled for the prin-
ciples of their party. And the names of
Charles b. Brough, Peter Kaufman of Can
ton, William D. Letter of New Lisbon, T. P.
Spencer of Cleveland, Joseph Cable of Car
rollton, Charles ]. Orton, Asa G. Dimmock,
]. d. Botefur. are few of the old veteran
editors whom can now recall TO memory.
There is not a Democrat of any intelligence
In Ohio who does not know or who has not
heard of Charles B. Flood, now of Column bus,
old in years but young in heart and intellect.
He was notably able and vigorous editor.
What Democrat who has lived in the wheat
belt region can forget the genial Breslin, the
original editor of the Seneca Advertiser? And
the two Knapps-John R., of Marion, and
Horace s., of Ashland-both now dead, were
powers in their day. What Democratic edi-
tors ever labored more faithfully than More
head, of the Wayne County Democrat, Judge
Estill, of the Holmes County Farmer and
Mordica P. Bean, of the Bucyrus Forum?
Gone they are, but not forgotten. AS faith
full, jealous, true Democrat. who ever sur
passed John Y. Glessner, the old and veteran
editor of the RichIand Shield and Banner?
What more sp-ightly and pointed pen ever
traced lines upon paper than that of !. W.
Gray, the original editor and proprietor of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer? How zealously
he was wont to ask his brethren to watch
and pray"
And when Samuel s. Cox. now "Buckeye
abroad our Minister to Turkey, was editor
of the Statesman, who could photograph an
enemy or give n description of q gr and sold
sunset" better than bel With what clearness
and dignity the grave Mr.. Faran, of THE EN-
oUIRER, formerly expounded the policy of his
party. Up in old Hancock County Jacob
Glessner built up a strong Democratic paper,
which is now continued in the way he
pointed by his sons. In Licking County for
many years William Duane Morgan managed
and edited ably the Newark Advocate. This
old veteran Democrat now lives at his old
home in Washington, Penn. Down in the
quaint old town of. New Lisbon,
| in Columbiana County, nestled among
the hills, lives in ease and retire.
ment Henry H Gregg, q protege of the
old editor of the Washington Globe. Mr..
| Gregg came to Ohio in 1888 and assumed the
editorship of the Ohio Patriot, Democratic
paper established in 1s06-efghty years ago
by William D. Lepper, sen. John II. Heaton,
4.
Jolly "Johnnie," now dead. was always In at
tendance at State Conventions, and his paper
was ever ready to battle for the cause he
loved. The living Harper, of the Mount
Vernon Banner, with hair that shines as
silver, but intellecr and memory ready as
ever, no doubt will appear at the Toledo Con-
vention, unless death claims him as his own
before that time. THE ENQUIRER, where
once could be seen the beaming face of Wash
ington Mclean and the courteous presence of
MIR. Faran, now the property of. and man
aged by, John R. Mclean, of whom occasional
mention is made in the papers of the coun-
| try, and who seems blessed with ability to
| "hoe his own row."
To speak of The ENQUIRER and not recall
g. NJ. D. BIoss, once an editor upon 1t, would
be to forget one of the most original charac-
ters ever engaged upon any paper in Ohio
Bloss was as unique and odd in his personal
appearance as ne was original in his method
and manner of making a defeat "hgure up' q
gain" in the dark days of Ohio's Democracy.
And then there was good old Chauncey
Newton, whom every body loved for his
| poiiteness and his keen and neat way of in
terviewine. What an odd pair Bloss and old
Sam Pike. so well known in Southern Ohio
used to make! And there is Brother w. c.
| Gould, now of a Tuscarawas paper. Who can
| forget that he still lives when he hears his
melodious voice? Brunner, the "Wyandot
Chief" has gone over to the great majority.
and will be missed In the political combats of
the future. Where is there moro sincere
Democrat than McGregor, of the Stark
| County Democrat, or a more reliable one
than Z. B. Eshelman, "old nggers," of the
Wayne County Democrat?
We have q score of Democratic editors in
Ohio who weekly make their impress upon
| their respective communities by their well
directed editorials. Let me name some of
them-an 1 can not remember; Irvine and
Gaumer. of the GAINESVILLE Signal; Myers, of
the Titin Advertiser; Kirkpatrick, of the
Guernsey Jehersonian; White. of the Defiance
Democrat; Orwlg, eff the Napoleon North
West; Patterson, of the Bryan Democrat; Har-
ris, of the Toledo Bee; SJalter, of the Thin
News; Zahn, of the Fremont Messenger; Dob
son, of the Wood County Democrat: Gould,
of the Eaton Democrat; williston, of the
Crawford Forum; Doren. of the Dayton Demo-
crat: Zimmerman, of the Fremont Courier;
Roland, of the Greenville Democrat; New
conner, Of the Delaware Herald; Kinder, of the
Putnam Sentinel; Amos. of the Shelby DEM
ocrat; Potts, of the Ohio Patriot; Myers, of