The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-30
NOcuOuS DeSuetude.

We hung our pedal extremities over
the gas fixtures one afternoon last week
and read the Gazette's rambling editorial
on, "The Worship of False Gods" We
read and wondered and then read some
more and wondered some more. It is
very evident that tho fellow who wrote
that article does not sympathize with
Hough & Dittey, or any others of High
lands Democratic chiefs. There are q
good many anxious readers of the Gazette
who want to know how such stuff got
into the paper, who put it there, and
how long the pro tenn editor will remain
on the tripod. There are old time-worn
Democrats all over the county whose
stream of profanity has been incessant
since the paper appeared.
The objection to the article from a
Democratic standpoint is that the writer
looks not at the glittering visions of
crossroads post offices and Chinese con-
sulships, hrt at the disgusting filth
through wb ch the party is wading to
reach its ~ 2..rd goal. This is to Dem.
ocratic e".s an objectionable error.
To the genuine all-wool-and.an.in inch
thick Democrat ends are everything and
means are nothing. If Payne gets his
seat in the U. S. Senate, it matters not
that the halls of the Legislature are
stuffed with Doodle till greenbacks tum.
BILE out of the windows. If John r.
Mclean rules the party, who cares if 2's
change to SIS and rs to 0's and police.
men to criminals!
The writer spreads himself out over a
column of space to tell what the party
used to be, what it is not, and what it
ought to be, but not word about what
it is People of investigating DISPOSE
tions would like to know where mans
feet would be if they were "planted on
the solid platform of Democracy as laid
down by Thomas Jefferson" Mr.. JEFF
ferson is too undeniably dead to have
his feet on any platform and the ques.
ton now agitating the public mind is
"vtat is the Democratic party Of to.dayS"
The invariable answer to this question
is to recount the dark catalogue of
abuses already suffered. In short the
Democratic party favors what Republi-
cans oppose and opposes what Republi.
cans favor. The Gazetie's hired man
makes new departure by trying to
steal some Republican principles and to
present them as blocks from the Demo-
cratic platform.
From beginning to end the article is
the opposite of Jeffersonian simplicity
in that opposite's most striking form.
Nothing could have less apparent mean
ing and be so peculiarly non-committal,
except Democratic platform. The
liquor question is handled very gingerly.
The writer touches the matterin pious
manner, without affirming one thing or
denying another in regard to the prohi-
biti0n or continuation OF the traffic. He
hopes that Democrats will not support
saloon keepers in fighting $500 tax
law. Not less earnestly does he hope
that Democrats will quit voting the Pro-
hibition ticket. Why did he not admit
that the Republican platform furnished
the only solution for the liquor problem
In its present stage? Why did he not
say that the Dow law was Q Republican
measure and that it was the only posi-
BILE thing for sensible people to endorse
under the existing circumstancesf I'm.
preoive silence mocks the inquiry and
the rumble Of tumbling Democracy u
heard in the. distance. y