The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS OF ONO.

To omit to refer to the Democratic editors
of Ohio. who for over nifty years have heen
in the din as we'll as in the front Of the
political battle, would be like omitting the
"Prince OF Denmark" in shakspere's play
of nHamlet.p The old g~ray-haired Democrat
will tell you how nobly Samuel Medary and
George W. Manypenny battled for the prin-
ciples Of their party. And the names of
Charles b. BrouRh, Peter Kaufman Of Cam
ton. William d Letter of New Lisbon, 7. p.
Spencer of Cleveland, Joseph Gable of Car
~rollton, Charles ]. orion, Asa g. Dimmock,
j. D. Botefur. are q few of the old veteran
editors whom can now recall TO memory.
There is not q Democrat OF any intelligence
In Ohio who does not know or who has not
heard OF Charles B. Flood, now Of Columbus,
old in years but young in heart and Intellect,
He was q notably able and vigorous editor
What Democrat who has lived in the wheat
belt region can forget the genial Bresiin. the
original editor of the Seneca Advertiser? And
the two Knapps-Johns R, of Marion, and
Horace g., 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 hey are, but not forgotten. As a faith
full, jealous. true Democrat. h ever sur
passed John Y. Glessner, the old and veteran
editor of the Richiand Shield and Banner7
What more sprightly and pointed pen ever
traced nnes upon paper than hat of I. w.
Gray, the original editor n proprietor OF
the Cleveland Plain Dealerf How zealously
he was wont to ask his brethren to watch
and pray"
And when Samuel g. Cox. now . aBucksye
abroad,p our Minister to Turkey, was editor
of the Statesman, who could photograph an
enemy or give q description of q gr and Aold
sunset" better than hei With what clearness
and dignity the grave MT. Faran, of THE EN-
oUIRER, formerly e~xpounded 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 fol-
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, q Democratic
paper established in ls06-eighty years ago.
by William q. Lepper, sen. John n. Heaton
of the st. Clairsville Gazette, good-hearted
i1olly "Johnnie," now dead. was always in at
tendance at State Conventions, and his pape
was ever ready to battle for the cause b,
loved. The living Harper. OF the Noun
Vernon Banner, with hair that shines q
silver, but intellect and memory ready .
ever. no doubt will appear at the Toledo Con
~vention, unless death claims him as his owl
before that time. THE ENQUIRER, wher
once conld be seen the beaming face of Wash
ington Mclean n the courteous presence o
Mr.. Faran. Is now the property OF. and man
aged by, John +. Mclean, of whom occasions
, mention is made in the papers of the coun
7 try, and who seems blessed with ability t
) shoe his own row."
To,speak of THE ENQUIRER and not reca
. g. M. d. Bloss. once an editor upon 1t, wouI
s be to forget one of the most original charas
t tiers ever engaged upon any paper in Ohis
: Bloss was as unique and odd in his persons
: appearance as he was original in his metho
r and manner OF making q defeat "figure up'
gain" in the dark days of Ohio's Democracy
And then there was good old Chaunce
Newton, whom every body loved for b
politeness and his keen and neat way of IL
terviewine. What an odd pair Bloss and ol
r Sam Pike. SO well known in Southern Obi
Q used to make! And there is Brother w.
Gould, now of a Tuscarawas paper. Who ca
| forget LQ2b ne StllI lives Wnen ne uoarS n
q melodious, voice? Drummer, the "Wyand'
y Chief" has gone over to the great maiorit
d and will be missed in the political combats
the future. Where is there aemore since
10 Democrat than McGregor, of the Stal
10 County Democrat. or . more reliable OF
n than E. B. Eshelman, ''old rggers," of Il
{. Wayne County Democrat?
t. We have a score of Democratic editors
y Ohio who weekly make their impress upt
h their respective communities by their WI
ID directed editorials. Let me name some
,e them-all I can not remember; Irvine al
ic Gaumer. OF the GAINESVILLE Signal; Myers,
ID the THIN Advertiser; Kirkpatrick, of t
Guernsey ~Jeffersonian; White, Of the Defian
,e Democrat; Orwig, ct the Napoleon Mort
in West; Patterson, of the Bryan Democrat; HI
a. ris, Of the Toledo Bee; Stalter, of the Tin
ae News; Zahn, OF the Fremont Messenger: Dc
son, OF the Wood County Democrat: Goul
he of the Eaton Democrat; Williston, of {
a. Crawford Forum; Doren, of the Dayton Dem
,e, crat; Zimmerman, of the Fremont Couri
a Roland, of the Greenville Democrat; Ne
conner, of the Delaware Herald; Kinder, of I
ne Putnam Sentinel; Amos. Of the Shelby De
% oorat; Potts, Of the Ohio Patriot: Myers,