Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-11-07

Springfield next spring in light of the recon
disastrous democratic gains in this city. Mr.
ServiSs?" | asked the energetic Chairman
of the Central Committee last Thursday.
Not at all" was the reply. ''Of cours,
the democrats will work the same game
They will try to run in on the 'non-parti
san basis, and are even now preparing fo
you: Up to this time they have been work
ing hard TO form new party, composed
of democrats, prohibitionists and such labOl
republicans as they could bamboOzed int
joining the party, and without any view OF
much direct gain for the democratic party.
| For this reason they failed TO nominate
straight out and out democrats for all the
offices. They took up McMillen and Span
gler, former Republicans, and endorsed
PrOhibtiOnist Gillen. These. with Over,
the democratic nominee for sheriff, gave
color of -partisanship to the ticket
| Now that the heavy vote cast by the non
partisans has developed the avidity with
| which this bait was swallowed, the demo-
cratic leaders who worked the scheme
imagine that they have this entire non-par-
tisan element at their backs and can lead it
at will. Now that the democratic
leaders scent victory in the air." they will
insist on nominating themselves for all the
offices in the spring election. This will at
once tear the mask from the movement and
leave it self-cOnfeSSed in its true Demo
cratic colors. As soon as they see dyed-in-
the-wool democrats nominated for all the
offices, the republicans who have voted with
the nOn-partisan movement will quietly fall
off and come back unto the republican fold.
If the nature of the non-partisan movement
had been thoroughly understood this fall
We would have had an old time republican
victory in Clark co. By next spring repub-
licans will have learned how adroitly the
nOn-partISan wool was pulled over their
eyes by a few democratic leaders, and
everything will be lovely for the republi-
cans i'll the spring election.
What do We call stories like about
Jonah and the whale?" said Springfield
Sunday school teacher this morning to her
class (meaning miracles of courSe).
''Chestnuts," promptly replied young
hopeful at the extreme end of the bench,
10 the great amazement of the teacher.
Sandusky, o., has a Roman Catholic
priest named Father Sidley. If he is as
popular in Sandusky As our Father Sidley
in Springfield that city is to be congratu-
lated.
The unexpected election of Sheriff Baker
was as dramatic an incident in its way as
many which form the basis of plot for an |
exciting drama. 1t was the old case of |
the prOverbial missing papers" turning up |
in the nick of time to save him. We shall
have to have that incident worked into a |
local play and put on the boards at an early |
date. The sun-fiOwer scene would be the |
greatest thing on record. Bill Baker, with |
will long tax the descriptive powers of |
Springfield story-tellers. Poor Over was |
hit by the club of success little too soon. |
A Springfield lawyer who drove out in the |
country towards Overs residence, said he |
saw him coming in in buggy. He had |
not been assured of his supposed election |
and when he heard it from the lawyer, he |
and a companion in the buggy were wild |
with joy. Overs joy was so intense and
his heart was so oyerflOwing with love and |
good feeling for all the human race, in
cluding his defeated candidate, that he |
stood up in the buggy and actually COM
cenced reciting one of Burns's poems. The |
poem was TO the effect that he felt nothing |
but the warmest regard for Uncle Bill Bak-
nr, his defeated antagonist, and that he had
a warm place in his heart for hun. This is
one of the most extraordinary |
,ases of magnanimity on record. Think of
forgiving man for beating him! Supposed
lobe Sheriff Over came on over to town,
where he was overwhelmed with cOngratu-
atiOns. and all his ideas overturned with
he success of overwhelming Clark county's
republican majority. 1t is not known
anyone walked him out of a
sound sleep to tell him the news of h :
change in the vote, but it is probable that
they did not 1t is certain, however, that
he put on no sunfiower and omitted TO set up
the cider to any one whatever. 1t is now
in order for Uncle Bill Baker to mount the
court house steps and recite that poem of
Buns's.