San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-15
SATURDAY, MAY is, 1886.
oHlo's THREE oIsTINCTIvEs.

UNIV y IOnGE OlO I'M ' lNGos
Ohio is n great state and its people are
great people. 1t boasts to-day three
living curiosities that are at once the
admiration and glory of the democratic
world, the wonder and the execratiOn OF
all others. These are "URited States
Senator, Standard Oil Payne" the big
Four fraud" and the "slampeded legis-
lature." By these will Ohio be long
known and held in everlasting remem-
brance. They will continue to shine as
bright particular stars in the political
ornament OF that common wealth until
the sun of her democracy shall set to
rise no more forever. By these Ohio
has achieved greatness.
Standard Oil Payne is great-great in
the might of that unctiOus monopoly of
which he is the head and front, the
foundation, corner and tOpstone; great
in the grip he has on the debauched
democracy of the Buckeye breed, with
whom his will is law, his profit their
pleasure, and his shame their glory;
great in the methods by which he pilots
the finances of that mighty state into
his own pocket, and levies tribute upon
its resources to swell the millions with
which his anaconda NAV is already
gorged.
The Big Four fraud are great-great
in their knowledge of ward politics and
the profound science Of repeating; great
i'll their powers Of political discern
ment, by which the necessity of secur-
ing plant tools for their contemplated
fraud was plainly foreseen and wisely
provided for; great in their atfectation of
conscious rectitude, under cover of which
they accepted, as their due, the results
ola ballot they had stuffed, at the hands
of a returning board they had created,
and whom they owned body and con-
science; great in the placid power OF
their perfected perjury, under the deep
damnation of which they blenched not,
rs they took their oaths of office to per-
form duties to which they were not
elected, and assume the responsibilities,
hOnOrs and emOluments OF offices which
they had unrighteOusly usurped; great
in the colossal vastness of that cheek
behind the inyincible entertainments OF
which they detled the power Of the leg
islature, the condemnation OF public
opinion, the judgment Of q nation, and
serenely assumed to discharge the duties
Of Lawmakers in the sacred halls of gov
eminent; great in their profound uncon-
seriousness of the storm of execration that
their unblushing effrontery and supreme
moral insensibility had awakened In all
minds, save their own, and those in
whom the sentiment OF justice was for
ever dead; great in their monumental
qualification, stolidity and stupidity, in
which they have successfully challenged
the annals Of all ages to produce their
peers or show one rival near their
throne.
The ''stampeded legislature" is great
great In the originality of their assinini-
ty,by which they have forever defowered
Bottom of his honors and RELOCATED
Balaams beast to the shades of Jaiaam;
great in the depth of their self disgrace,
great In the height of their self-con.
demnation and the condemnation of the
Big -Four, to save whom they peEjured
truth, forswore honor and trampled
their manhood under their feet as an un.
holy thing; great in the revelation they
have made, to a maryeling and hitherto
unbelieving nation, Of the illimitable
void that exists in the unpeopled space,
where democratic politicians con.
science should be found.
The spectacle Ohio has offered the
nation, of a democratic legislature fee
ing the state, after drawing their pay
and depicting the treasury, in order tC
save the seating Of rival senators whom
their own confreres had declared justly
elected will ever remain the browning
mystery of all crooked political history
This act of the Ohio legislature has nc
parallel in American history; it stands
out In bold relief as the worlds supreme
example OF political damphoolism.