Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-11
HOW WE APPLES SWIM.

HOW wKAPPLEs SWIM.
The Ohio man is rightly held in great
esteem. To begin with, he has very
substantial appreciation of his own
merit, and, consequently, comes under
the category of the Missouri journalist
who said, "Who bloweth not his own
bazoo the same shall not be blowed."
He obeys most faithfully the injunc.
ton given by Wolsey, 'First to thyself
be true." Any faithful son of the Buck
eye state is not only true to himself first,
but first, last and all the time. He
backs himself to win, and generally
pockets the pool. The return of White
law Reid from France, where, under Mr..
Harrison's administration, he has rep.
resented the United States, has given
the Ohio society in New York city an
opportunity for getting together and
giving their state another sendoff. The
opportunity was availed of with great
srontaneity. We learn from Mr..
Reid's speech that four members of Mr..
Harrison's cabinet are Ohio men born,
and this, with the president himself,
makes pretty fair allotment for one
state. 1t is just possible that the other
forty-four commonwealth may have a
yearning to be heard from in the dispo-
sition of cabinet and other political
honors, and that they may even resort
to the extreme measure of electing a
Democratic president to attain this re-
suit. Virginia was wont, in the old
days, to be known as the mother of
states and statesmen. Ohio is her
daughter, and comes by the prescription
of office-holding by immediate and legi-
innate succession.
A great river and great lake, fair
and fertile land and magnificent deposits
of coal and iron, mark Ohio out
as the seat of wealth and power.
What has been the secret of
her phenomenal success in appropri-
ating office, emolument and power in
such large measure it is rather hard to
define. But that, in the language of
the vulgar, she has an uncommon knack
Of ''getting there" cannot be disputed.
Pennsylvania had one president, James
Buchanan. New York has had two,
Martin Van Buren, and Grover Cleve
land. But Ohio, less populous and less
wealthy than either, has had three who
resided in her limits when they took
the office, William Henry Harrison,
Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Gar
field, and two, Ulysses S. Grant and
Benjamin Harrison. who were born
within her limits. but who were elected
from Illinois and Indiana, respectively.
We do not include Arthur in the New
Workers who have filled the presidency
because he was only president through
accident.
Surely the Ohio man has a right to
plume himself on his singular luck and
merit. He bears the same relation to
the offices OF the United States that the
Irishman is said to bear to the police
force in our principal cities. He must
come into the world with a caul Judging
from the way he can "call" down the
offices. Nobody has ever discovered
that he is any cleverer, or stronger, or
handsomer than his neighbors, but he
undoubtedly looms over them through
some mysterious endowment of gall and
perseverance. It seems to be hope
less task to attempt to resist him
through the agency OF the Republican
party, on which organization he has a
bill of sale. The country will, there
fore, perforce be compelled to turn to
the Democracy for relief from a politi-
cal servitude that threatens to run into
the iron conditions of caste. The peo.
pie would like a change, just for the
novelty of the thing.
To those who may not know why the
Ohio society gathered to do honor to
Whitelaw Reid, it is proper to explain
that that gentleman was born in the
Buckeye state, and that, before he be-
came editor of the Tribune, he was a
war correspondent and member of the
editorial staff of a Cincinnati journal.
He is an all-round lucky individual, and
had the supreme good luck to marry the
pretty 19-year-old daughter of Mr.. D. o.
Mills, formerly of California, and has
therefore prospective interest in the
$s0,000,000 of that gentleman, that is,
providing he has the Ohio mans good
fortune OF OUTLYING his father-in-law,
which in this case is matter of nip and
tuck, Mr.. Mills having the appearance
Of being an uncommonly healthy man.
Ohio is certainly in the swim. On
the whole, it is perhaps fortunate that
we have something with which to stand
off the dinners of the New England