The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-05
SELF BETRAYED.
How Old Gazzie Puts Her Foot In It.


Huffditty ring for this campaign have
met with continual disaster.
They opened with wild war. whoop
against annexation, after they had
allowed the measure to be accomplished
without whisper OF opposition. The
whoop ended in CHASTITY post mortem
shrek. They found the issue was dead
They burlssqued the distresses of the
people, and their hilarity sounded
among the silent factories like the laugh
Of hyena in some lonesome graveyard.
With mountain load OF hopeless debt
to the Citizens National, they, by dis.
honorable treachery, secured the settle
ment of their own account and cracked
the whip of the law over everybody else,
except their own favored creatures. In
this position they announced, according
to programme, that the Republicans had
wrecked the bank When challenged
to produce single scrap Of proof they
failed ignominiously, and had to abandon
the charge.
In this connection they used their dis
honest advantage to harrass Col. Glenn
because he was Republican and can
| didate. Their insinuations against him
were characterized by the most persist.
ent malice, and they still refuse to pub
lish the facts exonerating him from
blame.
They have made no pro ision to pay
their own immense Indebtedness to the
bank. Neither have they shown the
least inclination to inquire why their
candidate for sheriff has covered all his
property with mortgages or transferred
it to other members of his family. Col.
Glenn was dragged into court, but their
own political creature, with official pat
ronage at his disposal, goes unquestioned.
Having no more right than any other
debtor of the bank to adjust its affairs,
they have assumed to say who shall pay
and who shall not, who shall be sued
and by whom, what attorneys shall have
fat lega fees at the expense OF the bank,
whose private business transactions shall
be laid before the public in print and
whose shall be held sacred as the grave.
All OF these things, intended to inure
to their advantage in the campaign, have
proved very hurtful boomerangs.
In spite of their hateful spite, in spite
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Glenn, the gallant old soldier whose
record is one of heroism, they pretended
sympathy for war veterans. And, to
make their hypocrisy more effective
politically, those who were not un-
familiar with the features of such crimes
manufactured soldier letter and signed
it with forger's falsehood.
They came forward with a gamblers
trick so full of fscoundrelism that it would
have brought the scarlet blush OF shame
to the most characterless devotee of
marked decks and loaded dice.
They sounded p cry of Doodle when
there was no noodle. And their absurd
fasehood only served to call search.
light upon their own brazen political
purchases, where voters were bought
and sold like so many hogs. They stood
in the attitude of unscrupulous, reeking
devils preaching the Gospel of the Son
of God.
They are in desperate condition, con-
victed of methods they neither dare to
deny or acknowledge, and burdened
with a policy they can notdefend. They
have of their own volition, chosen a
campaign of vile insinuations and per.
sonal abuse. Under compulsion, they
have sullenly withdrawn from every
position of chosen vantage, but refused
to acknowledge or repair the wrongs
they have attempted. Concerning their
disgraceful failures, they are like the pre-
siding judge of western court who
wanted nothing but silence, and id
little of that"
We think old Gazzie would like to
have her friends believe that her re-
retreats were simply matters of dignity,
and not demoralized routs She would
like to pose as a recognized authority
whose assertions need no proof and can
not be weakened by attack. Could she
usurp such position, then her silence,
like that Of the sphinx, might be revered
by the superstitions, and stand to them
as a mysterious freak of phenomenal
wisdom. Unfortunately, however, old
Gazsie's mouth keeps flying open, and
her spasmodic CALCULATIONS betray her
by their conspicuous Stiffness.
This is illustrated once more. She
finds an affidavit in which several Jail
inmates are induced to contradict their
own former assertions. Immediately,
she goes into noisy exstacies. Forgetting
the decorum Of respectability and the
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