The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-10-24
THE EDITOR BEsIEGED,

On last Saturday afternoon, there
being great rush of printing in the
DEMOCRAT job department, the ed
itor, although having a desire to at
tend the "Grosvenor-Chas
side show, yet it was our lot to occu-
py position in the press room and
run the paper cutter. While in the
midst of this festive duty, the sweat
of our brow having almost ruined our
"biled" shirt, we were summoned to
the sanctum. We pictured in our
mind that perhaps there was in wait
ing another man with book to pub
lish, or another lawyer with 200
page brief to print, and we were Won
dering where we could get few
more printers to add to our already
goodly corps of ten, to get out the
rush Of work we were having.
But upon bolting into our studio,
another, and more beautiful picture
confronted us. We were ushered in
to the midst of bevy of young la
dies, most of whom are the charming
features of our neighbor Jacksonville;
the minority our own fair daughters.
We proceeded at once to stumble
over our big feet and try to hide our
unshaven features, and were pleas
ingly successful in the former en-
deavor, but the latter we failed to
accomplish. We longed to return to
our paper cutter, for it sought not our
words except an occasional cuss.
Here we must needs talk, and gifted
thus we are not. We might have put
it on paper for them, but compost
tions We're not in order. We asked
them "whence they came and for
why" and the answer came that they
are all Democrats and came UP on
the Grosvenor excursion to see the
fizzle; that the fizzle was too fizzley
to see, SO they sought higher plain
of intelligence and called on DEM
ocratic editor. Then we forgot our
whiskers and our feet, and fell right
into the conversation. We all de-
nounced Grosvenor as real mean, and
not pretty, either; that it was always
'tI did this" and III did that in his
speeches, and that he never did help
our miners, anyway.
We soon had poor Grosvenor all
torn to pieces, and then we jumped
onto Ex-Governor Ira Chase, and we
called him preacher and prohibition
ist and everything we could lay our
tongues to, then we let him die.
After we had ruined all the Repub-
licans we could think of, somebody
mentioned Pursell, and. Oh, my, how
they did sail into him. The stuff he
had written about Nelsonville pa
per was perfectly awful, and just too
vile to read. He was the meanest
looking man they knew and ought
not be countenanced by any lady.
Here the editor Intercepted, and
hushed up this awful abuse. We
told them that Mr.. Pursen was a fine
gentleman, a friend of ours and the
smartest editor in town, and they
must not talk about him in such a
manner as that. And they all said,
"well if you are friend of Pursell's IS
we won't stay here another minute" +"
and they all got up and put out. We
were sorry that we spoke, but we
really felt it our duty to defend our
friend and brother editor. We asked
them, in our feeble way,to call again,
but answer came there none. We
enjoyed the call very much except
the final, and hope the ladies will
make our sanctum more calls, when
we getfixed up and burn natural gas,
and we will endeavor to be more
careful in the future whose part we
take when anything is said.