The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-05-02
Kissing Others On.

Oui posltiou, CicdTly uuucTbVOOu, WAS
a denial of the sincerity of the So-called
and its Greenfield ally in their clamor
for greater purity ir Hillsboro's mu.
nicipal affairs, We believed and said
that it had been originated and pro.
noted for the qualification of personal
spites, coupled, doubtless, with an anti.
Foraker scheme to weaken the Re-
publican forces.
To establish our claim that these pre-.
tences OF desire for greater purity were
not sincere, it was legitimate to consider
the personal characters of those from
whom they emanated. 1t was also
legitimate to show the motives for these
insincere pretences. This we did in as
kindly spirit as possible.
We are fully assured that neither one
of the editors of the So-called or the
editor of the Try-Coumty would, in the
flesh, appreciate Paradise restored, if it
contained no saloons, no gambling dens,
and none of the fair and frail. In such
a home they would kick more vigorously,
if possible, than here, and would i'm.
mediately engage in conspiracy to turn
the place over to the devil, to be run
according to their peculiar, combined
ideas of purity.
That the Try-County man was not
actuated by longing and aching after
higher holiness is evident from the fact
that he never called for the simon pure
Observation-Disclosures brand at
Greenfield. This is the more signifcan
from the fact that, with all its admirable
traits and good natured assumptions OF
excellence, Greenfield has never posed
before its neighbors as Holier-than-
thou. 1t has it's quota of saloons and
other incidents of worldliness. It is not
hamlet of farm houses remote from the
advantages and disadvantages of civiliza.
ton. However, we have yet to read in
the TTy-Couaty any censure against
home evils. Never has its knighted
Chief lifted his immaculate standard for
the rallying of the saints. Never has
his gallant lance been poised against
the powers OF sin at home.
1t may be, though, that his optics are
far-sighted, and that it takes distance
of seventeen miles to develope their
keenest vision.
Otherwise, it would seem strange that
self-appointed foreign missionary
would 80 gladly give up his home field
to the enemy of souls.
And, it is not we'll that the Try Cou mtg
comes to poor, debauched, benighted,
sin-cursed Hillsboro without a single
Christian endorsement OF it's righteous.
ness from all of those who know it.
Sad to say, its evangelistic work here
doesn't scintillate and glow with the
magnetism of the Holy Ghost.
The Try County comes not to us in the
blossoming spring time with perfumes,
sweet and pure. Instead, it brings an
odor of fire and birthstone.
1t isn't ushered in with the rustic of
heavenly wings and the twang of celestial
harps sounding through the gates aar.
No, ye gods 1t comes with the rum.
blings of an underground basso, whose
tremolo tremendous frightens US poor,
hell-scared mortals with fearful fore.
bodings.
If this be messenger from the realms
of the blessed, let him show his Christly
credentials
If he be an impostor, let US know it.
Who can say US nay?
The NEws-HERALD has blocked the
path OF this transcendant being and
wrenched from its shoulders the mantle
of deception.
That's all.
And the So-called writhes under the
exposure of its foreign contingent.
Why?
The So-called doesn't even attempt to
deny the facts we have established.
But, it attempts to break the force OF
inevitable conclusions, by accusing us
of resorting to personal matters.
So we did.
But they were only such matters as
had already been made public property
through their publication by the party
most concerned.
If he cared not to hold his domestic
troubles sacred, why should we?
1t was our right to show that they
autuated his interference in the affairs
of our city. We did so, and he will not
deny it. The personal matter referred
to was not only fortunately available,
through the Try-County's publication
thereof, but was pertinent and ap,
propriate.
We have no apologies to offer for its
| use.
But, the So-called accuses us of being
Fighting man." This is the unkind,
est cut OF all. A fighting man, in the
common acceptation of the term, is a