The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-11-20
who?-Echo Answers, who.
A Good Chance for the Dark Horse to
be the Choice.

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the smoke of the last fearful con
flict, is beginning to take on tn
purple hue, and prove royal con
test. The usual monster faction
are in evidence. The one cham
pioned by Col. A. G. Sands and th,
other by Hon. l.. ID. Vickers. To
man up a tree looking down on on'
side of the fence he would see tn,
ancient features of General Gros
venor casting his eagle eye ubou
over his district, with contempla
tiOns TO rewnrding those that have
been close to him in his oft con
tests. 1t has been conceded hin
by the powers that be-, to the dis
tribution OF the patronage of hi'
field of labor. We see his minC
busy with the reflection Of, ono
promises TO those who ha We raiSet
him TO the throne he occupies. He
was but hoy once, withla modest
lawyers shingle hanging at his
door, and practice more meager
than the shingle. A national mis-.
understanding came upon us. One
Alexander Sands, OF Cincinnati
appointed by President Lincoln
United States Marshall, with the
vast and important territory OF
Southern Ohio at his martial COM
man d, must needs IN that critical
time with multiplied duties, have Il
deputy. He reached out to the lit
tie hamlet of Athens, discovered
the struggling youth with the shin
gle at his door, and bore him up on
the first wings Of his fame, that OF
Deputy United States Marshall,
commissioned by the immortal
a braham Lincoln. From this by
recommendation of the great Mar.
shall under whom he was serving,
he was commissioned into the field,
thence to generalship, to congress,
to national reputation. Like unto
the poem which goes, 81 shot an ar
row into the air, 1t fell to earth l
knew not where. Long long after
ward in an oak, I found the arrow
still unbroke," 80 goes the inference
of our short above co-instance. The
Colonel chose his deputy better
than he knew, put into his career
the possibilities of fame; now long
afterward in that monster oak OF
fidelity, one would think Colonel
Sands would find the arrow Of
gratitude still unbroke, and though
the Colonel in humble life should
decline the appointment, one would
think, looking down as we are from
the old bay tree, that the General
would insist, or tender him the ap'
pointing power.
But looking to the other side OF
tho fence, we see man strong in
his parties favor, leader of leaders
in his county and district politics,
standing out upon party fame, and
indeed close to the great throne OF
all. Elector l.. d. Vickers, who
with one honored stroke Of his pen
casts the vote Of this vast district
for Hon. VIM. Mckinley; in whom
his party placed the confidence
and trust of the casting of the fran
chise as they prescribed; should he
not, though conceded to General
Grosvenor the patronage Of the dis
trict, should not Elector Vickers
be permitted to say by whom
should the little post-ofice at Logan
he run for the next four years.
Should not the man, who has led
the battle of his party for years,
has worked necessarily on com
mlttees with no hope OF reward,
who was the strong man to go out
into the rural districts each fall,
and speak for the cause Of his party,
who has proved himself untiring
in his constant and persistant work,
bringing oft CONSERVATION, fear
and defeat to the opposition, should
he not be permitted to say to Major
Mckinley, the recipient Of his
monster district franchise, "May /
not favor a friend, or himself by
one little mess OF spoils." III he
should not be thus honored, there
Is no reward for work from ones
party. ., .sr
We have from our neutral stand,
but outlined the strong claims of
the powerful factions of the Re-
publican party In Hooking, to the
distribution Of the minor spoils at
hand; the one or the other must
suffer defeat, lest the great powers
recognize neither and slip in q
dark horse. Dark horses get on
your hind legs ready for the leap.