The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-11-10
SMILES
In Old Hooking. -Iepubllcans VIII
Not JOlIify in this County.

In Old Hooking. -Republlcans viii
Not JolIify in this County.
In all the regret of defeat in our
noble cause for bimetalism In this
country for the time being, down
in old Hooking there is an inward
smile in which we can bury our
tears, and look out through the
mOistened eye lids, and take com
fort in the oft expression, "There
are others" In the midst of a
sudden check mate which but
prolongs the contest and inspires
more earnest battle in tho future
for what we believe to be right, we
can but bake in the sunlight of
the dawn of new era in the hope
and realization of Democracy in
old Hooking. There came tine
II few years since when the Dc
mocracy of this country became
sluggish. The influence of, Cleve-
land-Brice- e-Outhwaite bossism be-
came manifest. The good farmer,
who toiled in the scorching sun
beam, began to open his eyes to the
glaring evidence that speaking
tubes had been arranged, through
which the warm breath of this
venom tongued combination met
and mingled lovingly with the
husky respiration of the monster
Sherman oppression, which they
had thought to stamp out with
their suffrage. A silence crept
over them. Those Of the more
active voted reluctantly; the pass
i've would not vote at all, or hied
themselves to the ranks Of other
parties, where principle usurped
the standard of power. Then it
was that the Republican party,
happily as the singing bird, beheld
the iDched f, atures of sleeping
Democracy, and quick to catch up
the hypothetical medium, vigor-
ously poured into its nostrils the
don't-give a.damn balm Of pun
gent sulphureousness. She slept
on, while fitting, happy Rcpubli-
caniSm had her gala day. The
temple of justice, whose walls had
scarce beheld her features, like
the sturdy oak in the storm, bowed
in humble submission to the will
of the powers that be, and the
wiley speakers continued to apply
the sponge of somnolence, under
the influence of which labor could
behold the grizzled out line of the
features of Gal Brice behind the
honest Jim Campbell and beware
as if peeriDg through the rose bush
into the eyes of Kissing viper.
But ere long 1t came to pass that
the balm spread to the holder. The
great applyer of soothing syrup
found her self in the throws of
somnipathy. Sympathetic sleepi-
ness had captured her huge frame.
Her sulphureousness had turned
upon herself, and the grizzled
features held up to the enemy,
turned back upon the trembling
giver, stuck to the hands that held
them up and fell from the nostrils
of the sleeping foe. Then old De-
mocracy walked up. She beheld
the dawn of a new day, and peer
ing through the mist, she beheld
vanishing in the cloud of disap-
pointment and defeat, the awful
pictures oft she seen in her SOM
nambulsm, sticking like tar to the
hands Of those that held them up.
The speaking tubes had vanished
and the in he'd features Of Sher-
man-Br;c ism were one shadow in
the fading distance. Democracy is
born again, and in the new lease of
life with new respiration has
thrown off the sheckles that held
her down and will roll on to oft
victory and glorious restoration,
mama unl ha nninasI