The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-12-31

Lney are men OF sell cOuNlctiou,
Men who beheld the evil spirit OF
class rule, and stepped out and up
to the cause of the common people,
to the cause of the struggling pro-
ducers of wealth.
The writer's Republicanism per-
haps was different from these. 1t
was a peculiar specimen. 1t was
born in Democracy and treachery |
and we plead youth to our short
comings. In 1889 we finished our
course in the Logan Public Schools,
spent year in Chicago thence re-
turned and accepted position as
foreman of the Hooking Sentinel.
AT this time we became of voting
age. We had no politics. We were
raised a Prohibitionist. Had their
principles of free silver and tenn
perance recited to us constantly
in youth. We were now Green's
good man Friday. We voted at
his dictation. In the spring 1902
Noah Schwarz was nominated by
the Democracy of Logan for City
Clerk. He was the friend of Green.
He had associafed In our Office.
Had made up the mail time after
time and asked nc. pay. We sup
posed he was the man we would be
required to support for clerk and
was glad so to.do for he was our
school mate and associate. Never
were we more surprised when
Green ca me IN one day and de-
nounced him in bitter terms. A
good boy, good Democrat, the
nominee of his party, and badly
needed the salary Of CLERK. Green
dam ned him to all that was bad,
and proclaimed that he would beat
him, and that. beautifully. Later
he sprung the proposition to us that
we were seemingly popular
young man, and having no politics
could easily swing out into the Re-
publican party and beat the object
of his hatred. He and his repub-
lican allies could secure us the
nomination, and all would be love-
~, and when elected of course we
working for him, insured all the
clerks printing to him, and of
Swartz he was afraid. We were
his man of clay, and the nomina-
tion was handed to us without op-
position. We were sorry for Swartz,
but in our youthful ambitions we
thought Green the greatest man on
earth, later we realized he is the
greatest rascal. He lead us on to
victory, and then gloated and
laughed at the defeat of poor Noah
Swartz, who had been his friend
and helped him. Swartz knew
where his defeat came from and
his friends today, though he has
gone to his eternal reward, remem-
ber the treachery and remember it
hard. This was our birth into the
Republican party. Born in hatred,
and miserable during our stay of
two years, ofwhich he boasts He
got our splendid republican print
ing because he put US there. That
was all he wanted. The dem ocracy
be damned. We were as COOL a
democrat as Green was during our
stay with him, for he usually voted
US mixed ticket and we supposed
he did :he same, except for presi-
deut in 1892. Here we run in a
ringer on him with the Australian
ballet and voted for Bidwell for
president. We could not stomache
Harrison or Cleveland on ther
straddle platform, having had it
pounded into us at home that the
gold-standard was crushing us as II
wealth producing people. We cast
our first presidential vote for the
only strong free silver platform of
that year.
Thereafter we continued in the
fight for bimetalism and forsaw in
the Democratic party savior for
the common people. We denounc.
ed the republican policy I'm public
places, on and often until we pur-
chased the Ohio Democrat plant to
further our efforts along this line.
We were called pepulist crank
by Green, and he Denounced us and
our following as silver cranks. We
worked on; went to the state con-
vention in the spring of '96 and
helped by our vote to place old
Ohio in the right column for the
great financial war of that year.
Why was Green not sent to that
convention as a delegate? Be.
cause he was a gold bug and his
party knew it and could not trust
him. They knew it because he said
80 in his paper, a few of the many
clippings which we here insert for