The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-04-02
THE LONG POLE
That Knocked The =, T.
simon is i'm The Hands of
l.. ID. Vickers.
The Party Organ ScOOped by the Party
Boss,

| cIuul5 uGNtE DtlOIt III tlG Ills
tory of our town has there been as
bitter spoils contest for the post
Office port folio as has just ended
in the selection Of l.. d. Vickers rs
postmaster at Logan. The contest
began even before the news had
been verified of the election uf Nc
Kinley, and has been waged with
untiring zeal until the awful
edict OF congressman Grosvenor
has now gone forth. The contest
ing forces were the JOurnal.Ga-
zette faction, with all the powers
behind the throne in the person OF
Col. Sands for Editor Mckay, and
the Vickers- Campbell faction for
Vickers. The war went merrily
on as we have from time TO time
chronicled, until the time Of the Sc
lection of the central and executive
committees Of the county. The op-
posing forces seemed to base their
hopes on the pro or con of these
committees and went into the fight
with awful determination, result
ing in Vickers swiping the opposi-
tion off of the earth, securing the
endorsement of eighteen out Of
twenty-three of the Central Com
mittee and the entire Executive
Committee. This was a stinger to
the party organ from which they
did not recover. In the face Of all
good endorsements, both personal
and political it was impossible for
Congressman Grosvenor to get
around the party organization in a
county of his district. If the cen
tral and executive committees of
county are to be ruthlessly set aside
for personal persuasion, then
what may the commanding politi-
clan expect of the organization Of
his party in that county. This was
the constant argument of the win.
ming faction, while on the other
hand Editor Mckay, Colonel Sands,
Will Stone ct al had fought untir-
ingly for Grosvenor in his contests
for his present.seat, both through
the medium of their Journal, and
personally throughout the district.
They are publishers of the only re-
publican paper in this county, and
have labored so untiringly in the
past few years that the Democratic
party have felt their power, and
met ignominious defeats at their
hands. 1t would seem that the
great Congressman had turned his
back upon their good work and bur-
led their noble efforts in his behalf,
in the shroud of nonentity. Why
Editor Mckay should thus be turn
ed down, is not fathomed by his
friends. To the defeated we ex-
tend sympathy, hoping they may
the fact that the more
you write and work for a plutocrat
party, the less are your efforts ap-
preciated. 1t is party that does
not recognize the common herd; it
does not recognize the struggling,
soldier in the private ranks
of his party. Mckay, Bob Kits
miller, Bill Weitzell, Bill Larimer
and the other aspirants are privates
and ought not to expect, except
to be let work hard for the party
when they ask TO do so. Vickers
is the SacheIn, he is boss, he owns
the committees, he was elector and
dined with the President, and II
any plumbs are to drop he holds
out his apron and catches them,
while the common party herd go
hungry. This has been and always
will be the policy of the Republican
party. 1t is composed of big men,
and all they ask of the herd to is
keep on voting for them and they
will keep on being big men. AS we
said above, we Will feel sorry for
you just this once more, and then
If you don't be good, We will with.
draw our sympathy and you can 60
it.
To Postmaster Vickers we ex.
tend greeting. We congratulate
him on being the big man of the
republican party in Hooking. He
has but to put forth his hand, and
all is his. He is sachem of his
party unmOlested, updisturbed, ex-
cept by handful OF mutineers, who
bite their tongues off in their haste
to conceal their mutiny, and ere
long even these will trot along by
his side seeking to hold to his great
finger, AS the prattling child to its
striding papa. The big sachem
will give eight raps on the court
house bell, and they will fall over
each other to do his bidding. He
has an enyious position, but thew