Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-28
L. A w.

large number of Marietta L. A. W.
members. have been watching with in
terest the political campaign now be-
ing carried on by the opposing forces,
The Marietta members are unani-
mously in sympathy with the Regu-
lar Ticket, headed by Mr. s. l.. Glaster
of Fostoria, which is represented To-
cally by Mr.. r. E. Race, and are freely
expressing their contempt for the
abusive character of the methods en-
ployed by the boilers.
The official organ of the Reform
4 arty" in a recent attack on Mr.. Chas'
F. Henry, who is one of the best work
ers and most competent officials in the
League today criticized his choice OF
language and lowered itself to say
that "his delivery is as though he had
learned his lessons on canal boat,
and his thoughts are equal to such
great thinkers as dock helpers and
patent medicine fakirs."
Now these "reformers," to judge by
their brag, are all graduates of Eu-
ropean Universities. Not satisfied
with Harvard or Yale or Princeton,
they carry post graduate degrees OF
the continental schools. Anything
else is canal oat" education. They
have a splendid rhetoric and their
diction is polished and chaste to de-
gree. They possess a new ortho-
graphy that is peculiar to their own
L.gh class of education. They have a
corner on spelling. Mr.. Milton G.
Gill, of Toledo, the "Reformers'
erudite candidate for Vice Consul, is
the exponent of this new system. He
was not graduated from canal boat.
he is a scholar from Scholarsville.
In a recent letter to one of the L. A. W,
officials of this state the scholarly
Milton G.. made the following amend
ments to Websters spelling book.
He spelled contents "contence;" up,
"upp;" impossible, ''imposiable;
judgment, judgement; personally
personally" acquainted, acquainted y
position, "possision;" such, "sutch;"
evening, "eavening;" immense,
emence;" necessary, "nessery;" very
very"
Nor is this all. If the polished
crowd, whose intelligence is shocked
by canal boat" education, desire to
have it all it will be easy enough to
make lithograph copies of Professor
Gill's new system for gratuitous dis
tribution in the great centers of learn
ing in both hemispheres. There will
then be no excuse for canal boat ed
ucation." The clerks of the various
school boards throughout the state,
where the canal boat system is still un-
happily in vogue, would do we'll to
with the "Reformers,"
and if possible get license to adopt |
he new system, at whatever cost
The coarseness of the tone of the |
article referred to clearly indicates |
he ranking of bitter defeat. With |
he exception of this one person to !
whom Mr.. Henry has repeatedly ad-
ninistered political thrashings, his !
opponents recognize and respect his !
Straightforward openhanded method |
If carrying on contest, and his as
ailant cannot in any way profit by
his savage outburst as a whipped and |
'eaten office-seeker.
The whole affair is regarded by Mr..
1enry's friends as a childish eXhibi-
ion of temper, occasioned by an ag-
ravated case of political sorehead.
Jas. A. Garfield once occupied a
'rominiet position on the tow-path,
nd his canal boat education ac-
omplished as much as will fall to the
OF of the self-worshiping editor of
he Cycling Gazette.