The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-01-16

you. AT that time the Colonel, in
order to defend himself through
Green's paper and to keep the
Commodore quiet during the cam
paign, combined with Harris,
trustee of the Gallipolis asylum,
and promised Green they would
land his daughter as stenographer
in that institution. Thereupon
Green treated them nicely and they
were in good faith IN their prom
ises, but now it has come to pass
that by, all their efforts, they could
not secure the girl the position.
There were prominent republicans
who had daughters that were ap-
picants and the position shifted
to them in spite of all Col. Sands
and Curtis Harris could do. Now,
in the face Of all their efforts in
favor Of Green, and their good
faith in spending time and money
going to Columbus in his behalf,
he is now so ungrateful as to pour
invectlves into Sands and Harris,
because their efforts in his behalf
miscarried and they failed "to de-
liver the goods"
"Now, Bruce, you know we are
all your friends and Col. Sands
authorizes me to say to you that
he is henceforth and forever done
with Green. Now, he wants you
to say in your paper, and l will
write it if you wish, that your
fight against him last fall was
merely from the standpoint that he
was the Republican leader of this
county, and you hoped by break
ing down the leader in the conf
dence of his party, you might
destroy the party and thus win
out. That the attack Of Mr..
Green at this time upon Col. Sands,
when there is no campaign on and
the battle is over and peace is de-
clared, is unwarranted, and will not
meet the approval of the good
citizens Of this community.
"Now, Bruce, we are your friends
and we want you to say this for
us, and Col. Sands authorized me
to say to you, that he pledges
himself to secure all the county
printing for you from the republi-
can officials. He is after Green
and you can get right in with him
and get every thing in sight if you
will"
We nodded our assent and said,
"Alright, Sill, Alright, and the
bald-headed chestnut scratcher,
slid off down street to tell Snake
feeder Col. Sands that he had fix
ed us, and when he reads this
article hs will discover how we'll
he did his work.
We will say that Sill got out of
that interview lucky, for it was
about all we could do to restrain
ourself from giving that lobster
face one of our Ilesboro upper-cuts,
for presuming that he was talking
to a boodler, smuggler, traitor
to his party and to his friends, like
himself.
No longer ago than last summer
when we were discussing fidelity
to party with Editor Mckay, the
latter run out of ammunition, and
resorted to the pencil Of Pursell,
and how he did trim us. He said,
"Bruce, you are dead easy.
Everybody uses you. You are a
sewer through which everybody
can pour their filth. Quit it,
Bruce, it is not manly" How
soon Sill forgot his good advice to
US. We might have been easy in
our youth, but we are not so easy
now. We live on Easy Street, but
we are not easy. AS to the county
printing, we don't want any of it
your rotten gang can bestow. The
printing we will get will be from
decent county officers, who are not
boodlers, and not owned by Bank
robber Sands. We don't need the
patronage of such blood-suckers.
We are not compelled to sell our
"birth-right for a mess of pot
tage;" our party for the spoils Of
the enemy We learned in early
youth that Benedict Arnold was
the worst dispised man in the
world, and we have needed the
teaching.