The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-02-06
AswR SAID.
Col. Sands and Editor Green are Pat
ting Each other on the Back.

told of there agreement in last
years campaign, which agreement
miscarried on the part Of Sands.
After the bomb was thrown we
waited and watched the result.
Sure enough as we hoped they
would do, to make our words
proven true, they have each in
turn defended each other and Civ
en- themselves up to the broad light
of what they have been doing.
On Friday after our issue throw
ing the bomb into the pirate camp,
we saw Receiver Sands and Pirate
Pursell in deep and mournful con-
sultation. They wended their way
to Green's office, with the happy
air of whipped dogs; seeking out
the old Commodore again to square
it with him. They were not so
"done" with Green then as Pur-
sell told us they were. They
needed him again in their business
and how well they got him appear
ed in his next issue as follows:
"During the last campaign we
gave Col. Sands hearing in the
Sentinel on matter not political.
He was accused Of being thief, u
scoundrel. We resented this. AS
Receiver of the Peoples Bank, he
did what Judge Huffman and Judge
Slough, both democrats, and Judge
johnson, all in their speechless
graves, authorized him to do. In
presenting the ease of Col. Sands,
as we did, we had hoped to hold in
public esteem the dead judges.
\ As citizen, Col. Sands
requires no defender. need fear no
defamer. In social circles, he is
the associate of the loftiest, and in
business he has character which
makes his word a bond" "
This sounds a little different
from the Commodore's shots at
Col. Sands of the week prior.
Then the Col. was an emetic and
cathartic; a man much of promise
but did nothing for anybody; a
cackling rooster, etc. Now, since
the Commodore had been seen he
holds Col. Sands up as the greatest
man in the community; the as
sociate of the loftiest, with char
acter that makes his word bond.
Snatched from the barn yard as a
cackling rooster, to the billows Of
loftiest citizenship in one week.
That is quite a transformation.
And now comes the Colonel, and
for Green having said such nice
things about him, he must pat the
Commodore on the back.
In last weeks issue of the
Journal, Receiver Sands smears on
the Commodore in the following
sweet way:
"There is not single word of
truth in the matter as suggested
about Commodore Green's selling
out his party. Any statement of
that character is to me foreign and
ridiculous. just think for a
moment of the great Democratic
leaders who have honored Com
modore Green and his paper.
Among them were Pendleton,
Thurman, G. L. Vallandigham,
Judge Ranney, "Rise up" William
Allen, and especially the last
Democratic candidate for COVER
nor, Col. James Kilbourne. These
gentlemen all had the utmost con-
fidence in his loyalty to party, and
to Democratic principles"
But few weeks ago Col. Sands
told us through his good-man-Fri-
day Pursell that he WAS done with
Green forever; he was an migrate
full cuss, and not worthy of a de-
cent mans efforts in his behalf
Now he is the greatest Democrat
in the valley. We do not presume
to know what the Colonel has
promised Green again for his latest
complimentary article, but as
Green says, "he is full of old stale
political promises" and perhaps
the county printing proposition
that came to us, has stuck on the
pencil of the Commodore. At any
rate we have kept real still to see
them both convict themselves anG
substantiate what we said as II
their intimacy, and on they came
and pulled the cork clear under
They have defended each Other
nobly and are, still doing tn,
"scratch.-and scratch back" act
for each other. Receiver Sands
has landed the Commodore AGAR
and now hi orontis not naar a1