The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-03-17
LYNCEIBURC.
March IA, 1904.

ing OF blood vessel.
Mrs. James Kellis aud little daugh.
ter we're over.Sunday guests of L. G.
Peale and wife, in Hillsboro.
W. H. McClelland and wife trans.
acted busines In Hillsboro last Tues.
day.
We understand that the Lecture
committee quit the season about 925
to the good. This certainly shows
efficient management and the com.
mitteeis already discussing the advis.
ability of putting on a. still stro niger
course next season. This is commen.
dable and In our humble opinion II
would be better to have four first
class numbers than six cheaper ones.
We offer this for what 1t is worth.
Attorney E. M. Virgins was bust.
ness visitor to Cincinnati last week.
Spring moving has been going on
with vengenance for the past two
weeks. In addition to our transi ent
population the families of our new
grocers, Mcdaniel, Sonner, and
Reames, are all safely housed from
the March blasts.
CountylCommissioner l.. G. Kesler
was recently circulating among the
neighboring farmers, looking after
the pike conditions and booking avail
able timber for pike superintendent
If Mr.. Kesler will only see to proper
Improvement of our turnpikes, he'll
surely receive vote of respect from
those who travel on so called pixies.
Just to think of it! all those confer
encesto the peanut politicians gone to
waste because of the Chapman Bill.
Walter Brown, of Toledo, Geo. B.
Cox, of Cincinnati, and few others
ought to be ashamed of the inconven.
ience they have wrought. So there
will be no election for township clerk
this spring. Seven more months be-
fore the perpetual candidate will be
required to face the dear people for
further recognition of the "eternal
fitness of things" The Gazette cor
respondent last week lashed himself
into fury in his overzealous desire
to come to the rescue of the township
clerk and almost directly charges the
NEws-HERALD correspondent with
having been .beaten by the present,
past and future clerk six years ago.
Now, in justice to our former candi-
date, we will say that we we're never
a candidate for the Office, but should
we decide to oppose Mr.. Simpkins for
his fifth consecutive term,' we can
vouchsafe the information that he
will be beaten by stronger vote than
that by which RIB. Holiday foored
him in the SOS. "Long and valiant
party serviceIhas been his mainstay
in all his political contests. If "long
and valiant service" is meant con.
tinuous Office holding then he has that
claim to!sustain him in future cam
paigns. 1t is claimed by good Demo
Gratis, however,'that the "rigme" of
"the perpetual'ihas resulted in max
ing solidly Democratic township al
most Republican and in making a
man without any qualifications and
with but little education, the boss of
the local Democracy. True, he may
have an adviser or two among the
peanut politicians who aid him in a
consummation of his schemes, but
they, too,'are selfish. 1t may be we'll
enough TO throw dust and kick up a
muss in order to distract the attention
of the people from the chronic can
didate, but it is not in good form to
charge up theImost self-sacriicing,
painstaking of.B. of e. members with
being boss in order to shield man,
who it is alleged, ,l!removed from the
corporation a few years ago in fit of
anger tolIavoid paying local taxes.
We shall haveImore to say in defense
of our leading citizen in a future let.
ter, but until then be it understood
that we resent with vehemence the
imputation that he had anything
whatever to doiwith last springs com.
bination. On;the other hand we in.
sist that is only another evidence of
"the perpetuals" schemes aided and
abetted by those who sought to profit
by his reelection last spring. Davy
Pence in place of j. W. Peale, Will
Saylor in place of Frank Simkins, an
opeL and-shut evidence of the whole
bargain and lsale" arrangement.
Now, Gazette, when you consult the
township clerk for further matter for
publicationldo not cast reflections on
your mutual friend who certainly has
as good right to serve three or four
terms on SchooliBoard as you to serve
seven terms as Township Clerk, two
or three as.member of B. of e. and one
inglorious term las village Marshal.
de never blocks moral reforms; never
refuses to sign Beal petitions doesn't
have to sweeten the ladies' clubs with
OIL bag of candy, but who does stand on
his pre-eminent fitness for the posi-.
tiOn he seeks.
Jake Bentley-All this talk again
BIZ Bryan has been a good thing fer
i'm.
Bill Skidmore-How's that?