The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-26
THE REAL ISSUE IN OHIO.

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even in that fertile midland, watered
| by the Kokosing.-nay in the very
town immortallzed as the place OF
Clement l.. Vallandingham's last
"copperhead" convention; In whose
hilltop cemetery rest the bones OF
Daniel Decatur Emmett, composer OF
Dixie; whose court house walls
are fairly laved in fragrant memo
ries OF the late William A. Silcott,
and among whose people Jacob s.
Coxey is now reckoned as one of the
latter day saints,-the Grange has de-
manded additional hitching rings on
the main street; and the issues have
involved the community In such a
turmoil as only to be compared with
that black year when the first in
|trepid soul dared to voice doubt in
the Paducah general council as to
the constitutional guaranty behind
1.-The immemorial right of the town
|cow to browse upon the custom
house lawn.
Now, this particular main street
is paved. and down its middle course
at intervals the street cars, which
engaged the irrepressible initiative
of Plimp Chase, before he went to
Washington to teach vaudeville how
to be polite; and Mayor Mitchell,
bethinking himself of a hundred or
two other streets, not so trafnc
laden, where horses might stand in
greater security. vetoed the hitch
ing rings.
The Changers we're not to be
mollifed with side streets; neither
lcould they seem to extract any
practical suggestion from that Curl
Gus tale of a parsonage who had
Elephants to ride upon"
Rings on his fingers"
They wanted rings on the curb
ing-they stin want them, and the
disorder already has reached the
revolutionary stage. In some Sec
ltions they might be expected to ride
Into town In the dark of the moon
and set fire to the tobacco ware
houses, but they have no tobacco
warehouses up there; and, anyway
they have devised q more subtle
Imeans OF revenge. The Grange
threatens that unless the mayor
puts hitching rings on the mali
street, its members will take thei
Cnar Do M
in exchange for such lust as good
articles, as the mail order house
are supposed to supply at half wha
the raw material for the real thin
! would cost.
You see. the agriculturist has be
gun to appreciate the power o
economics, as keenly as the man
who has been shocked by lightning
land lives, understands the force o
electricity; but he has not ye
learned the lesson Of the reciprocal
Relationship. which the law OF econo
lmics enforces. He has put up light
lining rods. but he does not run hi
lcorn shelter with the lightning; TO
Electricity as he sees il is an enem,
and not q useful element; and. b.
the same token. he conceives a com
bination of producers ever at en-
nifty, instead of In cooperation
with the distributors.
Remember back in the nineties
can't we, standing on Lauderbaugh'i
corner and overhearing the remark
by Heckl It's mortal strange thai
every year when the roads are bad
and the farmers can't get to town
butter and eggs go up, and just as
soon as the roads get good and we
all come in, the grocers put the
lprices down again?
Since their organization, VIC
haven't noted any marked improve.
ment in the roads; but eggs and but
ter are holding up well, thank you
However, they take most OF theii
troubles to the bar of politics IN
Ohio; and. though the present dis
turbance caused the people to mo
mentarlly forget Myron T. Herrict
was running, and absentmindedly
itoot ath bhti NObto lOi OthdbOl DiOh
and. though We had hoped little
Jimmy Garfield might wipe up tbs
ground with Carmi Thompson and
Warren G. Harding for a chance tC
break a lance with Governor Har
mon. we are willing to postpone
that spectacle for a season and giy'
Mayor Mitchell the opportunity t
hitch his political wagon to the sta
OF civic beauty-regardless of wher'
the Changers are to hitch theirs
and try out this issue at the mex
> general election.
Only. nothing herein contained o
read between the lines is to be con
strued by direct inference or neces
sary implication as suggesting OF Il
any way creating the suspicion tina
Mayor Mitchell is to be the ring
candidate.