Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-10-17
REPUBLICAN CIRCUS

lican outdoor circus here Saturda,
night. Any medicine show, or scis
| sor grinder can draw large GROVE
here any Saturday night the wealth
er is good. In fact, it doesn't tax,
any special attraction to bring to
gether many hundred citizen an,
Saturday evening.
| Fuehrer Frash, chairman, VIII,
represents some Republicans in thi'
county gave orders that ther,
should be no parking on the publ,
square after three p. M, That or
der was far from being a popular
move, and made many farmers sore
because they were not permitted te
use their regular parking places
One was heard to remark, eff this
isn't Hitlerism, I don't know what
you would term it." When the bust.
ness mems club, and fremen were
fixing date to hold the annual fire.
mems festival this year, they knew
they could count on larger crowd
Saturday evening, than on any other
evening. However they felt it
would not be treating our business
men, and those who come here,
right, to close off the public square,
of Saturday night.
The high school bands from Cald-
well, Deavertown and M. & M. as
sembled on the square about s
o'clock, and facing the Secrest ban
ner, played for about a half hour.
The music by these bands was
greatly appreciated, and would draw
big crowds wherever they play. The
parade with it's red lights was spec
tacular. However taking out the
band members it would have been
less than block in length. The
banner, in reference to Roosevelt
third term was most prominent in
the parade. The one of Dr. Mich
ener, (asking for third term as
representative, and of Lionel G..
Roberts, fourth term as county
treasurer) said nothing about a
third or fourth term.
In the parade were a number Of
women, most of them way beyond
the grandmother age, who did look
cute with their toy balloons, filled
with hot air for the speakers.
Fuehrer Frash presided. In his key
note speech he made some mention
of the rooster that appeared in this
"our paper In justice to our sub
scribers we want to state it isn't his
paper-but we suppose it comes
about as near being "his paper as
any in the county. A trio from
Caldwell sang a selection, words Of
which were something about sad
heart calling 1t must have been
their former townsman, and now
candidate for congress, C. A. Y.
Fred Johnson, of GAINESVILLE, state
Republican central committeeman,
then took charge of the program
and his first blast was a tribute to
Clair A. oYung, referring to him
as Fighter (shades of Andy
Gump). Lieut. Governor Herbert
was introduced and he spoke con-
corning the state candidates. He
said this county could never send a
better representative to the gen.
eral assembly than DR.. Michener.
(No comment necessary.
Mayor Burton of Cleveland, can
didate for U. S. senator, was next,
and after coat or two of white
wash applied where he thought it
would get him the most votes,
launched a TRADE against President
Roosevelt. Of course he didn't men
tiOn how Roosevelt had needed his
appeal for aid for the hungry peo-
pie of Cleveland, nor how Governor
Bricker turned the deaf ear for as
sistance, and the scrap he and
Bricker had Burton has been look
ed on as an able man, and he was
admired when fighting for the Re-
publican nomination for senator,
when he proclaimed eff l am elect
ed l will take an oath to support
the constitution, and not to support
Ed Schorr (the Republican state
chairman) But he has changed
for votes. The mayor
seems like Willkie, to be poorly
posted. When attempting to name
the panics under the Democratic
presidents, he spoke of the panic
of 1876; he also forgot to mention
the worst panic this nation ever
went through, which was under
Herbert Hoover. He appeared to be
very much concerned regarding the
presidents health, feeling that if he
was reelected he would never live
through another four year term
the same thing was said when Mr.
Roosevelt was running for his first
term, and now we find the president
after more than seven years as pres
ident III perfect health.
Next introduced was off a'gin on
agin, gone a'gin, Young a'gin
(apology Gilliland) the man who
challenged Secrest to debate the
Townsend plan, and then-you fig
ut hp
here that the reason Young
refused to debate was because Sc
crest had set the date for the meet
ing on the same evening the rally
was to be held here, and they felt If
they openly announced it, it would
have drawn the crowd from this
place to GAINESVILLE. Take this ex-
cuse as you may, it plainly shows
they know Secrest's following and
strength and ability and power 70
draw the people, He is known as
straight shooter, and always makes
his word good-that is why he goes
places.
When Mr.. Young was introduced
here he stated that he had been de-
batting Secrest Che did not remain
to hear Secrest). Said there were
many Townsend people present and
also said that he was not "booed
We wonder what sort of people Mr.
Young thinks the Townsend follow
ers are. There are no better citi-
zens to be found any place. At the
time they held their national con-
vention at ST. Louis, Mo-, papers
said it was the most orderly, and
best behaved big convention, or
that city ever entertain
ed.
By the way, Young is a member
of the Townsend club. Can you
imagine belonging to an order, and
then going ont and fighting If?