Year: 1874

His Candidacy for Congress


Operates as an Emetic.


wAvERLY, May, 1874.


To the Editor of the Register:


Some men, we are told, are born great,
like Tittlebat Titmouse, SO celebrated by
Warren; others, like Veneering, in "Our
Mutual Friend" purchase greatness with
pounds, shillings and pence; others, like
valiant Peter Stuyvesant, or Peter the
Headstrong, as he was more familiarly
known by his subjects of New Amsterdam,
achieve greatness by prowess in arms, as he
did at the battle of Christina, wherein he
overcame the great Reising by a we'll,
directed blow with his wooden leg; still
others have greatness thrust upon them.
But what relevancy all this has to what I
am about to say, is more than can clearly
see. simply thought to say to you and
your numerous readers, that one DR.. Damn,
q believe he spells his name with two ns,)
was in our quiet little town last week as a
candidate for congressional honors-that is,
he desires to be nominated by the Demo-
cratic party of this congressional district
for the Office now occupied by Mr.. Neal.
We owe all this to Judge Stafford and the
crusaders, and it is debt of no mean
magnitude, for we all might have lived in
ignorance of the fact that so distinguished
man lived in our neighboring village of
Hillsboro, had it not been for them. We
have all heard of Judge Sloane-of the
Trimbles, and other noted men of that town;
butiDunn dunn with two n's) was unea1thed
to our gaze by the merciless crusaders; and
now we are to run him for Congress; we are
to run him on the whisky ticket-run him
because greatness has been thrust upon
him by the women of Hillsboro. What q
congressman has to do with the liquor laws
of Ohio, is not clear. Whisky seems to be
his platform. I sometimes take a cock
tail mysef-am not in sympathy with cru
saders; in fact, confess myself to be con-
siderably worse than 1 should be; yet, as an
independent American voter, I don't care
to vote cocktails into Congress.


Understand me; 1 think that it is high
time that our people should select men to
make our laws, both in the State and ma
ton, who have some little qualification for
the business entrusted to them. DIR. Dunn
may be very clever gentleman, in the
A IN - hot ka- h,,k Is
sense will call him clever in the English
sense after conversing with him few min
utes. When such men thrust themselves
upon our attention as candidates for office,
we should be frank enough to speak our
minds freely, whether what we say is pleas
ant or unpleasant to them.


The whisky question in Ohio has nothing
at all to do with Congress; and man seek
ing congressional honors should have some
better platform than cocktails to stand on.
The farmers have, or suppose they have,
some interests to look after in Congress, and
in order that they may secure just and
equal laws they have organized various
Oranges, and have in various ways indi-
Gated determination to stand together at
the ballot box in an attempt to select suita-
BILE men to the National Legislature. The
tariff, railroad monopoly, and the currency,
are questions of far more interest to our
people in the selection of candidate for
Congress than the question of free trade in
cocktails, The candidate for Congress
should have some qualifications for the
office-should be noted for something more
than obstinate resistance to the present
war on rum. We're the DR.. to offer him
self as candidate for representative in
the State Legislature there would be some
little cause for men supporting him mot
withstanding the fact of his general lack of
intellectual capacity for such a position
that is, men who agree with him upon
the question of cocktails.


I have very little acquaintance with the
Dr.; have conversed with him but few min
utes, and yet think utter only the senti-
ments of all sensible and honest men who
know him when I say that his mental cali
Der is entirely ill-proportioned to his pres
ent rather ambitious aspirings. The SOON
er the DR.. knows the opinions of the peo-
pie touching his fitness for Congress, the
better it will be for him. His aims at the
Capital will fall short of the mark, and his
friends, if judicious, will advise him to
turn from Congress to cocktails as soon as
possible, and before he makes himself still
more ridiculous than he already has done
by his visits to the towns and villages in
this congressional district as a candidate for
for congressional honors.


1 write this as a Democrat, who would see
the party freed from the embarrassments
which such men impose upon it.


But have said enough already to of
fend the DIR. and his friends-said it be-
cause felt it to be a duty-and now that
my mind feels easier by reason thereof,