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Show IN THE OLD OHIO DAYS WHEN A DEMOCRAT SLUNK ALONG Under tho general title "Forty Years Of It," Brand Whltlock, Mayor of Toledo, begins in tho January American Mngazlno a Bcrlcs of personal per-sonal reminiscences. Following Is nn extract showing Whltlock as a boy In Urbann, Ohio: "Ono of tho perplexing and confounding con-founding anomalies of existence was tho fact thnt our neighbor, Mr. L. wns a Democrat. That fact perhaps explained to mo why ho walked so modestly, so unobtrusively, in tho shade, so closo to tho picket fences of Reynolds Street, with his head bowed. I supposed that, being a Dem ocrnt, It wns only natural for him to slunk along. Ho was n lawyer and a gentleman; my grandfather spoko with him, but from my mind I could nover banish tho fact that ho wai a Domocrnt, nnd to explain his bent, thoughtful attltudo I imagined another anoth-er reason than tho fact that ho was a meditative, studious man. "Lawyers, of course, woro Republicans, Repub-licans, elso how could thoy deliver patriotic addresses on Decorathn Day and at tho reunions of tho COth regiment? It was natural for tho young men to bo lawyers, tbon to bo elected prosecuting attorney, then to go to tho legislature, tbon to Congress, Con-gress, tbon Governor, Senator, Pres-dent. Pres-dent. They could not, of courso, go any moro to war and fight for liber ty; that distinction was no longor, unhappily, possible, but thoy could bo Republicans. Tho Republican party par-ty had saved tho Union, won liberty for all men, and thoro was nothing left for tho partlotlc to do but to ox-tol ox-tol that party, and to sco to It that Its members held office under the government. "In thoso days the party had many leaders In Ohio who had served I ho nation In military or civil capacity during tho great crisis; scarcely a county that had not somo colonel or general whoso personality impressed .tho popular Imagination; thoy vo-o looked up to, and revered, and In the political campaigns their faces, pale or red in the flare .of the torchesof. those vast and tumultuous, graces-, slons thatr.stlU staged the, political contests In the terms of war, looked down from the festooned platforms In every public square And yet they Were already remote, statuesque, oracular, or-acular, and thcro was the reverent sense that somehow placed tcm In the ideal past, whose problems hid all been happily solved, rather In. ;ho real present i" . . |