Nash is an original thinker of in
dependent expression. With that fool
ish consistency which Emerson de
scribes as the hobgoblin of little
minds, he has nothing to do; but one
day says what he thinks, in good hard
words, and the next day says what he
thinks in good hard words again.
However, he is not always a safe polit
ical guide. In fact he w’as about the
first editor in the state to lead off in
support of the underlying principles
of the Bennett school law, which re
publican editors at this time are trying
so awfully hard to abandon. His
articles, were then, as now, widely re
published in the republican press. But
strange to say that while the Bennett
law made a laughing stock of Gov.
Hoard, Charlie Felker, John Nagle,
and numerous other self-constituted
champions of the little German boy,
Editor Nash was returnrd to the sen
ate by an increased majority, from
a very strong democratic district, and
district, and voted for its repeal. If
the high tax editors continue to take
their political philosophy from Senator
Nash, it is quite probable that he will
again lead them astray; and that they
will have more issues to abandon after
the next campaign. And if they
should, it is not likely that he would
feel very badly over it either.
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.
