Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-07-26

Your slang Of dictaiion 10 the begisla
ture is a. coniemptible as your yiscilla
ting conduct as politician Is disFepuis
bic. The IittIe political character you
ever estimated talents would ever bav'
acquired for you. has been blurred oye
with treachery to friends and sycOphancJ
TO poliliealenemies, disgusting 10. ever.
mau Of honest and straight forward pnr
poses And il is This you call thinking
for yoursele Most unfortunate thinker
Few men have ever slo0d so much il
need of guardian as yourself have
Stated before, that this is the sixth oi
seventhtime you have undertaken 40 gel
up dlssensions in the party, that has Civ
en- you what little political character and
Importance you possess Having each
| lime failed, most sigually failed, you then
crawled back, and because forgiven, you
turn 10 il as evidence Of your UNIFORM
democracy.
| You speak Of attempts TO turn you out
Of the democratic rauks. should sup.
pose that man who would attack, and
in most disgraCefuf manner too, every
democratic memb or Of the legislature, the
whole democratic press Of the state, and
ninety nine Of every hundred of the
democratic party, did not require much
turRing out! You are now in this city,
in attendance. at the U. s. Court, aud
am inclined TO think that the whig bank
ers aud whig brokers, from their iondllng
on YOU, perfectly understand their mao
fully as well as you do yourself. / do
nOtsihipk that you require much more
tufnia except 10 turn your misdeeds up
TO view and that you are doing iusi
abouias well yourself as any body coald
do for you,
Asan.instancs ofyour total udwOrIhi
Bess, as mau of honesty or politician
10 be trusted, | will refresh YOUR mind
with small piece OF history. You will
recollecl that your speeches at the lnai
ket houss in Columbus, in 1910, in a
debate with Gov. Corwin, when speaking
Of RANK REFORM, you said that the evils
Of the present system we're so deep and
so extensive that any reform to be per-
ilect, must he long in IFS accomplish
ment--yuu said, possibly TWENTY YEARS.
Iinyour third ep;stle, now under consld-
Grafton, you say that "from 1885 10 SS4l
the democratic party have gone into eVesy
electioneering campaign with bank re-
| form on their lIps,n space of seven
wears, and that is TWO more than truth
and CORRECT history would warrant. Five
years is the true period when bank re-
form fairly opened, and vet you complain
that every thing snot yet accomplished!
Put this declaration and that Of 1910 to-
! gethei and llieu ask whether Thomas
T.. Hamer stands before The world in any
other light than a qulbbliug paIliloggeF?
i / care moi whether he was setiOus 10 lS4O
or 1912, or on both occasions. They
4 show plainly what the declarations Of
such a man are worth. Insincere in EVERY
thing, YOU have ANY thing for the occs
lsion. No wonder that such man con-
EpIains Of tie members of the Legislature
carrying out after The election thatwhich
was '.shadowed forth" before the cleo
'Irion. | am well aware that some men
believe that there should be one story for
the people before the election, and an,
other for the ear Of the Representative
afier taking his seat. But such men are
as unworthy The name Of democrat as
they are destitute ofan honest Character
NV crime is not for deceivng the people
by preaching one Ihing TO carry an cleo
llioh and another after the electionis ovcr,
but because would not led myself u
such "fOry Thousand dollar" dicia'crs a.
II. Il Hamer-"men Of property TO aie
+ in, or countensnce betrayal OF promises
4 made when the peoples voies are want
4 ed sustained, not dictated, a FesumP
ton of specie payments Of our banks
thorough radical reaumplion, that put
slo, to bank explosions and bank riots
which restored peace, and brought dow
most rniBous rate Of exchange tOia mer
nominal value, and which has rectltia
and improved the currency as fast as coul
be expected by reasonable OF sensibl
men, from the awful aud horrible conf,
, sion in which il was previous 10 the pa
i sage Of that act. Against such acts /
: these you may curse and rail on---yol
end will be that ofa hursljup bank, wit
r out benefit Of receivers.
, As this letter il already TOO long, | "
/. closeiig lthank the editor el the elepn
lican forofFering mesa chance to reply,-
I Imay avail myselfof another article, a
i am nowiust leaving for Columbus.
. Yours inbondsof afi clion for 20
+ peculiar situation, 8. MEDAkI.
NoBLe's, Cincinnati, july 9, l54l,
+ p. S--The Georgetown Standard, a
Z The papers publishing Mr., Hamef's letl'
i. will please insert this
as scythes and siclKles: !,