Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-01-17
148,l91
147,320
Ford's minority
81

We now pronounce the above q fraud
and faisehood Of the basest character
There is not an abstract Of the votes Of the
state showing any such .report-THERE Is
NO ABSTRACT AT ALL made. published and
recorded upon the journals, as has been the
custom of the state from its first organiza-
tion. No such abstract has been exhibited
no such can be found, and having no
such thing to produce, each whg makes his
own statement from the Speaker of the
Senate down. The Speaker ofthe Senate
held paper in his hand, in his seat, in the
Senate, yesterday, ,and said there were three
conclusions or results, and he had not made
up his mind but a few minutes before he
arose TO announce the result-a result that
no one heard, and which was not of course,
comprehended by any body, and does not
appear, for the Speaker in his not haste to
get away, left no memorandum Of what he
did say, if he said anything on the subject,
and surely On after statement canno. be
taken, and hence he might as we'll have
confessed his failure.
But let US look further into this matter
In the same Journal, Mr.. Backus is report.
ed as saying in his place in the Senate on
yesterday, in reply to Mr.. Whitman, that:
"The Senator has said that no man could
declare on his oath, who has the majority
Of legal votes. Probably that could only
be done by going to the poll books and can.
vasslng the legality of the votes. did
however, add up the footing of the votes
as declared by the several footings of the
committee, and Seabury Ford has 47, ,795
votes, and John B. Weller IA, ,l2O votes
being a majority for Ford Of 67s votes"
Here is whig recorded evidence of an.
other estimate differing from the first given
above of 1913 votes! Soon nfter the elcc-
tion last fall, MIR. Galloway, Secretary of
State, made what was called an official
statement in which,
| Mr. Ford, had 145, 1866
| Mr.. Weller, 1921
Ford's majority 3l5
Thus differing from both several hun-
dres votes-While Mr. Whitman from
the committee reported the following state
of facts:
I'VE omit in this place the Report made
by Mr.. Whitman, as the same will be
found in the report of the Legislative pro,
ceedings in another column, to which We
refer.-ED. SENTINEL.
Now, from all these conclusions, wha
was the naturul-the honest-the plair
and fair course to be pursuedl The very
one Mr.. Whitman proposed in his resolu
ton, viz: "a
"Resolred, That a committee of six or
the part of the House and members OF
the part of the Senata, be appointed by the
respective Speaker of each House, to ex
anime, in the presence Of both Houses, III,
returns of votes made for Governor, By
the Clerks of the several counties of tn,
state"
We appeal to the whole people Of tht
state, what honest man could have desires
any other course9 The Speaker OF tn
Senate should have been the first to hav
asked it, for his own safety and protection
But what was his course? In the yer,
face of this fair, honest, and customary
practice, he pronounced the resolution ou
of order, and then, in the midst OF chao
antia secoId Bedlam, mumbled over few
words and left, without hat or cloak, TO
the Senate. We stood only few fee
from the Speakers chair and never dream
ed that he had announced who was elect
ed Governor. Even the Reporter of tht
Journal, sitting right under the Speaker
as that paper confesses in the article we
copy, did not hear it, and hence the Jour
nal says it was furnished by the Speaker
since! This is pretty confession, espe
cially as the whigs of the two Houses have
been striving ever since, to make that ap'
pcar on the journals of the two Houses
which nobody heard and nobody knew any
thing about. The whole object, then' OF
the wings is to get upon the journals what
was agreed upon in a whig caucus IN The
dark hours of the night, but what never
occurred to any body's knowledge in joint
session.
refused to mutiate their journal, and hence
no such announcement appears on record
The only course now left is to adopt the
resolutions of Mr.. Chase, Of Butler, as
III,