The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-06-10
tuesday Evening, June 8, 1850

The RATIFICATION MEETINe.-We prom
ised on yesterday to give an account Of the
proceedings Of the ratification meeting at the
Court House and shall now endeavor to
make faithful report. twas evident in
the morning that a considerable degree of
dissatisfaction existed on account Of the il
legal voting at the primary election, espec-
tally in this township, and it was threatened
by the country that they would no longer
tolerate town influence and would make n
demonstration against it. 1t will be seen
in the sequel that they didn't dol it.
Ex-Sheriff Ewing was appointed Pres
dent, and Ex-Representative Keller and Ex-
Treasurer (by virtue of defeoD Crumly, Vice
Presidents. DR.. Kagay, Clerk of the Court,
and Dr.. Porter, P. NJ. at Clearport, was aP-
pointed Secretaries.
WIN. Ewing, Collector at Carroll, moved
that committee be appointed to examine
the poll books in order to discover the num-
ber of illegal votes and also to report upon
the legality of votes polled out of townships
in which the voter resided. This was de-
bated by Prosecuting Attorney Shaw, Drs.
Brown and Foster of Sugar Grove, Di!dine,
defeated candidate for Probate Judge, WIS.
Begtty, ditto, Commissioner Reese, Ewing,
the defeated candidate for Representative,
and perhaps some other ex-oficers or defeat
ed aspirants whose names we cannot now
call to mind. twas carried and the meet
ing took recess.
Up to this time, the members from the
country had remained firm, but we noticed
gradual disposition to give way, and after
they had got their dinners, they were in much
better humor.
During the afternoon session and while
waiting for the report of the committee, the
proceedings were spicedby speeches and ex-
plantations.
Mr.. Shaw, Prosecuting Attorney, lead off,
exhorting to union, harmony and concession,
and save an ill-timed remark or two about
corruption, made very respectable speech.
Mr.. Leohner, defeated candidate for Sher-
if, arose to a question of privilege. He
had been stigmatised as Wing, as selling
land without title, as acting in concert with
broken merchant to de(raud creditors, as an
abolitionist, as a Roman Catholic, all of
which he denied. He evidently felt bitter,
but as matter policy mentioned no names.
If zoe should make such charges against a
Democratic candidate, the Democracy would
be horror-stricken, but they appear to have
a right to defame each other as much as
possible. He said, however, he should vote
the entire ticket.
Loud cries were made for Ebright, Wea-
yer and Reed, but none OF them felt willing
to reply to the allegations of Mr. leohncr,
Mr.. Beatty, however, said that he had tax
en- warm part for Mr.. Weaver, but had said
nothing more than that Mr.. Leohner had
been Wing in 1910, and this was not de-
MED. In behalf of himself he said he had
been as basely slandered when he was Il can
didatc for Probate Judge, and had found it
necessary to file his affidavit that he had
been Democrat for many years and had not
voted the Free Soil ticket in 1913,
Cries were made for various individuals,
bu. they did not appear. At length Mr..
Schech, defeated candidate for Probate
Judge, responded TO call. He was evi-
IDENTITY laborng under absence of mind, us he
inverted things as they are, He said the
Wing party acted upon the principle "to the
victors belong the spuils" and that the De.
mocracy cared nothing for these, but laborcd
only for principles. "Galphin" appeared tc
run through his diseased brain in a variety o
colors and he was perfectly satisfied that the
expenses OF tie present Administration were
greater than those Of Mr., Folks during the
War. Tfhe had read and diligently studiet
the report of the Secretary of the Treasury
he would have discovered that the ordinary
expenses of this administration, THROWN.
aside such as necessarily grew out of tht
War and were sadded upon this by former
administration, were less than those of Mr.
Van Buren's. The compliment which he
bestowed upon Mcssrs. Clay, Webster and
Scott was well deserved, even if it did create
a sensation among some of his democratic
friends.
The next Speaker was Captain Sy Gert, Re-
corder Of the county, who considered himself
rather too much Of boy and too green to ad-
dress the meeting. ASH subsequcntremarks
showed that he appreciated himself it will
not be necessary to follow him through, us
he is evidently not very we'll loaded and will
not do much execution during the coming
campaign.
The committee at length made their re-
port, recommending that the nominations
stand as they appear upon the poll books and
that hereafter democrats be not permitted to
vote out of their own townships.
twill be noticed in the returns that the
heavy vote polled in this city, carried all the
offices, for which any city candidates were
running.
The BRIDGE CAmPAIoN.-Th Dayton Ga
setie records the attack of the force of the
Canal Board upon the railroad bridge at
Dayton. Capts. Taylor and May, supcrin-
tendants, enlisteda formidable force and un-
der the protection Of the city police, march