M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-05-18
What was Decided last FAN.

The charge of incompetency and
seltshness continues to be preferred,
without the shadow of foundation,
against the Democratic State Officers
by the opposition journals. They even
60 so lar as to say that last fall the peo-
pie, "by eighty thousand majority
agreed to trust these miserably incom>
pelent, selfish demagogues no longer"
The journals which unhesitatingy falls.
liy In regard to one thing will not be
slow to do it in another thing, if there
Is prospect that party ends will there
by be promoted. 1t is notorious that
the seli-Styled "Peoples' Convention"
that last July put a ticket in nomina,
tlon In Its reso lutions made not even an
Indirect refere nee to the Democratic
State officers. The only idea that seems
ed to occupy their attention was the
eGormlty OF slavery and iniquity Of the
Nebraska bill. This seemed in their
estimation, and their appeals through
out the remainder oil the canvass was
to the Abolition and Free Soil senti.
ment to vote the "Peoples' Ticket"
and thereby register an emphatic con,
domination OF the course Of the Ad-
mlnlstratlon al Washington for its &C.
ton with reference to the Missouri
Compromise.
Touching the Tax law a decision
had been rendered by the Supreme
Court, and a cry had been raised
against the burthens Of taxation, which
for the time being created uneaSinesS in
the public mind, and yet not word
die that famous Peoples Convention
utter in regard to it. The Small Note
Law had been enacted and persons
were studiously at work to influence
the public mind in opposition to it ;
but that Convention uttered not a word
in relation TO it. 1t had rothing to say
about anything else than slavery. From
first to las,-Irom the beginning to the
end-it was nothing but slavery, 1t is
notorious that the gentlemen elected a
member Of the Supreme Court is in
favor OF the decision Of the Supreme
Court in regard to the Tax Law, AM
is as ultra as most Democrats on GER.
tain questions Of State and National
policy.
1t requires the most unblushing hard.
ihood, in defiance of these existinp
facts, now to come forward and claim
that verdict was rendered against the
present Democratic State officers by
80, 900 majority. Their case was not
IN issue, and hence no decision had
been made-no Judgment rendered. =
This thing Of asserting that the present
Democratic State officers are "misera
bly, incompetent, selfish demagogues, -
is precisely what any body can make
with as much facility as TO assert that
white is black and that black is white.
: 1t is common place fact that neither
oil the latter assertions can be proven;
and the. former assertion, although a
fact not so common place, is equally
hard to prove. Ii they are miserably
incompetent" as represented, those
who make these charges certainly have
it in their power TO give us some par.
ticularS in which they have furnished
undeniable evidence of "incompeten
cy." Prove things as you go-that is
) the pretty way OF doing business. Ou
opponents, however, are intent upcr
: pursuing a course similar to that o
the Quaker in Philadelphia who con
ceived a prejudice against a certain
dog. 81 will not kill thee" remarked
; he to tile dog, shut | will give thee (
bad name,' and Straightway he raiset
Y the cry OF "mad dog" 4 couple o
squares hence, the dog was shot unde
the impression that he was mad. Tn,
desire to get rid OF the dog was yer,
good, though not very fair one. Th,
oppositian journals are constant,
: throwing out some such charges as in
competent selfish 'proAiga'e, AM
> corrupt against the Democratic off
GERS in hopes that the mass of the peo
pie will catch up the chalges in the be
lief that they are true, and aid in dis
placing them to make way Tor such re
: formers as have been in power in Phil
{ adelphia under a similar cry, and VIII
have there, within the brief space of
: year, multiplied offices, increased sala
ries and run the city in debt about
, million and a halt of dollars. Ohioan
are reputed men of sense-men who en-
deavor 10 profit by the experience o
] others, wereby they are saved much ex
pense and perplexity-and it is hardl
reasonable that they willinvite such
state of things as have been brough
about in Massachusetts,, Maine, New
York and Pennsylvania by these i'm
! macuLate Reformers. Daily Adver
tiser.
A school-boy Down East, who wa
noted among his play-tellows for hi
I, frolics with the girls, was readin
e aloud in the Old Testament, when
coming to the phrase, "making wast
, places glad,' he was asked by the ped