The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01
Political Signs of the Times
Chase to be Overwhelmingly
Defeated.

Political Signs of the Times
Chase to be Overwhelmingly
Defeated.
The responses of the press through
out Ohio leave no doubt upon our mind
that the rabid Abolitionist and disuuion-
list Chase will be badly beaten for Gov
elnor at the next election. The follow
ing calculations of Chase's strength,
which we take from the Cincinnati Times,
the leading organ ofthe KNOWN othings
in the West, will prove TO be correct
The Times says:
Mr.. Chase has but one body of vo-
tiers in the State upon whom he can con-
fdently rely-tbe Abolitionists-who
do not number more than from twenty
to thirty thousand. ALI the support be-
You'd this must come from one other
source only from old-line Wings, fossil
politicians who never forget anything and
never learn anything, whose impulses
arise solely from their chronic anti-Dem-
~oeratic feeling, without reference to any
other consideration whatever.
"The great body of the American par
ty cannot and will not vote for Mr..
Chase. for he is opposed to the p%rinci-
pies and policy of the American Demo-
cratic party, which, exclusive of Adolf
t%ionists and old Wings, who have crept
into it for sinister purposes, numbers at
least one hundred thousandieyoters in
Ohio. This great body is not recog-
nizcd in. the platform of the Thirteenth
of July Convention and more, wa S
grossly insulted and stigmatized by Gid
dings, the right-hand man of Chase. The
liberal Wigs will not vote for Chase,
because he sold himself to the Democra-
cy for the United States SenatorshiP.-
The Democracy will not vote for Chase,
for, though they loved the treason, they
dislike the traitor. There are nobe to
vote for Mr.. Chase tfen, but. those
thirty thousand Abolition SITS, and say
thirty thousand fossil Wings. The.
woolly-headed candidate will, therefore,
fall short fifty to eighty thousand votes
of reaching the Gubernatorial chair. If
any politician can mako a fairer aud
fuller analysis of the vote of Ohio than
this, and apportion it differently, we
would like to see it done" r
Tho Gallipolis Journal, a staunch
Wing K. N. organ, thus .rcpudiates the
nomination of Chase. 1t says:
{" Astonishing as it may be to the
right-thinking, honorable voters Of Ohio,
this Convention, in the face of the griev-
ances by the people from excessive tax
alton, misrule and misgoverment in eve
ry shape, past and present, waived every
consideration for that of the welfare of
the negro, and nominated Salmon P.
Chase, a red-hot, rcd-mouthed 1oeofoeo
Abolition disunionist, for Governor of
Ohio, and it now remains to be seen
whether the citizens of Ohio will dis
grace themselves in the support of this
ticket with Chase at the head. We
have not the first particle of confidence
in the man, and his cause will only rivet
the chains of the negro tighter,
"He received the nomination by a
clear majority of forty on the FIRST bal
lot.
"The following is the ticket nomina-
ted by this Convention it may suit
of the hot-headed Abolitionists,
but for US to support the ticket, as it
is morally impossible. We are
no Abolition disunionist, and no sympa-
thy with that class, 1es