The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-10-06

| OF the county treasury These gentle
men spend much Of their time in deter
mining what portion. Of their own mum
Der shall succeed to The various Offices
Of the county. When this is settled. Il
then becomes their business to operat,
upon prominent Democrats ia the diff
terent townships, and well do they know
how, when, and on whom to exercis,
their smiles, their bows and studieC
afobility.
The editors Of the CARTE disclaim al
knowledge Of the "Court House Clique. 3
and it may be that they speak truly. L
is not improbable that I have eiver
them credit for discernment that they
do not possess, but this much I viii
venture, that I can produce fifty men in
Hillsboro alone, to say nothing of tho
remainder Of the county,who have been
| possessed Of knowledge 0n this subject
which has utterly escaped the observa
ton OF the watchmen on The tower-thC
sagacious editors of the aorgan."
The Gazette asks: "Dh not a majo
rjg of the Convention nominate Mr.
BAsKIN2 Then if you arc ia favor Of O
majority ruling, why did you not sub
init to the majority as expressed in the
Convention, before which you presented
your claims?' Simply, / reply, because
it was not fair expression, as claimed
by the Gazette. 1t was an expression
coerced, or produced by the influence
OF demagogues in Iillsborough-thC
'clique" that rules the Democratic party
Of Highland,
But 1 am not at all surprised, inas.
much as the editors plead ignorance Of
the existence of the cliqne, that they
should be misledi into the belief that the
late Convention was uninaueuced byit,
in respect to myself Ignorance, in this
country, is happily no crime, though il
almost hourly makes itself ridiculous,
when it incautiously assumes the posi-
ton Of instructor.
In the further disclosure of its igno-
rance, the Gazette goes back two years
to prove that / was, even then, far from
being the choice of the Democracy Of
this county. To this evidence Of want
Of knowledge Of the doings Of the Dem-
ocratic party under the ruling Of the
"clique," L have only to say that none
Of the present editors had then any con-
nection as such with the "organ," and
some Of them being in the ranks Of 9th
er parties, it is pardonablo, though
cannot say as much for the stupidity
which has disclosed it at this carly day.
Itwas notorious throughout the coun.
ty why did not receive the nomination
on the occasion referred to by the Ga
.ette, two years.ago. As in my case at
the late Convention, a majority Of the
delegates representing the townships,
came up determined to vote for my nom
ination, but fell under the eager and
ever watchful power Of tho central
clique, who denounced me as a Know
Nothing, and it is doubtless remembered
by many, that when my name was pre-
sentod, many delegates we're heard to
echo the malicious sentiments Of the
"clique" and announce in the presence
Of all, that no Democrat who had been
in a Know Nothing council, should
have an Office in the Democratic party,
till he had served faithfully for twenty
one years. Now this was the secret Of
Mr. Baskiu's popularity on that occa-
sion, which the "Organ" so zealOusly,
but unfairly heralds.
Such treatment by my old political
friends, l confess, exasperated me not
a little, in which l am proud to rec
ollect not a few old and unhinchiug
Democrats, in all parts of the county,
warmly sympathized. l was then urg-
ed by scores Of my Democratic friends
to become an Independent candidate
and certainly should have done so,
had not the secret influence of the
clique been actually put in operation
on many who, at FIRST, favored that
course. Cancellations we're offered,
pledges given, and apologies profusely
made, until my friends of the party
were induced to believe that my sin
Of Know NOthingism should not again
be brought up in judgment against me,
and that in two years I should have
the nomination. With this under.
standing, and for this purpose I as
scrt that a majority of the delegates
to the late Convention, came to Hills
boro, only to be again imposed upon
and deceived by the bad faith and
malice of the same base and
intriguing caucus. ! should not have
REQUIRED to this but for the want of
knowledge exhibited by the tyros who
edit the "organ," and assume to en-
Tighten the public with the information
that l not only have no popularity in
my native county now, but never had,
and that l falsely attribute that to a
"clique' which is inherent to myself
I know there arc those who in the abb
sence Of statements in contradiction
believe all they fud in the "organ' and
consequently are skoptical as to the ex-
istence in the county seat Of old High
land, Of a set Of political cut-throats
and blood-suckers, whose trade is Office
for the money, and low, dirty triokery
to secure the place. Their rottenness
will some day, and that perhaps before
the close Of the next year, be fully dis
closed, and then tho honest men of all
parties will unite in hurling them from
their exercise Of usurpod rights.
These extraordinarily well-informcd
who have undertaken to en-
gineor that wonderful machine which
they call the "organ," announce to the
world that I will not get thirty Demo
cratic votes in the county, and, on their
own rnannnaihiIiLu LLnan nLL MI L....