The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-03-23
GBe AsBIanb Nnion.
ASHLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1858.
The spring Election-Duties OF the De-
Observation-Disclosures of the enemy.

The Spring Eiection.Duties of the De-
mocracyemoyements of the enemy.
We are glad to learn that the friends of the
Democratic cause in jackson, Milton, and sew
eral other Townships are organizing for the
April-elections This is right, as the result of
the Spring elections will have a very important
influence upon the great contest next fall. So
far as relates to the State and County, the
elections of October will be of unusual impor-
tance. In connection with Richland, our
county has a. Senator to elect, and Ashland
county alone, for the first time since the adop-
ton of the present Constitution, will be emit
tied to two members in the next louise of Rep
resentatives. A State Board of Equalization
viii also be elected in October next, and Rich
land and Ashland, forming the 10Th District,
will elect one of these members There will
also be a Governor, Lieut.. Governor, Auditor,
Treasurer and Secretary of State, Supreme
Judge and member of the Board of Public
Works. Added to all these, will be several
county officers to be chosen, which, altogether,
will form a ticket equal to any in its influence,
for good or evil, upon the future of our noble
State, to any which has been before the People
since. the adoption of the present Constitution.
The publisher of the Ashland Times, and
the leaders of the Republican party, compre-
hending fully the importanceof these interests,
and the infuenceof the press upon their de-
ter;, %ination, have recently engaged in a sys-
tematic and extraordinary effort to increase the
circulation; and consequently the influence, of
that journal. We will not ~critieise the means
r~esorted to, although we do not regard those
means as altogether proper, and would not feel
ourselves justified in resorting to them even
under the law of retaliation. But letters and
other advices received from friends in Green,
Hanover, and other Townships show that the
efforts to crowd the Times upon every Repub-
lican voter, and upon every wagering politi-
clan are most persevering and systematic.
Now we desire, openly and frankly and
without r~esorting to any clandestine means, to
appeal to our Democratic friends throughout
theseyeral townships, to make an organized eff
fort, on the day Of the April election, to coun-
fetact these schemes of the Republican leaders,
by extending the circulation of the Ashland
Union. Let the antidote go with the bane.
There are scores of Democrats, abundantly
able to pay for it, who are not subscribers to the
Jnion. Let the Democrats of each Town
ship, when they go to The polls on the first
Monday of April, make it their duty to elect
their most efficient nan an especial serjeant-at-
arms, whose duty it shall be to bring on to our
books al the responsible aJsentees. Such an
effort, efficiently made, will do more to advance
the interests of the Democratic cause in the
county, by counteracting the schemes of our
opponents, than weeks of labor employed at
any other time or in any other way. We shall
be glad to make a public acknowledgment f0r
any service thus rendered to the party, and to
US, personally.