The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-03-02
GBe Asgtano Gaion.
ASHLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH2 1853.
The ohio state Ho-use--Isistory vindI-

ASHLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1853.
The ohio state ss1.s--History vinal-
The Times asserts that prior to 1910, the
project of a new State House was approved
equally by the Democratic and Wing parties.
The editor then adds:
Everything in reference to the building of
the State House went on smoothly and with
out exciting any party feeling until the year
1910, when an event occurred which created
hostility on the part of the Democratic party
to the State House. This event originated
from q vote of censure or. expulsion by the
democratic legislature of 1916, in the case of
a member from Cayahoga County, brought up
.for:contempt We believe. The citizens of Co.
: lumbus, not entertaining that regard for the
decision of the democratic legislature in this
matter, rendered to the member of Cuyahoga,
a supper aud other testimonials of confidence
and respect. The Democratic members of the
2 legislature feeling aggrieyed by this conduct of
the citizens of Columbus, an order to hare re-
uenge on that city and from no OTHER ~azaotiUe,
refused to pass any appropriation for carrying
on the work, and the work was suspended for
a number of years, until the Wing party had
the ascendancy in the legislature in 1874"
In the year 1910, except the laying of the
corner stone, and the construction of a board
fence around the public grounds, no expendi-
ture had been made with reference to the
erection of a new State House.
The event referred to by the Times, and
which induced the Democratic members of the
Legislature of I839l40 to adopt a joint reso-
ution contemplating a removal of the seat of
government to such town, situated near the
centre of the State, as would offer the largest
amount for the construction of a State House,
is not accurately stated by the Times. The
history of that ease is briefly tLis:
In 1880, the Wings Of Cuyahoga county
elected a member Of the House of Representa-
tives of the name of. WILLIAM B.. LLOYD.
Shortly after taking his seat, he disclosed a
character of exceedingly violent and unreason-
ing partizanship. No man or measure of prom
inence belonging to the Democratic party es-
capped his bitter and reckless assaults. Mr..
LLOYD was a. young man, and the House of
Representatives at Columbus was he Sc. APP
pearance upon the political stage. His extra
ordinary paFtizan zeal and malice, exhibited in
attacks. upon others, provoked inquiry into
his own personal history. The result of this
inquiry was, that he was arraigned at the bar
saof the House, not on. a charge of contempt"
as "believed" by the Times, but on a charge
of forgery, preferred by Mr.. NEWTON, one of
his own constituents, and a member, also, of
the Wing party. After a full and fair trial,
he was declared guilty of the charge, by a
two-thirdsvote-yeas 46, nays %. TheLLoYD
trial was the most interesting of any we ever
witnessed. GEO. B. FLOOD of Licking, one
of the most able and accomplished presiding
officers We have ever known, occupied the chair
during the trial. The accused was defended
by Judge GusTAYUs SWAN; and RUFUS P.
sSPALDING, Representative from Summit, took
thelead in the prosecution.
justice to the memory of the Wing party
of Cuyahoga county, who had not then become
abolitionized, it is properto state that the crime
of which LLOYD was found guilty, was ON
mitted between the date of his election and
the meeting of the General Assembly; and
that his Wing constituents, including Mr..
H4RRIs, then editor of the Herald, their Or
gan, virtually endorsed the finding of. the
House.
The Wing leaders of Columbus, however,
white-washed LLOYD, and s~ixty-one of them
addressed him a letter of sympathy-but not
going to the extent, as claimed by the Times,
of rendering him a supper and other testi-
monials of respect" This movement in be-
half of LLOYD, a convicted criminal, was the
signal for a series of other outrages upon the
Representatives of the people, which rendered
necessary some measure to vindicate their dig
nifty and Representative privileges against the
lawlessness that had gone to the extent of ap-
pealing from the decision of their body, acting
under the responsibilities of their official oaths,
to the lawlessness and violence of a mob. The
proposition to remove the seat of Government
proved to be the most effective riot act that
was ever read to a mob 1t commanded the
peace, restored order, and secured the Peoples
Representatives from further insult. AT the
time the movement was made, the city Of Co.
could claim no more right, on the
score of equitJ5t or justice, to the seat Of gov
eminent, than Lancaster, Delaware, Mt. Yer
non or any other town-the limit fixed in the
law establishing the Capital at Columbus hay
ing expired in 1910. 1t would have been a
good thing for the State if the policy adopted
by the Democratic Legislature of 1S39-4O had
been persevered in,-but at the following cleo
tion the Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign
drove the Democratic party into exile, and the
project of a removal of the seat of govern
ment was not renewed.
Hon. J. J. Faran.
A correspondent of the Dayton Empire
dominates this gentleman as a candidate for