Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-07-18
The Trumbun Democrat and its Peg
secutors.

We have on two former occasions, spo-
ken 81 the fact that the Trumbull Demo
Graf had not taken sides with either of the
two factions of the Democratic party, but
thus fl, has pursued a middle course. 1t
vas a position 50 rarely taken by a pOliti-
cal paper and its ludierous aspect was so
apparent, that We could not avoid holding
that side up to the view of u readers
Now this position, although ludicrous, Is
one which the editor of the Democrat had
An sndOpbted right = take, if he thought
4 advisable; but for 50 doing. he has been
severely, and We Thank %unjustly attacked
by som of his former political friends
Ever since the CHRONICLE came into our
hands, We have opposed the Democrat. po-
itically, to the best of our ability; have
given and taken many hard knocks with
Its editor; but We have done this simply
as a politician, controlling a paper advoea-
ting principles which We believed to be just
and true, and which we're entirely different
from these upheld by the Democrat. We
have differed with its editor as We have
differed with all other men who held diff
EreEt political opinions from ourselves, op-
posing them politically, but not personally.
Having in our personal intercourse with
Mr.. RITEzEL, always found him to be, so
eiaLg and individually, an honorable, high
minded man, when an attempt is made to
injure his business, to crush out his paper
because he is exercising his right as a free
man, in refusing to take sides with a fac
ton; put his neck in a halter; come and
60. at the bidding of others-we should con-
slider ourselves as greatly wanting in man
illness, as well as in editorial courtesy. did
VIC fail to state publicly that we think he
is in the right, and his prosecutors in the
wrong. That he is able to defend himself,
the article from his paper which We pub
fish below, amply proves; but it will do
him no harm to give it a wider circulation.
We have only to say that We hope and
believe that all the high minded eel Of the
Democratic party IN the county, viii mo-
only refuse to follow the bidding of Mr..
Tod. Int on the contrary will add to the
number Of subscribers to the Denaocrat.-
We have no particular love for the Demo
cratic party, but we say what we know, as
docs every well informed Democrat in this
county, viz: that the TraanbuH Democrat
has done more to support the party. here,
than a hundred such men as Gov. To&.
But we will let that paper speak for it
self. 1t says:
The speech of Col. David Tod, at the
Douglas ratification meeting in this place,
on SxtGSday last, contained som features
that have excited much comment among
men of all political ~persuasions in this sec
ton The speech, on Saturday. vas, Ike
all Of Mr.. Tod's efforts on the stump, large
~ devoted to detailing his own achieve
ments and great merits, and relating, for
khe hundrcth time, how solicitously he pre-
sided aEer, and carefully promoted the in
cubation of the Democratic party in this
county, in earlier days. Alth1ugl this
story has, from frequent repetitiOns, become
in a degree stale, many persons listen to it
for the sake of innocent amusement it af-
fords. But this peculiar feature Of the gen
1leman's speech was lost sight Of when lie
turned his battery on men who had been
for years among the most prominent and
consistent Democrats in Trumbull County.
0 : . .
He seems to forget that the Baltimore
Convention SO complicated the affairs of
the Pazty, that nc man could give unhesi-
tating .a9heranee to the ticket of either
wing. without first ~unrayelling their mys-
tcrics, or else "go it blind"