Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-29
w. p. Cutler Nominated.


which met at Marietta on Tuesday last,
nominated Hon. William p. Cutler, Of
Washington county, as the candidate of
the Union men of this District for Con-
gress. This is nomination EN- nently
itSaud proper, and one that We can m
dorse without mental reservation
Mr.. Cutler is member of the present
Congress, in which are few men of
sounder heads, aud none of purer hearts
His nomination will be hailed by the
true men Of the nation, as the nomina
ton of no other man in the District
would have been. The people of the
District owe it to themselves and their
country to make his election sure. His
defeat would be subject of greater re-
joieipg in the regions of rebeldom, than
would the defeat of one of our Armies
in the field. We have not heard what
other candidates, if any, were before the
Convention, nor the vote by which Mr..
Cutler was nominated. We will have
the proceedings before our next issue.
Insthe meantime let every true friend
of the country-resolve to do his whole
duty, to secure to the councils of the
Nation, the services of one SO eminently
fitted by his talents, experience, high
moral character, answering advocacy
of the right, aud patriotic devotion to
the Constitution, the Union, and the
suppression of the rebellion
We are profoundly thankful to the
Convention for giving US candidate
that we can support without misgivings
us to his course when elected-one who,
if elected, will not feel that he owes his
position to the floating vote of few
men, who, having no earnest convictions
Of their own, usually contrive to foist
upon the people candidates of a like
character, and thus virtually compel
them, as a ''choice of evils" to elect
men who are liable to fail them in the
hour of trial. The eternal worship of
--expediency," by which is meant, the
selection Of candidates without positive
character or fixed principles, simply to
catch the votes of few soulless neu-
trnls, and secure a triumph, has been
ssre bane of our politics.
I'd
When a true man has been named,
the cry has been, 's0h! you can't elect
Am! He is just the man the codntry
needs, but Tom, Dick and Harry won't
vote for him! We must take some body
that they will vote forl 1t won't do to
he defeated We must sacrifice him for
the sake of successl We must nominate
John Doe! True, he has never been
heartily with us-would, in eact, be
against us, if he could make it pay
hut Tom & Co. will vote for him!''-
Aad SO John Doe gets the nomination.
Now, who does John Doe represent?
Not the mass of those who voted for
him, but the "foats" for whose sake he
was nominated. Have the people any
right to be mortified, indignant, and
feel themselves betrayed, when John
Doe sheers off and votes with their op-
ponents, and misrepresents the views of
ninety mine hundredths of those that
elected him? No! The object and aim
of John Does life is to get Office. To
get Office he has found it profitable to
"trim. But he could not have been
nominated but for the hope of catching
the votes of Tom & Co. And he must
SO shape his course as to please Messrs
Tom 4 Co., or he can't be re-pominated.
80 John Doe steps into the ranks of
ably sure that his chances are good for
another term! Now don't whine about
being betrayed by the Hon. John Doe.
There was NO betrayal in the case
John Doe "went in" to win. He did
win. And just as long as he can win
by playing the same game, he will do
so, of course. You betrayed your prin-
eiples and partly your country, by vo-
ting for him. He had no principles to
betray, and therefore, he betrayed none
His principles are to get and retain
Office. These he will not betray. Ten
thousand times better be defeated on N
honest issue of principles with an hon
est man, honestly representing them,
than to succeed in putting a doughface
into Congress, to misrepresent your
honest convictions when he gets there,
because he finds it to his personal ad-
vantage to do so.
With Hon. w. P. Cutler as our can
didate, success will be the end of doubt,
and no true man will fear either be-
trayal of his principles or his country.
And with him defeat will not be loss
Of self respect.
Again we thank the Convention for
giving us candidate in whom we can
trust under every temptation. We
place his name in its proper place as the
Union Candidate for Congress in the
Fifteenth Congressional District.
Fulfilling our Duties to the
SOI1fh