Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-13
s'The Partisanship Of ,he Cleveland
Herald.'s

The PaFtisanshtp of ihe Cleveland
Under this head the Toledo Commercial
Justly reprOaches the Cleveland Herald for
interfering in the Congressional discuss
ion in the Toledo district, in favor of Mr..
Waite, to which the Herald replies
aAs we have before said, we are in ia
vor of every one minding his own
business. but to a certain extent, we are
interested in the struggle which bids fair
to ruin, by dissention, the Toledo district.
The attempt to get up an ofice-holder's Re-
publican party, by signatures to docu-
ment that none but Republicans could
sign, was made in this district Our
Postmaster was an active member Of the
conclave, and tried to get circulation and
signatures to the document But his in
huence and that Of the "clique," killed
the scheme so dead that it could not peep,
and the call for that Congressional Con-
Tention never saw the light. The movers
Of like scheme in the Toledo district had
greater weight of character than the Cleve-
land wire-pullers, and the scheme for di-
vision Of the Union party carried"
As to every man minding his own
business" it is a fact that the Herald did
interfere in the Toledo discussion, by an
article strongly hostile to Mr.. Ashley, and
equally strongly in favor of Mr.. Waite.
It ridiculed and secuted the well-knOwn
fact that the President desires the re-
nomination" Of the earnest radical
men Of the present Congress; and abused
Mr.. Ashley's friends for their efforts in
his behalf, seizing the occasion to make
another attempted stab at the Representa-
tive Of our own district Why didn't the
Herald then mind its own business %
But the Heralds principal point in the
above is that a call was circulated in this
district for Republican Convention. 1t
claims that the "scheme" was killed We
can inform the Herald that the call re-
ceived thousands Of signatures throughout
the district, including some of the best
men within its limits, and that had it been
published the Convention it contemplated
would have been held in spite of the eff
forts Of the Herald and its clique. The
principles embodied in that call were those
which the people of this district, the Con-
gress and the President of the United
States hold to as their own, and princi-
pies, by the way, which the Herald dare
not repudiate, SO long as it pretends to
be Republican paper The Herald calls
it "a document which none but Republi-
cans could sign" On the contrary it 'Oas
signed by numerous and prominent war
Democrats, and constituted just such plat
form as such Democrats as Daniel S. Dick
inson, B. F. Butler, and Edwin NJ Stanton
are acting upon to-day. The fact that the
professedly Republican Herald is more con-
ser7ati7e than these Democrats does not
give it the right to act as censor over all
political documents.
We have said that that call was one ac-
septable to the people of this district. It
embraced ratification of the Confscation
and Emancipation measures, and the prOmi-
nent acts of the late session of Congress,
the extension of freedom and the restric-
ton Of slavery. But to promote entire
harmony in the district, it was deemed ad-
visable to let the call remain unissued.
That's the sum and substance Of the whole
matter.