Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-08
WEST DEFEATED AND LAW
RENEE NOMINATED.
The Fourth Congregational District
Convention of the Zanies-The Sol
diers, Candidate slaughtered.

The Shoddy Convention of the Fourth
Congressional District of Ohio, was held at
Piqua, on Friday, August 9TH. 1t was
largely attended by Administration place
men and speeulating contractors: yet, there
was much real bitterness and angry feeling
manifested throughout its proceedings
While it pretended to be for LINcoLN's re-
election, there was evidently no heart in any
effort looking to his support, except on the
part of some of those who hold Office under
himor are repermitted to make "a good thing
out of Government contracts. And even
ofice-holders and contractors are now quite
unwilling to say anything in his defense; and
they are careful not to do ii, unless shrewd
and persevering Democrats drive them to
that course, when, for self-preservation, the
men who lick the platters of power some
times venture to put forth feeble apologies
or pal1iations for the crimes and misdeeds
of their master. ss1 .,.n
WILLIAM H. WEST, of Logan county,
made the Fourth District for his own be-
hoof-that he might CRAFTY his ambition to
go to Congress. Immediately after the ad-
journment of the Legislature of 1862 in
which he had assumed to enacta prominent
and disgraceful part, he set about the work
of scheming for the Congressional nomina-
ton ofhis party. After a. bitter contest and
a severe struggle, the empty honor was
awarded him. But the people of the Dis
trict .'eouldn't see it," and triumphantly
elected his able competitor, Hon. j. FRANK
McKINNEY, who has been to them, and is
now, faithful and efficient Representative.
Ever since his defeat by the people in
1862, WEST has been arranging and pulling
the wires to get himself renominated this
year; but the Convention last Friday re-
fused to doit Swift retribution has over
taken him for his wicked course in the
Legislature and elsewhere. First repudi-
ated by the people, and now by Conven-
tion of office-holders, contractors, and poll
ticians, of his own party, he is turned out
to subsist on the cold charities of the un-
charitable Shoddyites, whom he has himself
fostered and cherished until he has given
them some sort of influence and Importance.
He received his highest vote on the first
ballot when he had just fourteen, out of the
one hundred and forty.fve that were given
in the Convention. On the last ballot he
got but four votesi ~
WEsT's successful competitor for the
nomination is Judge LAWRENCE also of
Logan county. He too has been for long
time intriguing for it, in various ways
even going SO far as to make pilgrimages
to Columbus to get material with which to
slay poor WEST, whose defeat two years
ago he helped to accomplish. Now If WEST
wants TO return the compliment, he can
doubtless find some of the manuscript let
ters that LAWRENCE wrote home to several
newspapers in Ohio, when he was playing
Colonel to one of the three months regi-
ments, in which he puffed himself most ex-
travagantly. MCKINNEY can beat LAW
RENEE more easily than he beat WEST in
1862.
~ Col. FRIzELI, the candidate of Darke
county, who has seen hard service during
the war, and who was presented on account
of his popularity with the soldiers, was
numerically slaughtered by this Conyen-
tion, made up Of men who claim to be the
only trne friends of the gallant boys in the
armyl This shows just what Abolition
love for the soldier amounts to, and is a
clear case of practice against profession!
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