Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-14

in this city, and of the rude and outrageous
manner In which distinguished Democrats
had been treated there. In that statement
we casually mentioned the fact that the
Chairman Of the Abolition committee was
allowed to remain there while the Demo-
Gratis were excluded. Mr.. Janney has a
powerful weakness for notoriety, and this
mention of him afforded him an op-
portunity to get his name in print. He
therefore rushed to us with long winded
defense of "Me and Major Skiles," against
what he terms misrepresentation" but
which he finally shows was no "msrepre-
sentation" whatever. We give his COM
munication below, taking the liberty to
italicise It's manifest incongruities.
To the Editors Of The 0Aio Statesman:
In your reference in this mornings SrA ArEsMANto
the election hold at Tod Barracks yesterday you re-
misrepresent eitherME or Major Skiles,I trust you
will publish this, note in, to.morrow mornings
SrATEsaAN thst the eSrrection NAY i0iiow tne 'S
fho facts are simply IS fclews: On Friday last! in
conversation with Major Skilss relative to the cleo
ton, no expressed desire that all the men there
entitled TO vote should have fair chance to do so
and said that inasmuch as it was more than proba-
bic that no could be found shsrs who
judge or clerk and they were. perhaps, all unac-
qusinted with the law he would be sery gIad II T.
or some one else familiar with both acolld come up
there and oiue them some dssistGnce. In accord-
with this invitation, ,cent % tie Bdtracks yes
terday morning and sfaid there aH day. But having
read order or circular from the War Department,
stating that while all possible facilities would be
oxtsnded in aiding soldiers in the service to vote
Se% Won sRs
presumed he would feel called upon to follow that
circular, and therefore concluded that would not
20 inside Of the Barracks at all, and Idid n0tdo
90. did not speak to any man, officer, or private.
rs to how he would or ought to vote and did not
give ticket to map except in three Or four cases;
when men came TO the door and asked for ticket
for particular county; and no one attached to the
Barracks was present TO hand it to him. did So It
snrs s'Es had Seen spread out on
table, arranged by counties, for conyenience; but
they were not under my care and on The same table,
alongside Of the Union tickets the Democratic"
tickets sent to the Barracks laid all day. did not
go there to distribute tickets, and did not do it. |
went as requested, and did what went for: AMI
animation Of the poll books. (Which saw him
make,, that they werc properly.opened and kept
n.S s sseS 'Ss sd, 'y
this county, failed TO do so believe 1t was because
he did not try TO get one
selves, that Mr. BIZ Bingham iSi AN and Mr. Cox were both
prohibited from electioneeino among the soldiers in
the Barracks; the latter having gone in, after ho
confident that had they done nothing more than !
did, they would not have been ordered out, but
would have been treated as politely as was. When
anewspaper. which had been doing for an hour,
and continued to do for two hours after he left
were voted. There were twenty one such tickets
voted for this county. only fifteen Of which contain
ed MIR: Cox's name.
against eectioneering to include every person, in
cluding his own officers, and SO they understood it,
nG nG S q had 1ot SSsf done the
Columbus, Oct. u. 1854. ts
Now we submit that the above is a pre-
cious specimen of despicable pettifogging,
and low, transparent and impudcnt sophis-
try-unworthy of a shyster. The sancti-
monious Jahney starts out by asserting that
we misrepresenteu Tine and Major Skiles."
Now, we only said that Mr.. Janney was at
the Barracks. He says the same thing him
self; therefore there was no misrepresenta-
ton Of him, and his correction of ''misrep-
resentation" is simply a petty dodge to get
himself noticed, and endeavor to break the
force of the damaging disclosure we made.
His testimony, however, is valuable, as it
completely establishes and substantiates all
the charges we made. Major Skiles renders
but poor defense for himself by putting
Mr.. Janney forward as witness, who con-
fesses that he was invited to be present at
the Barracks by the Major, and who was
there when the Major told Mr.. Bingham
that If "Janney was found there he would
also be excluded" Mr.. Janney charges
Major Skies with something worse than we
accused him of. Mr.. j. asserts that there
were Democratic tickets on the table. This
assertion is simply gratuitous; there were
none there until Mr.. Bingham and Mr.. Cox
left them there. What became of them af-
ter these gentlemen were excluded is SIM
ply matter of conjecture.
Mr.. Janney says that he was notelection-
eering, and therefore was not affected by
the rule applied to Messrs. Bingham and
Cox; intimating that the latter were cleo
tioneering. This is misrepresentation
Mr.. Bingham electioneered no more than
Janney. He uttered no word on politics,
and only handed tickets to soldiers who
asked for them, and nothing more. Mr..
Janney confesses that he did the same
thing. How does it come then that the
rule did not apply to him? Because Mr..
Jannoy handed Abolition tickets to SOL
diers who asked for them, while Mr.. Bing-
ham handed Democratic tickets to those
who asked fol, Democratic tickets, This is
the offence of Mr.. Bingham, and therein
lies the outrage of which the Democracy
complain, and against which, some time or
another, they will cease to protest.
Mr.. Januey certifies that the election was
properly conducted" and he knows, for
he was there all day--except during
the brief time required for him to inform
Major Skiles of Mr.. Bingham's presence,
and secure the latter's election. The peo-
pie of this city will understand exactly
what significance attaches to Mr.. Janney's
assertion that the election was ''properly
conducted" 1t was SO properly conducted
that an officer was stationed at the door of
the room containing the tickets, and be-
fore . soldier could vote he was compelled
to ask this officer for q ticket, and this prop
er officer invariably gave the applicant an
Abolition ticket leaving the voter no
choice. Itwas SO properly conducted that
II soldier attempted to vote Democratic
ticket he was bullied, threatened and abus-
ed by the judges Of the election. 4Very
nronerlv cOnducted this eIection xvoe 4 M