Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-20
Democratic Nominations for Co
Inmbus and Montgomery Town
ship. . 4i


Iumbus and Montgomery Town
ship. +i
On Saturday night the Democrats OF this
City nominated candidates for Mayor, Mar
.shal and City Solicitor, and the Democrats
of the City and Montgomery Township
nominated candidates for Township offices
On Friday night Councilmen, Assessors,
and Members for the Board of Education in
the First, Seventh and Ninth Wards, were
pitt in nomination.
The Tickets thus made up are excellent
ones-the respective nominees being admi-
rably qualified to discharge the duties OF
the offices to which they have been nomina-
ted. In their hands the interests of the City
and Township will be well cared for,
and the honor of each upheld Wig
orously. Fortunate, in an eminent de-
gree, are the voters of this City and
Township in having presented to
them for their support Tickets so every
way worthy. We hope, therefore, that
the Democrats will not be content
with giving to them simply sort of pas
siye support. Let their support of them be
unusually active and vigorous. Let them
not be satisfied merely with making
such canvass as shall secure Tor them the
support of the entire party. More than
this should be done; voters who have hith-
.efto acted with the Administration party
should be seen, reasoned with, and, If pos
sible, be induced to vote for these tickets,
on the ground that this is the only effective
way in which they can testify their repro
baton of the unseemly exhibition OF Vice
President JOHNSON, on the occasion of his
Inauguration, and of the shortcomings of
the present Administration Legislature,
which has signalized its devotion to the ne
gro by repeating the law Withholding
the privilege of voting from all per-
sons having visible admixture of AT
rican blood, and by giving to a
Negro Major a formal reception in
the Senate-a thing they would not
give White major-and for their repre-
hensible neglect of the duties they
were sent up hither to discharge, by
their absenteeism, and by their adjournment
for days every three weeks, and for their
partisan legislation in striking out of ex-
istence the Superior Court of this county !
and creating the office of an elective clerk
for the Supreme Court at salary OF $4,000
the duties of which Office have hitherto been |
discharged by the Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the county of Franklin |
Tor about $4O0 per year. We will not do
the mass of the voters the discourtesy to |
suppose that they will give their sanction
to these things; but if they shall fail to
give to the Democratic City and Township
Tickets more than their usual majorities,
the result will be accepted as an unerring
indication that the members of the Demo-
cratic party are alone sensitive as to how
the Vice President of the United States |
Shall conduct himself, and as to how the
Legislature shall discharge the important
trust of legislation confded to them
whether for the honor and glory of the ne
gro chiefly, or whether with some show OF
impartiality for the interests of the white
people throughout the State. The issue
to be decided at the April election is not |
partisan strictly; but it is, more properly, |
whether demagoguery and negroism shall |
henceforth be the governing power in this |
country. The Democratic candidates un-
hesitatingly affirm they should not.