Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-20
Judge spaIding and His Friends.

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We have questioned Judge Spalding's
policy but We have done it fairly. We
challenge his friends to point out one
word of ours which ought TO offend him
or them. They have attempted no such
thing, and yet they keep up Il continual
whine, as if their defense of their favor
lite was reduced to a spiteful effort to get
up a sympathy for him as an abused man.
Look at it. Judge Spalding has held his
office two terms. He comes forward
ianked by his hangers-on and asks for p
denomination. We have a right to prefer
another. We do prefer another. We
say SO, but without one word that does
not respect the personal character and
feelings of the applicant. Instantly we
perceive that We AVE hit the nest. Such
a buzzing Such piteous complainings !
Not only have we preferred another to
Judge Spalding, but, repudiating the
course Of the Beacon, We have permitted
the people to make their own complaints
in the Journal against the official conduct
of their representative. They, toe, have
limited their structures to the official acts
of him and his adherents. What, then,
is the ground for all this piteous whining
Are these charges against US which are
unsupported by wen a quoted line, and
are without the semblance of truth, to de-
eide this case before the people of Sum
NIT Dare these advocates of Judge
Spalding leave this low trick of drawing
down pity on him, and stand forth like
men and look the facts square in the
face Will they answer US how it hap
pens that out Of five newspapers publish
ed in this Congressional District, three Of
which are radical and two Johnsonian,
the three are for Mr.. Parsons and the
two for Judge Spslding2 Are the papers
which support Johnson's policy, and they
alone, conducted with integrity ? Does
1t answer to insinuate with a little of evil
deuce that papers are brought up by Mr..
Parsons? Are people to be governed by
i~nsinuations merely
Willthey answer us now it happens that
the New York Times, a paper most ser
vile TO President johnson and his policy, |
has come out advocating Judge Spaldings
renOmination2 viii thev inform the
readers of the Beacon that the New York
Times is under the management of Henry
J. Raymond, one of that little handful Of
Congressman who first voted for the
Freedman's Bureau bill and then voted
it to sustain Johns0n's veto2
that his doctrine by his paper, is
that Representatives of the rebel States
to be Immediately admitted into
Congress?
Think of it. A majority of the repre-
'entatives elect were among the foremost
through the war. Their hands have
hardly yet lost the stain of our brothers
They still a with ven
,eance against all loyal men. Mr.. Ray
nond insists that they should come in,
lot only in full numbers as they did be-
ore they butchered our brothers, but in
numbers, proportional now to
he whole number of people, white and
though before it was eurtailed BY
wO-ifths of the colored people.
Why, answer it, We injured ~innocents.
so about with such plaintive grieving,
does this Henry j. Raymond pour
he eloquence of his voice and his press in
ehalf of Judge Spalding2 Where is
he secret affinity between the representa-
ives of this radical 18th District and the
awning iatterero of a apostste President?
Where is the secret affinity between
Judge Spalding and the spirit that echoes
New York Times from the Cleveland
and the Akron Beacon. {
And what is the secret repulsion be- :
ween Judge Spalding and every radical /,
aper in his DISTRICT Do the radical pa l
ers misrepresent the radical feelinS2 Do 1
ne J~ohnsonian papers misrepreseh the /
o%hnsonisn feeling How comes it to
ass that the dear bosom friends and cor /
sspondents of Judge Spalding here are of g
lat confidential clique which cenHss in I
lie Beacon office and which petitioned f
lie government TO keep the postofice a q
art of that centre TO the exclusion of a
soldier? d