Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-30
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From the Ohio Democrat
TO The Democrats Of 1he 10th Con
~ H'' eressfOnaI District. '"O "'t''

for him. | have been announced as a can
ddate for Congress, without any act of my
own. and shall therefore make no apology
for appearing before the citizens OF the 10th
District, nor for going back and bringing
up some of the Femii sGenses of apoliucal
life Of twenty-six years, .,,.ar.,.,i-,.o.j
When commenced the publication of
the Ohio Denocrdt in Tuscarawas county in
the year 1885, the Democratic party had
been uninterruptedly in power for the r
! third OF a century,. with one interregnum
of four Years. Jefferson had gone to his
tomb but his principles permeated every
department of the Government, jackson,
was still living, and his, name was the
shibboleth before which all opposition had
quaied. Sflas Wright, Thomas Fl. Benton,
William Allen, and ahoSt of giant intellects,
were inthe Councils of the Nation. We
had then. but twenty-six States to the
Union. The great States Of iowa, Texas,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Oregon were tln-
born. y Kansas and Nebraska were scarcely
known to the Indians, and the white man
! had sown no dragonteeth there to sprout
! and disturb the. Union of the fathers.
| There were fifty-two Senators and two
hundred and forty-twO members of the
| House.. Ohio was represented in the Sem
| ate aud House by such Old-fashiQned men
as Benjamin Tappin, William Allen, Doc
| tor Duncan, John B. Weller, Patrick Goode,
Thomas Corwin, William Doane, Calvary
Morris, William X Bond, Joseph Ridg-
way. William Medill, Samson Mason, Isaac
| Parrish, Jonathan Taylor, Daniel p.
| Leadbetter, George Sweehy, John w. AL
len, Joshua II. Giddings, John Hastings,
David A. Starkweather and Henry Swear
| ingen. There were but few loDg-haired
| agitators or crack Drained fanatics sent to
] Congress in those days, and no sentimental
| amendments were made to the Constitutions
| Greenbacks had not been invented; gold
/ eagles were all the style. Apound of SUI
! gar cost six cents; yard of muslin ten
! cents and the whole rig Of family could
4 beihad without selling a farm to pay for it.
Odious stamp duties and income taxes
were unknown, and U. 5. Collectors ana
! Assessors OF Internal Revenue did not
scowl amOUg the people. There were no
| General Government taxes, and State and
county taxes were but a song-not more
than it now costs to keep a man in tobacco.
These were Democratic times, aud de-
monstrated that Democratic rule had work
ed well for the people. But away back in
Jackson's day there had been great fight
about United States Bank, and although
he had broken the monsters back, it lived
under State charter, and kept up war
with Democratic government during Van
Buren's time, and brought on the celebrat-
ed "hard times''of those days, by expanding
the paper currency, inducing wild specu-
lation, and then contracting The currency,
inducing panies and failures everywhere.
All this was charged against Van Bu-
Iren, coupled with INDUSTRIOUS stories about
Ihim eating out of gold spoons sleeping on
lgeld sofas, ETC., so that when Gen. Harrl-
lsOn was brought out against him, the early
life of Harrison was put in contrast, and
the novelty of log cabins, hard cider and
corn dodgers carried the day. 3d sI ygr0..
1t was in this memorable campaign of
1910 that first came i'll contact with the
present Representative in Congress, Hon.
John A. Bingham. In those times politi-
clans had to go on horseback and carry
their Documents in the old saddlebagS,
and the speakers of both parties met at
agreed places and discussed, before the
people, the living issues Of the day, as they
did of old inancient Rome. SiI JG 100 lHt,
| Mr.. Bingham entered himselfas a Tro-
Jan horse at one of these primeval discus
sions in Tuscarawas county on the 9Th OF
June, 1910, and claimed to be one OF the
old jackson men--always opposed to .
United States Bank. John NJ. Lacy, who
was in the crowd, got up and said he knew
Bingham from boyhood, and that he Ching
hafn) had circulated coffin hand-hills
Z |
Cadiz. This he denied, but it took the
starch out of the orators collar, and he
subsidized on the jackson" question:, and
wentoiu again on the gold spoons story,
standing army, &c.ul gave him the first
newspaper notice he ever had, in the DEM
ocrdt, at the time, and closed with the re-
mark:-''A more complete specimen of ar
rogance and impudence, probably could not
be found, than Mr. Bingham, Ii blowing,
brazen assertions, inyocations, and hyper
bole can elect Harrison, then he needs no
other -puffer. Among most of. the Wing
speakers we find little honor-ab0ut him
there is none. 1t appears to us that he
imagires the people of this county to be
Doors, and that he can cram any and every
thing down ''their thrOats that he utters."
IN Mr.; Bingham has been well paid tor his
blowing speeches by a ten years seat In
Congress since that period; but Esubmit il
his whole political career has not verified
what J. said of him twenty-siXr years ago,
that he was only blow, always telling
hob-goblin stories, and fooling the public
with lack o. lanterns % AS he is agreed
upon for the next Republican, Congress
man, L will cite a few INSTANCES showing
his procliyity to lead his followers into lnltoo
false positions. ~ '-
Q Tn 1871 asecond us. Bank was charter
ed, butvetoed byJohn Tyler as unconsti-
tutional,, q Mr.. Bingham took the stump,
and denounced Tyler for doing just what
Jackson had done. In this Bingham in
duced many to believe it was all right to
have alU. S, Bank, when the fact, was the
bank was chartered In violation of the Con-
stitution, and the Courts had so decidedft.
Here he placed his followers in a false po-1
sition, ,vl-Ig lsIJ B ssDT2G aghi1d r. sBW
snIn,ls42 an attempt.at secession, was made
by forty-one members of, the Ohio, Legis-
lature. A bin to apportion the State-a
bill to pay the public ereditorsl@a biltIto
paw, the iaborers on the public works "a
billto appraise property seizsd on, execllE-
ton, and others of importance, were all
> pending, when twenty -eight members hoi
the House and thirteen Senators suddenly
LEFT their seats aud Eherebyi deprived sb9ta
} branches of q quorum. Speakers warrants
we're issued for their forcible RETURN. but
II thev refused, and thus Che wheels of che
IfS6afg Government stopped, and Legislation
WAS Iat an ends The Governor jwaspealled
Lon for aid to putgdoWn the rebellion, but he
!, answered that he could not Interfere, and
H All the members went TO their homes An
!. Eihstie was taken to the1peOple. L JiBing,
/ than justified the secession y'en the stump
? and induced many to believe it was right
Z and thus got them into d falser position
: against the Government. sDn28li
: opposed this secession movement at ehat
3 eaI1S tIav. and called I9n Itheipeoplel tOTre.
J hike II. al did every Democratic press. II
) was rebukea by e6espeople eIecting Wilson
! hshannon Governof, and q elmajogity of DEM
eocrats to the gislat9Ee, y and then, all tbs
bills that these f0rty-one members endeav.
y ored tb defeat by breaking up legislation