Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-07
INC Re-eIection orJudge spalding.

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Dated Cleveland, April 81, 80. : u S. Assessor.
The R-e-eIection ofJudge spaIdIng-
Great complaint is made by the friends
Of Judge Spalding because everybody
does not seem inclined to support him for
recollection, and from the tone of his de-
Tenders and the scrid spirit n which they
are accustomed to treat his opponents,
their weakness is clearly manifest. That
It is true that Mr.. Spalding is tender with
The President, and upon every possible oc-
casion, excepting strictly party divisions,
sides with him, no rational man can deny.
WHY'S this Has Judge Spalding any
axe Of his own to grind2 Would be like
the Sudge-ship of this District,
or some other equally comfortable
appointments Every indication of
his p conduct shows his absorbing
desire to stand well with the President.
The New York Tribune points expressly
70 his course in voting with the Copper
heads and againstthe bulk Of his party, in
the recent attempt to restrain the Presi-
dents abuse of power in the removal of
Union stockholders for no other offence
than devotion to the principles of their
party. What object is there in all this2
Is it to express the viii Of his constitu-
ents2 Far from it-another motive is
clearly manifest. & rs EE rs q
The people will think upon these mat
tiers, let the Herald scold and buster as
much as it will. We know that Judge
Spalding is trying to carry water on both
shoulders, and no amount of abuse from
his friends will prevent our frankly say
ing SO. 1t is equally true that a very
large proportion of our leading business
mon and valuable citizens are opposed to
Judge Spalding, and that the active wire
workers who are striving to write them
down as of no account are simply the men
whom that gentleman has put in efice,
and who are nov doing the dirty work re-
quired Of them. That Mr.. Spalding has
many friends who believe in him and have
no selfish motive in desiring his reelection
is unquestionably true. We respect them
and freely accord them the unquestioned
right to make their own choice. But every
Intelligent man IN Cleveland knolCs that but
for the eaorts Of ofice-holders and johnson
men, Judge Spalding could count on his
fingers every active friend of his in our
limits. 1t is a somewhat remarkable fact
that every Union paper in the District
endorsed Mr.. Spalding's reelection two
years ago. NotVr evsry radical paper IN
the District, English and German, is OPP
pOsed to hipb and only tioo papers, both
johnson organs, edited By postrnaSterS, are
aahis faror. Are there none but a few
men, who are aetuated by selfish motives,
opposing Mr.. Spslding2 Let these facts
answer.
The Herald whines out that Judge
Spading has been pursued with malicious
ness and personal abuse, such as has never
before been known. We deny the charge.
No article that we have seen has attacked
Mr.. Spalding in any name except fairly
and leg;timately. No attack has been
made upon his personal character or his
personal habits, "moral or political"
Only his official acts have been, as they |
should be in a free country, calledin ques-
tior. The Herald seems TO have forgotten
the malignant, vulgar, monstrous person
al abuse which it heaped upon NJ. Riddle, |
and all because he did not fsyor Mr.. Ben
odict for the p~ostofioe. But then it was
for the ReoT{ds interest IL defeat Mr..
Riddle, as it is now for its interest to
elect Mr.. Spalding. True to its instincts,
follows the " bread and butter policy, |
always.
We know that the most strenuous
efforts have been and are being made,
both by Judge Spalding and his friends,
to manufacture a public sentiment in his
favor. Nearly every clerk or time-serYer
to whom that gentleman has given a petty
place in Washington has been employed
to write adalstory letters about his posi-
ton, influence and standing. We have
published these letters and so has the
Herald, and nearly every letter that has
been written about him and his acts comes
from these trihing sources. They are dig
nifed by appearing in print, and the pub
lie goodnsturedly suppose them TO be
honest tributes to personal and public
worth. We suppose that within the last
four months tons of public documents
have been sent to this district to
show the "wstchful csre-of our rer-
r~esentstive and scarcely a prominent
in the three counties hiss
his Argus eye. But notwith-
standing all this effort it is very manifest
that Judge Spalding should not he semitic
Congress for a third term. His days of
usefulness there are over. He
already passed the when most
men willingly retire from active labor.
And while we desire 70 say no harsh or
unpleasant thing about him, unless COM
PEELED 70 do so by the mistaken zeal of his
weshsn certainly advise the rad
cal Union naen of the Eighteenth Dis
.rict that it is infinitely better in every {
'ense of the word that Judge Spalding
5hOuld not be reelected to Congress. l
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General J. W. Comfy. 7 -,
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