The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-05
Union Soldiers Cast Aside!
Present Incumbents Repudiated!
Indignant Republicans Swear the
Convention was Packed!
FUnT -AHMADl

The Republican Convention which met
at Huston Hall on Saturday evening. to
nominate candidates for the city officers.
was decidedly rich affair. Henry l..
Brown, Esq. presided, and the active and
always-on-hand Winchcll, was appointed
Secretary. The two great lights and lea
ders of the "lattcr-day saints" of the late
Union party''-Bain and Hoole-wcre
there also. SO were the bitter-end Bick-
ham men. and slight sprinkling of the
! fag ends OF the temperance and anti-tem-
perance parties.
All Of the present city officers, with the
exception of Marshal Hale and s. Rode
baugh were thrown overheard, and Hoole
succeeded in forcing his brother country
man, of the johnny Bull family, on the Con-
vention as its candidate for Mayor.
There were but two candidates for Mar
shal--lsaac Hale and William Hannah. The
vote stood seventy for the former and ten
for the latter. There was great rejoicing in
tue Convention among the dominant wing
OF the party over the defeat of Hannah.
There were four aspirants for the nomlna-
ton for Constable-Ross and Steele, the
present incumbcnts, and Sage and Valen-
tine. The two latter were nominated by
very decided majorlties
Three candidates were before the con-
Vention for the Office OF City Inflrmary
Dlrector-Sneyely. the present incumbent,
DIR. Shriver and Richard Lane. The latter
got the nomination by small majority.
). Rodebaugh and Moses b. Simpson were
the candidates for Wood Measurer. Rode
baugh got the nomination by four majority.
We omitted to mention that Major Pat
rick O'COnnell, who rendered four years
service in the late war, and was reputed to
be gallant officer and brave soldier. re-
ceivcd but fifteen votes out Of the eighty
nine cast for Mayor. But Pat. ought to
know that he belongs TO prescribed race,
and that his native Emerald Isle" is under
the heel of British tyranny, with the ha-
deds corpus suspended; and it was but fit
ting that convention managed and con-
trollcd by former subjects of her Majesty
the Queen and her predecessors, should re-
buke his temerity for offering himself at
all.
The other prescribed gentlemen--Messrs
Ellis, Hannah and Stcele-all of whom had
served faithfully and well in the army, can
now see how much love the ''Union' party
entertain for them, when they are no longer
available"
The ticket nominated on Saturday night
is very weak one. and docs not command
the respect or represent the sentiments of
the late so-callcd Union" party. Many of
the members of that party this morning de-
clare that it was forced upon them by a
packed convention which is no doubt true. !
This is matter, however, which they must
settle among themselves. 1t is not ''our
funeral"
With proper efforts on the part of the /,
democracy, and good, reliable men in the |
field for city Offices the popular sentiment of
Dayton can be placed in harmony with the !
restoration policy of President johnson,
and the city again placed under the guardi-
anship of men who venerate the constitu-
tion of their country, and who will admin
ister the laws in a spirit of fairness aud
justice. (