Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-28
POLITICAL.
OHIO.

SLAbs
Colonel Poorman, of the st. Clairsville
Chronicle, formerly of the 98th Ohio, is a
candidate for Congress in the 10th Ohio
District.
A citizen of Guernsey county named
j. U. Keister, announces himself for Office
in the Guernsey Times, as follows:
aMessrs. Editors :-Having an inordi-
nate desire for Office, you will please an
nounce my name for Probate Judge, Au-
ditor, Sheriff and Poor House Director.
1 think 1 can bs elected provided 1 get
votes enough
Vallandigham is organizing a Buckeye
johnson club in Washington. The fol-
lowing is published in the columns of a
Washington daily:
OHIO DEMOCRATIC CLUB.-All Ohio Demo-
Gratis now in Washington, are requested TO
meet at room No. 202, Metropolitan Hotel,
on Tuesday evening, July 24th, TO form an
Chic Democratic Club to aid the Democra-
cy of Ohio in the present campaign.
No. 2o2 is Vallandigham's room!
GENERAL.
Hon. William d. Kelley, in a letter TO
j. M. Willis Geist, of the Lancaster Err
press, declines being a candidate for the
United States Senate, and declares him
self favorable to the election of Thaddeus
Stevens to that position.
An expression in Thad. Stevens late
letter concerning the Senatorship having
been interpreted as are1ection on Colonel
Forney, the former has written the fol-
lowing correction:
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1866.
DEAR SR:-I see your Copperhead papers
suppose that some remarks in my letter had
reference 10 Colonel Forney. This is a
mistake. l know of no act of his in refer
cnee to that Office which was improper I'M
der the circumstances. There is no man in
whose hands I would more willingly trust
the cause of human freedom.
THADDEUs STEVENS.
j. M. GEIsT, ESQ., Editor.
In the goth Congressional district of
Pennsylvania at the meeting of the Union
Conferees for the four counties of the dis
arict, the Crawford county contested cleo
tion case was settled by the admission of
the Finney delegation. The first ballot
for Congressman resulted; Crawford, Fin
ney 3 ; Mercer, McAdam 81 Venango,
McCalmont 3; Clarion, Myers 3. On the
hundred and tenth ballot, the vote stood
Finney 6, MeAdam 6. As yet there is
no choice.
In the 2lst Pennsylvania district, Hon.
John Covode has been made the Union
nominee for Congress.
The Louisville ToLksbLaa names the
late Attorney General Speed to replace
Rousseau in Congress.
A new Republican paper, I'm der the
auspices of Defrees, NJ. c., is about to be
established at Goshen, Indiana.
A meeting of Democrats was held in
st. Paul, Minnesota, on the evening of
July I9, to make arrangements to send a
delegation to the Philadelphia Conven-
ton. 1t was decided to call a Mass Con
vention.
George Washington Rogers, removed
from the Meridien CONN Post-Ofice at
the time when he believed treason should
be made odious, having voted with the
Democracy in that State last Spring, and
prepared to support "my policy
now, has received a reappointmcnt,
which "hangs' in the Senate.
The President has removed Represen-
tative B~randagee's Postmaster at New
London, and appointed a Mr.. Butler, for
merly editor of the New-Hsven PaUadi-
I'm, Radical, to the vacancy. Mr.. Butler
confirmed by the Senate to-day by
one vote.