Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-08
The Brend and butter Convention.

A johnson Republican is contradic-
ton in terms. Nevertheless there are
upwards of two hundred men in this State
who claim to be Republicans who also
profess intense sdmiEAtiA.e-G-;.-.:.-:: q
| - iaclz lasli itlsiE'1aS a.
| sembled Yesterday at Columbus for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the Phil
adelphia Convention, and of clarifying
the author of their official being, Andrew
johnson. For most of these gentlemen
are ofice-holders or offiee-seekers, and
this fact is the cause of the seeming para
dox that they are Johnsonites and yet not
| Copperheads. Office was the motive
power of the whole Convention. Its
moving spirit was Lew. Campbell, Min
lister to the hypothetical Republic of
Mexico, who is now receiving $4,000
year for his dirty work in disorganizing
the Union party. Its neucles is the
johnson club of Cincinnati, consisting of
Harris, Langdon, Hickenloper, Gaddis,
Cook, Anderson and the rest, every moth
ers son of them ofice-seekers, and half
dozen of them already successful in their
aspirations. Its chief orator was that
traitor to all parties, Gen. Joe Geiger, who
holds some petty Office 1--WE forget what
in the gift of the President. Its grand
genius-its Deus er Machina-was Rim
derpest Barber, a seeker after office in
general. And among the names of those
who figure in its proceedings we come
upon such names as these: T. @. McEwen,
Postmaster of Sandusky; j. Mcconnell,
Collector of I.ternal Revenue; Earl Bill,
United States Marshal; Gen. Vandever,
Collector of Internal Revenue; Henry
Chase United States Assessor, and so on
ad li5itans. Never was an apter political
designation than that of the " Bread and
Butter party" which Governor Randall S
imprudent remark has fastened upon the
johnson Republicans.
The fact that State Convention was
entrusted with the appointment of Dis
trict delegates was significant of the
weakness of the bresd-and-butter party.
1t was confession that there were not
enough of the party to make respectable
mass convention in each separate district.
This has been confirmed by the result
This State Mass Convention was attend.
cd by nearly two hundred persons. Sup
posing these equally divided among the
1 IF ha fatn thura
would be ten johnson men in each dis
trict. But the bulk, even of this paltry
c | two hundred, were from Cincinnati
and some districts were represented
t by only one person, while one was entire
! ly unrepresented. The city Of Cleveland
d and Cuyahoga county we're represented, s.
far as we can learn, only by Earl Bill AM
o. c. Scovillel
The work of the convention lies in it
platform snd in its selection of delegate:
The former is a nonentity. 1t declare
for the Philadelphia Convention, which
was called to support, and it endorses tn
long and prosy letter of defunct politi
clan, Thomas Ewing, which we have nc
U room to copy or patience to read. 1t be
slows the necessary buncombe upon tn
soldiers, and then becomes dumb. II
= delegates are the strongest selection tbs
can be made, but they belong, so many {
= them, to the class of Office holders or ofic'
seekers that the whole delegation smell
:, strongly of bread-apd-butter.
The Convention threatens nomini
ton of separate state ticket. We earl
e, estly hope that such course will
;. adopted, in mercy to our two hundrt
paradoxical johnson Republican ofic
= holders. If they vote the Republics
ticket this fall they jeopardize their head
and they are not all so given over to t
enemy as to vote for the Copperhead ca
didates Let them have third ticket
all means, and let them poll their t0
ID hundred votes for it, 1t viii be gre
relief to them, and will do no possit
+" harm to anybody else.
= NJ TT-:or Ro,1tr TiaEat of Hana1