Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-08

informant as a gentleman of veracity. Further
more, did you not on that same occasion. secure
the vote of another on Ashtabula township by
sending a Trumbull county man into it, some
eight or ten days before the town meeting was
held, and secured his return as delegate to vote
for you? And did not that same man appear the
next day In our County Convention as a candidate
for a county officer? Please answer definitely. /
do not know that these things are so, but ask for
information. i am in pursuit OF knowledge under
difficulties, and ask for more light. Ii you cannot
answer these questions yourself perhaps you may
md some one else a swift and willing fellow who
did such a naughty thing. Such certificate may be
necessary to- exeulpate you from the idea which
is obtaining in this community, that you are pro-
fcient in that direction.
In that Convention ninety-six votes were cast
Forty-nine were needed fora choice without the
purchased vote Hutchins had As. not enough to
nominate him.; with it he had 49and was declared
the nominee. Now if my informant is right, that
Convention was packed for a special purpose
which was successful. Will the people of this Dis
trlet permit such a thing to be repeated among
them. We Will see.
This being your last issue before the town
meeting. / suppose Mr. Hutchins and his corps Of
writers will ayalaneh the people with false charges
against Garfield. Already they are charging that
ne voted 10 raise his own salary to S50OO a year.
His name is recorded among the NAYS on the
passage of the bill.
The friends Of the Union are ~rallying around
their members in the present Congress. Gen.
Schenck and Judge Shellaberger and the Cincin-
natl members have been nominated mostly by ac-
elamation, indeed every Ohio Union mar in the
present Congress, where the Convention has been
held, has been nominated. Shall this District
reject the modest Roman of thtm aIl?" We
he is disturbed hugely about the 18th Dis
trict article, which appeared in your paper OF
the 9th OF July and charges its authorship upon
me-, This immaterial point he labors, but the
reader will not fail to notice that he admits, or
lodges every charge made in the article. except
as to collection of claims and procurement of par
dons and then charges me with libelling and slam
derlng him, After what he and his supple instru-
mentS have said against me, in the Chronicle.
"H."'Xeritas" and a host Of Others, it lily be-
comes Hutchlns to further exhaust his billings
gate vocabulary upon me. He has said his worst,
and done his dirty work to the extent of his ability.
And now, Mr.. Editor. l might add indefinitely
to what l have said, as to the libels and yituper-
atlye ISLANDERS, of this man Hutehins, and his
writers. heaped upon me, for the last two months
ID your columns. So anxious have they been in
mis- behalf that they have almost forgotten Gar
field IN their attempts to thrust me down, to ira
duce me IN every conceivable way, simply because
L eOnnot be induced to support Hutchins for Con-
gress IN opposition to our present able member.
ply of the District. Ifthat tribunal does not wine
out Hutchins, and teach him and all his aiders
and a~6etters, a lesson which they will remember
until their dying day, then l shall be disappointed
trict. That's all.
hope the junior member of the NEW ORLEANS
Law FIRM will not feel that I have willfully slight
ed him. He has been on my book, for sixteen
years past. as a youngster of great promise, and
ten years as a personal friend, Of much worth and
warm attachment; and l am not willing to mart
with him. and break up friendship. even now. No
doubt he was subjected to a tremendous pressure,
and there is as little doubt, but that he blushed, at
his own rashness, when he read in the Chronicle,
MS sositige certificate to a fact which every school
boy would laugh at. as a perfect absurdity.
Like others who have lived longer, L have no
doubt, he will see the error of his hasty step and
upon it next time. Remember that hasty
dish of soupI and S. Hunts Tod letter.
Farewell, Mr.. Hutchins; bat in parting allow me
to your friends Union" and "Veritas' in
he last Chronicle that they do Garfield great in
lustice when one of them says there is mott soldier
holding Government office in this District. This
,use. Furthermore, it is said, BY one of these
beauties, that Garfield f~defiousLv opposed Lincoln's
administration. A fool or knave might make su h
/ charge, intelligent men know better. Draw off
our writers, haul in your sails. Mr.. Hutchins, and
retire for the present; bottle up your wrath and
quietly conclude to let your neighbors alone, to do
Is to them, seems just and proper.
August 8. 1866. 7. J. McLAIN.