Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-23
About II. r. SIOane-The Radicals
ON the johnson Republicans.


Judge r. r. SLOANE, U. 8. Special Mail
Agent, and late Chairman of the Republic
can State Central Committee, inspired the
following paragraph, which has been pub
lished in few papers whose editors are
Postmasters: ... .-. ...
SIT is proper to:say, that the Chairman
ship of the State Central Committee nad
been so admirably conducted during the
past year, that there was avery general de-
sire that Judge Rush II. Sloane should be
reelected to that position; but the Judge
persistentiy refused to serve any longeruP
on the committee, owiDgto the press Oh MS
official engagements as the General Agent
of the PostOffice Department"
The Radicals say that Judge SLOANE did
nothing as Chairman of the State Central
Committee, until he undertook to make
President JOHNSON believe that he was for
him and against Congress-in order to be
permitted to hold on to the Special Agency
for the Postoffice Department. They have
been denouncing him most vigorously and
venomousIy, for 'letting ON that he was
irving to Johnsonize the Republican party
of Ohio! The Radicals laugh at the state
ment that there was "a general desire that
he should be reelected to- the Chairman
ship Of their State Committee. He could
not even have been elected a MEMBER Of
that committee, notwithstanding the ex-
hjbition he made OF himself before the Con-
vention and among the Delegates prior to
its assembling, by rolling over and over In
Radical mud and filth. He had told the
President that he was with him-that waS
enough to kill him in the Radical COnven'
ton of Ohio, and among the Delegation o.
his own Congressional District. So far az
heard from, he did nothing and said moth
ing while here in Columbus, that could, by
implication even, be construed into an in
dorsement of the President. In his speech
on calling the Convention to order, he sale
that everything must yield for the sake o.
harmony in the party! In order to rein
state himself with the dominant element II
his party, he consented to eat any quantity
of Radical dirt; but he was not able to gel
himself nor any one even suspected of be-
ing a JOHNSON man, appointed as mem
ber of the State Central Committee for hii
District. The President might as wei
know first as last, that the present Fedora
ofice-holders in Ohio are either lacking II
ability or inclination to do anything to Civ
him and his Restoration Policy an effective
support. Msegd .b5uf1.a. ntl
The Cleveland Leader, whose advice wa
taken in the construction Of the Platform
talks in this wise about JOHNSON Repubh
cans: ~ aeye a9a i.gr dauea
~Among the most cheering of the man.
cheering indications of the Union Conven
tjon of Wednesday, was the united front o
the marty in sustaining the CoDgressiona
policv. THE Convention was unit on thi
question. Through the whole day ther
was not lisp heard anywhere In favor o
INV rolicy.' IL there was johnson maj
m the Conveition he did not make himsel
manifest. q None Of the candidates wer
Johnsoniane, the only one at all suspecte'
OF sympathies with the President having
withdrawn before the Convention assem-
bled. There was not johnson man on th
committee on Resolutions; and there Is no
n word in commendation Of my policy II
the brief statesmanlike, and excellen
nlatEorm which that committee reported
tfhe ambitious set Of Office-hOlders WHIT
have been at work organizing third part
m Ohio NAV as well report to their maste
that such q party will find no recruits from
the Republican voters"