Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-14
s'HDemOcracy or FrankIIn County
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-Nts CorruPtlon.'
Under this heading and over the sig
nature of UNDERSTANDING for Noodle,
doubtless-a sub-editorial Is published in
the Journal of the 18th. In this editorial,
the readers OF the Journal are told that the
Democratic party deserted ''its country and
its princlples;" that III is, in Its turn, de-
serted bv all honest men," that here in Frank
lin county Democracy flourishes In all its
vileness !" that "as good men long since
refused to array themselves against pro-
gress and civilization, this party is led from
necessity, by bad men" that ats campaigns
are devised In drinking houses and gamb-
ling hells aud executed by the denizens Of
these delectable places;" shat the public
attention has been 80 absorbed in national
affairs that little heed has been given to
The UillaiRs, who are the self-styled leaders
OF the Democracy in Franklin county"
Itis the reverse of mplimentary--and
as false as it is uncomplimentary-to say
that the six thousand four hundred and
ninety voters who voted the Democratic
ticket at the late electionin franklin couh-
ty deserted 'their country, and that they
are all dishonest men; that they are all bad
men and "led from necessity by bad men"
--by men who devise their campaigns sin
drinking houses and gambling hells and
are executed by the denizens of those delec-
table places-by men who are most execra-
BILE ''villains," in short, .,,,
Were this accusation that sixty-four
hundred and ninety out of the eleven thou
sand one hundred and forty-two voters in
this county, are so destitute of every ele-
ment that goes to make up the worthy citi-
zen, it speaks lily for the ministrations of
the Journal and those who through its
columns have persistently labored to heap
upon the Democratic party contumely and
reproach. "The public attention has not
{" been so absorbed in national affairs that
little heed has been given to" local politics
here at home. Day by day, throughout
the entire duration of the War, the De-
mocracy of franklin county have been de-
nouncd as cherishing deep-seated enmity
toward the Federal Government by the
Journal. By it they were associated with
whatever is vile and dishonorahle. This
was done while one of its proprietors was
defrauding the Federal Government
through contracts, and while another ofits
proprietors was using the funds of the
Federal Government for his own use
to an extent that caused him
to become defaulter in the
sum of about one hundred thousand
dollars. We don't here refer to the sanity
DR.. DORSEY, who, as he walked the streets
on aSabbath morning, churchward, making
an ostentatious display of prayer-book,
considered his probable profit out of an
unlawful handling of the Funds of the
State; we don't here take into account the
wholesale stealings from the Federal Gov
ernment by officials who were appointed as
but we simply refer to per-
sons who were lately proprietors of the
Journal. And, in this connection, we de-
mand to know whether all the present pro-
prietors of the Journal have records that are
without spot or blemish in all particulars?
Because some of the persons who were
lately proprietors of the Journal were guilty |
of fiagrant dishonesty it does not follow
that necessarily honesty had departed from
the members of the Republican party, and
hat for the time being they knowingly ac-
the leadership Of villains
It simply proves that dishonest men are to
,e found identified with the Republican
,arty in Franklin county. Why is it that,
( the leaders and members of the Demo-
,ratic party are characterized by the vile
less the Journal represents, and that If the
Republican party is made up Of all the
honesty and purity In the county, the
Democratic party has grown with such ra-
,idity during the two past years? Isit be-
ause goodness and virtue and honesty are
ess attractive than Vileness and dishones-
Y, or is it because good cause has a most
advocate in the JournalP T.