Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-05
The Negro Suffrage Ticket for
Comfy Omces-AbOlition Love
for the Soldier r

County Omces-AbOlition Love
for the Soldier rs
After much tribulation, and wearisoIne
journeying in search of some stray DEM
ocrat anxious for martyrdom as candi-
date on the Negro Suffrage Ticket for a
county office without being able to sue
ceed, the Franklin county Abolition Exec
utive Committee on Tuesday night, made
Fup Ticket of such material as It could
find, and on yesterday morning it was pre-
sented in the Journal. as follows:
Treasurer C.. p. l.. Butler;' Auditor,
Capt. VIM. King, of Perry tp.; Sheriff, Capt.
w. w. Williams, of Norwich tp,; Recorder,
Capt. Jacob Herring Infrmary, Director,
John Cox of Madison tp.; County Commits
sioner, l.. w. Babbitt, of Plain tip. -q.1El
The Journal takes care TO mention that
the candidates for Auditor, Sheriff, Re
corder and Infirmary Director were all
officers during the war, and hence, we sup
pose can stand the expense of a canvass.
The private soldier is ignored 49,
The fondness of the Negro Suffrage
party for soldiers is but spasmodic.1 1t
shows itself in all counties where there is
no chance of success, unless the soldier be
an officer and rich, and then he stands a
chance of nomination. At the State Con-
vention, on the 10Th of June, OF the party
that adopted Negro Suffrage, a one-armed
soldier pressed his claims for the lowest
Office on the ticket, and was badly bea ten
for nomination for Member of the Board
of Public Works by one who, if he was
even drafted in the army, procured sub
stitute-eertain it is, that he never did
any fighting. In Cleveland, another
soldiers, minus an arm, fully competent,
was defeated for County Treasurer by a
stay -at-home patriot, whose carcass never
presented mark for rebel bullet, for the
reason that its owner kept clear of that
"villainous salt petre," which so many a
tall man has destroyed.
And so we might add, to the end OF
the chapter, the same rule holds good. In
counties were Abolitionism bears rule, SOL
diers, unless they wore straps upon their
shoulders and are reported rich in green
backs, stand no chance of a nomination
in counties where the Negro Suffrageites
stand no earthly chance of success, the sol
diers, provided. they were not priyates, ,ican
command any place they wish on the Tick
ct, if they are able and willing to
shell out an amount sufficient to carry on
the campaign. This accounts for the num-
Der of Captains on the Negro Suffrage
Ticket il Franklin county. ~ ~
While thus the Negro Suffrageites love
the officers, we cannot understand their
dislike to the private soldiers. That such
dislike exists, is seen in the manner
they have swiadled them out Of the
money raised by a grateful people for the
support of the INDECENT and helpless
first swindling them out of the Soldiers
Relief Fund, and then leaving them the
choice between starvation and the poor
house. 1t is true, at the very State Con-
vention which set the claims of the one
armed soldier aside, as candidate for
Member OF the Board of Public Works, a
resolution was put in the platform, full Of
sympathy for the poor soldier and the widow
and orphan of those who fell in defense OF
the republic and promising them So bstantial
support, but this added but insult to the
injury inflicted, for the same convention
Endorsed the Legislature that committed
the fraud and nominated for reelection
the Auditor of State and the Attorney
General at whose instance the robbery was
com mitted. Filled to the very brim with
lip love for the soldiers, the Journal has
never dared to even lisp word against
this cruel and useless robbery that defraud-
ed six hundred and seYenty-two poor and
crippled soldiers unable to work for a liv-
ing, of the money thus raised to keep then,
from want, and five thousand three hun
dred and thirty families of dead soldiers,
suffering the pangs of hunger, from the
pittance that was intended to keep them
from starving. -.=--