The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-23
Nos. 21S and 900 sOUTl

from the radical Ohio members of Congress at
washington, eXhorting and threatening the
weak -kneed brethren. Finally it was agreed
that negro suffrage should be sugar-ooated
Win nate to the whites, and so the clause dis
II Ianvnlslng ABOUT twenty-five thousand soldiers
VI Onio was forced on members under protest.
Both Governor Cox and Adiutant-t4e General
Oowen were opposed to the amendment. Two
ears ago the Governor expressed his decided
PlIIon against the contact of the races He
l. au unntted himself by these expressions for
'he cahuluaoy OF 1867. He was opposed to the
amendment also, because of the disfrapehising
clause. The books of the Adiutapt- General
no" tnat OF the Ohio troops, q, 178 soldiers
eserteu during the war. 1t is alleged, upon
ign authority, that out of all of these only
bout 5000 are actual deserters: that of the
other "a, OUO nearly all were re-enlisted vete
rams, who fought the Rebellion from the begin
ming to its overthrow, and who, after the sur
render Of Lee and Johnston, left for their
families without waiting a discharge, and did
not return before the muster-out Of their regi-
ments. Hence, they are put down as deserters.
and are so denominated by the Secretary of
war, who claims that he has no power to
restore them.
Another hardship is, that the amendment
dlscrimlnates in favor of the rich against the
poor. DuIing the last draft, many men who
were too poor to procure substitutes secreted
themselves to avoid the provost marshals.
Those who had money bought a substitute.
inns amendment, then, in a few words, dis
franchises about twenty-four thousand white
soldiers in order to allow about seven thousand
negroes to vote. number of prominent
radicals denounced it, and the Cincinnati Com
meTc'dL called on the radical State Convention
to repudiate this bupgling work of the Legis-
lature, but they did not.
1t is this amendment which has recently re-
ceived the go-by at the hands of the Republi-
can Committee. 1t is conceded by the Repub-
licans that it will be defeated. If so. we
cannot understand why the party which
fathers it should not share its fate.
Another local issue in Ohio, very near akin
to similar issue in New York, is the Metro
polltan Police bill. The radicals of Ohio have
faithfully copied the New York policy-omit-
ting none of its defects The first bill pre-
sented was one applying to Cleveland only.
The radicals feared that that city wonld he.
come Democratic. They wanted the police in
their own hands; hence the law giving the
appointment of four police commissioners to
the Governor. The act was amended last
winter SO as to include Columbus, Dayton.
ana Ioledo in its provisions-all Democratic
cltles-whlle Cincinnati was excepted be-
cause the Republicans have majority there.
The people of Columbus did not like IT, and
applied for and obtained an Injunction re-
stralning these commissioners from acting
under the law. 1t is the meanest aed smallest
piece OF political villany ever conceived by
Ohio radicalism. The Cincinnati Commercial
denounced this bill as unworthy any respecta-
bic party OF men. 1t is in glaring contrast
with the Democratic principles of local and
municipal self-government.