Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-14
How INC Journal BIoweth!


The special election on Monday last, IN
this city, for Justice of the Peace, is thus
heralded in the Journal:
"THE ELECTION ON MONDAY.
REVOLUTIONS NEVER GO BACK
WARD.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE POPULAR.
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE HAS
ONLY 80 MAJORITY.
GAIN SINCE OCTOBER 1,156.
GAIN SINCE APRIL OVER 700.
GOOD FOR THURMAN'S HOME.
yesterday there was an election in Co
lumbus and Montgomery township for
Justice of the Peace. The Democrats put
Jacob Lohrer, Jr., in the field as their can
didate. VIM. l.. Heyl came out as an inde-
pendent candidate, and was supported by
the Union men. Lohrer was supported by
the STATESMAN and Crisis. The STATESMAN
on Saturday morning said that the issue
was Negro Suffrage. The Union men ac-
cepted the issue. For once the STATESMAN
was right. The people voted, the ballots
were counted, and the opponent OF Ne
gro Suffrage had 80 majority in city and
township where the Democratic ticket had
l, 195 majority last October"
Both candidates were or professed to be
Democrats, HEYL, who run independent,
having voted at the Democratic primary
election, for county officers under pledge
to support the candidates nominated and
to vote against Negro Suffrage.
The large number of Democrats who
worked at the polls and voted for Mr.. HEYL,
on the day of the election, aided the enemy
to the extent of their power, without in
tending it, and now, for their pains they
have the satisfaction of being branded all
over the State as voting for Negro Suffrage,
and as stating that "THURMAN's Home" is
fast degenerating into negro city, where
soon negroes will rule the roost.
At the polls on Monday, Mr.. HEYL, ev-
erywhere, and on all proper occasions,
avowed himself opposed to Negro voting,
and, defeated or elected, he said, he was a
Democrat and would vote the Democratic
Ticket. Yet the Journal claims his vote
as one for the Negroes-as against Judge
THURMAN and the Democratic Ticket, State
and county. easa
The Democrats who abandoned their
own ticket to vote for an independent,
one, can now realize that curse OF the
curses, repentance that comes too late.
The Negro Suffrageites who voted for HEYL
did not dare to nominate him; had they
done SO he would have been beaten from
ten to fifteen hundred in the city, and on a
broad issue of Negro Suffrage, would have
been beaten two thousand votes. But this
they dared not do-they preferred to steal
a march upon the Democracy, and we COM
mend to the Democrats who aided them
the extract from the Negro Suffrage organ,
claiming all their votes as that for the Ne
gro against the White man, the way they
are treated after being used by the Journal
clique to the injury of their own party in
the principles they profess. The whole vote
polled in the city. on Monday was but
2,713. The Journal carefully conceals the
total vote, only giving majorities. The
aggregate vote TOR Justice of the Peace
last tall, when this same HEYL run as the
Republican candidate, was 5,247-a falling
off of 1894 in less than one year, nearly
equal to the entire vote of Monday last.
When formerly candidate of the Repub-
lican party, HEYL received 1915 votes. On
Monday last his vote fell off to 1887, "a loss in
one year of $40, which the Journal may
claim if it chooses, as a small portion of
the vote its party will have this fall.