Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-28

r ~ A4e00erU tau8ht no" 10 AOOh
those who wont GO Negro snf-
fraEe.
Since the exposure of the double deal
ing of the Estate Union Republican Exec
utive Committee,n as Gen.. CowEN calls it,
in sending to Southern Ohio a permit to all
who will vote for the Negro Suffrage State
Ticket, and for Negro Suffrage members of
the Legislature, to vote against Negro
Suffrage itself, new circular has been
issued, signed B. r. CowEN, Chairman, and
JAS. WILLIAMS, Secretary, which thus,
while pretending to urge negro voting, is
careful to tell the Republicans of Southern
Ohio, how they can vote against 1t, while
voting the rest of the Ticket. 1t says:
"Enclosed we hand you sample ticket for
your guidance in preparing the tickets for
your county. You will observe that 1t
contains the words For Constitutional
Amendment: Yes inserted between the
State and County ticket, in type uniform
with the remainder of the ticket, which has
| been deemed the best ami most convenient
place for it.. Uniformity, however, is the
most important object, and we desire to
secure that throughout the State. We do
not insert Constitutional amendment: NO. IN
the ticket BECAUSE A SIMPLE ERAS-
URE OF THE WORDS NOW INSERT
led. OPERATES AS A VOTE AGAINST
THE AMENDMENT" aus afg t,Ys
For party that pledged itself to the
Negroes to give them the right to vote and
to'hold office, the 'abovesis like the Eng
lishman with his drink, when he ordered
his beer to be '''idrawn ,MILp"-milder than
the darkies and their worshipers we think
will fancy. .t 49, ,.t q.
"You will observe" says the circular,
that the words For Constitutional
Amendment: Yes,'" are inserted between
the State and County Ticket, in type uni
form with the remainder of the Ticket"
This is done that the voters may not see
tito catchvotes for Negro Suffrage from
men who are opposed to it. Are the Com
mittee ashamed of the company of the
Negro on their Ticket that they thus try
/ to hide him from view, by sticking the
Negro Suffrage Amendment to the Consti-
tuition between the names of candidates,
in precisely the same Kind of type that the
candidates for Sheriff and Coroner are
printed? This is the best hiding place
on the Ticket, and because it is so, it is
recommended to the faithful throughout
the State to provide similar one when the
County Tickets are printed, - oaaus
There is another view of this matter
demanding attention, which, perhaps,
better explains the circular. It involves
an intended fraud upon the voters of the
party who. while they believe they vote
against Negro Suffrage, will really vote
for it. The committee gave their orders
to print the Negro Suffrage Ticket thus:
"For Constitutional Amendment, Yes"
Strike out the word HYes,n and what is
left? "For Constitutional Amendment
This will be taken, we venture the asser-
tion, by Republican Judges of Election, as
q vote .Jor Constitutional Amendment
which gives Negroes the right to vote and
to hold Office, and as votes in favor OF the
Amendment they will doubtless be certi-
fed ,,rigeorro. .,f. s-.-.-,-.,..
Il What other object could the committee
have in this peculiar reading of the circu-
lar, 'For Constitutional Amendment
yes" when the law which orders the vote
to be taken, diyests it of the 'for,' and di-
reefs that it be printed T'sConstitutiopal
Amendment, yes, .sors Constitutional
Amendment, no." The vote is to be an af-
firmative one, and it will require no great
stretch of fancy to see that a vote f1s the
Constitutional Amendment cannot be 8
vote against it.. ''e''
Although, in our opinion, every vote in
favor of Negro Suffrage must have. the
word "Yes" printed in connection with the
words Constitutional Amendment" yet
it will be an easy matter for judges of eIec-
ton, anxious to aid the committee in per-
petrating fraud, to certify all such votes
as in favor of Negro Suffrage in Ohio.
II the Committee Intended no fraud; II
only ashamed of the company they are in
why not "let the Negro slide'' at once P
This would not do, for then the Committee
would lose the Legislature, and if it be
lost, an amendment to the Constitution o.
the United States giving Negroes the right
to vote in all the States, would not be con-
CURED in by Ohio, and in addition a most
damaging Investigation might be ordered
by the Legislature into the affairs of the
Offices of the Adjutant General and Audi
or of State, whereof General CowEN is
chief of the one, and DR.. JAMES WILLIAMS
is Chief Clerk of the other. -.. -,
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