Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-27


from a second conviction but having the
Indictment dismissed by the Attorney
\ General and this Mr.. WEST did, and GIB-
SON Is now on the stump making speeches
for WEST for re-election.f.or .YrTH.ft Il :
And Mr.. WEST needs defense. He is
charged, in connection with Mr.. GOODMAN,
the Auditor of State, of taking, with
out warrant of constitutional law, Eight
Hundred Thousand Dollars frOu the
fund raised by taxes and set apart
I for the relief of INDECENT soldiers
and the support of the necessitous families
of those who fell in battle. True he did
not, it Is believed, use this money or any
part of it, for private purposes, for he and
Mr.. GOODMAN both over that they paid a
debt of the State with it, but still it robbed
the soldier, the widow and the orphan of
the money due. them, and left them, to
starye, and Mr.. GIBSON defends his con-
duct on the stump, and it needs defense.-
GIBSON is the proper man to do it, for no
honest man would attempt to defend such
conduct on the. part of the State officials.
What Republican Papers say of
II
| The Ne,o York Herald thus notices the
speech Ex-senator WADE, OF Ohio, delivered
at Marietta few days since: - '
"THE OPENING CONTEST IN ONO -Old
| Ben Ware has been entertaining the peo-
pie of Marietta with sufficient amount of
pothouse slang to satisfy the vilest class of
brains possessed by any politicabmob that
may be gathered in the United States. His
speech, which we published yesterday, was
an insult to the intelligenceSof his hearers.
| If our politicians cannot dress their argu-
rnents in better language, language which
will be more elevating, we have but little
hope for the country q ssIossl i ..riT
OF the same Senator's speech at Ports
mouth, on Saturday, the Cincinnati CONNER
cidl says. T .-5a.a soi- p ..tfHi ~ " :
"Senator Wade's furious harangues may
serve the purpose of enlivening the mass
meetings that he attends, but his unmeas-
ured. if not inconsiderate, viturperation is
ill calculated to serve good cause. His
Portsmouth speech, delivered on Saturday.
of which we print special report else
where, was extraordinary even for him, in
the use of harsh language. Most men are
sobered,, and steadied, and moderated by
the consciousness of high station and the
sense of great responsibility. Senator
Wade seems to be an exception TO this rule.
The fact chat he is Acting Vice President
of the United States, the second officer of
the Government. would appear only to
give additional fury to his temper and
venom to his tongue." 4'99l--. il,' y
The best and perhaps the only excuse for
such wholesale falsehood and slang on the
part of Senator WADE, is that given by a
Radical sheet in Cleveland in mitigation of
the sentiments of his Agrarian speech in
Kansas that he had drank too. much
champagne, or, in other words. that he was
drunk " -o9D .aa9 = rsu7adT z. - Ii
Mr.. WADE may get drunk as often as he
plcases-he has constitutional right to
make walking whisky barrel of himself,
when no one else but himself is injured,
thereby, but we submit that as "a Senator,
sent to Washington to represent the digni-
ty and interest of Ohio, and as President
pro ten,pore Of the U. s. Senate, and acting
Vice President of the United States, he has,
no right to act the blackguard and the
drunkard and thus to bring disgrace upon
the State and the nation. 4 rfLIl5-f.30
Wade's Speech, and Mr.. Ewing.
BEN. WADE has been at Marietta indulg-
ing in speechmaking, and this is decidedly
the most obscene of all his efforts. a..
In speaking of the tyranny in the South,T
he said '.0ne word as to the tyranny they
accuse us of having committed upon those
seeded States-a tyranny, a frightful ty-
ranny! Why Mr.. EwING-and blush to
say it, he was said to be good old Wing
before the fall-he wrote letter to the
JOHNSON Convention in which he an
nounced deliberately the sentiment that at
no time during the War could the seeded
States have been excluded from Congress.
Poor old cloun! The only plea we can
make for him is that he is de,ner,ted, or he
ought to be damned" [Laughter.l -a j
Well, really, that was laughable. For
such an old scamp as BEN. WADE, ina
speech teaming with blasphemy and libelF,
to assail THOMAS EwING and assert that he
is a fool and ought to be damned, is quite
funny. .--.5....,.-.4 -,o,y W !,
The Radical party is lost to all sense of
shame or decency. 1t is natural for the
demagogues to assail Judge THURMAN;
bnt for BEN. WADE to pursue Mr.. EWING
to his retiracy and apply to him these low,
vulgar epithets,, exhibits a lack of all real
ization of shame or decency. Mr.. Ew1NG's
character is of that pure and exalted ma
| ture that will not suffer from these vile as
saults. AS a statesman his reputation is
as far above old BEN. WADE as WASHING
TONS was above ARNoLD's. This is a fair
specimen of the desperation of these fanat-
| les. % .t --i' -ii.-i''itH -
With hopeless cause, and sinking be-
meath a load of infamy, their last struggles
are in keeping with their revengeful and
desperate conduct whilst they have been
in power. a'5s0 ''- - dli4 r
/ Financial John Sherman, ~
| In his recent speech, speaking of the
question ofssuffrage, said: 81 am not sure
about the exclusion of women, for the re-
cent discussions on this subject in England
and America have sho vn that the reasons
for their exclusion are not SO clear; but we
can well leave this question stand as it is for
the present" ttaH rgB
| Finance, the Negro and over zeal to be
generous to the ladies, will doubtless i'm
| ,,o;r 61opaiol oanooities His r1ro-