Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-01
General &. G. XVaIcRtt-His Birth
and History.

On Saturday, there was scattered over
the city of Columbus small bill, printed
in German and English, and addressed "to
the qualified voters of the city of Colum-
bus" wherein the remarkable history of
General C. G.. WALCUTT is pretended to be
given. This remarkable document was
printed at the Office OF the ''Ohio State
JoairnaI.p 1t is an editorial that appeared
in the Columbus Morning Journal on Friday
morning. BY this publication, we are told
that lortion of our ''citizens have put in
nomination General G.. G. WALcUTT," for
the Office of Mayor. Whab>portion of our
citizens did this is not stated, nor is the
place or time given where and when the
nomination was made. These are impor7
tant omissions. 1t is well that our citizens
should clearly know whether he was put
in nomination by the Temple of Honor,
whose views on the subject OF Temperance
he is said to be pledged to eu-
force to the utmost extremity if he
shall be elected; or whether he was
nominated at the African Church, by.
our citizens of African descent, whose
claim to the privilege of voting he will be
under special obligations to enforce with
all the. power that the high office
of Mayor confers, in the event of his cleo
ton, nor whether he was put in nomination.
blythe squad of Republican politicians and
managers who met few nights ago at the
City Hall, and there in nomination a
Ticket, and who have undertaken the task
of so Juggling our voters that they will pro-
claim in favor of the revolutionary conduct
of the Radicals in Congress, in favor of the
Negro voting resolution that has passed the
Senate and is now pending in the House,
and in favor of stringent prohibitory
| LIQUOR law now under consideration in the
Legislature, which provides for the shut
ting up of all saloons and lager beer estab-
lishments in this city and throughout the
State. It would have been infinitely more
manly to have put the statement that he is
in favor of these propositions into the hand
bill, than to be running over the city quiz
etly pledging himself thereto. That would
be open and aboxe-board, and while many
of his personal friends would not vote for
him in consideration of being pledged to
these propositions, they would, neverthe-
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gain votes. 81 z9-..
1.-THE qualified voters of the City of Co.
lumbus " are told in this handbill we have
under consideration, that Gen. G. C.WAL-
CUTS 'history is your history" This is
not true; for a great many of our citizens
were not born and reared among" US. A
large portion of them were born elsewhere.
1t may be true in so far as he and they were
" born,'' and for a while drew sustenance
from the maternal breast; then took to pap,
and gradually took to eating stronger food;
that at first they wore short clothes; COM
meneed creeping and clambering up at the
side of chairs at the age of seven or eight
months; went through the teethiug opera
ton from the age of eight to twelve months.
Whether he was good behaved baby dur
ing the night time, or whether he was
much given to wakefulness and squalling,
is not stated. 1t should have been stated.
1t is important; "his history" without is
not complete. If it was considered suffi-
ciently important as having direct bear
ing upon the election to-day to state that
he was born," and couple Herewith the
intimation that he did play at marbles,
pitch buttons, play at jump,
mumble-peg, trundle-hoops, and play
at divers games peculiar to boyhood with
rare skill, we should certainly have some
accurate information as to how he passed
his babyhood.
But we cannot see what all this has to do
with the Mayoralty of course, it is just
as pertinent as the reference to what he
did during the War. Considered with
reference to the duties pertaining to the
office of Mayor, it don't matter whether he
performed his duty bravely as a private,
Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, or as
any other sort of officer. This has nothing
to do with the question at issue to-day. In
regard to the issue 1.-The qualified voters of
the city of Columbus" are to pass upon
to-day, not one word is said. 1t don't con-
Germ them as to the nook or corner of the
city or State a man was born in, what his
boyish sports were, and how ata subse-
quent time he got along in the army. These
things, like his teething, belong to the past,
and have nothing whatever to do with the
To-day. He is represented as railways true
to bis, principles. firm in bis devotion to
the right, he stands to-day the peoples
candidate" 9-. u .-s.51;-5> -
| If General c. G. WALcUTr is always
true to his principles" why was not some
space devoted to explaining what those
principles are? He was put in nomination
by a squad of Republican politicians. We
know what their principles are. There is
no mistaking them. They are now SO plain
that 6 a wayfaring man, though fool, -
cannot mistake them. They embrace an
Endorsement of the Military Reconstruct
ton measures of the Republicans in Con-
gress, whereby Civil Government in ten
Southern States is totally abolished, and is
required to remain abolished until such
time as the Negroes there shall be consti-
tuted the predominant political power
They embrace an Endorsement of the Negro
Suffrage resolution that passed the Senate
last Wednesday, and which will be passed
| through the House tomorrow, or a few
days thereafter, if the majority against
Mayor BULL shall to-day be reduced much
below the usual Democratic majority in
| this city. They indorse the infamous legis
Iation that takes from this city, because it Is
a Democratic city, the right to regulate and
manage its own police. By this class o
men General G. G. WALCUTT, the galway:
true to his principles" was nominated
Does his nomination by such a handful o
politicians, who advocate and ask the in
dorsement, through votes for him, of thu
Iexecrable, the odious, the infamous, th'
black principles to which we have refer
red, constitute him the Peoples candi
date ?' .r