Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-26
Adds Forgery to the Deceptiou.

Adds Forgery TO the Deception.
In our last issue, we spoke of the denial of
the Executive Committee ofthe Republican
party OF a charge that had never been made.
that the committee, as committee, had
issued circular advising the Negro Suf-
frage party to abandon that issue, and in so
doing we spoke of the attempt at deception,
attempted to be practiced, with the
feeling it deserved. The charge made
was that circular, signed with
the names of the Chairman and Secretary
of that committee had been sent to South
ern Ohio, where Negro Suffrage is repudi-
ated, stating in substance that those of the
Republican party who would not in con-
science vote for it, if they would support
the candidates on the State Ticket, would
not lose caste with the party if they voted
mo" on Negro Suffrage. This circular,
so issued, care was taken should not be
sent to Northern Ohio, where Negro Suf-
frage is supposed to be the prevailing sem
timent of the so-called Republican party.
The denial of the Committee is disingen-
uous, inasmuch as it denies that which was
not charged, and is so worded as to make
the people believe that it covers the charge
made. 1t is signed:
''B. X. CowEN, Chm CHAs. G. WALcUTT,
JAS. WILLIAMS, Sec'y, HENRY MILLER,
JOE w. DwYER, RODNEY Foos,
JAMES TAYLOR,
State Union Executive Com. of Ohio"
Now we have the best authority for say
ing that this pretended denial was never
submitted to the so-cal,ed Estate Union
Executive Committee of Ohio" that there
are names signed to it, who knew
nothing about the pretended denial until
after it was published, and consequently
that the getter up of this latest specimen
of deception signed the names of members
of that committee thereto, without author
ity-thus committing forgery in order to
clear, by trick, their own skirts of the de-
ception they attempted to play off upon
the public and their own party friends.
The Way they do Things In Mobile.
HORTON, the military Mayor of Mobile,
is Reconstructionist of the Radical school,
and carries matters with high hand in
that city.
Within the past week, as we learn from
the Mobile papers, a little child was play
ing in the streets, when a negro drayman
named FOUNTAIN, came driving along
carelessly, and was in imminent danger of
running over the child, when lady, who
saw the transaction, rushed out, and picked
he little one up, and in her Indignation
applied the very heinous epithet of "black
rascal" to him. This very "disorderly con-
duct" on the part of the lady was observed
by two of HoRToN's negro police, MCCAIN
and CLAY by name, who rushed to the spot
and laid violent hands upon the lady, tell
ing her she was under arrest. Knowing
that she had not violated the law, and not
recognizing the right of these impudent ne
groes to lay violent hands upon her per-
son, she refused to go, when they roughly
grabbed her by the arms and conveyed her
to the Mayors Office.
For this offence, the lady was arraigned
before the military Mayor and fined $40,
for calling the negro black rascal, while
the negro policemen who assaulted and
dragged her through the streets, were ap-
plauded for the act.
The facts above stated do not surprise
US half as much as that the people of Mo-
bile will allow such miscreant as the
Mayor to reign over them.