Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-17
Shall johnson Rene&ades Rule the
.a Republican Party?

Such is the startling head the Cleveland
Leader has to the article we copy below, in
relation to Colonel SENTER, gentleman
that for years has been the very life of the
Republican party in Cleveland. Read it:
"The election OF Colonel George B. Sen
ter by a caucus of his friends, held in the
First Ward. on Thursday evening last, as
delegate to the County Republican Conven-
tion which meets to-day, is piece of the
most consummate and audacious imperti-
nence ever attempted by that gang of pro-
fessional politicians known as the Senter
CLIQUE. That man whose treachery to the
Republican party was SO recent, so glaring
and so shameless as that of Colonel Senter.
should, no that that treachery has failed,
endeavor to assume place in the party
which he has betrayed. is sufficiently amaz-
ing; but that he and his clique should seek
to force him into the position of a Repub-
lican leader-should endeavor, as they will
to-day endeayor, to make him delegate
to the State Convention at Columbus
passes the bounds of common assurance
and reaches the sublimity of impudence.
Had Mr.. Senter been content, on returning
to the party from which he had deserted,
to work and vote in its ranks, he might, by
a period of heightened service, atone for
his past treachery, and convince the party
that he was fit to be trusted by it. But as
a leader, he must be reminded that he has
already betrayed its trust and that he has
not its confidence.
What are the fdcts-the notorious, in
disputable eFACTs-concerning Colonel SEN
ter's tire ichery to the Republican party
1t is hardly necessary to remind the public
of them. 1t is notorious that he was a
member of that infamous gathering OF reb-
els, copptrheads, and office seeking bread
and-butterites known as the Philadelphia
conven ion-that he was one of the princi-
pal getters-up of the brevet convention OF
johnson soldiers which met here in Sep
tember to glorify my policy and to cheer
the butcher Forrest-that he followed
johnson as he swung around the circle
from loyalty to rebellion - that he
was active in procuring the re-
moval OF Federal office-holders in this dis
trict and State tor no other reason than
their devotion to the principles Of the Re
publican party-and that, for these treach-
cries, he was expelled from the National
Republican party by unanimous vote OF
its members. 1t is susceptible of proof
that, after aiding TO nominate Judge Spal-
ding, he subscribed a hundred dollars to
elect the Democratic candidate to Con-
gress. II a man with such record as this,
and who has never expressed regret and
repentance for this deliberate treachery,. is
permitted to take a seat in a Republican
Convention in the Radical county of Cuya-
hoga, let us prepare TO nominate Andrew
johnson as the Republican candidate for
President in 1868, with Cowan or Doolittle
for Vice President-let us welcome back
+ the JohnsOn-Senter clique to the control OF
the Republican organization, and rest con-
tent to see them push faithful and true men,
who stood by our principles when it cost
something to be honest, into the back
ground"