The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-08-15

ToR.-On Thursday, Of last week, the
RAIDS Of Washington, Noble and Nor
gan counties, net in Convention in
Beverly, for the purpose of nominat-
ing a negro candidate for the position
of State Senator. Their choice fell on
one A. Simmons, Of Noble county.
Tins gentleman mas already the prefix
OF Hon" to his name having served
ne Representative for Noble county n
term or two, Probably, he thinks him.
self born to make laws for the peo-
plo," and, if he does, we see no object
ton TO showing up" his are capacity
as q law .mnker. When men 20 to the
Legislature, they have to say some
thingi they have to say yes and mo"
ifthey can't say anything else. Sim
mons said yes and "no" several
times during the teEm[ of his seat
amongst the wise men" of Ohio, but
we have no record of his ever having
SAID anything more or less. But the
''yess'a and mos Of Simmons have
left ii record which illustrates TO per-
lection his Legislative bumps with which
he Sas endowed ut his birth by an all
benign and all-wise Providence. Sim,
mons was in the Legislature in 1857,
and 1t was at that time that considcra.
bic talk was had, up there in Colum:
bus, Of selling the Public Works of
Ohio. amongst which is included the
Muskingum Improvement. 1t was
well known, too, who were to be the
purchasers. Some Wall-street men Of
New York city, owned all the rail
roads IN Ohio. Those Wall street men
knew that the Public Works of OHIO
afforded n cheaper channel. for trnde
to flow through than they, the Walt
street men, wanted their railroads to
be. Wall.street, therefore, would pur.
chase the Public Works and then il
would have tho thing all in it's W
hands, and charge what it pleased for
freight and passage. Wall street
would let the Public Works 20 by the
bonrd and make the people use their
railroads Mt enormous prices. Wall
street, in short, would have n
'iy of all the trade ard travel Of the
great State Of Ohio. Well, rs we have
intimated, a bill was up in the Lcgis-
%lature TO sell the Public Works. and
Simmons voted IN favor Of it, and, fur.
Thor, lac voted in favor of selling the
Public Works for four millions of dol
lars when they had cost the State of
Ohio nineteen millions of d%ollnrs.-
You SEQ Simmons didn't want to be
hard. On these Wall-street men. They
.were, probably, good fellows and il
made no great deal Of difference as the
people had to pay it. We expect,
though, il Simmons had owned the
Public Works, that he would have
thodght that from nineteen millions to
four millions was quito i fall. But,
then, you know Simmons dent pay
the nineteen millions, it was the peo.
pie Simmons excuse for voting to
sell the Public Works Of the State Of
Ohio may have been that he couldn't
see that they brought in any profit to
the people Of Ohio. OF course Sim.
mons couldn't see it. He couldn't seo
that ifa rivalry between the canals.
Ffiver, &c, owned by the State, and the
railroads, owned by Wall.strect, was
kept up that freights on exports and
imports would BIO cheaper, and that
thereby, what is produced IN Ohio
would be of more profit to the people,
The producers, and that what we COT
sumo from abroad would come into
the peoples hands cheaper. No, Wall.
street men were, as We eaid before.
probably, goed follows. Simmons