Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-17
Democratic Nominations.

honored themselves in doing an act of JUS
tice in nominating JACOB BAKER for Rep
resentative.s He is an excellant man and
will be elected. Wv
Two years ago, Mr.. BAKER was the NOM
inee of the Democratic party. The night
before the election, secret circulars, forged
by the Republican leaders in Greenville,
with the names of the Democratic County
Central Committee attached thereto, were
sent to the distant townships, stating that
A. j. DoTY, the Democratic candidate for
Auditor, had been found murdered on
Greenville bridge, and that for par
ticipation in the homicide, BAKER
had been forced to withdraw from
the Ticket. A new candidate for Auditor
and for Representative was proposed, as
coming from the Central Committee, and
in two or three of the distant townships the
forgery had its effect in Withholding from
BAKER and from DoTY every Democratic
vote, and this caused their defeat. This
defeat caused the Negro Suffrage lResolu-
tion to pass the House of Representatives,
when, without the vote of the member
from Darke, it would have been defeated.
The men who committed this Infamous
forgery are known, but cannot be prose-
= cuted for want of that evidence to convict
which the law requires. They are, how
ever, being punished in the scorn and de-
testation of the honest portion of the com
munity. .-.1 -
Hon. J. C. PENNIsTEN, the able and eff
cient member of the Legislature from Pike
county, was re-nominated at the late DEM
ocratic Convention by acclamation. A
compliment properly bestowed upon a
worthy person. -
Mr.. PENNIsTEN is gentleman of fine
abilities, and the Dem ocracy of Pike could
have made no better selection.
With EMNITT and PENNIsTEN to represent
them, the people OF those districts will not
fail to discharge their duty to the country
during their official terms. AS gentleman
OF talent and high birth-strictly attentive
to his duties as legislator-no man in the
last House of Representatives stood higher
than Mr.. PENNIsTEN. a
The Democracy of Meigs county present,
in an excellent Ticket, the name of F. G.
RUSSELL, as the candidate for Represents
tive. Mr.. RUSSELL is properly vouched
for is an able man, and will make,
when elected, a good and efficient Rep
resentative. His opponent is the Rev. Mr..
WELSH, who said he voted for Negro Suf-
frage because the Democrats dared him to
do so, and he wouldn't take banter from
any man. We trust this plucky Parson will
stay at home this winter, so that his con-
gregation can take care of him and de-
crease, if possible, his bump of combative-
ness. --r -.--
at the Convention of the Democracy in
Highland county on Saturday last, the fol-
lowing strong Ticket was nominated:
For Representative, Hon. j. L. Hughes
Treasurer, John D. w. Sprague; Sheriff, j.
B. HAYES; Prosecuting Attorney, Captain
E.. n. DeBruin; Commissioner, Samuel
Cochrane; Surveyor, w. Siders; Infirmary
Director, Capt. T. B. Anderson; Coroner,
Jos. II. Bentley.
The Hillsboro Gazette in speaking of the
nominees says:
sour ticket is a capital one-none bet
ter could have been put in nomination.
Every Democrat will support it with zeal
and enthusiasm, and many of those who
have heretofore moved and acted with the
Republican party, will rally to the support
of the Democratic nominees in October"
The Democracy of Washington county,
on Tuesday, made the following nomina-
tions:
For Representatives, P. B. Buell., and
s. NJ. Richardson; Auditor, John V. RAM
sey Treasurer, Louis, Anderson; Prosecu-
ting Attorney, Wylie 81. Oldham; Commits
sioner, Seymour Clough; Infirmary Di-
rector, John Dowling.
From our knowledge of most of the nom
inees, the ticket is an excellent one.
The VVay they Love the Soldier.
The manned and crippled soldier, who
is so fortunate as to own the roof that
covers his head and that of his family, is
taxed, thereon for State, County, Township,
School, Poor, Road, Bridge and other pur-
poses, and it he fails to pay the tax by the
time fixed by law, heavy penalty is add
ed thereto, and if that tax and penalty be
not paid, then his humble cottage and the
lot on which it is situated, is sold to satisfy
the tax.
The lordly millionaire puts one million
dollars in bonds, on which he draws in
terest every six months at the rate of six
per cent year, amounting to sixty thou
sand dollars, not in greenbacks, but in
gold, which gold is now selling at forty
cents premium, making eighty-four thou
sand dollars per annum, which he gets in
greenbacks for his investment in bonds.
b Upon this heavy sum he pays no taxes
to school his own childre mot cent
toward paying the State debt-not dime
to repair the roads, build bridges. or for
any State, county, township, city or
borough purpose, because his million dol
lars is in bonds, which are not taxed. The
poor soldier is not of the favored few, and
hence his humble shanty is taxed for all
purposes-doubly taxed, because the real
wealth of his millionaire neighbor, who
made his money as contractor or Quarter
master by cheating soldiers, is not on the
tax duplicate, and the amount has to be
made up by taxing the laboring many that
the favored few may 90 untaxed.
This is the way the Negro Suffrage par
ty love the soldiers, and this is the way
they care for the poor.
Put This and That Together.
ssThe history of LINCoLN's Administration
is a part of the glorious history of the Re
publican party. BY that history we are
willing to be tried, both by the present and
future s."-CohEmbus Morning
Journal, August l6.
Dom Piatt, leading man in the Repub-
lican party, through his Ndc-a-cheek Press