Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-27

1t has been adhered to ever
since, and with the = most obvious
advantages. Are the remote counties pre-
pared to abandon, 1t and return to the old
Mass Conventions, which would enable
half a dozen counties in the center of the
State to govern the party? We think not.
If not, they must carry out the Delegate
system of appointing no more Delegates
than they are entitled to. Many votes in
Convention are taken viva voce, without a
call of counties and If q county can send
as many Delegates as it pleases, the county
that does so has plain and unjust adyan7
tage over one that sends no more than Its
proper number. aa II
The third resolution says, among other |
things, sthat in the late campaign Hon. |
CLEMENT L. .VALLANDIGHAM was distinctly
announced as the candidate, and only can
didate, of the Democratic Party for United
States Senator.o---~ s--r - - -
BY whom he was so announced Is not
stated. 1t was certainly not by our last
State Convention; and if there was single
County Convention, County Meeting,
Township Convention, Township. Meeting,
Democratic Newspaper, or. Democratic
Speaker, who so announced him, We con-
fess we have never heard of it.. We have
asked heretofore for any such to be named;
but it has not been done. If 1t be said. by
any one that it was so announced, by the
Radicals, all we have to say is, ,that it would
be doing the grossest injustice to. Mr.. VAL
LANDIGHAM and the Democracy of Holmes
to suppose that they would letthe Radicals
nominate our candidates. As to the pre-
eminence given to Mr.V. in this resolution,
we have nothing to- say. 1t is. matter of
opinion, and everybody has right to his
own.
The fourth resolution is 80 full of injus-
tice that nothing but an entire ignorance OF
the facts. could account for it.. Mr.. Cox
came to- Ohio with the remains Of his
mother-in -law, to inter them in the family
cemetery at Putnam Learning that he
was in. the State, his old constituents nat
urally desired to hear from him. He was,
consequently, invited by our County Cen
tral Committee To speak at the great meet
ing already announced for Columbus. No
one knew what were his particular opin-
ions upon financial questions, orIthat they
differed in any respect from those enter
tanned by the party in Ohio, and SO often
set forth by PENDLEroN, THURhAN and
others. He came to Columbus and spoke,
and his speech, as we'll as Mr.. VOORHEES,,
was published in The STATESMAN. Mr..
VALLANDiGHAM's would also have been
published, but being substantially the same
that he had delivered at other places, and
which had already been published in THE
STATESMAN, he did not desire its re-publi-
cation. No extra copies of The STATES
MAN containing Mr.. Cox's speech were
printed. fI:E
But what shall we say of the broad as
speech sin behalf of the Bondholders and
Wall street swindlers," was the means of
furnishing the only candidate for United
States Senator in opposition to Mr.. VAL
LANDIGHAM? ?" We think we understand
this. though we doubt whether many who
voted for the resolution, not knowing the
facts, did understa I'd it when they SO voted.
We have heard, again and again, of are
port that Judge THURMAN owned .$40,0OO
OF United States Bonds, and that he was
not sound on the question of redeeming
them in Greenbacks, and taxing them in
the mean time. The report was SO absurd,
and could be contradicted by so many thou
sands who heard Judge THURMAN speak
last fall, that we did not feel called upon to
notice it. But it is proper now to do so.-
AS to taxing Bonds, Judge RANNEY, Mr..
XALLANDIGHAM and Judge THURMAN were
all on the Committee on RESOLUTIONS
in our State Convention of 1866, and all
three voted for a resolution in favor of tax
ing the Bonds-Judge THURMAN, as Chair
man of the Committee, reported it to the
Convention, and it was unanimously adopt
ed. In almost .every speech delivered by
him this year, he ADVOCATED such taxation.
See, for instance, his Wapakoneta speech
that was SO extensively circulated. As to
the Greenback question, is it necessary for
US to say 70 the tens of thousands of DEM
ocrats who have heard Judge THURMAN
advocate the payment of the Bonds in
Greenbacks, that he is sound on that ques-
ton p He and Mr.. PENDLETON spoke to-
gether in the late campaign oftener than
any other two speakers, and they
perfectly agreed upon this ques-
ton. Who has forgotten what
Judge THURMAN said upon this subject
in his celebrated Marietta speech, and that
Mr.. PEnDIEToN, who followed him, fully
agreed with him? Compare that speech
with Mr.. PENDLEToN's subsequent speech
at Mil waukee. and the perfect coincidence
| Sc - I,ao OF r1-
| port that Judge THURMAN owns $4,000
lin United States bonds is wholly untrue.
We know, from the best authority, that he
never owned ,one-sixth- OF that amount of
such bonds, and that he does not noao oacn
one dollar of them. 'o'' II 70 s7gos .di aa2H'et
+ The imputation against the State Exec
utive Committee is most unjust. 1t has
done every thing it could by correspond
ence, verbal inquiry and articles in, the
newspapers, to ascertain the Illegal vote
cast for the Radical ticket, but itshas been
unsuccessful in ascertaining enough to JUS
tify contest. If any Of the Democracy OF
Holmes desire to contest the election of the
do so; but they will. perhaps, allow us to
suggest, that as it cost some thousands OF
dollars and some clonths of time to take the
testimony in the contest of DELANo and
MORGAN, in single Congressional Dis
trict, it might take several tens of thou
sands of dollars and a year or two of time
to contest the election of the Radical
State ticket, and it may . be that
it would be better to apply that
money to disseminate documents and
pay the other expenses of the great
Presidential campaign of next year. How