Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-19
The Congressional Battle in Ohio
The Gains.

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turning, as they did, Democratic members,
was calamity fought.
| The defeat of EGGLEsToN in the 1st Dis
trict, composed of portion of Hamilton
county, in the defeat of one who, without
statesmanlike talent, which he endeavored
t make up by low cunning, is result that
fmay well be hailed as a triumph worthy
the highest praise. General SrRADER, the
successful candidate, is gentleman of un-
blemished reputation, whose name is iden-
titled with the railroad and river business
of Cincinnati-both now nearly ruined by
the mad acts of Radicalism, in cutting off
the trade of that city by their reconstruc-
tion acts, which impoverish the South and
make not only the people poor, but cause
that fertile region, once blossoming with
the rich staple ofthe South, to bein great
measure given over to waste and to ruin. No
man labored harder to bring about this sad
state of things than the defeated EGGLEs.
ToN-the born thrall of CEDRIC, the Saxon,
was not more the serf OF his master, than
EGGLKsToN the slave to do the bidding Of
| the men whose aim it is to build up New
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ern interest, and glad are we that common
sense and patriotism have given him his fit
ting reward by ousting him from the place
at Washington where he was powerless for
good, and a willing tool for evil.
In the 9th District. composed of the
counties of Crawford, Erie, Huron, Ottawa,
Sandusky and Seneca, where the famed
VIM. Fl. GIBSON secured the nomination in
place of BUcKLAND, the present Radical
member, the decision was that of honesty
over its antipode. So arrogant were the
Radicals and so certain of success, that they
put forward, as the representative man OF
their principles, one who was arrested, in
dicted and found guilty of Penitentiary
offense, in the violation of his sworn trust
as Treasurer of State. by confiscating to
his own use, the funds of the people en-
trusted to his care. His escape from the
Penitentiary was alone owing to the fact
that, after procuring an order for new
trial, not because there was single doubt
of his guilt, but on technical grounds alone,
the Indictment against him was mollied by
a friendly Attorney General, because, hav-
ing commission in the army, he served
until discharged, at the end of his term of
service.
A difficulty which sprung up in the
Democratic District Nominating Conven-
ton for time made the success of GIBSON
a certainty, even in Democratic minds.
But the declension of Mr.. NOBLE, to whom
all honor is due, and that OF the second
Democratic nominee, and the nomination OF
Judge DICKINSON, of Fremont-acquiesced
in by both organizations, who had been up
to that point battling, not against the COM
mon enemy, but against each other-gave
the opportunity for fair stand up fight, in
which honesty trlumphed, and the second
verdict that given by the people of the Dis
trict on election day was, that GIBSON was
guilty of the attempt to misrepresent the
feelings, the interest and the honor of the
District.
Not below the battle in the 1st and 9th
District in Importance was that in the 10th
District, represented in the present Con-
gress by JAMES M.AsHLEY, of impeachment
fame. The District is composed of the
counties of Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paul
ding, Putnam, Williams, Wood and Lucas;
and all that money could do to influence
the return of ASHLEY, was done, but with
out avail. Like the old man of the Sea on
Sinbad's shoulders, ASHLEY fastened him
self on the District, and supposed it was
impossible to shake him off. His own coun-
ty, Lucas, where he was best known and
where it seems he was duly appreciated,
lost him some six hundred votes, while the
other counties run his opponent, Mr.. HoAG,
ahead of the ticket. The people of the Dis
trict impeached ASHLEY of high crimes and
misdemeanors in trampling the constitu-
negro suffrage in the South, in attempting
to deprive President JOHNSON of his Office,
and he was found guilty, and the sentence
is banishment from the Office where he
had made money, is eternal as it is just.
The counties composing the 10th District
used to be among the reliable for Demo-
cratic msjorlties. OF these Defiance, Put
nam and Henry alone, of late years, retain
their ancient faith in full vigor. AS their
population, fast filling up these counties,
increase their majority in fair proportion
to their increase in population. Paulding
and Williams both give signs of coming
back to the fold of the faithful, and if the
Democracy of Lucas continue to make
the fight they did at the late election, the
Northwest win soon again be one of the
citadels of Democracy, and Fulton, new
county, will, we trust, give up her black
idol and range herself among the counties
that believe this, as the fathers intended it,
a white mans government.
Gratifying as the result in these districts
are, they are not more so than that in the
18th District, composed of the counties of
Knox, Licking, Coshocton and Muskingum,
Four years ago, this District fairly elected
CHAs. FoLLETT, of Licking, to Congress, but
the certificate, ON fraudulent vote given in
the army to his opponent, was given to Co.
LUMBUs DELANo. Two years later, General
GEO. w. MORGAN carried the District over
DELANo by majority of 271 votes. DEL
ANo, relying on the partisan majority in
Congress, contested MoRGAN's seat, and
although in the evidence taken. fraud,
bribery and false voting were proved on
the friends of DELANo, and the purging ol
the illegal votes increased MoRGAN's ma
| jority so much, that it was near one year
before the majority of the committee on
Elections in the House could bring them
selves to the sticking place of giving
DELANo the seat. Yet it was done. The
Radical committee having the matter in
charge, declared time and again that NOR
GAN was entitled to his seat, SO strong and
Overwhelming was the evidence. Yet, the
| orders of the leaders made the members Of
the committee vote against the convictions
of their mind, to oust him from his seat.
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