Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-31
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By Washington, in this caption, is meant
sWashington,e Guernsey County, Ohio, Dis
7trict 16--fameda somewhat for being mis-
represented by the infamous Bingham =
which pretty town aforesaid and vicinity,
werefavored by the advent to-day of Hon.
]. M. Estep. our Democratic candidate for
Congress-, and Hon, Geo. L. Converse, Of
Columbus, accompanied by a few Of the
local distingxe of our sister village Cant
bridge. .,ee9e5 % HUB yTsY-THO9 |
Soon after dinner a goodly crowd of the
'bone and sinps" convened nnderths trees
in the Academy Campus to hear these gem
tlemen. discuss tbepolitical issues that now
agitate the people of this Nation as the
mighty winds do the waters Of the sea.
A stage had BEEN previously verected by
9 that prince of istages builders, Mr.. John
Lawrence, assisted by a, noble corps of ex-
pert 'subalterns. stand, chairs, pitcher,
tumbler, water, ct cetera,, were, OIL, hand
talfnostj ad promptuns. -
al, In, front of this rostrum the people as
: sembled and took their seats, a more ar
;derly and decorous political crowd we have
. seldom, ever seen. This may have, in part,
been owing to its "yisible admixture 7
character-quite a number of our most
- respectable Republican friends being pres
ent, and some of them remaining most at
tentive and apparently interested hearers
till the close of the exercises. And I am
sure they will all say that little was spoken
that could possibly offend the most fastidi-
Gus Radical, were any such present. q
vy9 The African element in the audience was
totum nil. After an informal intr oduction
by Hon. w. Lawrence, Mr.. Estep arose
and in a most calm, truthful and convinc-
ing manner reviewed the issues OF the day.
Mr.. Estep is as pleasing in person as he is
in speech. The ladies say he is handsome,
but this is not the word. A noble, manly,
erect, dignified port expresses it. His man.
ners are quite clerical, and his general
bearing is that of welf-taught, accom-
plished, talented and conscientious gentle-
man-just such an one as we might trust
without fear of disappointment. AS a
speaker he is earnest without being bonn
bastic, and forcible without being unduly
emphatic. His rhetoric is smooth and cor
rect and seldom reaches the lforid or figu-
rative. but his logic is tougher and stronger
than the green withes and cords of Samp-
son. He showed that poor Bingham was
bound In the bonds of iniquity, and was
highly culpable for the mal-administration
: of the present Congress. That he not only
voted for, but originated, most OF the evil
measures that now mar the peace and pros
perity of the country. That, personally,
he was gentleman, but, politically, a
leading fanatic. And for more than an
? hour ME-. held the undivided attention
of his entire audience to mastery review
of our status as people, on taxation, bonds,
reconstruction, and especially our duty to
call, yea, demand, of our rulers, a far more
rigid economical administration of the
government. e,,A. az, -.i-.-....r,,
He showed the Bingham fallacy that .the
rich, not the poor, paid the taxes Tit was
/, the consumers, and not the importers paid
the tax, on all they eat, drank, wore,. sat-
rode or slept on. And yet Mr.. Bingham
q. a
Stewart of New York paid more tax than
the entire Sixteenth District-composed as
1t Is of five counties! A man that could
believe this could certainly not be blessed
with that modicum of brains with which
2 nature usually gifts a goose! 'aHiiipm
adt Mr.. Els expose of the awful eStrava-
g gance of Congress, in voting hundreds oi
} millions of the hard earned money of the
: people, to sustain Pacific Railroad monopo-
lies, Freedmen's Bureaus, military despo-
dtisms, ,iimpeachment projects, and in other
equally wicked ways to perpetuate Radical
. power, was most terribly true, and must
dhave cut to the quick those. present who
from time to time vote to uphold men in
carrying out these dishonest and detesta-
o pie i'p7rn measures; so- t.a.fq t,a9 qsfrrsE
g he went on in his graphic portray.
ment Of the social and commercial Ito say
4 nothing of the moral) ruin to which Radi-
cal rule was fast rushing US, some of the
conscientious and honest Republicans
present hung their heads for shame at such
an exhibition, and seemed to wish it were
Il not so. But as the speaker proved it from
the printed official records there was no es.
cape. And much doubt if the sheets in
which they read of Radical virtue will ever
. again be able to blind their eyes to the cor
ruptions of the party that they, in the 10y
/. innocence of their hearts, had thought SC
immaculate. 4 s.fs-i.s fsa-f
The day that defeats Bingham and elects
Josiah, M. Estep, of Cadiz to the next Con-
gress is day that will be, not only to the
District but the nation, a blessing, and re-
lieve both of a curse. And that this bles-
sing will come is about as certain as that
the sun will rise on the second Tuesday Of
October. t'1fe7l tni g1on -a
-ru Good bye, MIR. Bingham. OF thee ]
would say 7ial' ''i1'a
f'----thoua art man -1t---
Xersed in the worl~. as pilot to his compass,
Which is thy load star; and thou spreadest thy sai
With vantage to the gales of human passion"
After Mr.. Estep had concluded this most
effective and pointed speech, Mr.. Converse
addressed US. This was his first appearance
before a Guernsey audience. AS he acquit-
ted himself well, hope it will not be the
last. He boldly charged the Radical lead
ers with "a design to subvert the Constitu-
tuition as it was framed for us by our vene-
rated fathers. He gavea lucid explanation
of the structure of our government, and
the workings of its three-fold departments
of Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary
that the functions of each were SO guarded
by, constitutional restrictions, and bal
anced by the equipoise otjustice as never to
conflict i'm ntheirlegitimate operations Con-
stitutions were sacred things. They were
not made, but grew-the work of years and
generations, rather tEan of days and indi-
viduals. That it was a most solemn and
u;cked thing to strive TO suhvert tben,