Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-30

of any political or ciuil right, privilege, or i'm
nsarity enjoyed by any other class Of men. So
help me God."-Southern Radical Carpet Bag
Consultations. . =
The .Journal ON Election Fra uds
sGI0E--Slauders ON Columbus.
The bird that befouls its own nest, is
said to be the meanest of all living things.
1t is no worse, however, than the man who,
by falsehood, false figures and false infer
ences, attempts to bring discredit on the
city that gives him an abiding place. and
whose business men furnish him living.
Since the election on the second Tuesday
in this month. the Journal has attempted to
show that the city of Columbus, usually
the most orderly and best and cheapest
government, of its size, in the State, is given
over to mob violence and misrule-that its
municipal officers are banded with thieves
and other law breakers, to set the election
laws at defiance, and that the city, grow
ing faster in wealth, in population and in
business enterprise than any other of the
second-class cities in the State, is vastly
overrated in population. These things are
done, not by fair argument, supported by
f,cts, but by false figures, sustained by
arrant falsehood.
For instance, the Journal publishes the
vote in the city for Mayor in 1865 and for
Marshal in 1868, and contrasts it with the
vote at the election for State officers this
fall, to show that the vote of e,053, given in
Columbus, on Tuesday, the 18th inst, was
a fraudulent one-that the true and entire
vote of the city was but the 3,529 given in
1866, for Mayor, or the 1888 given as the en-
tire vote for Marshal in 1868.
To draw it mild as possible, this exhibit
is the most contemplate special pleading.
The vote at the municipal election is always
smallwhen compared with that held in Oc--
tober. Had the Journal compared the vote
of last fall with this, the result would have
shown different phase. ~ A4SAli- =
The entire vote of the city at the October cleo
ton in 1857 was..'- , 40
In 1858. .....-....-.. ....-...".- 6o'S
Showing but 627 votes between the two
elections in city whose population is
growing faster than any other in Ohio, and
in which, during the past summer, more
business and dwelling houses, notwith-
standing the, great cost of building mate
rial, have been erected than during the five
years previous. 1aE zEssEsz za1Es--.
The journal makes this attack on the
city. in order to show that the Democrats
polled a larger vote than was legal at
the late election. Let us see if its own
figures cannot be turned against it. Be
tween the Marshal's vote last spring and
the vote this iall, the Republican vote in
the Ninth Ward increased 103, and the
Democratic vote increased 40. This was
the ward where the Journal stated Republic
cans were driven from the polls and not
allowed to vote, yet the Republican per
cent. of increase was greater than that of
the Democracy. -as .-
In the Eighth ward, where row was
got.up by leading Radical, catching
Democrat, who had been attacked with
stones by a negro, thus allowing the intel
ligent contraband to escape, the Republic
can vote of this fall was increased over that
of the spring election 107 votes, while that
of the Democracy, largely in the ascen-
dency, was increased but twenty-six votes
more than the Radicals. These facts show
how villainously the Journal hed-we use
strong language because none other suits
the villainous ialsehood-in charging fraud
upon the Democracy of the Eighth and
Ninth wards.
In the First, Second and Third wards,
where Republicanism had its own way,
controlling the election, the increase be-
tween the two elections in these, the
smallest voting wards Of the city, was:
In First ward 119
SECOND ward -....-....-.--...... 159
Third III
Republican Increase. SIS
There is less building in these wards than
any others in the city. In the Second and
Third most of the bonded wealth of the city
is to be found, and where that is,no improve
ments, except at the cost OF the public, are
made, and yet, In these wards. whose voting
population combined is not, on full vote,
as great as that of either the Eighth or
Ninth (Democratic) wards, the increase is
nearly as large as both the Eighth and
Ninth wards combined, with their 1,541
voters against the 800 of the two Repabli-
can wards.
II, then, there was fraud, the Journals
own table shows that the frauds were COM
mitted in its own wards, for there the per
cent.oi increase is greater than in the DEM
ocratic wards. .~-s ,-
The city of Columbus, at the late elec-
ton, polled no fraudulent votes. Within
its corporate limits it has full five hundred
more votes than were polled on the 18th
instant, and he who attempts to show that
this city has no population to justify such
q vote, and who brings up the figures of 9
municipal election, where scarce ever more
than half vote is polled, and contrasts il
with that of general election, to prove that
fraud has been committed, does that which
he knows to be wrong, and is to all intents
and purposes as bad as the bird that befoul:
its own nest, for he ISLANDERS his own city
striking at his business interest," and
lies like thief in the attempt. -s.-
Col. L.5Baber and Hon. A. Mayo
Will address the people of Plain and ad-
dining townships at New Albany on
Monday evening, November ID at 7;30. %
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