Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-12-08
Judge Ranney win Accept

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Judge Ranney Will Accept. III
A private letterufrom Cleveland, from q
person who knows whereof he writes, in
forms us that "Judge RANNEY ,ciU accept
the nomination. for Governor, s'if tender
ed him." .ea5tyfs 3s .elsE .ufai8
The opinion has prevailed that he could
not be induced to accept that position.
This settles that question. 1t is isrneedless
for us to say that Judge RANNEY is one of
the purest and ablest of men in the State.
He never dishonored the party or the peo-
pie in any position in which he has ever
been placed. Should it please the De-
mocracy of Ohio to put into his hands the
standard of the party, he will bear it aloft
worthily. ye5 ji5as's' sf4.l
Undoubtedly, the other gentlemen who
have been named in connection with this
position would do likewise; but we do not
know how many of them would be willing
to accept the nomination. Col. McCoeK
has been prominently named as candi-
dateys We do not think that he desires the
nomination, aud would not accept it unless
convinced that it was his duty to do so.
The Army of Office Holders.
The Ne,o York Express Gays the first q.
S, Blue Book, issued fifty yearsago, emu
merated 5,60S names of office-holders; the
Blue Book of 1867 contained upwards of
10000 names, thirty thousand of them in
the Postal Department. The compensa-
tion Of the office e-holders-exclusive of the
army and nayy-amounts to $30.000OO0
annua lly. In view of this patronage the |
tenure of office act excites good deal of
feeling among the Radicals. The bloody |
insinuations which were brought against |
ANDREW JOHNSON are just returning to
plague their inventors, and the Radical
party are greatly divided upon the ques-
tion of T, pealing q bad law. etoae5 ,e I
!, The Democracy at the late election had
to do battle against this army of well paid
electioneerers, and against the thirty million
dollars they annually drew from the tax
es of the people. s,a..5 Ea,f ..i,.s ,,.f,
Another EIectionering Roorback
, ,f All 4rr,q Exploded. nqTvDd 7"
=. Just before the Presidential election a
vast amountof ink was shed by the Radi-
cal press over the murder of a Republican
member of the North Carolina Legisla-
ture, who. it was charged, was sdone to
death" by Democrats, on account of his
politics. After the Roorback had done its
perfect work in infiaming the Northern
mind, it was discovered that the murderers
were a couple of Negroes, and the cause of
it, the robbery of few dollars in money
which the unfortunate was known to pos
sess. ~ 10 81 "a sn j G'-aI efGl ,lH
Of such is the mass of Radical election
aering stories. ~ ct - 7h9He --t
Who VIII Father the FaIsehood.
The night of the election, Gen. GRANT,
a speech as President elect. He replied
that he was somewhat in the situation of
SEYMOUR, at Milwaukee, when asked to
make war speech when the rebellion
broke out, he didn't know how the thing
was going.
The saying attributed to the President
elect, proves one of two things. General
GRANT either gave currency to a falsehood
on his opponent, for Gov. SEYMOUR said no
such thing, or else the Radical press, in
publishing this smart saying of Gen.
GRANT, states that which is falsehood.
The lie is out. We leave the new President
and his organs to settle the talsehood be-
tween them. God .o- tz.I
THE report of the Secretary of the
Treasury will show the following figures
relative to income returns for the fiscal |
years of 1867 and 1867 Number of per-
sons who paid incomes last year in Penn
sylvania, 3l,s25; this year 29,439. Ohio, |