Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-16

lies, '-"low browed, beastly looking viii
lains," who "1lourished revolvers under
the very noses of their confederate rur-
fans, the police" " blear eyed brutes, with
mouths dripping blasphemy," shrieking
for ga nigger to kill,' with other choice
phrases and billingsgate, so common to
that sheet. -,--,-,r
On Thursday, the editor, whoever he
may be, having taken nights rest and
recruited his bile, publishes the following
The election in this city on the 18th,
demonstrated the fact that over 500 illegal
votes were cast for the Copperhead
Thomas. for Congress. 1t is also an unde-
niable fact that the polls in several of the
wards were taken possession OF by the
roughs, and that legal voters were pre-
vented from going up to the voting win
cow. lt Is also notorious fact that peace
able, law-abiding citizens, were knocked
down and beaten shametully because OF
their presence at the election" s,Ja
The charge that "over 500 illegal votos''
we're polled for THOMAS, or that any votes,
believed at the time to be Illegal were cast
by Democrats, is a falsehood, base as it is
despicable. Equally false and mendacious
- t~@S ~AASA . shoo AZ cCNCIdl, OT III duJ
of the wards, that " Roughs'' took posses
sion of the polls. or that single legal voter
was prevented from going up to the voting
window. The falsehoods that we thus stamp
as slanders, are not common ones, for they
are made with malicious intent, and not for
home consumption, but for use out of the
State, and in distant parts of it, where the
evidence of their falsity will not reach, OF
if reached, at too late an hour to act as an
antidote to the poison. -. r1s,.
That there were difficulties in one or two
wards, is undeniable, and the proof is that
in every case these difficulties had their
origin with the Radicals. The trouble was
long brewing. Democratic professions, In
a city with 1900 Democratic majority, were
stoned in the streets-the Office of the
STATESMAN was groaned and hooted at by
the Grant Tanners in procession, and these
things passed without prompt punishment.
When notified that they could not be re-
peated without the leaders being held liza
bic, the dogs were called of, and we had
peace until election day. ~. 5..7 u9id-- Il
At the Eighth ward polls, the attempt
was made to offer negro notes.-the votes
of men almost as black as Erebus-and
that was done to so consume time in dis
cussing the question of color with the
Judges, that the Democratic working men.
anxious to vote, and equally anxious not to
lose unnecessary time from their work,
would become disgusted at the delay and
leave the polls. The fact becoming patent
that it was delay the Radical leaders were
fighting Tor, they were coolly notified
that the game could not be carried to a
successful conclusion. This aroused the
revengeful feelings OF portion of the ne
gro race, and one of them committed the
assault on ex-Constable JOHN BROWN, iD
which assault, Radical leaders, claiming to
be respectable, participated, by aiding the
negro in his assault and in his escape.
The Journal adds the following, italics
and all, just as we reproduce it
"Now it might as well be stated in plain
language, that these outrages sciH not be
tolerated at the Presidential election, or at
any subsequent election in this city. The
Republicans of Columbus are now deter
mined that every man, whether an Ameri-
can or naturalized citizen, or of any color,
shall be protected in the right to go peace
ably to the voting window, and there to
present in person to the Judges of the elec-
tion evidence touching. his right to vote,
and that the decision of the Judges alone
shall determine the question, and that such
person shall be protected in the exercise of
the right so decided, and in his departure
from the polls. ~5n ao3 f si-s
..This determinat ion eoiu be carried out %
We believe the Journal raised the cry
during the campaign, LET us have peace,
Its voice is now "for war;" and the extract
above given, as the best means of getting
it. 1t is virtually declaration of war; of
mob lava declaration that the Radical
leaders will take up to the voting windows
as many negroes, children or strong
ed women as may be necessary to keep the
mass of working men, who make up the
majority of voters in the Democratic
Wards, from voting by the consumption Of
time, in arguing with the Judges that
black is white, that boy is a man, or q
female is of the masculine gender.
We tell the Journal edi.or-whether he be
the military, the professional, or the
travelled one-Tray, Blanche or Sweetheart,
who do bark at the Democracy, that 40
such determination" as that threatened,
and put in italic letters to make it promi-
nent. sswill be carried out.'
1st. Because the endeavor to get men to
vote who are not entitled to it is crime
punishable by law in severe penalties.
I'd. A barking dog never bites, and
threatened men do longest live. f ts
Sd. Even if attempted, the experiment
will result so different from that expected,
that it will never be tried again. .
But we will tell the Journal and its edi-
tors determination" that will be carrie d
out to the letter and in the spirit of equal
Justice to all. While every man entitled to
vote will be protected, if need be, by the
strong arm if the law should fail, the
voting windows will not be suffered to be
obstructed by men clearly not voters,
and so known to be by those presenting
them, as to keep legal voters from voting,
and he who makes the attempt to
thus obstruct legal voting, will do so at his
peril. In every case where there is shadow
of shade of suspicion that man is legal
voter. he will not be obstructed in having
his claims canvassed, but when boys, wo-
men and negroes. who have no right to
vote, are attempted to be brought up to the
voting places merely to obstruct the legal
voting, those who sow the wind must ex-
pect to reap the whirlwind for their pains.
The effort of the Journal to breed riot and
deadly strife in Columbus will pot be at
tended with fatal results. The men of his
party who have greater stake in the rattle
than the writer of the article in the Jour
nal and OF this article combined, will not al
low it. They know that mob spirit, such
as the Journal wishes to invoke, would be
no idle play. 1t would put their party