Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-16
Fhe Journals Assaults upon John
g. Thompsou. Es0.

g. Thompson, Esq.
/. The Jo,anatdon't like JOHN @. THoMpl
SON, ESQ.,, and because It don't like hira,
and because Republican politicians were
not allowed to manage things on the day
OF the election in this city, as they did i'm
Greene county, 1t assaults him editorially.
1t says that "when john G. THoMPsoN
stated that be read from dispatches receiv-
ed from Xenia and Springfield in regard
to voting negroes and preventing Irishmen
from voting, he stated what he knew to be
a palpable lie." -4f svi-g .-s'-aH,
We have seen Mr.. THOMPSON, and have
seen the dispatches he received on the day
OF the election-four from Springfield and
one from Xenia, and letter from Xenia,
written the night preceding. Three Spring.
field dispatches conveyed to him the in
formation that the Republicans were
voting Negroes in Springfield, perfectly
black, and the other dispatch, that they
were "rejecting at South Charleston the
votes of every Irishman who got papers at
Columbus" t-3 et,
One of the letters dated Xenia, October
IL, P. NJ, and which was received by Mr..
THOMPSON in the afternoon OF the 18th,
contained this Intelligence: -
"This evenings down train brought to
our city about rs Negroes. The RAIDS will
poll heavy vote. They are turning hill
inside out. They will vote every Negro
in the county without regard to color. 1
should not be surprised If they ran their
| majority to 2200, from present indications.
From what have learned to-day from diff
terent parts of our county, we will increase
our vote over last year by considerable;
but this Internal hole will give US the d-l.
Since commenced writing this, have
Learned that there will be another batch OF
Negroes here on the o'clock train." %
A note written by this same gentleman
at half-past eight O'Clock on the morning
of the 18th was also received on the after
noon of that day by Mr.. THOMPSON. 1t
readsi:o a9EsH
1.-THE RAIDS. are voting Negroes as black
as the Devil. There will be a large Negro
vote-larger than has ever been polled,
with some threats to the Democracy"
The telegram from Xenia conveyed the
intelligence that Negroes were voting, and
that the Radicals had whipped Democratic
challengers.
These dispatches warranted Mr.. THoMp-
SON in proclaiming that the Radicals were
voting the Negroes in Greene and Clarke
counties, and were refusing to allow per-
sons to vote who had been naturalized in
this city. r I4 wa
| There is no White man, who has any re-
spect for his race-for Constitution or law
who would not have felt indignant over
this intelligence. But Mr.. THOMPSON coun-
seled nothing but an earnest effort to get
out the Democratic vote. By fifty thousand
the people of this State have declared that
the word White shall not be stricken out OF
our Constitution. '
Now, we want to know whether the Re-
publican politicians will respect that YER
dict, or whether they will disregard it.
If they shall undertake to disregard it
hereafter trouble will follow. We have in
formation, derived from Republican
source, that not less than tiue hundred illegal
uotes ,oere cast in Greene county, by Negroes,
and that at Spring Valley the Democratic
.challengers were driven away and beaten.
Does 1t become White men to submit to
this?