Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-13
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The Democratic members of the General
Assembly will this evening meet in caucus
| TO nominate candidate to be voted for
for United States Senator tomorrow. On
Saturday evening there was caucus at
which the officers for the caucus this even
| ing were chosen and the manner of voting
agreed upon. Hon. HUGH j. JEwETT was
elected President. and Hon. MANUEL MAY
and Hon. DANIEL j. CALLEN, Secretaries
1t was decided that the voting should be by
ballot. as,.5 ~
OF course, at this writing we can not say
| with absolute certainty who the Senatorial
nominee will be; but the prevalent impress
sion for several days has been, and is now
as strong as ever, that Hon. ALLEN G..
THURMAN will be. The Delegates went
home from the State Convention with this
impression. All the Special Reporters
who were here in attendance on the Con-
vention, and some of them among the most
shrewd and discerning, could come TO no
other conclusion. and they so advised the
public through the journals they repre-
sented. !. 1t is admitted that the Con-
vention was one of the largest and
ablest that ever assembled in Ohio-made
up of men who represented the aggregate
wish of the party-men who were solici-
tous for its integrity and perpetuation-
aid the members went home not as men
disappointed, and angered in consequence,
but as men who realized from this circum-
stance great satisfaction. Had they felt
otherwise, they would by this time have
brought up to the city a large I" "outside
pressurer to swerve the members of the
General Assembly from the execution OF
such a purpose. The Democratic press
8. accepts the situation" with complacency,
and none will refuse to be comforted over
it.
We simply write this to show what the
public expectation now is and what kind
of satisfaction such result will give, as
well as to say that an effort has been made
within forty-eight hours to introduce a
third candidate by some gentlemen who
have been avowed, JEALOUS friends of Mr..
VALLANDIGHAM.
A few weeks ago the Hamilton True Tel
egraph protested against the introduction
ring, but insisted that either Mr.. VALLAN-
DIGHAM or Judge THURMAN should be
chosen. That editorial. we presume, met the
appreciation of Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM. Ger
tainly, it met the appreciation of Judge
THURMAN and his friends, and they would
not, therefore. be casting around for a third
candidate for the purpose of defeating Mr..
all tb int
mistakably to him as the person who should
be chosen, as they do that Jud ge THURMAN
should be chosen. Judge THURMAN cher
fsfes for Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM none but the
kindliest feelings, and, therefore, if public
sentiment was clearly on his side, he would
acuuiesce in it and not undertake to defeat
it by plotting to elect third man. Igno-
BILE minds so avenge themselves; but men
with big hearts and generous impulses
scorn to do so. And we know that so chiv-
slric and disinteresteI is Mr.. VALLANDIG-
HAM-that SO devoted is he to the Demo-
cratic party, to the Constitution and the
Union-that il he can not be elected he
would hail with the liveliest satisfaction
the election of Judge THURMAN, who braved
so much to vindicate him against foul and
tyranous wrong in 1868. We know that
Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM appreciates fully that
service, and would be glad to testify his ap-
pre- citation of it by supporting Judge THUR
MAN for the Senatorship were it not that
friends persist in his continuing candi-
date. We know, as well as We can possibly
know a ,ything, that those svowed friends
tof his who within the last two days have
been working to bring about the election
of third man have in this been working
without his knowledge or consent; and we
know, furthermore, that so soon as it shall
come to his knowledge he will promptly
discountenance it, and forbid further pros
ecution of it. Nothing would make more
glad his enemies than the exhibition by
him of malignant, selfish, narrow-minded
and proscriptive feeling. They would
quote it as an attestation of
all their ISLANDERS against him.
and cause him to fall from the high
pedestal in the regard of the Democratic
party on which he now stands.
This Senatorial matter is not contest
between Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM and Judge
THURMAN, nor should it be SO viewed. The
State of Ohio is called upon to elect a man
to represent her character, her honor and
t,ov. ;ntaracts on fhe floor of the Senate of