The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-07-09
Another Secret of Ohio Politics,

From the ohio Correspondence y. Y. Herald
a few weeks since | saw strange
!necting-that is the coming togeth-
her of most interesting trio-in one
Cf the streets of this city. IL was
ihat of George H. Pendleton and his
Fifus Achates, his particular mau
Friday his groomer and trainer,
Wasl, Mclean, OF the Cincinnati
Enquirer, in q buggy, and Clement
l.. Ealiandigham, on the sidewalk. -
! What the subject of the confab was
. IS not for me 10 say, nor is it ger
main 10 the matter in hand; but the
singular meeting of these parties was
most sug .estive. And here allow me
10 digioss and give little bit of the
secres pol iLical history of the past
two wears After The defeat of AL
len O.. Thurman for Governor OF
Ohio hy Il s mall rnajority, although
the negro sui !rage amendment to the
Constitution was voted by nearly
$4,000, the De mocracy carrying the
Legi Stature, liz which they bad :: de-
cided majority .on joint ballot, tre-
mendous mass gloriiication meeting
was held at Ham ilton, Butler county,
in which Chris. llughes, 4 lifelong
EDemoerat, introd uced a resolution
an ndcubtedly writa en- by s'Val' him.
self, indorsing Val Iandigham for the
United Stages Sel'at Notwith-
standing ali the efforts of the latter,
he wss lar sely beaten in caucus 10y
Thurman, who was subsequently
elected. While making his canvass
in Columbus, V:lllandi9ham remark
ed, with flat peculiar hyena manner
Le has Of showing his teeth when
excited Let George Pendiet0n
dare 10 oppose Inc for the United
States Senate, aud Eli cut llis throat
poiiticalis. CT 'i-n him pa al ]
though Pantlleton took no open part
i'll the fight, his feelings were nn-
d0uhtedly ir, favor OF Thurman, the
successful candidate Mark the Sc
duei : On the 9th of July, one year
ago, six OF the OHIO delegates To the
fammanv Hall Convention retired,
giving pIac to who? Clement i.
ValiandIgha m, Allen G. Thurman,
Geo, T. Eu9h, and three others,
whose I:,nDes the writer OF, this does
not recoIlec t-all professed Pendle-
ton men, Of course. Vallandigham
gets in, :rid, while voting all the
time for pendleton, is really coop
Grating with Dan Voorhees, and the
other recusanI delegates from lndi-
sna, who, in the face of their district
anu State instructions to go for Pen
dleion first, last and all the time,
took up u endricks and went Tor him
on every l,aIlot when Pendlcton had
thc Slightest approach TO q nomina
tion l.nt the beauty Of the whole
matter Was That upon the meeting of
the Convention on the morning OF
the 1Lh OF July, Vailandigham is
selected by Mclean to read the let
ter of decIination, written hun by
his friend and candidate on the Sd,
thus not only permitting him to kill
OF his man, but allowing him TO
preach his funeral sermon afterward.
When the swriter OF this asked Nc
Lean. some months since, "why was
this tIlusly," in reply to the question
how he came to open the door and
let Vailandigham in to slan ghter his
man, lie answered and said, with de-
cidedly more emphasis than piety,
Cd d-n him; he prom ised To
behave himself, and we Thought that
through him we could get certain
Southern votes, that we could not
otherwise get!'' ''Did you get 'em p
"Not mucnly, l reckon.'' Vallan-
digham said in his letter published
since the election, that bad not Sey-
mour been nominated, Chase would
have heen within an hour. Mclean
was undoubtedly the head and front
Of the movement to withdraw Sey-
mour, and put up Chase, immediate
ly after the elections in Ohio, Indiana
and other States-a move that was
fatal to the DE mocratic cause, as it.
was the pressge of a most disastrous
defeat. The fact is that Wash. Nc
Lean is power in city, county or
State campaign; even here he is fast
losing his. grip ; but when you give
him the entire Union--''she whole
unbounded Continent" for 3 field
he is most wofully wanting, and no
man knows it better at this present
writing than George H. PeRdleton.
These parties are interested in .
good many operations, and are much
more successful as fin,ncial than rs
political operators; ! dyiAH