Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-24
For the Delaware Gazette.
TO THE REPUBLICAN ELECT
ORS OF DELAWARE COUNTY.

SUN 0AELLAOAH HhCA4 LOW AlSLAAP III
Tie county was represented in the on
ventioB; the proceedings of the cOnven-
ton were perfectly harmonious; each
candidate was voted for separately, and
each lone who was nominated, received a
majority of all the votes cast, and upon
being thus nominated, the nomination
was cOncurred in by unanimous vote.
All competing candidates had equal op-
portunities of having their claims con-
sideFed with those who successful
and they only failed because your del
and representatives considered
that those whom they presented o ryour
suffrage werethe better men. You have
made no complaint of these proceed
and it is believed that none can be
justly made and it is also believed that
You, in all honesty and fairness and
according to the usage of the party will
ratify the proceedings, by giving b
candidates thus fairly and properly
selected, your suffrage at the polls.
Under this view of b ease it would
seem superfuous that you should be
addressed in this manner on the subject,
and it would be entirely so were it not
that there is a certain Democratic party
our county, who have long stood out
the cold, are hungry and want some
Of the loaVes and fishes. They how
ever are not entitled to our sympathy
Notwithstanding they are hungry and
cold. They did many ugly things and
do not seem to have repented of the
error of their ways. They wanted to
let the rebels take a part of our coun-
try from us; they tried to stop the draft
and called our soldiers hireling dogs;
got up Golden Circles and cOnspir-
ed to XIII some of our citizens and act
uaIIy murdered our President, and
what was perhaps worse than all the
reat, they allowed Andrew johnson in
the garb of a Republican, to come
among Us bringing disgrace upon our
party and dishonor on our country.
Now this Democratic party have put
forth a ticket to be run in opposition to
our candidates, and after the manner of
A. J. some of their men are trying to
appear in Republican garb, hoping by
this device to secure some of your
votes. Here then is the reason of your
being addressed and it viii be pro1ta-
bic for us to proceed and see how this
matter really is. In the first place, two
or three of the most prominent gentle
men on the ticket thus presented by
the Democrats tried to get the nomina-
ton by b Republican convention
They went or sent their agents and cir
culars all through the county, solicit
ing the people to send up delegates in
their favor, and when the convention
met they appeared in person, had their
names put forward and regularly voted
for and were beateu-fairly beaten.
Retireing from the convention sore
and compl aiming, their lamentations
soon brought about them certain SYM
pathising Democrats and one or two old
johnson men protesting still to hang
upon to the verge of the Republican
party, and this conclave proceeded to
what may be termed actnumber one and
not deemlng it prudent to makeou the
whole ticket atonce they ~concocted what
no doubt seemed to them a very inge-
nfnr1H 6aufnc in tho uhnna nF an nnfErTn
addressed to one of the disappointed
candidates, asking him to become a
candidate for Probate Judge and set
ting forth that the Office was not a po-
Iitical n &C., &c. This brought out a
response by the party addressed offer
date for that office. 1t being now sup
posed that they had got something that
Republicans would bite at like gud-
geons swallowing a naked hook, they
proceeded to act number two, making
q an entire ticket@a ticket not Re-
mODgrel neither fish, flesh nor fowl.
The only clearly, unmistakeable feature
about IL is-that the candidate for Repre-
sentative is rankly Democratic. Re-
pub1icans take the thing and look at it.
The head is Andy J. the middIe-and
the tail c~opperhead.
Who so green in the Republican ranks
as to be deceived by or vote for this
nondescript. Even an old rat had sense
enough to discover the cat under the
meal, and it Is to be hoped that there
is not a true Republican in the county
who lacks he sagacity to detect this
Democratic cat in the meal tub. espec-
tally when both ears and tail so con-
spicuously stick out.
Republican electors it is believed YOU
have every reason TO be satisfied with
your own regularly nominated candi-
dates. Therei is not whose name is on
our ticket who is not well qualified to
discharge the duties of the office for
which he stands as a candidate. They are
each and all respectable and responsible
citizens and every way trustworthy for
their intended positions, and are deci-
ded, sound and undoubted Republic
ans and are the free and unbiased
choice of as numerous, respectable and
intelligent a convention as ever assem-
bled in your county. If such men thus
qualified and selected are not worthy OF
Iyoursupport and confidence and do not
receive it then we may as we'll at once
give up any attempt further to main
tain our organization as a party. We
owe it to every sentiment we entertain
as Republicans and should feel bound
in duty to party and its glorious re-
cord and revered principles to frowm
down this bastard ticket and set the
seal of our reprObation upon this in
sidious attempt to divide and distract
our party INC to bring us humbled and
abased under the blood sucking, plum
dering and thieYing rule of our adver-
saries.
The whining and hypocritica1 pre-.
tense set up in the correspondence
which was the forerunner of the
volunteer candidacy for Probate Judge,
that the discharge of the duties require
Intelligence, honesty and impartiality,
is intended to imply hat Mr.. Waters,
the regular candidate does not possess
those qualifications and it is an insult
to the peoples delegates who decided
otherwise, giving nearly three votes for
MI. Waters to n for his present vol
unteer opponent; and the additional
pretense that the candidate for Probate
Judge shOuldnot be supported on pOlit-
ical grounds, is not only false in prin-
cipIe but supremeIy ridiculous for the
to every other candidate on the ticket,
and is opposed to the practice of all
parties. Look upon our State ticket
and we see there the candidate for Su-
preme Court Judge and the same upon
the Democratic ticket, and yet it has
been reserved for a modern Scion to
discover that b Office of Probate Judge
is not political and is 50 much higher
and more important thai hat of Judge
of the Supreme Court of the State that
we must ignore politicsin selecting and
voting for the candidate to fill it
Mr.. Waters is known to you as a
sterling, -unreserved and outspOken Re-
publican and as having rendered as
much effective service for the party on
the stump and otherwise as any other
man in the county His legal acquire
ments are ample for the position for
which he is a candidate and in the con-
vention he received the highest vote OF
any candidate before it, thus obtaining
the endorsement of his fellow-citizens
who know him best as possessing the
qualifications and private worth that
go to make up the character of compe-
tent and acceptable Judge of Probate.
The true Republican has a plain duty
to perform in castinghis bRl1ot-to vote
with his party and for his party's can
didates if be believes them to be COM
petent and qualified, and if not then
TO withhold his vote. C~INCINNATUs.
REPUTATION AVOWED.
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