Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-01
THE CASE or mr.. LEONARD.


We have already ndverted TO the fact
that the name of Mr.. All. Leonard, #
Brown township, was removed from
the peoples ticket" after that ticket
had been finally made up and was
about to be given forth TO an %expeetsnf
public. We cannon regard this acti II
as either just or complimentary to M.
Leonard, and must confess that it ap-
pears to us very much like a studied
insult to that gentleman, il not also t.
the gentleman who vas sven the homo
of a second choice as nominee for the
same office. Mr.. Leonard's name was
put on the ticket as the person whom it
was currently represented the Demo
cracy preferred and had pledged them
selves to support. Afterwards Mr.
Leonard's name WAS unceremonioutly
taken IF of the ticket and it was sud
denly discovered that it was not Mr.
Leonard at all, but an entirely difftreut
gentleman whom the Democracy pre-
ferred and pledged themselves to sup
port.
Now we submit whether this does no.
show the Democracy to be not onl,
rather free in their pledges but csprici-
GUS in their preferences. IF they really
did pledge themselves to support Mr..
Leonard for Treasurer and them back
ed out OF it, may they not, at the last
moment, book down from supporting
the other Republicans on the ticket ? If
Democratic pledges are to be relied cn
at all they should be lived NJ
TO in all cases. One instances OF failure
bike that IN Mr.. Leonard's case shows
either that such pledges are made to b.
broken, or else that they are wholly
unaut horized by the Democratic masses
If Mr.. Leonard was p efprred as the
/ peoTles' nominee for Treasurer to tive
gentleman whose name is now on tn
ticket we presume the latter will not
feel highly fattered by that fact, and
perhaps had he known the circum-
Stances would not have allowed the ust
of his name at all. On the other hand
we cannot see how Mr.. Leonard can
help feeling that the use made of his
name was an outrage, and that IT dis
closes an ~fnsincere and weak attempt
to tamper with if not to Deceive him..
Ifany further evidence of this wer.
needed it is furnished in facts already
before the public. In tbs first plact
Mr.. Leonard, as he has himself inform
ed us, never authorized tho use of his
name at all, and when he heard it was
to be used. fled a written protest
against it. Yet. in the face of thi,
comes to us a written communication
which we are requested TO publish, say
ing that Mr.. Leonard freely withdrew
from the peoples ticket. This comma
ntcation is signed ga. d. Leonard ?
which Is not Mr.. Leonard's name at all.
His name is A. j. Leonard. Now, we
presume Mr.. Leonard knows what hi
name is and how tn sign it, and had he
signed this communication he would
have signed his correct initials. There
is something wrong about this, and We
take the real truth to be that Mr.. Leon.
ard never signed the communication
withdrawing his name at all. In fac
re had no reason to withdraw bis name
for he had never authorized It's use.
Mr.. Leonard's name was the onlyo one
on the peoples ticket representing tbs
eastern part of the county. and the fact
that 1t WINS stricken off, and that of 6
gentleman from Delaware substituted
shows that the managers of the peoples
( ticket ring want to concentrate all The
Offices Of The county in this township.
AS he ring is itself a Delaware town
ship institution, they want to make the
county governments alan, thinking,
perhaps, that such an-arranRement will
be mutually c~onvenitn. That little
game will he spoiled in October.