The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-07-02
DIR PROSPECTS.

OUR PROSPECTS.
We are just entering upon an
active campaign. There can be no
doubts as to the result. Our ticket
is composed OF the best men in the
State; our platform will awaken en-
thusiasm in the breasts of our people
by its fair and candid dealing with
the questions at issue. These alone
ought to give us overwhelming vic
tory; but when to all these we add
the fact that never in the history of
our State has any party so utterly
abused the shortlived power which
the control of our legislature gave
them as has the Democratic party,
We can easily see how overwhelming
must be the defeat that awaits them
next October. Their very first act
was to turn out gallant soldier,
Capt. Homer E. Jones, who was
elected by small but fair majority,
to give his seat to an inveterate stay
at-home Peace Democrat, of the strait
est Vallandigham stripe. The entire
session was taken up in the most
atrocious partizan legislation and
unlicensed and reckless expenditure.
Their whole aim seemed to be to
make the most of their short lived
power. They went into power prom
Using economy and retrenchment, and
filed the land with loud bosstings
of what they would do in the way of
reform. They foolishly threw away
the best opportunity they ever had,
or will have, to retrieve their fallen
fortunes. They miserably disap-
pointed the expectations Of their
best friends, and showed themselves
incapable of rising above mere parti-
zan spleen and venom. They ap-
peared to feel that they owed their
elevation to power to the merest
chance, and that their political
career, though short, should be a
merry one. Their partisan legisla-
ton and reckless expenditure Of
the public money has made them
odIous, and their overthrow as party,
by an overwhelming majority, is as
certain as fate. 1t only remains
with the Republican party to say
how large that majority shall be-
Will the Republicans of Hancock
county do their full share in this
canvass (? We believe they will
Relying upon the business of the
cause, undismayed by the defeats OF
the past, we believe they will stand
shoulder to shoulder in the coming
struggle. Council with your neigh
bors. Put forth every effort to
enlist every man in the contest
Circulate the documents. Let US
bring out our best men on our coun-
ty ticket, and 60 in determined to do
our full share in the victory that
awaits us in the fall.
The following extract from the
New York Times shows that our
friends in other States are fully
posted as to the position and are not
fearful OF the result:
"The Ohio Convention has dis
played firmness where timidity was
feared. The defeat of negro enfran.
chisement, when last submitted to
the popular vote of the State, has
been suggested in some quarters as
q reason for much caution in regard
to the Fifteenth Amendment. But
the convention displayed no such
fear. After affirming its concurrence
in the reconstruction measures of
Congress, it committed itself to the
amendment, as q sequence of recon-
struction, and also on the ground OF
its essential justice' The issue
which the Democracy of Ohio have
dared Republicans to make, there
fore, becomes q prominent feature
in the canvass. Other issues are
brought in which will give the Dem
ocrats quite enough to do in defend
ing extravagance for which they are
responsible, and excusing the short
comings OF Legislature under their
control. The reckless partisanship
Of the Democratic msjority, and their
failure to meet the just expectations
of the State, will give to the Republi
cans sufficient popular strength to
overcome any slight detection that
may be occssioned by the champion.
ship OF universal suffrage.n