Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-10-06
The Congressional Difficulty

NlliuI uNu lIOm JUb CODLCSb w
incline to the belief that such wa
:, the arrangement, although we havI
heard nothing definite from either
gentlemen. We know that it wal
against the taste, inclination or de
sire of Col, London TO engage il
= the contest as a rival, as he has fire.
quently expressed to us, and what
i'll wind has again sprung up tC
keep the party divided will have to
be merely conjoctured, but that Mr.
Smith and Mr.. Loudon are both be.
fore the people will have to be Ia
ken rs fact We do not propose
to enter into any discussion of the
merits or demerits, but as q
warm personal friend of Col Lou
don we regret that matters are not
different He is not an independ
ent candidate, but his name is put
forth by few men, and they as
sumo the responsibility. No mat
ter what others may say, and altho'
we deem the course being pursued
as very unwise, yet we can never
cease to have the greatest respect
for Col. Loudon personally.
From the following in the Gin
cinnati Chronicle, it will be seen
the ball has been opened with a
meeting at Hillsborough, on last
Wednesday, The correspondent
says there were about zone hun
dred and fifty Democrats and a ba-
ker's dozen of Republicans pres
ent::"
The meeting was organized by
calling 9, S. Bell, Esq, to the chair,
and appointing Capt. S. L. Hill,
Secretary.
JUDGE sLoANE's REMARKS
Seemed to be made more with q
view to please and amuse the audi
ence than to attempt to give
any justlfable reason or excuse for
the attitude they at present sustain
toward the Republican party. or
for the assistance they are Indirect
ly giving to General Denver, the
Democratic candidate, by opposing
Mr.. Smith. In the course of his
remarks Judge Sloane said that the
chief object of the meeting was to
correct certain statements. He
had heard that all the disatcction
was confined to a small number,
and that Col. Loudon had given in
his adhesion, and would not have
consented to be a candidate il it
had not have been for Dir. Smith
and Judge Sloane. He got this
from four channels, and it was
reported on the streets. He wish
cd to correct those statements,
and to give the terms on which
Col. Loudon would cease to be a
candidate, He claimed that Lou
don was the regular Republican
nominee, and not an Independents
candidate.
After rehashing the Convention
question, and talking about unfair
means which he claimed to have
been resorted to in the convention
that nominated Mr.. Smith, he gave
way for
COL. LoUDON,
Who said that Mr.. Smith and
he had met and had a frank and
friendly talk, since which time he
had been seeing his friends, and, to
use a short expression, as to his
Withdrawing, "they couldn't see it,"
and he still announced himself as a
candidate. While speaking of his
opponents" he eulogized General
Denver, saying that Denver was a
soldier and q gentleman, and that
there was no reason why any Dem
ocrat should not vote for him. OF
himself he said: II was born at a
very early period of my life; Of /
poor but respectable parents, and
according to the Brown
county standard. AS it was tho't {
by some persons that the Con- l
gresham should live in Hillsboro, l
where so many school advantages
are to be had, perhaps it would not
be out Of place to say that have c
been through college, have taken
my Bachelors degree, and that Of 9
Master Of Arts, IfI had not n cd 6
died with politics so much, and t
left the Democratic party sooner, / Y
might have been a D. D. | am now {
a candidate for congress, but don't
see at present a fattering prospect t
of election. l felt I owed it to my Il
friends to be candidate. When l {
am satisfied that harmony can be e
brought about in the Republican e
party Of the district l will cease my 2
If an arrangement had been per '
perfected whereby we were but to S
have one candidate, we don't think c
It justifable excuse to cast him P
aside merely because Judge Sloane a
had heard certain statements The t
good Of the party demands some s
hing higher than this. 1t looks v
90 much like spite york We dis +
ike again to see the allusion made t
o Gen. Denver in the manner it is Il
lone. In conclusion, we notice "
hat the Democratic papers in the e
District are espousing Col. Lou '
Ions cause, and this, if nothing e
Else, should cause him to ponder e
ind think. If anything would v