Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1871-08-23
MONEY Power in.
THE OHIO ELECTION.

L OSG says IudJ dJ " IutclluS vi
the Ohio Republican Associa.
tion, the announcement was
made that the State Executive
Committee at Columbus had
determined to send a circular
to each clerk from that State
in the Departments, requesting
a contribution of one per cent.
on their salaries for political
purposes. Collectors for each
Of the Departments were ap-
pointed, and curiously enough,
D. G. Cox, of the Interior De-
partment, a member of the
Civil Service Commission, was
appointed to receive the mon
ey in that Department.
There is no doubt but that
the Radicals have raised, and
are now raising a mammoth
corruption fund to carry Ohio
this fall. In addition to this
levy on the salaries Of the Of.
fce-holders at Washington, a
like contribution has been ex-
acted from Republican officials,
federal, State, county and mu-
nicipal in Ohio. The levy in
Washington will produce from
six to ten thousand dollars,
and in Ohio probably twice or
three times as much. We have
then a fund from these sources
of not less than forty thousand
dollars, exclusive of such con-
tmbutions as may be made by
the candidates for State Offices
and Senatorial aspirants.-
Sherman, Delano and Noyes,
for instance, have gained great
wealth in the public service,
and will come down literally.
Take Noyes as an example.
He has been q citizen of Ohio
not quite twelve years, and
during five of these he has held
the two best paying Offices in
Hamilton county, from which
he has netted not less than six
ty thousand dollars. His con
tribution to the Committee is
voriously estimated at from one
to five thousand dollars. W.
acknowledge that it is but jus
tice to the Ohio Republicans
that he should contribute hand
somely, for but few Southerr
carpet-baggers have realized E
more magnificent per centage
on their moral ideas than ha:
this shrewd New Hampshire
Yankee by peddling his in
Ohio.
There is no doubt as to the
use to which the immense cor
rup ion fund under the control
of the Radical State Committee
is to be applied. 1t will be
thrown into close Legislative
districts, and negro votes colo
nized from one country to an
other, in order to carry the
Legislature. We hear this
work Of colonizing negroes j;
already in progress, and it is
important that Democrats in
, certain close counties, contigu-
Gus to counties with a large
negro population, should be on
their guard. The Mercer Stand
, ard charges that John Sherman
has deposited a thousand dol
lars in the town of Van Vert
to be used in electing a Repre-
sentative from Van Vert coun
ty who will vote for him fol
Senator. We have no doubt
this is true. Van Vert is
close county, but on a fair vote
will 60 Democratic. Colonl
zing negroes is the game by
which it is to be carried
This is only one of a dozen
or more counties where the
same lawless lpolicy will be
attempted. 1t is to promote
this system of swindling that
the Radicals have eXacted theil
immense corruption fund.
The honest and Legitimate
expenditures of a campaign
like this, with no ''monstel
mass meetings" or imported
and feed speakers, are very
! light, and the conclusion i
irresistible that the Radicals
will use the money they are
accumulating for colonizins