Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-17
LETTER FROM COL. CONNELL
TO SENATOR THURMAN.
The Party in a False Position.
and COnneu Refuses to speak.
LANCASTER, o., Aug. 2. 1871.

LANCASTER, o.. Aug. 2. 1871,
Hon. A. G. Thurman, Chairman Democratic
State Executive Committee:
I have received what appears to be
q circular letter, signed by you as
Chairman Of the Democratic State ex
ecutive committee, inviting me TO en-
ter'the pending State canvass as a
speaker, to assist in the full discus
sion OF the questions at issue between
the two parties-ana a..ei = ma.ul , c ....a :. q
careful deliberation. am impelled to
snswer that cannot give an honest
consent to do SO, and desire to ex-
press my reasons for declining.
No one has greater desire than l
for the overthrow of the dangerous
and powerful party now controlling
the Government, and | had hoped
that such wise counsels would have
prevailed at our State Convention, as
to have almost insured our success
in which event, I would have given
all of labor, influence and strength
have to noble cause for which /
have heretofore labored.
But in the house of its friends" at
that Convention, were dealt the dead
liest blows to the Democracy it has
yet received.
The action there, the blunders or
worse in the nomination for Govern
or, the witchery which stole away the
reason Of delegates, and IN some mys-
terious way caused them to forswear
their faith, and by public recantation
confess that the mission and the
creed Of the party since the war were
false, heretical and wrong have sick
ened the hearts of the honest, quiet,
thinking voters of our party to an ex-
tent not yet fully recognized by our
leaders, who then voluntarily walked
up and set up in the "cuttystool."
The. voters of our party are not un-
informed ofthe false position the par
ty is placed in. They know we are
going before the people this fall with
at least two untruths glaringly con-
spicious on our front. First, they
know that Colonel McCook was not
nominated Governor, and that his
principle competitor led him on the
first ballot, when the unacconntable
mistake Or fraud occurred in the an
Enouncement Of the vote which scores
Of delegates knew to be faulse; and
they will soon learn how shocked
were the friends of our de facto can
diGate for Governor; who believed
him to be too high-tone and sensi
tive to stand in his present disagreea-
bic position, when they discovered
that he permitted his inmediate par
tisans to simply say in regard to- the
fraud OIL mistake in the nomination,
that they could only "hope that it
would not get out "
This, however. is small matter
compared to the falsehoods express
ed in the parry platform. When the
convention took upon itselfto declare
that the Democracy of this State re-
cognized as accomplished facts the
two latest so called amendments to
the Constitution. and regarded them
as no longer political issues before
the country, it stated an untruth
Nothing in the politics, then or now
has mole affected the hearts and
minds of Democratic voters thar
these, here 6enominated DEAD issues
And when, in the second resolution
the Convention undertook to say tha
"the Democratic party pledges itsel
to the full, faithful and absolute exc
cution and enforcement of the Con
stitution, as it no,o is, so as to secure
equal rights to all persons under it