The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-08-24

ANOfHER LkfIEB FROM tOLOAEH
) C0NNELL.
, Why He Wrote G.. Letter 90 Thurman
The Actual Nomination OF Ewing
, over HcOOOk.
LANCASTER, o., AugustII, ISL.
And ere three shriH notes.-the pipe uttered,
, \ on heard as II an army lnuttered;
| , ana The muttertng grew to a grumbling;
And the grumbling grew 10 mighty runlJ-
; And out or the house the rats came tumb-
t Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny
: Brown rats, black rats, gray raus tawny
rats,
! Grave old plOdders, gay young fri>ker7,
. Cooking tails and pricking whiskerS.
regret to have stirredup acOmmo-
! ton, and was ignorant of the tumult
until / read my own Ohio Eagle of
, last week, and was put upon inquiry,
and found myself notorious because I
had published my reasons for declining
. to speak for my party IN Ohio, in this,
its year of humiliation. / discovered
in my Eagle my biographers, not of
: my own selection; among them our
precious trilObite of the Cincinnati
J EHqHif6f, my cOmbustible, flame
: headed friend of the Cleveland PAN
z Dsdfer, and whatever hireling Hes
sian Colonel Nevins now keeps 10 take
the place of 'the old wheel hOrsen
! who male the Ohio Statesman the
: hOnoEed organ of our party ift- -tha
days of its glory and success.
In the histories of my past life these
- -ehrOniclers omitted to tell how for
years ! was the owner and earetaker
iOf that imperial "bird of freedom, !"
the Ohio EFIgle, and it is sad to me to
notice that the respectable gentlemen
who now own the proud old bird,
teHee cared for by John and Charles
BroJIgh, MediII, Pike, Robinson, Tuth-
ill, Roland and others, having no
mental pabulnn of their own TO give
il, permit it to be fed even on the de-
jeetions of the man who makes 4 COM
mode Ofthe Stdteno71, whenever eX-
! General Sehleich and ex-TreasuTcr
Breslin haze not leisure to attend TO
its wants.
l. On examination of the stories of my
fierce detraetors, / was amazed. fiat
tered, and confirmed in my own views,
when discovered that the facts stat
ed in my obnoxious letter were not
contrOYerted, but that the dOnkeys
who have been kicking at me, ard
thereby inviting me to recalcitratiOn,
deemed an attack upon my invunera-
BILE person Of more importance than .
denial of that which / published.
There is faint intimation that Me
Cook was nominated, and an intention
~ mislead the people by appealing to
the reported official count at the con-
lVenton as furnishing the best evil
tdence, which it Of course would, if ac-
eessible. But Mr.. Allan, the fugle-
man Of MeCOOk, informed me that the
record of it had, by caTelessness been
barned up. The secondary evidence,
therefore found i'm the production of
tally sheets kept by delegates, is all
That is left to us. And Just here I may
as'well introduce
.r A SUPPRESSED LETTER,
written by me for the COnsmcrcid be-
fore Allen, the chairman of the Dem
foefatic State Central Committee,
came from McCOOk's town to Lancas-
4 ter 10 'keep it from getting out" and
which would long ago have been
published but for impOrtunities that
ought not to have regarded. giveit,
with my private note to the editor,
exactly as it was written at the time.
suppressing names, which, however. 1
can furnish, if any be fOolhaFdy
enough to demand them:
- mot for publicationa . OBJ ..
LANCASTER, o., June j ISL.
a'MR. HAIsTRAD: VIII YOU please
| publish the enclosed; though writing
/ in haste it is accurate in statement. /
alOae am responsible for its publica--
] tiOn. - and - are the persons re-
| ferred to as keeping the tallies. AS
they do not know of this writing /
prefer their names should not be used
unless necessary
.tr.s rr 81. NJ. CoNNELL.D
s ECommunicatedl
4 49, as AICOOOK aCLuIIIy uUmInaLed :?
During the recess, after the nomina-
! ton of McCOok had been declared,
few quietly questioned it. The excite
ment of the remaining hours of the
convention prevented Investigation,
and it was hoped that publication of
the vote by counties would show
where and how the differences be
/ tween private tallies and the an
nOunced aggregate had occurred. But
the vote by counties has not been
published, giving rise to suspicious
]
official tally sheets destroyed. The
total number of delegates was 494.
According to official report all the
delegates present voted for or against
the resolutions, 365 for 129 against
making the correct aggregate of 494
Immediately after this vote, bal
lOting began for Governor, when, ac-
/ cOrding to the official announcement,
thirty-One delegates failed or refused
to vote, as but 4GS votes were reported
by the chair as having been cast, di-
vided as follows: ATcCoOk 1877; Ew-
| ing III; Ward 81; Groesbeck l; Allen
| !. Several delegates Kept tally, and
before the official announcement of
the vote, it was known that Ewing
was fifteen votes ahead of McCOOk,
and had received 204 votes. On the
second ballot, according to the official
count announced, thirty-eight dele
gates failed or refused TO vote, of
which, as reported by the Secretary,
McCOOk received 25l; Ewing l9l;
scattering IL.
''By private tally kept 10y two gen
| tlemen known for their accuracy, and
in high esteem, personally and pOlit-
! ically in this State, the whole vote
appears to have been cast, divided
| thus: Ewing, 2i1A; McCOOk, 239A;
scattering, I3. 1t appears, therefore,
| that the vote was incorrectly an
nounced in aggregate and in detail.
"The evidence is strong against the
fact of McCoOk's nomination, and
nothing will tend to rebut it but the
publication of the names of the cOm-
| ties whose delegates the Secretary re-
/ no fa1f fr 70 Of frarr
on either ballot for Governor. If this
cannot be done. the sooner the State
| Central Committee call n new Con-
vention the better.
/ have regretted ever since writing
this communication, that l yielded to
| the urgent request of General Ewing
to suppress its publication, for it now
\ appears that it would have been bet
ter for both Ewing and McCOOk to
/ have had the truth boldly told at once
than to hide it until drawn from the
/ bottom of the well by political antag-
| Onists.
If the Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee will publish
the private tally sheet kept by him as
corrected by comparison with two
Others when he was at Lancaster, and
by kilograms from Ross and Highland
counties, am satisfied that it will
show Ewing's nomination OH the see
Ond ballot.
Under all the circumstances, / feel
sorry that have been driven TO write
so much about an unfortunate matter,
which incidently mentioned in cali
ing the attention of my party to the
more important question of our duty
to ignore the false creed declared in
our platform. Like murder, it would
out, through the folly of some of our
editors, who need a fOOl-killer among
them to insure any hope of theparty's
success. J. NJ. CONNELL.
Watering Teams often