The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-04-14

TbeSoerits Of the Judge question seem to
= too well understood Tor us to devote much
mace to It in reply 10 the remarks of the Ere
nont JOssrnak Inat paper treats the matter
AZ though the whole FAULT rested with the Re-
,nbb,ans and Bar of Lucas county, and insists
hat there was nothing in the proceedings az
5lyds to which anybody could properly take
exception. If our contemporary really thinks
that majority Of S,50l against Republican
namlnee tor Judge in District good for D.
800 Republican majority, has no better cause
than the ''pure personal malicen of tho Toledo
Bar and Lucas delegation, he must have a
very low estimate Of the intelligence of his 20
htleA trends. By the bye-We notice that
WITH q Democratic majority Of 227 or other
candidates, the township in which the journal
ls printed gave 466 majority for Judge, being
zos ahead Of the Democratic ticket. Does the
Toledo Bar run that town, also? So IN san
dusky City, 400 majority was given Tor Seney,
OF about 800 ahead Of his ticket. Is loleoo
responsible for that?-- Toledo Commercial
The editor of the Commercial is
ingenious if not Just. But in either
case should be correct when he uses
figures. The majority for Seney, in
city and township, was 456 not 466,
and instead of being 299 more than
the Democratic majority, twas but 15l
ahead of their majority on Justice,
the Democratic vote being 574, and
Republican 269-Dem. maj. 3O5.
But,it possibly never occurred to the
editor aforesaid, that the law which
allows voting for Judge in each cleo
ton precinct, worked great damage
to Judge Fitch, because of the great
er care exercised by his friends that
voters who had voted for him in the
city should not do so il, the town
ship; while less care was exercised
on the other side. An analysis of
the vote will show that there were
3S3 more votes polled for Judge than
for Trustees, and 449 moro than we're
polled for Justice. Taking the vote
for Trustees as a test, and there were
76 votes more polled for Fitch than
for the Republican Trustees, the vote
for Trustees being 342, and for Fitch
41s. Seney received 306 votes more
than the Democratic Trustees, the
vote standing Trustees SOS, Seney,
S74. The total vote cast for Judge,
was 1892, whilst the total vote for
Trustees, on the highest candidates
vas only 920-showing largely re-
peased vote of which Seney'S incress-
ed majority was largely made up.
The same result was evidently
produced ip other places where the
same persons voted at the township
aud corporation polls, and no doubt
accounts for the heavy majority
against Fitch to a great extent, as
the Democracy are proverbially the
Lest repeaters in the world. 1t will
account for the result in Sandusky,
as well as here To the Question
"does the Toledo Bar run that town
also?" VIC respond. The efforts of
thot bar were not confined to that
city alone. Its emissaries we're at
work here, in Sankusky, in Norwalk
and elsewhere, to our certain knowl-
edge, and every appliance that could
be used, to get ont the whisky vote
and concentrate it against Judge
Fitch, was used, and the editor of
the Commercial becomes porticeps
crimtais, in the transaction, in seek
ing to defend the course pursued
and in justifying the result. He
may satisfy himself and extenuate
the course ofhis friends by resorting
to the Jesuitical dodge that "the
end justifes the MEANS" and ain
consideration of the tendency it win
have toward a future condition of
harmony in the District," await the
result So may others.