Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-31
The following address of Hon. G..
r. Mott appeared in the Union Of last
week as an advertisement:
To the Democracy Of Wyandot
County!

peISlSleHt euoTlS were JHen maze Dy
selfish politicians, outside of your
County, to defeat your choice. De-
spite of those efforts, by your un-
yielding frmness, Wyandot Coun
ty, for the first time within its history,
obtained the Judgeship.
Grateful for the distinguished hon
or which your devotion had conferred
upon me, 1 accepted the Office, with q
determination to so discharge its du-
ties as to obtain the favorable ac-
acknowledgements of the people of my
District. How my labors have been
appreciated within my own County
you all well know. My labors have
been no less diligent and impartial in
other parts of my District and I have
reasons to know that they have there
been no less acceptable than here.
Yet at the Judicial Convention
which met at Upper Sandusky on the
4th inst, 1 was set aside, and A. NJ.
Jackson, of Crawford, was by that
Convention declared its nominee. Why
was this done And why do ] now
assume to disregard the action of that
Convention, by declaring myself an
Independent Candidate
Those are queries which it is prop
er for you to raise, and me to answer.
In the first place, affirm that the
o-called Convention was not compos
ed of delegates representing the Dem
ocratic portion Of the people of the
District
No delegates were appointed in
Hancock or Wood. The delegation
from Marion was selected in secret
caucus, by the agency of foes OF
Wyandot, and with the intent to car
ry that County against her regardless
of the wishes of the Democracy OF
that County.
The County Of Crawford was, in
fact, represented by persons fairly
selected by the people of the several
townships in which they were chosen,
but the voice Of those delegates was
measureblY suppressed by q volun-
teer force brought here from Bucyrus,
in the interest of A NJ. Jackson. AS
it was l have reasons to know that a
large majority of the delegates from
Crawford were not in favor of Jack
sons nomination, and would not have
contributed to that end, but for base
fraud practiced upon them. In this,
delegates were assured by those in the
interest of Judge Whitley and Jack
son, that no nomination on the first
ballot could be made, inasmuch as
there were three candidates, who
would so divide the vote on the first
ballot as to make choice lmpossi-
Bile. Jackson desired compliment
airy vote on the first ballot, from dele
gates from his own County, many of
my friends in that County yielding to
his wishes, and relying upon assur
ances that this ballot would in fact be
only informal and by no means de-
cisive, unwittingly voted for Jackson.
In Seneca large body of the dele
gates who came with a determination
to support me, were induced in the
same way, and by similar assurances,
to give Jackson a complimentary vote
on the first ballot, to satisfy him that
Seneca was not then nnfriendly to him
on account Of his (Jackson) boiling
the nomination of Noble for Congress
in 1868.
Judge Whitley ascertaining in the
early part of the day that there was
no chance for himself, and that I
would he nominated upon the firt bal
lot if my friends were not diverted by
complimentary votes to Others, col
leagued with jackson to defeat if
possible Wyandot, and thus revenge
himself for his own defeat 1866. He
therefore induced Several of the
Wood County delegates in fa-
yor of himself to cast their first ballot
for Jackson, and the second for him,
as such course would be more likely
to secure his own nomination. AS
between myself and Jackson, the
Wood County delegation were for me
and Whitley, about one half were of
the latter as their first choice.
In Hancock County Whiteley had
rallied all the friends he could COM
mand in the county, with o view OF
carrying that county for himself. No
second choice in that county had been
considered. The ballot had been pre-
pared, dividing Hancock between
Whitley and myself, but the same
were fraudulently kept back until it
could be ascertained how many votes
including complimentary, as aforesaid
had been deposited for Jackson, and
upon learning that the Whitley vote
in Honcock county, if changed to
Jackson, would nominate him,
Whitley in the interest of JacEzso, and
in pursuance of previously eoncoet-
ed scheme between them, to cheat the
majority of the delegates out of their
first choice, caused the votes of Han
cock to be changed to Jackson, there
by giving him nominally majority.
Thus was the will of the Conven-
ton thwarted. knowing that the
choice of Wyandot was the choice OF
a large majority of the delegates of
the recent Convention, and that
choice was nominally defeated
by trio of political tricksters,
of whom the declared nominee was
one, / felt it my imperative duty
to appeal from the decision of that
Convention directly to the people, in
whom 1 have ever all abiding conf
dence.
BY this means my friends in thG
several counties will have an oppor
tunity to partially redress the wrong
if any, that has been committed, by
their assumed delegation in the Con
vention, and the good people of thi
District to freely make choice between
myself and the declared nominee o
| that Convention.
In assuming the position, I make
no concession Of any political princi
| Dle. [ am still. and eXDect to remail