Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-15
Our Candidate for Congress.

Our Candidate for Congress.
Judge J.J. WINANs, of Xenia, the
Democratic and Liberal Republican
candidate for Congress in the Fourth
District is a gentleman of culture and
fine Legislative, judicial and profess
sional experience. When elected
Common Pleas Judge, he stood at the
head of the Bar in Green county. AS
Judge he discharged the arduous du-
ties of that position to the entire sat
isfaction of the Bar, until he was elect
ed to Congress. AS a Representative
in Congress he also discharged his
duties with honor and satisfaction to
his constituents except in some par
ticulars he opposed the policy of the
administration, and on this account
he lost cast with the Radicals, and
was superseded in the old District by
Mr.. Shellabarger, a most consumate
Radical. Judge Winans' difference
with the Grant administration grew
out of its nepotism, appointing in
competent and dishonest men to Of
fetal stations, the civil service reform,
revision of the tariff and the recon-
~struction of the southern States. He
openly condemned and most strenu-
ously endeavored to inaugurate civil
reform in the government, and advo-
Gated the true republican doctrine
that official stations were positions of
trust for the benefit of the pc pie, and
consequently should be conferred
upon the honest and capable as the
surcst guarantee that the trusts would
be executed, fairly. for the benefit of
all concerned in other words, that the
Executive was bound by the trust
imposed to appoint honest and capa-
BILE men to official stations-that a
SUPPLEMENTARY, nephew or cousin of
the President of itself, should not in
fiuence the appointing power. But
in this as in all other reforms the
Rings at Washington opposed and
overruled him. He also denounced
the g~ift-taking propensity of the Pre-
sident as being unworthy of his Off
ciaI station, and too well calculated to
incline the Presidential appointments
in favor of corrupt givers.
In the reconstruction of the south
ern States, a matter of the utmost vital
importance to the Nation. Judge Wi
mans, as a Liberal Republican, is for
general amnesty and universal suf-
rage. In common with Sumner,
Banks, Greeley, and thousands of 9TH
err Liberal Republicans, he believes
that the only way by which fraternal
relations between the States can be
restored, is by extending the genuine
hand of fellowship, oblivious of the
past-that the southern States can
never be restored to us or held in fra
ternaI relations with the northern
States by the bayonet-that they car
not be held as conquered provinces,
but must be restored upon a basis of
equality and kindness.
A more extended sketch of our can
ditates charac er and public services,
will be given in the future, but for the
present suffice it to say, that he is a
self-made man-that he came from
the middle and laboring classes and
from a respectable parentage, and has
acquired his present position in life
by his own ex~ertions. AS a leading
member of the Bar, he won for him
self the character of a good Judge and
an honest representative. He now
goes before the people with no mon
led Bankers, Bond-holders, Whisky
Rings or the like, to purchase success,
but as heretofore he depends on his
own merits and the sympathies of. the
Iaboring classes of the District for his
election That he Wilt be triumphant
~ elected we have notthe least doubt.
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