Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-31
The Election in Wood County.

A correspondent to the Toledo .Svnloy
Journal furnishes the following in relation
to the deftat of Mr.. Norris:
The official returns OF the election In
Wood cOuny Indie {, the defeat of NJ.
Norris the Il publican candidate for the
S ate Legi -lature by n majority OF neqrly
400. His SUCCESSFUL competitor, Hatfield,
Is from the same township perry, and
seems to have had no | lea of being elect
ed until the result was Lcc1mpised.
Al,h nigh Mr.. HAITI Id is Dino ;rat. his
election cannot by any means be dem
Ell a Democratic trium n, as both par
ties aided in his el, c.ion on what is
we'll understood TO have been local is
sue. 1t is well known hat q diff reno, of
npini n has long existed in Wood county
between the ci IL ms of Pcrrysblrg AMI of
Bowling Green on the location of the S at
of justice, the p ,ople OF til, latter place
being in p p)3session # it. o. the other
hand the people of Pcriy.burg aad their
fi.nd> are desiruus of it, 70 ,atlon in their
town. Some two years since action was
Taken by them in the form of petition to
the OHIO Legislature for a vote on the
question Of removal. That petition was
gned by nearly 2 500 voters. and was
placed in the hands of MIR. Norris for
presentation to the IDu'e. he pledging
himself to act mputiaily between the con-
t.stan's. This line of policy was also ex =.
pected from him a' he WAS ell, cted to rep
r sent The interests of Wood county and
not PerrysbuIg nor Bowling Green in
ptrticular. The citizens of PcrTysburg
aud their friends had Drdlally supp orted
MIR. Norris wi h the belief that hi sense
of honor as well as the duty he owed his
constituents would thus prompt him to
act justly toward all. In that estimate
OF kim, however, the people of Perrys-
burg were disappointed, a. Mr.. Norris re-
lrted to all tte petty lsOurc andappli-
alces that he OIL devise in order to pre-
vent the House from giving 4 favorable
notice TO The Perrysburg paii'ion.
He stated to sundry members of the
House, and induced Others also 10 state
that his nomination and election had been
male on the special test Of the o)unty
snat q Iesti0n, AMI he therefore urged the
II ,uoe not to grant the requests Of the p =
ti,ioners, but to let their action in the
premises remalu ptssive until the next
term of the Legislature, " hen he would
show them by his eelec'i)n that the peO-
p OF Wood lunty sustained him in his
opposition to the claims OF the Perry g.
burg p ttiOners.
In the expression of his views. and in
his a ,tion toward the citizens OF Perrys-
burg he has been unfiir and discourteOus,
and the lstlon Oc ;upi by him not be-
ing that representative Republican,
but that of "A paltry trckster, who mrr,ly
presented local and personal prtj'ldices,
the people coull do n oth''r than repudi-
ate him and that thsv have done very
effectively. lie stands defeated, even
should the vote of every z publican voter
in Perrysburg township and its corpora
ti)n be counted out.
every Republican would have stood by
him and he would have been triumphant
ly elected. AS 1t is, he retires to his farm
tn anGlyze the chemical properties cf his
fertilizers, and to represent the best in
terests of his quadrupeds. *.#