The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-25

steal aay Democratic votes in Sen
ecs or Sandusky, for in these coun
ties Seney's personal strength, with
all parties, will count largely in his
favor. 1t looks as if the ''spoilt
child" Foster, had met his Fate in
Seney.'
For the Cleveland Plain Dealer
and particularly for Billy Armstrong
to complain of blackguardism is as
cool an assumption ofsuperior Yir-
tue as we have seen in public print.
No man who knows Charles Foster
will accuse him Of blackguardism
without admitting himself SANDER
er, and for such a peacock as Arm
strong to accuse any man, much less
plain. matter of fact gentleman, of
putting on the airs of peacock is a
still worse assumption. If the Plain
Dealer thinks it can help its pet by
Using billingsgate its editor better
make visit TO the county which de-
lights to honor Charles Foster and
he will get n worse dose of brickbats
than W. W. Armstrong got from the
indignant people of Nieu Reigle,
when he attempted to sound the
praises Of Rush Sloane in 1872. SThe
peacocky editor of the Plain Dealer
will find that the use of billingsgate,
whatever effect it may have in Cleve-
land, will do his pet no good in the
Tenth district, and it better drop
that mode of warfare. Seney will
not thank his bosom friend Arm
strong for that sort of help. There
is one paragraph in the above ele-
CANT extract from the p. d. which
needs special notice. Armstrong
says that "Rush r. Sloane was rem
egade Republican and a dishonest
politician, who could not command
the support of the old jackson
Guard, the never finch old Demo
Gratis of Seneca, Sandusky and other
counties" 1t is strictly true that
hundreds of Democrats refused to
support Sloane because they believ-
ed him to be dishonest politician
and scalawag generally. No two
men in the State knew that he was
all this better than w. W.Armstrong
and Geo. E. Seney. Armstrong;
paper for five years had abounded
with personal fipgs at Sloane, who
was repeatedly charged by the Plain
Dealer with meanness and political
dishonesty, and yet both Seney and
Armstrong supported Sloane. Arm
strong left his Office in Cleveland to
stump this district for Sloane, and
took to himself the credit of aiding
to nominate Sloane, as we know, for
the purpose of defeating Warren P.
Noble. Armstrong met his late in
shower of rocks at Nieu Riegle
and fed the district. Seney voted
for this renegade Republican and
dishonest politician with as much
gusto as he supported Vallandingam.
There were thousands of men who
supported Sloane because they dis
believed the stories told of him. But
no such excuse can be allowed to
Armstrong or his pet. We advise
the Plain Dealer to cOnfne itself to
the discussion of the political issues
of the year and save US the trouble
of giving some account of the bar
gain which induced its editor to
come down from Cleveland to tell
the old jackson Guard" that Rush
Sloane was a noble specimen of pol
itical independence and personal
honesty. A dangerous game should
be played only by those who under
stand it. We have no disposition to
make the four weeks campaign be-
fore us a personal matter. but if the
Cleveland PLAIN Dealer desires that
sort of thing let it keep on in the
same mode of warfare against Mr..
Foster it has opened with, and we
will try to make it as pleasant as
possible for all Enthusiastically
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