The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-09-28
Henry Rhoades,


trict
Like the Enquirer after the st. Louis Conven
tion, determined to work within the party. Tn
Hillsboro Congressional Convention was all
sham 80 far as Dickey's nomination was concerned
and !, like great many Democrats that knew tn
facts, do not regard 1t as a nomination and re
pudiate Dickey as the Candidate of the Demo
cratic party. So, after consulting with a numbe
of leading Democrats, and at their solicitation,
determined to be candidate, having been tn
man that was sacrificed at that Convention, by tn,
trickery and fraud of few of Dickey's tricksters
now say to the Democrats of this district, if ther
is any rascslity to be carried out in the Demo
cratic party, If they do not want it published anC
exposed, they must not let me knowit.
have done considerable amount of busines:
with the public and never knew but two ways to dc
busincss-a right and wrong way, invariably
charged my clerks TO do business right, and told
them if l could not make It pay that way would
quit. 1t should be the same in politics as any 9th
CT business. Does the whole public want to dc
business right? Then do not sanction what was
done at the Congressional Convention on the 18th
of July, by voting for Dickey. have exposed the
trickey and fraud of Uric Sloane who forged
ever to get nomination-than to keep every other
candidate in Highland county from before the
Convention and he knew that Sloane was an old
offender as described In the Chillicothe Register,
with scared conscience and brass face, and that
by getting him in the chair with his experience in
forgery, he had confidence that he could forge him
nomination. Sloane got Ireland to take The deed
and give him the money for it, and as soon as he
got Dickey's nomination forged, he started over
the district to get the people to take 1t and let
Dickey have the money but ] knew it was a
forgery and set about to warn the people of the
fact: then Sloane set about to head me off by
writing me down in the Gazette and Enquirer, and
writing himself and Dickey up. The cowardly
whelp thought to escape exposure and cheat the
public with his forged nomination, by not signing
his name to his and Dickey's articles. The Chilli
cothe Register, an independent paper, and paper
that advocates q mans cause if he is right, with
out regard to the party, and opposes him if wrong
has warned the people of this Uric Sloane, as an
old offender, and vagabond.
Dickey, finding the people had lost all confidence
in Sloane since his villsiny has been exposed, has
left him at home, and is going around by himself,
repeating the speech he has committed to memory,
trying to persuade the people that his nomination
Is no forgery, but a. zeal nomination. On the pike
question he makes still fight, and has adopted
my policy on the financial question, finding that
every Democrat was In favor of my financial views.
i understand he has been out of hnmor lately be-
cause SO few come TO bis meetings He finds every
where he goes, that the Democrats are going to
vote for Rhoades, and he knows he is beat, but he
still thinks by hard work he may keep Rhoades
from being elected. number of Democrats have
lately said to me that the Democrats were so di-
vided that Browns election was sure if or Dickey
did not draw off also it has been falsely reported
that had withdrawn. 1 say now once for all, that
will take no backward step, 1 expect to have
tickets at every voting place in the district and if
any place should be neglected, scratch Dickey's
name off and write mine And 1 now say to
the Democrats if you don't want Brown elected,
and want Greenback Democrat, drop Dickey at
once, and unite me, for Dickey's defeat is GER
tain.
Dickey's friends several weeks since solicited me
to draw off or it would defeat Dickey sure but
my old Democrat friends said no, and 1 answered
them, as Sloane did at the Convention when mo-
tions were made to put my name in nomination,
that Il cannot entertain any new motions go on
with the balloting." The Democrats have large
majority in the lower house of Congress, so that
should Brown be elected, (which is now probable
unless Dickey draws off, 1t would simply amount
to nothing. The Democrats gaining or loosing the
7th District would not affect legislation in the
next two years. The Senate is largely Republican
and hold the Democratic house in check and the
House can also preventive Senate from passing
laws they are opposed to- The loss of the 7th Dis
trict will teach such resort to trickery and ras-
cality to secure nomination, = lesson that they
will long remember; and that the people can have
no confidence in men doing right when they go
of to Washington City, that will do wrong at home
1t will teach them further, not to put vagabonds at
the head of Congressional Conventions, of Re-
form party.
now appeal again to the old, sturdy, honest
thinking men of the Democratic party in Highland
county and the district. Will you support Sloane
in all his cheatery. fraud, and rascality? for by
voting for Dickey, you sanction the whole of his
acts. Will you let your party prejudices run away
with your judgments; will you sacrifice right and
good morals, and sanction scoundreism to try to
put Dickey in Office II you do, please never say
anything more about rascality in the Republican
party.
thought you had enough of Dickey as pike
builder in this county. He caused you to pay be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 more than he ought to
have paid; on che Lynchburg and Dodsonville pike
alone, in one in trying to change the contract
on me, have charged him with it, and warned
you of it, and he cannot, nor does he pretend to
deny it. You know, and he knows, that by his in
competency as Engineer, he caused the people of
10. a
out the small cuverts he had put in and make them
larger, and repair the pixies that washed away by
reason of the culverts being made too small. He
does not nor dare not deny this. Then II he in
to superintend the building of the pixies
of this county, so that your taxes were increased
of dollars, is he competent to make
Laws for the nation? and is he fit to be trusted, If
he would here at home, under your eyes, cause you
to pay thousands of dollars of tax that you ought
not to have paid had some competent engineer
superintended the work? You are always COM
planning about taxes will you select such man to
send to Washington city to lessen them?
have never caused you to pay one cent of extra
taxes; you all say my views on the currency and
politics generally right and suit you; why not
vote for me? Was my nomination a fraud? is
there anything dishonest about my candidacy7
Has II. L. D ckey any ability, any intelligence as a
legislator that do not possess7 Have not always
attended to my own business well all the 9TH
ers that were entrusted TO me, well? Then have
you any reason to doubt that will be a faith
full legislator if elected? You know will. Sloane,
Dickey's lawyer, leader, and the qualified chap by
what he went through in Missouri to do Dickey's
dirty work, tells you Dickey is q leading lawyer;
when you all know he is hardly third-rate. Sloane
saysche has worked himself at the head of the
Hillsboro bar. If he is head God have mercy on the
Hillsboro bar! Sloane thinks he is wonderful chap,
so do all conceited coxcombs. 1t is enough to keep
any man, that has self respect that loves decency,
honor and good morals, from voting for Dickey
when he knows that VI. Sloane is his nOminator
mad is doing all he can to elect him.
HENRY RHOADES.
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