Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-10-05


front, why not follow the scrptural in
junction, and ''do with all your might
what your hands find to do?" Who
knows but for this personal effort to secure
his nomination, by all fair and honorable
bargains that could be made with delega-
tions or candidates, that he might have
still lived on m spending his winters about
the lobbies in Washington, and his sum-
mers in looking after the interests OF some
political luminary, around whom he might
have satellited in comparative obscurity
all his life. "Full many a gem of purest
ray serene" &c. 49,.
Again there were mighty responsibilities
to rest upon the incoming Legislature,
and it would not do to trust the impor-
tant question of o. S. Senator in the
hands of one who was not only ''self made
but well made" besides having been
schooled in Washington politics. True,
his candidacy spoiled one of his best argu-
ments, heretofore, upon the sIump-to
wit, that she was not candidate himself,
for any Office, never had been, was only a
high private in the war;" &c.
But the time had come when he must
sacrifice himself and his argument alike,
upon the altar Of his country, and be a
candidate. By the way he always argues, ,
and never ''declaims.
Was there anything dishonorable, see
ing it was necessity for him to have seat
in the next Legislature, to go through the
county, township by township, and school
district by school district, if need be, and
ascertain if possible, if the Republicans of
the county saw the same necessity as he
saw it? If they would support him, and if
not, why not? Was there anything wrong
in hunting after the correspondents of
our county papers, and getting them to
say just few words in favor of his nomi-
nation, as though it was. a spontaneous up
rising of the people?
When it was talked that possibly the
better sense of the better class Of Repub-
licans, might favor the return of our form
er Representative to the House, was there
anything criminal in going over the whole
territory again and talking and writing up
W. P. Rowland for the Senate, and get
ting the paper at the ''Hub" to announce
him as candidate? We think not. 1t
might have been distasteful to men of less
Washington-life experience, but to a
''youug man, " "self made and well made, "
one who never 'declaims" but always ''ar-
gues," it is only a fitting model for the
young men of the county to pattern after.
Ashtabula township may feel little
chagrined, it is true, by having been out
generated by this rising ''young man.
This ''young man," versed in parliament
tary tactics, learned at Washington, and
inspired with an honest zeal to aid your
candidate for Prosecutor, with the import
ed Geneva allies, were too many for you.
So in his own town. where a delegation
was conceded him, the same mastery tactics
cropped out by empowering the alternates,
composed largely of his relatives, to have an
equal voice and vote with the delegates,
Least some delegate of his own selecting
might go astray, guardian was appointed
over him to keep him in line. No one who
had not pursued his calling in the attic
of the Capitol, at Washington, could have
devised such a mastery scheme for putting
his own delegation in his pocket So his
own town paper kindly inserts editorially,
lauditory articles that sound very much
like the ''young mans own dictum. Fol
| instance, who would know better than
himself, that he was not only ''sef made,
but well made" that he never ''deelaims,
but is a ''great debater," and that in his
Washington life he has maintained al
''unsulhed reputation" This kind of talk
is not unlike his manly utterances over his
signature in the TELEGRAPH of the 14tt
ult.
''If because l am ''young man" there i;
any well founded belief that l lack the
ability and knowledge of Legislative mat.
tiers, requisite for legislator, then put uI
another candidate and let US jointly dis.
cuss the questions of the day, before the
people of the county, and if he shall dis
close greater knowlenge of such questions,
or greater familiarity with Legislative mat
tiers, or with the wants and interests Ol
Ashtabula county, and the State in gener-
al, or if the views he may hold upon pub
lie question, shall, as presented by him
command themselves more generally to the
people Of the county, then will withdra v
in his favor"
What fairer position could you ask hin
to take? If there is a bigger man in thu
county than am, trot him out. Let me
measure arms with him in forensic display
and if you find more than grease spot
left of him will get out Of the way.
Why seek for another candidate, although
he may have been an able educator in tbs
county? He certainly could not stand be
fore this self made man and self made can
didate, this paragon of perfection, thi
Lycurgus in pin-feathers, this moderl
Goliah, who challenges the county to pro
duce greater man than he. Oh, no, Ash
tabula county, whose national reputation
has been great in the past, when just ordin
ary men like Giddings, Wade, Rowland
Fitch and Haywood have represented her
we are pleased to know, is not to suffe
in the future, by the rising glories of tn
coming man.
CENTERVILLE, N. ".