Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30

e know what we say when we afhm
that there are hundreds of Republicans /
in Fayette county who would vote the |
Democratic ticket this fall did they not /
consider themselves bound by party ties. /
They are men of sense, who know full |
well and realize the ruinous consequences
which have been brought upon the in
dustries of the country through the per-
niciOus legislation of the party leaders.
How they will vote on the second Tues
day of October next, remains to be seen.
We know what their honest convictions
are, but the question is, will they break
the party traces ?-Regtster, last lCeek.
1t comes with bad grace from the ed
itor of the Register, to talk about Repub-
licans being bound by party ties, and the
ruinous consequences that have been
brought about by Republican legislation.
The Republicans have not forgotten what
profanity was INDUCED in by thousands
of Democrats when the late Samuel j.
Tilden was nominated by their party at
ST. Louis for the Presidency. They'd be
eternaIly destroyed if ever they would
vote for a man whom their organ, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, had, upon thou
sand occasions, denounced as no better
than a thief; and then these Republicans,
whom the Register desires to feed up with
sugar-plumbs, remember how like kicked
puppies, the rank and file fell into line
at the bidding of their party leaders and
marched up and cast their votes for the
man that but few brief months before
had been the recipient Of the condemns
ton of said organ. When the Register
talks about the ruinous consequences of
Republican legislation, these same Re
/ publlcans are sorely reminded of the fact
that it was Democratic legislation, and
the policy Of the Democratic party, that
plunged this Government into civil war,
with all its human suffering and its mill
lions of Indebtedness. These reflections
are natural and irresistible whenever a
Democratic editor, or a Democratic ora
tor, talks about ruinous consequences OF
Republican legislation.
We find, also, in the same copy of the
Register the following item, which can
not fail to cause every Republican to en-
quire of himself in this wise, why should
1 vote for Democrat at the approaching
election?'
"Some of our Republican friends re-
gret the re-districting of the State, be-
cause it will deprive US Of Hon. Mills
Gardner in Congress. Mr.. Gardner has
made the Democrats of this district {
very acceptable member. His votes upon
the finances accord exactly with what thu
Democrats claim should be done to re-
lieve US from our embarrassments; bu
we have this to console us, that whoeYel
is elected, he will be Democrat"
Now, who is bound by party ties9 Mr.
| = h., oPN
gress; has done all we could ask him T.
do; but he is Republican, and our par
ty ties and our leaders forbid us from
voting for him, but (using brother Kerr
own language), "we have this to consol
, us, that whoever is elected, he will be
, Democratic
The gist of the above paragraphs ar
just this, in nutshell: Our county is
r Republican county, and no Democra
l can be elected in it unless he can get
., good many Republican votes. This is
: well understood fact; hence, the idea c
e Republicans being bound by party tiesi
e Fayette county, has disagreeable effe'
upon brother Kerr's nervous system, an
meets with his decided disapprObation.
q This Congressional district, under I'll
Y most villainous gerrymandering that eve
a disgraced even the Democratic party,
: largely Democratic-1,5 800 to 1000 ma
jority-and it affords the editor of th
= Register unbounded consolation to have
= in mis- power to state, ''that whoever
elected, Ito Congress) he will be Dem
= crat," Notwithstanding his acknowleda
ment that NJ. Gardner has faithfully an
:. acceptably represented the people.
In conclusion, we suggest to our R
publican friends of Republican Fayett
d whether they ought not, in view of tt
l. position brother Kerr has taken for t
of Democratic party, to cast their vot
be strictly for the candidates nominated
IN the Republican party, and use their b.
e. exertions to secure the election, in Oct
as Der, of every candidate on our ticke
IFS Let us have the consolation to know tt
as every candidate elected Will be Repu
". lican.