The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-05-22
ATTENTION. REPuRLICANSl

Next Saturday, May oath, is the
day fixed by the Central Committee,
for themeeting Of the Republicans Of
this county, at the county seat, to
appoint SIX delegates to the State
Convention, to be held in Cincinnati
on Wednesday of next week A new
County Central Committee is also to
be chosen, and the time for holding
the County Nominating Convention
Will also probably be fixed.
The great Importance Of the na-
tional issues involved in the political
campaign in Ohio this year, will in
evitably make it one of the most ex-
citing and closely contested in the
history of the State. The people
will be called upon to decide wheth-
er they will sustain the President
and his administration in their firm
and patriotic stand against the
revolutionary. proceedings Of the
Confederate Democratic majority
in Congress, who now boldly threat
en- to starve the National govern
ment unless it will submit to their
arrogant demands, and consent to
surrender the rightful supremacy of
the Nation over its own elections,
and the constitutional authority Of
the President to use the national
forces whenever and wherever neces-
sary to preserve peace at the polls
and the freedom Of the ballot. The
old issue, which It was thought the
war had settled forever, whether a
State is superior to the Nation, has
been revived in Congress, by the ez-
rebel leaders, who now seek, aided
by their northern allies, to accomp-
lish by legislation what they failed
to achieve by force. The suprema-
cy of the Union is again assailed, by
the sef-same men who sought its
destruction on the bloody fields Of
rebellion, and the loyal people of
Ohio, and of the whole North, who
sprang to the Nations defense when
Sumter was fred upon, will rally
once again around the old flag, and
teach these Southern Confederates
and Northern doughfaces that they
cannot succeed in their treasonable
effort to breathe new life into the
hideous skeleton of estate soYer-
eighty"
Both the great parties are thor
oughly aroused, and fully under
stand the magnitude of the contest
in Ohio, and its important bearing
on the Presidential election of next
year. And although the prospects
are decidedly favorable to the Re
publican party, yet it is evident that
in order to make victory certain,
they must put forward their best
and strongest men as candidates,
and then by thorough organization
and earnest united effort, bring /
every Republican voter to the polls.
It thus becomes Of the utmost
Importance that good, judiciOus men
be chosen as delegates to the State
Convention, and that every town
ship should be represented next
Saturday by full delegations of its
leading, active Republicans. In ad-
dition to the selection of delegates,
the appointment Of a new County
Central Committee is a matter of
vital interest, as upon them will de-
pend in a great degree the manage
ment Of the campaign, and the sue.
cess or failure Of our county ticket,
which viii this year be of more than
usual Importance, including the Of
fees Of Representative, Treasurer,
Clerk, Sheriff, Prosecuting Attorney,
Surveyor, Commissioner and Infrm-
ary Director.
We know that farmers are unusu-
ally busy, owing to the late spring,
but still We hope to see as many of
them as possible at the meeting
next Saturday.